I am all about kids that bleed orange and I fully understand what bringing in local kids can do for morale and such but honestly East Tn has a rough track record in producing talent and an even worse record with the ones who come to UT actually being players we need. I mean the Devrin Youngs' and Cody Blancs' add up real fast and do not produce at the level UT needs to be a quality team. I'm telling you in the last 15 years it is hard to think of any real productive East Tn kids that UT just had to have on the field. The Colquitt brothers who are punters/legacies along with current Vol legacy Kelly Jr. Cory Anderson was decent but he was a fullback. No one else really jumps out. Nothing against Bruce at all as he might be the exception to the rule but the track record is bad. Do you have to go all the way back to James Stewart to find a truly proven star that is a non legacy and non specialist type player that was from East Tenn...that is a long long time ago to find one kid...just saying.
