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Breaking Tennessee Hoops News on Hopson and Smith April 1, 2008

Posted by Jai Eugene in SEC Football.
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 (Double click to see more of Pearl schooling Billy Clyde….again)

I received a text message from a reliable Rivals.com source that Shooting guard Scotty Hopson Hopkinsville (KY) University Heights has verbally committed to Bruce Pearl during his visit to Knoxville.  Hopson comments were: “I can help take this program to the next level” and ” Tennessee is much more of a morally stable situation than other programs, I just felt at home here”.  Hopson’s mother is reportedly impressed with Pearl.

 This verbal was contigent on Tyler Smith staying in Knoxville one more year.  Pearl has Smith leaning 75% (my source’s best guess) in staying.

More to follow

UPDATE AS of 1300 CST

My Rivals guy confirms that the biggest selling point on Scotty pulling the trigger was Mama Hopson.  His source inside the UT program told him that she was “smitten” with Pearl.  And yes, Scotty Hopson said “morally stable”.  Those are exact quotes. Take it or leave it.

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1. Rex Chapman - April 1, 2008

I hope not, we have Billy Clyde personnally recruiting Hopson. This is devastaing

2. ukrulz21 - April 1, 2008

Jesus H Christ on a cracker. First Mr Wildcat is dead and then we lose Hopson. Honest to God I don’t really know which is worse….

3. Brent Hubbs - April 1, 2008

Did Jai not read the first paragraph of the War Room?

4. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

Brent

This has nothing to do with the internet. Separate source that has scooped your ass again

5. Brent Hubbs - April 1, 2008

No one can “scoop” BRAJ

6. Bring Back Buzz - April 1, 2008

If we had Buzz, we would be turning away Hopson because we would have the top SG

7. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

It is the norm vice the exception. This Hopson stuff is fresh…more intriguing is the Tyler Smith nexus

8. Your Mother - April 1, 2008

This is bull shit

9. Billy Bob Bammer - April 1, 2008

We’re going to fire Goat-Fred and steal Pearl. RTR!

10. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

@8 just passing along information. I can’t help it if itn’t what you want to read. My source at Rivals is solid and has always prvided solid intell in the past

11. Your Mother - April 1, 2008

Look, it was just in TODAY’s morning paper in Hopkinsville that he was going to take in some visits before he made his choice and that was per Scotty. He has even recently added Texas to the fold. NO ONE else reputable is reporting this. . .I am sorry if I don’t believe you.

12. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

@11…Look, he just passes me a crumb now and then. He has been solid. Believe what you wish. I believe my source, I have known him for a long time.

13. Kentucky Gets Who Kentucky Wants - April 1, 2008

THIS CAN’T BE TRUE… WE ARE THE MECCA OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL!!!!

14. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

Ok, you must not want Hopson then. Thanks Kentucky!!

15. griddie - April 1, 2008

It is April Fool’s Day, LOL! So while I hope it’s true I’ll take it with a grain of salt.

16. nVo member - April 1, 2008

Our crew is full of dumbshit toolbags. We also like dick…… buckets of dick. Jus not as much as the prototypical UK fan loves dick.

17. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

@2…Fucking freaking UK fans. The guy dying is more devastating….

18. Tyler Smith - April 1, 2008

Welcome aboard Mr Hopson. You will look good in Orange. Bonus: Our coach doesn’t drink and drive.

19. Tuck the Fards - April 1, 2008

Nice April fools joke (at least I hope it’s a joke). He will be a CAT!!!!

20. Nooga Vol - April 1, 2008

@13 and 15. LWS does have a insider at Rivals. Jai played football with him!! Go Vols and welcome to Knoxvegas Scotty!!!

21. Crompton4Heisman - April 1, 2008

I like vagina for the record

22. Pierre - April 1, 2008

Hopson must want more than this from his school:

http://loserswithsocks.com/2008/03/17/kentucky-rides-tradition-into-the-dance/

23. Smokey 6 - April 1, 2008

Nice nugget Jai. As always your “G-2″ is impeccable. Please pass my regards to “Dana”. This news has made my day and I hope that Bruce will continue to work on Tyler.

24. Bruce Pearls Bud Select - April 1, 2008

The nvo couldn’t hold the old crews jock. It’s science.

