The Tennessee Vols got some anticipated excellent news on Friday night when Coosa, Georgia, tight end Sean Brown decided to end the recruiting process and commit. C O M M I T E D… 🍊 pic.twitter.com/2JPbrQSmZy — Sean Brown (@SB3_SZN) May 12, 2018 The 6’5″, 245-pound 3-star prospect chose UT […]
Recruiting
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Tennessee Football: Pruitt’s Early Success Will Be Determined By Diamonds
Every first-year regime is going to experience a recruiting kick from prospects enamored with the “newness” around the program. Jeremy Pruitt nabbing 4-stars J.J. Peterson, Jerome Carvin and Jeremy Banks were prime examples of this. Say what you want about Pruitt’s early recruiting victories — they mean very little. Every […]
Wanya Morris Commitment A Step Towards Building Championship Level OL
Tennessee picked up a big commitment on Tuesday from borderline 5-star OL Wanya Morris from Grayson, HS in Georgia. Morris picked the Vols over fellow finalist Auburn after a back and forth recruitment. He’s a true offensive tackle and an elite prospect with the kind of size and mobility that […]
Jeremy Pruitt Lands Early Bell Cow of 2019 Recruiting Class in Wanya Morris
As much as I wanted to make an awful Boyz II Men reference in that headline, it would have buried the news on just how important 4-star offensive tackle Wanya Morris‘s pledge to Tennessee was on Tuesday. After all, not only is this the nation’s No. 46 overall player, the […]
Fore to Play One: Tennessee Basketball Gets Important Transfer in Richmond Point Guard
Any piece basketball coach Rick Barnes can add to his 2018-19 basketball team that will play critical minutes on a team that should make a deep run in the NCAA tournament is important. That’s why Monday night’s news that graduate transfer point guard Khwan Fore of Richmond was big news. […]
May Could be Big Month for Vols for Both Near and Short Term
After a successful recruiting weekend for the Orange & White Game that brought in a slew of high level 2019 and 2020 prospects, Tennessee heads into the month of May with a 2019 class that is relatively small on quantity but impressively high on quality. In OL Jackson Lampley, TE […]
2018 Orange and White Game Recruiting Preview
Going into the 2018 Orange and White Game the Tennessee Volunteers currently sit with four commitments for the class of 2019 and one commitment for the class of 2020. And while the commitments have certainly come more slowly than Vol fans are used to under the former staff, what one […]
Major Vol Hoops Roster Developments Make the Future Look Even Brighter
From Thursday to Sunday there were some relatively significant developments for the Tennessee Basketball program, all of which were positive: 1) News broke that end of the rotation guard Chris Darrington would be transferring, thereby opening another scholarship for Coach Rick Barnes to work with, 2) The esteemed Rob Lewis […]
Tennessee Recruiting Efforts Show Commitment to More Beef
This past week might be more indicative of what we should expect from the Jeremy Pruitt regime, as the relationships he’s taken time to build manifested itself in a flurry of commitments. One common theme throughout most of these new pledges is that they’re bigger than the players currently on […]
The 2018 Hoops Recruiting Landscape: While we Wait
After a thrilling SEC Tournament run that ended in a fun to watch but hard to take 77-72 loss to Kentucky, the Vols will kick off what could potentially be a magical NCAA Tournament run on Thursday against Wright State. And while Rick Barnes and the entire Tennessee basketball program […]