VolQuest’s Brent Hubbs explains why 5-star target George MacIntyre could become a key recruiter for the Vols 2025 class.
Rkw is brewed by aan roast on 1045 The Zone talk involves as we do every Friday at 7:20 with theone Foster and Kayla Anderson I’m will bowling joined by our good friend Brent hubs of volquest.com Brent have you been able to thaw out up there in Knoxville how are the roads
Looking for people making their way to Thompson Bowling Arena tomorrow oh they’re going to be all right um great no but they’re going to be fine on the interstate the side roads they’ve done a good job on campus clearing things out it’s going to be above freezing here
Today we had a little freezing rain last night but um it’s going to it’s going to get better throughout the day today here finally and uh nothing’s melting but uh the roads have been treated and they’re going to clear up so I don’t think anybody will have any real troubles
Getting into the Thompson Bowling Arena for what should be a good matchup tomorrow afternoon between Tennessee and the tide and it’s just incredible that there are Alabama athletes who haven’t transferred and will be in uniform uh tomorrow I had to get that little dig in
Bren uh I did see though the other day that Austin price was was not only in the building it had a Courtside picture at the the Food City Center for Tennessee and Florida so I guess Austin price is he like picking guys up in ATVs or something like what what’s his
Situation how’s he so high-profile that he’s in the building he’s living his best life I mean they threw some rose pedals at him when he walked in I mean he was courtside at the Grizzlies in December he courtside at Tom at Food City Center um you know he takes
Helicopter rides wherever he needs go I mean he’s he’s living the best life the rest of us are just you know we’re just doing whatever he tells us to do basically that’s right good way to be uh Brent hubs Our Guest this morning here on rkw Brent let’s start uh with the
Local Prospect here in 2025 festar quarterback George McIntyre Austin told us Tuesday I think Josh Hy’s ready to send snowplows to brenwood that way ba can go back to school and George can maybe get in to the building and and make a commitment what what can you tell
Us about that timeline and and perhaps getting an answer on that next week well I think it’s a matter of when they get back in school you know were they going to be in school Monday at Brentwood Academy or Tuesday I think that uh when they get back in school and can get
Things situated and set up then I I think we’ll get we’ll get news from from George um I think George is done George is ready to to announce his decision he wants to do it in front of family and friends and Friends being guys at school
Uh that that he wants to do around and and be a part of he just doesn’t want to you know just put out a social media post and be done which I certainly don’t blame him for that there’s some people he wants to thank and be around those
Guys and gals to to to show his appreciation for them so as soon as Brentwood Academy gets in school I think we’ll get some news from from George McIntyre and it’s supposed to be 60 that way I think middle of the week so surely by by no later than middle of the week
We’re going back to school yeah when you look at his situation also man if if he who are the two schools that he’s down to two or three schools that he down to as far as you know Brent just before I speculate and think he’s all all or something like
That what what are his schools and if you’ve talked to him what’s his deciding factors on committing uh this early well I I think his his two biggest schools are Tennessee and Alabama and obviously Alabama’s gone through a change but they brought in an offensive-minded coach and
Um a coach who did some really good things with with Michael pennick you know at Washington and they throw it around a lot and so so you know there’s some Intrigue there although he just doesn’t have that kind of relationship with Caleb dor and um you know LSU was
The other school they’ve already got their quarterback for the class of 25 and I I think a big factor for George McIntyre is about relationships and it’s about a comfort level there’s a lot of places he can go and be successful because he’s a talented athlete with a
With a huge upside and a real skill set but I think at the end of the day he’s looking for a place that he’s comfortable he he’s got trust in the coaching staff belief in the coaching staff and um you know it feels connected to those guys and I think Josh hyle um
Six seven months ago maybe eight months ago really made George a priority in that class of 25 and I think George you know feels that and understands that I think that’s why Tennessee um has been positioning themselves well and and in the minds of a lot of people trending as
A popular choice here the last six or seven weeks to be honest with you when you look at it as you said a second ago Bren hubs with with us this morning when you look at it your second ago you said LSU already has their guy I think he was
The number one guy so far in this class and I’m not mistaken both him and George will be five stars I think they’re early right now with that um how does that affect a a school how does that affect recruiting have you seen trends of of schools getting high caliber
Quarterbacks bring more talent to the team too is that why more important for those guys to understand if I commit to the school then I can also help commit and bring other high prospects to the university I’m going to attend also well I I think quarterbacks come off the
Board early for a couple of reasons one is selfish right there’s only one football and there’s only one spot right nobody’s going to go somewhere where they’re you know five deep at at quarterback or four deep at quarterback I mean you know they they don’t set that’s why there was a lot of
High-profile quarterbacks in the transfer portal this offseason I mean you look at Brock Vander from at from down in Georgia I mean he’s not going to win the job there right they’ve got their guy and so um he’s looking to play elsewhere and that’s why he went in the