25. Alico Dunk - April 1, 2008

Just because you deleted the first post doesn’t mean that I don’t like dick

26. Pearl Jam 2008 - April 1, 2008

I like vagina…. APRIL FOOL’S

Welcome aboard Hopson!! Go Vols

27. Rob Lewis - April 1, 2008

I must admit, I am an insecure pussy

28. A few foolish links « The BruceBall Blog– Tennessee Basketball - April 1, 2008

[...] to UT, pending Tyler Smith staying here another year. It’s an odd rumor and the source is Losers With Socks. I remain skeptical and would be even if today weren’t [...]

29. zigzag - April 1, 2008

Pearl better put the kid in handcuffs and get him on the dotted line. Hopson verbally committed to Mississippi State first, then reneged, now the Vols. Who’s next? And Holy Shit! “Morally stable program”?

30. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

@29 Yeah, we talked on the phone. I had read some comments about that quote, so I asked for confirmation. He had it written in his notes. He didn’t not understand what it meant either.

31. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

and i meant to add, Pearl has Mom in his hip pocket (my words). Handcuffs not authorized

32. zigzag - April 1, 2008

Mom in pocket, game over.

33. Graves - April 1, 2008

Bruce Pearl’s Bud Select,

the nVo is making their presence known here. deal with it, cock sleuth.

34. Oklahoma State gets who Oklahoma State wants - April 1, 2008

Welcome, Billy Clyde.

35. Chris - April 1, 2008

Interesting… Congrats if true. I’m still trying to figure out why he receives the national love that seems to escape the very comparable Darius Miller.

And that’s certainly not a put down to Hopson… more of a case of giving props to Miller.

36. meeksfor3 - April 1, 2008

Pearl is a snitch that loves him some young ladies.

37. Billy Clyde - April 1, 2008

I like drinking and driving.

38. Graves - April 1, 2008

There is a Knob Screwis type mod on here deleting comments. Someone here must own the internet.

39. Trent Dubbs - April 1, 2008

Bullshit, I own the internet.

I will ban you for life.

40. zigzag - April 1, 2008

Al Gore invented and owns the internet.

41. jander42 - April 1, 2008

Hey Jai, thats why I picked Cajun56

42. bluereality - April 1, 2008

BULL SHIT!!!!

43. naive (ni-eve) definition: see jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

You really think those are posted by UK fans?

44. naive (ni-eve) definition: see jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

@14 and @17 not Uk fans

45. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

Yes, 43 and 44, you have broken the code. I am not a UK fan

46. Trent Dubbs - April 1, 2008

This is a bad time for Kentucky basketball. Mr Wildcat is gone, and now Hopson laughs in the face of Kentucky.

I should ban them from the internet.

47. Rolling a blog joint - April 1 | Cuzoogle - April 1, 2008

[...] Coverage - Hot chick drinks warm beer, yes for real. COED Magazine - A great way to share videos. Losers With Socks - Need some Tennessee hoops news? On205th - Tennis is a really violent sport. Tasty Booze - Are you [...]

48. naive (ni-eve) definition: see jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

UUUh naive and stupid? I was saying the posts you were replying to in 14 and 17 were not from uk fans.

49. Scotty Hopson - Page 73 - VolNation - April 1, 2008

[...] Breaking Tennessee Hoops News on Hopson and Smith « Loser with Socks Several blogs are saying it now FWIW. Hope it’s true. [...]

50. Hopson to UK - April 1, 2008

BS. I’m calling this lame lie out. No way would Hopson say UTK was morally superior to the other schools on his list.

Nice try, Vols fans. Maybe one day you can lie yourself to your first Elite 8 appearance?

51. Go_Vols - April 1, 2008

this is huge for ut now we can get to ar first ever elite ate and maybe win the champinship next year im really proud of coach pearl hes a grate coach and is putting tenesee back on the map hopson you made the wright choice my frend!!!

52. Bruce Pearls Bud Select - April 1, 2008

Wildcat kicked the bucket

Gillespie leaving for Okie State

Hopson to UT

Randy Sanders still at kentucky

It must absolutely blow to be a Kentucky fan

53. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

Numbnuts, Volquest is confirming

54. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

dark clouds swirling

55. Graves - April 1, 2008

I had this story scooped a week ago. I don’t see what the big deal is. We’ve known he has been a Vol for two weeks.

