Yesterday, we took a look at Tennessee’s early offensive signees. Now, let’s examine the five defenders who the Vols desperately need to come in and provide some immediate help. With defensive-minded head coach Jeremy Pruitt, defensive coordinator Kevin Sherrer and long-time SEC assistants Tracy Rocker and Chris Rumph, along with […]
Author: Brad Shepard
Tennessee Vols 2018 Recruiting Class: Early Signing Day Offensive Capsules
Tennessee’s 2018 recruiting class was looking rough for a while after Butch Jones was fired, the prior administration — led by rogue athletic director John Currie — botched hiring his replacement and Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt was brought in to be UT’s new head coach. In nine days, the […]
Tennessee Vols Early Signing Period: Shrout, Banks, Carvin Pledge
Tennessee would have liked to hit a home run today as the first ever early signing period kicked off, but thanks to a coaching change and a short window for new head man Jeremy Pruitt, UT will have to settle for a ground-rule double. Several notable junior college linemen elected […]
Reading the Tennessee Tea Leaves: Vols Looking Good for Quarterback JT Shrout
What wound up being a surprise visit from a “mystery” quarterback last weekend appears as though it will manifest itself as a Tennessee quarterback commitment. JT Shrout, a 6’3″, 190-pound quarterback from William S. Hart High School in Newhall, California, and a one-time California Bears commitment was going to choose […]
Don’t Let Tennessee’s Early Signing Day Fool You
Don’t look at the recruiting rankings right now. No, I mean it. Don’t. Please. A Tennessee recruiting class that once climbed as high as third nationally before coach Butch Jones’ fiefdom came crashing down, the lull in leadership broke down relationships and the administration botched the coaching search [though […]
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 […]
Reports: Tennessee Finalizing Deal with Alabama DC Jeremy Pruitt to be new Head Coach
After a coaching search that felt like it spanned generations, took years off lives, ended jobs, tarnished reputations, caused power struggles between a major university’s boosters and administrators — as well as power struggles between most orange-clad men and the wives angry that they’d become married to their F5 buttons […]
Chaos’s Reward? The Return of Phillip Fulmer: Oh Captain, My Captain
More than nine years ago, an emotional Phillip Fulmer rode out of the Tennessee spotlight on the shoulders of his players after a career where he went 152-52. Though it had been a tumultuous final season, he exited with a win. On Friday, Fulmer came back in on his […]
A Unified Vols Voice of Reason
Today will go down in college football history, and the narrative will not be kind to Tennessee fans following a social-media frenzy that included state legislators, prominent boosters, former players and some media members who demanded the university not hire Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano as UT’s next […]
LSU 30, Tennessee 10: Dreaming of Different Days
Hey, now! That’s the kind of free-spirited failure we can get behind! Tennessee came out against LSU on Saturday night in Neyland Stadium with a different attitude, a different mindset and looked for a half like a much different football team. Then, the storms came and washed away all those […]