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Christian McCaffrey Drops Bombshell: Tennessee Vols Secretly Fuel His…
With one of the biggest names in the NFL, it appears the Tennessee Volunteers really blew it. During his recruiting days, Christian McCaffrey received a letter from the Tennessee football program that had a misspelling of his first name.
He disclosed this on his Instagram account on Tuesday. That spelling error is really bad. Replacing “Christian” with “Chrsilo” is a rather egregious error. That is essentially ignoring every single element when it comes to hiring.
The incorrect hire with whom to make this error Worse, McCaffrey wasn’t just some random two- or three-star recruit that the team was essentially sending out as a flyer.
According to 247Sports.com, he was the top recruit in the state of Colorado and the 70th-ranked prospect nationwide. It is obvious that you should have your ducks lined up for that player, and you should definitely not misspell his name in the letter you write to him.
Who was at fault? Many Tennessee supporters are wondering, “On whose watch did this happen?” Given the time of McCaffrey’s recruitment and Tennessee’s coaching switch, it’s not quite apparent.
McCaffrey completed his senior year in the fall of 2013 because he was a member of the 2014 recruiting class. After Derek Dooley was let go in December 2012, Butch Jones was brought on board.
The problem is, some players receive messages from recruiting agencies as early as their freshman year of high school (and some even earlier). McCaffrey did not say when the letter was delivered to him.
That would have been on Dooley rather than Jones if it had occurred during or before his junior season, though it doesn’t seem like something that would have shocked even the most ardent Tennessee supporters if it had come from the latter.
In any case, it’s an error that represents a microcosm of all the negative aspects of Tennessee football over the course of a horrible decade and a half. And McCaffrey has obviously not forgotten it.
