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 […]
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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 […]
How Should Tennessee Celebrate Jason Witten?
Jason Witten is retiring after 15 years with the Dallas Cowboys. The former Vol will be neither gone or forgotten: Breaking: Jason Witten is retiring from the Cowboys and joining ESPN as an analyst for Monday Night Football, multiple sources tell @toddarcher. pic.twitter.com/JnPvCrvzNW — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 3, 2018 Tennessee […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 5 ‘Musts’ For Tennessee Football To Succeed in 2018
Most of us are realists who realize that six wins in 2018 is going to be a chore. That doesn’t mean we’re going to be satisfied with it or even give coach Jeremy Pruitt a pass if he coaches the Vols to it, because no matter how much the […]
Tennessee Volunteers Football 2018 Official Fan Shirt
Tennessee just released its official fan shirt for the 2018 season, and you can get it right here, right now. Wearing one of these is guaranteed to keep you off Jeremy Pruitt’s naughty list.
The Cold, Hard Truth About Tennessee Football
Our Tennessee Vols are not a good football team. That doesn’t mean they won’t be or they can’t be. But they were awful in 2017, as we all know. And they didn’t look a whole lot better on Saturday. They may say that you can’t tell a whole lot about […]
Post-Spring, 2018 Heavily Dependent on “Ifs” at Two Key Positions, Part I
Coming out of the spring, the 2018 Tennessee football team looks like it certainly has some talent on the roster, but depth at most positions and overall attitude (expecting to win, being willing to compete on every snap, etc.) are the biggest issues. So in late April when evaluating the […]
Rough Draft Depth Chart with Orange & White Game Rosters
If tomorrow’s game actually is a 1’s vs 1’s, 2’s vs 2’s situation, the release of the rosters today may tell us more about how Jeremy Pruitt’s first team will look than the actual Orange & White Game itself: 🍊 ORANGE vs. WHITE ⚪️ Who you got? #PoweredByTheT Full Roster: […]