56. Bruce Pearls Bud Select - April 1, 2008

Graves did send this to me via teenspeak website a while ago. Nice work.

57. Graves - April 1, 2008

Select, can you confirm this Billy Clyde to Okie Light rumor?

Jai Eugene, I’d like to see a post re: Clyde leaving a school with such rich basketball tradition for a school that is 2nd tier in its own state.

58. rbk - April 1, 2008

Do we get an “I told you so,” Jai? There has been disbelief and skepticism across the web all day, including from me. You’ve earned it.

Now, about that contingency . . .

59. zigzag - April 1, 2008

govolextra.com has it now.

60. zigzag - April 1, 2008

But Graves, Adolph Rupp is dead and won’t be back.

61. Thomas the Terrible - April 1, 2008

Apparently cat piss & a drunken Billy G smell all to similar for Hopson

62. Graves - April 1, 2008

zigzag,

Kentucky gets what Kentucky wants.

Unless anyone else wants them….

Late…

MG

63. Jai Eugene - April 1, 2008

I am laughing my ass off. Just like a sore dick, you can’t beat UK fans (except for Bammeroids). I will not gloat over you doubters….not even a n FU

64. MoonDog - April 1, 2008

Doom and gloom in the Blue Grass State. That’s what you get when you finish 18-13 and have a head coach that just completed the third of twelve steps.

Hopson wanted to play for the new power in SEC basketball, not FailCat U.

65. zigzag - April 1, 2008

Graves: Far be it from me to say the young man is corruptable but send a shitload of C notes down to Mama Hopson and see what happens. He seems a little wishy washy having committed to Mississippi State (Only God can explain that one) earlier. Pearl better see if he can take a little room and board at the Hopson B & B until that big X is on the line. In the meantime the Cats can woo him with promises of winning $100 tickets at Keeneland.

66. Cajun56 - April 1, 2008

I gave Scotty a BJ and he committed to CBP right after I got my daily protein

67. zigzag - April 1, 2008

A reporter for a Jackson, MS newspaper talked to Scotty at 5:20 C T, and was told that he was definitely signing with Tennessee.

68. Afternoon Links - April 1, 2008

[...] Breaking Tennessee Hoops News on Hopson and Smith (Sports) [...]

69. 3rd Down H-Back - April 1, 2008

Holy shit! You KY Failboats may just be worse than the Bammeroids.

Jai, is there any way I can go change my vote on the “Who is worse?” poll?

70. J Marlin - April 2, 2008

Jai,
YOU scooped everyone with this one!! Congrads.. I have been following this and I read it here first…

71. ukrulz21 - April 2, 2008

I am sorry I was wrong. Nicecatch

72. rednav - April 2, 2008

kentucky eats pieces of shit like you for breakfast

73. rednav - April 2, 2008

thats right shit eating cats

74. bosgap1 - April 2, 2008

THOSE NVO GUYS ARE NOT A COOL AS THR OLD CREW I CAN BENCH PRESS 800 POUNDS AND THROW A BALL 500 FETT.

75. The “Scotty Hopson” « Loser with Socks - April 23, 2008

[...] am sure everyone remembers us scooping the National Media on the Scotty Hopson Committment [Link]. No? Just check the time stamps, it is not rocket [...]

76. SteveO - April 23, 2008

You guys crack me up! I cant believe that there would be any site or comment box dedicated to a basketball program that has NEVER…EVER…been past an elight 8..LOL!!! Your coach with the fake tan can wear his orange blazer against only Kentucky and your bars can name drinks after high school kids from Kentucky….WE LOVE IT!! You guys have us up on such a pedestal and we kinda like it. Keep flattering us!!!!!!!!

77. SteveO - April 23, 2008

By the way…Hopson isn’t that great! Darius Miller is Kentucky MR.Basketball and he chose the CATS! We didn’t recruit him nearly as hard as you all.

78. Better give Billy Clyde another “Scotty Hopson”. Tyler Smith decides to stay « Loser with Socks - April 24, 2008

[...] you haters and doubters: Our sources at Rivals HQ and at Knoxville called the Hopson commit [Hopson] to Tennessee and Tyler Smith [ Smith] to return to Knoxville before anyone else. Stupidity to the [...]