If you only read two things about the Vols today . . .
. . . make it these:
- Top Pro Football Focus-graded returners in 2018, via 247Sports. Those PFF scores are valuable, as they measure hard-to-measure things to come up with a reliable indicator of how a player is doing. Nigel Warrior tops the list for the Vols in 2017.
- Rick Barnes ‘happy’ for Lamonte Turner’s European tour with AIA, also via 247Sports. “AIA” is “Athletes in Action,” a combo sports and faith thing.
Other Vols stuff worth reading today
- Nation’s top OL Darnell Wright reviews family trip to Rocky Top, via VolQuest.
- Tennessee signee Brant Lawless yet to report, future uncertain, via VolQuest.
- Jarrett Guarantano: New Tennessee staff making me more confident, via 247Sports.
- Charles Kelly starting ‘from the ground’ with Tennessee safeties, via 247Sports.
- Jeremy Pruitt says Weight-room upgrades show Tennessee Vols will ‘invest’ in players, via 247Sports. Love this quote:
“One of the first things I told them is when you want to figure out who your opponent is, just go look in the mirror and that’s who it is.”
- Khwan Fore headed to Louisville, not Tennessee, via the Courier-Journal.
- Vols football has created a subscribable Twitter list of all of the football coaches.
- Not Vols, but . . . Legalized betting is coming to college football, and the SEC is bracing for impact, via CBSSports. Interesting observation: Pro leagues have a sort of built-in immunity to shenanigans resulting from sports betting, as players are already making so much money that they can’t be financially incentivized by bettors. Not so with college athletes.
Good stuff behind paywalls
- Recruiting Stock Report, via 247Sports.
- Vols ‘very high’ among favorites for Georgia CB Warren Burrell, via 247Sports.
- Elite 2020 WR Porter Rooks enjoys ‘great visit’ to Tennessee, via 247Sports.