Here’s where it gets really fun. As new Coach Jeremy Pruitt builds an all-star recruiting staff that brings prior relationships with bigtime players from across the South (and indeed the whole country), the existing boards on Offense and Defense are quickly being bolstered with new offers and renewed interest from […]
Month: December 2017
A History of Ranked Match-ups in Knoxville
How special is Sunday’s showdown with North Carolina? Here are the ranked non-conference match-ups in the history of Thompson-Boling Arena: #9 Tennessee 66 #18 Wisconsin 56 on November 21, 2000 #16 Tennessee 76 #1 Kansas 68 on January 10, 2010 #20 Tennessee vs #7 North Carolina, Sunday That’s it. This […]
Remaining Board as Pruitt and Co Jump In – Defense
After looking at players on Offense who’ve been linked to UT through the 2018 cycle, below is a look at the board on Defense as Coach Pruitt gets started. With only 6 commits on that side of the ball, there’s a lot of work to be done here: DL There […]
Remaining Board as Pruitt and Co Jump In – Offense
Although Butch Jones ultimately wasn’t the answer for Tennessee and left the program in the midst of its worst season ever, he did leave a relatively robust recruiting board in terms of talented players who have strong relationships with the school or at least took visits. Before we get into […]
Birdjam wins the 2017 Gameday on Rocky Top Pick ‘Em Pool
Birdjam wins our pick ’em contest for this season and wins a Gameday on Rocky Top hoodies for his efforts.
As football moves forward, basketball is making its own moment
Tennessee basketball has come to the aid of Tennessee football at critical junctures twice in the last dozen years. When the football Vols stumbled in the fall of 2005, missing a bowl for the first time since 1988, Bruce Pearl’s first team turned in a two seed in the NCAA […]
Let’s Pruitt: The immediate impact of Jeremy Pruitt on the Vols’ 2018 recruiting class
Now that the Vols finally have a new head coach, what work needs to be done for the 2018 recruiting class?
The Gameday on Rocky Top Podcast – Episode 142 – Jeremy Pruitt, aight?
Join us for a special live New Head Coach edition of the Gameday on Rocky Top Podcast.
New Tennessee Football Coach Jeremy Pruitt Seems to Fit Just Fine
As new Tennessee football coach Jeremy Pruitt stood in front of an orange-clad contingent to be introduced Thursday, he told an anecdote about starting his career as an elementary school P.E. teacher in Fort Payne, Alabama. Pruitt joked that, from a stretch between 2001-04, he taught every kid in that […]
Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt’s introductory press conference live stream
Here’s the live video stream of Jeremy Pruitt’s introductory press conference.