Portal so the these guys are looking um to to to get to kind of claim their spot early that’s why you see quarterbacks committing earlier than some other positions and then they do you know they do have an affec in peer report recruiting Because you know receivers
Are wanting to play somewhere where a guy can give them the ball the guy that they believe in and you know all these guys know each other now through seven on seven tournaments and uh camps and all those types of things but I don’t know that peer recruiting has as much of
An impact as it did 51 years ago because of the emergence of nil I I think you know instead of you know a lot of people building dream classes like we’ve seen through the years you know everybody’s making a selfish decision I mean and they should don’t get me wrong I mean
It’s is one of those deals where you know they’re looking out for their best interest and in some cases for some guys that’s distance from home for some guys that’s been around you know other good players some guys it’s the coaching staff and the style of play and then for
Some guys it’s strictly what what is my nil deal look like there compared to somewhere else and hey if I can get a good deal for year one if it don’t work out I can always go to portal I go to portal twice a year if I want to so um
There’s a little bit more of that kind of decision making going on in recruiting right now than we’ve seen uh in years past obviously with the emergence of nil Brent hubs of vquest joining us this morning on RC dub uh pending the weather this weekend like you had mentioned Brent uh obviously
Junior uh day taking place what are and who are some of the guys that we could be looking out for uh some of these younger names well I mean you talk about I mean George is supposed to be here this weekend uh David Sanders is a high-profile offensive um tackle from over in
Charlotte that is scheduled to be in this weekend as well that’s he is priority for Tennesse he’s priority for George McIntyre if I’m George McIntyre that’s where I’m hanging out all weekend long because I want somebody protecting my blind side and my front side and everything else because I I I think
David Sanders has a huge huge ability as an offensive tackle and he’s a major priority um somebody else George has been talking to a lots of wide receiver by the name of Jamie French who’s a former Alabama commitment who backed off that commitment um with Nick sabin’s retirement the new coaching staff coming
In Alabama’s still in the pitcher there but he’s opened up to other schools um Tennessee is trying to get him uh at some point to town I don’t know that he’s going to be here this weekend but they’re trying to get him uh into town as well they’ve got a bunch of guys
Coming in um in terms of Junior Day visitors it’s a good-look list now you know who knows if they all get here right I mean they’re right they may wake up and their mom and dad might say it’s too cold to get outside we’re not going
Um you know it’s a junior day that there these things are all over the place I mean there’s a bunch of those guys that talk about coming that end up not coming and and we’ll see um you know uh as to who gets there and and who doesn’t get
Here when it’s all said and done so we’ve listed a bunch of names in the war room but but we’ll have to wait to see how many of those guys actually show up or don’t show up and again this is not the perfect weather situation for what
You’re looking for for a junior day but hopefully they’ll have a good number of guys in this weekend yeah and some of these assistants also um taking time to to go try to continue uh recruitment with some of the other top prospects in the country right now including uh
Including Edge Prospect Ari Watford I I know Tim Banks you said in war room maybe expected to be there in Virginia on Friday yeah they’ve been all over the country this week you know they have most of them got out of town before the weather got bad and and have have gone
And recruited they’ve been anywhere from St Louis to the West Coast to uh up to New Jersey I think and and DC Virginia Florida Georgia I mean it’s one of those deals now where everybody goes out for the week basically and and they they beat the weather out of town and um
They’ve been on the road recruiting all week long and taking full advantage uh of the opportunity to visit with some prospects in the class of 25 and 26 said you can now talk to those 25 prospects in school it’s not illegal like it used to be where everybody just conveniently
Bumped into them and the coach’s office the NCAA said look we can’t police that let’s just let them meet with them so um it’s not just going by and looking at a transcript at the high school they’re actually visiting with the kids at the high schools and spending some time with
Them and obviously some of their stuff in the state of Tennessee got derailed this week because of weather uh that shut schools down so they altered that and most of their work has gone outside of the state of Tennessee this week Brent hubs of alquest with us here at
Rkw Brent it’s amazing we’ve spoken about it before the talent in the state of Tennessee and how much that has grown over the years and specifically when you look at the quarterback position this time last year we kind of started talking about George McIntyre it’s weird thinking about 2026 but you got the
Number one quarterback in the country according to on three and Jared Curtis Who’s down the road from us here at Nashville Christian as well I know it’s hard to say the Tennessee job has gotten easier uh from a recruiting standpoint because Texas and Oklahoma joining the conference certainly does not make
Anything easier but in terms of acquiring talent in your backyard just how big of a difference do you see in the prospects available to Tennessee in state because I can never remember a time where you could go Marcel Reed George McIntyre Jared Curtis Kenny minchie I mean so many of these QBs in
State Brock Glenn who’s starting for FSU in the ACC Championship I know I’m long-winded in asking this but you could go on and on Brent with some of these quarterbacks and it still just kind of mind-blowing to me well the quarterback thing is the one that’s just crazy kind
Of what’s popped up there because you I mean you think about in the state of Tennessee from a quarterback standpoint I mean you’re talking BJ Coleman from Chattanooga years ago um you know there’s just not been a ton of quarterbacks uh who have come through there’s been some athletes who played
Quarterback I mean Cedric Wilson was a quarterback but I nobody knew nobody believed he was going to be a quarterback in college same thing with Jaan Jennings there was some athletes who played quarterback but in terms of guys being true quarterbacks I you got to go BJ Colin you gotta think Chad
Pittington there was a kid at Upper East Tennessee that ended up at Wisconsin played a little bit uh but there hasn’t been nearly what we’re seeing now at the quarterback position um so that that’s certainly different in terms of talent overall it’s a little bit of a catch 22
One there’s a ton more Talent but the talent does not have direct often times doesn’t have hu often times does not have huge ties to Tennessee because they’re a transplant family business brought them to town uh they didn’t grow up necessarily you know with generations of va fans in their families like you
Would have had 20 years ago uh but there’s more talent to recruit from the O the other result of that talent and the the the base of talent in the state of Tennessee and the accessibility to the state of Tennessee is schools from around the country are recruiting
Tennessee whereas years ago I mean you might have to deal with Alabama coming across straight lines and you know Kentucky might come down now now Oregon’s flying into Nashville to spend two days recruiting right I mean sc’s coming in um all those things are coming in and then when you surround the
Footprint of Tennessee Georgia is better Alabama’s been on a run so in some ways recruiting at Tennessee is easier because there’s more options in the state of Tennessee and in other ways it’s harder because it’s more competitive in the state of Tennessee for those kids signatures than it’s ever
Been BR the other side of that man is uh business is booming too and a lot of that and I if you could speak on the fans uh participation in this too because UT released their uh revenue from the last fiscal year last year and it was uh over $200 million for the
University I know we get toxic as heck on social media and other fan bases hate us man but how big of an accomplishment is that for all of All Nation not just the university but the fans that support in Tennessee out of state and everywhere else that’s not a small number no Life’s
Good when you’re winning right and you look at where Tennessee’s been I mean you know they sent two teams to the College World Series last year at baseball and softball um they went to the Sweet 16 in both Sports in basketball they went to a New Year’s 6
In football um swimming had great year uh tennis golf made a run I mean you can go on and on that’s why they won the all sports Trophy and um you know I think that Tennessee has done a really good job of marketing themselves as an
Everything school I think you go back to president Randy Boyd and Chancellor Plowman and what they’re doing to attract instate kids to come to the state come to the state institution whereas previous administration said they didn’t want Tennessee to get bigger they wanted it to be small smaller they
Were happy that they weren’t the biggest school in the state when when MTSU passed them years ago that’s not the belief of this current Administration they want the state institution to grow so it’s gotten some more options I won’t say easier but but they are focusing more on instate kids and making sure
That they have an opportunity to go what does that do that drives up the opportunity for donations and um that helps you in in the state with various funding and different things like that then you look at something as simplistic fans didn’t like it but but I heard this
From a bunch of people at at Tennessee in this Administration when they first got here they were blown away and dumbfounded by the fact that if you made a donation for football season tickets you had an option to buy basketball season tickets without making a basketball donation well they’ve changed
That they’ve separated those if you want a basketball season ticket you got to make a donation now that’s a difference of about $13 million a year into the budget and so that helps you get to that number Danny White wanted to be at $200 million uh in revenue and in in his
Budget by 26 and 27 he’s obviously you know gotten there faster and it’s because of the of the success that you have had on the field and you’ve had on the court of play and Tennessee has continued to have a good year so far this year and uh we’ll see what that
Looks like as uh the rest of the spring goes but I think there’s a lot of excitement about where they are baseball and softball wise and golf and everything else this spring BR hubs of Quest our guest every Friday here on rkw brentor hubs where you can find the best
Info covering Tennessee on the market uh Brent we appreciate the time and just know that if you ever need to cheer up or make Ramone Foster smile or happy at all just shoot him a text at another Alabama player has entered the transfer portal as one as one who’s the number
One quarterback according to on three just did for 2024 and Julian Sayan I I’m telling you this here’s an interesting thing and I know you guys are up against it we gotta go but here’s one of the interesting things I think schools have to look at moving forward how much
Better would Alabama’s situation have been if Nick Sabin had waited until February 1 to um announce his retirement because all these guys going into the portal would not have had a chance to go somewhere for the spring semester they would have been stuck because school would have been start had started
Already I think with the portal that’s something people are going to look at moving forward with their calendar and I think schools are also going to look at promoting within to try to preserve their roster which Washington elected not to do and that’s why they’ve got two
Dozen guys in the portal right now as well it’s crazy maybe coach Kay was right all along do the retirement tour get all the frame pictures and basketballs and footballs and go on your Merry way great stuff as always with Brent hubs of Brent thank you thanks guys appreciate you yes sir
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