Quinten Dormady will return to Tennessee this weekend for an official visit that will be his final stop of the recruiting process before he joins the Vols next month as an early enrollee.
Top247 senior quarterback Quinten Dormady of Boerne (Texas) High School has been committed to Tennessee since June. (Photo: Ryan Callahan, 247Sports)
But he wont be going home immediately after the visit.
The Top247 senior quarterback from Boerne (Texas) High School told GoVols247 on Thursday that hes planning to stay at Tennessee next week to participate in several of the teams on-campus bowl practices to get an even earlier start on his college career.
Dormady said he will be in Knoxville until Dec. 22 to go through a week of Tennessees practices leading up to the TaxSlayer Bowl on Jan. 2 in Jacksonville, Fla.
Its good that I can get up there and everything worked out here in high school to finish up. Im definitely looking forward to it, said Dormady, whos ranked by 247Sports as the nations No. 189 overall prospect and No. 5 pro-style quarterback.
Its just gaining experience and being around the guys, is probably the biggest thing. And then you get to get in the playbook and be in meetings and that kind of thing. I mean, all around, its just much more beneficial for me to be up there than to be sitting here doing nothing.
The 6-foot-4, 210-pound Dormady currently is expected to be the only one of Tennessees eight projected early enrollees who will participate in on-campus bowl practices. He said getting accustomed to the Vols practices will be a huge benefit that should allow him to make a smoother transition once spring practice begins in March.
Obviously, Ill be back home for Christmas, so I felt like this was in my best interest to get up there, he said. Its quite a ways away from home, so I think itll kind of help ease into it, as well, thinking about it that way. I think theres more pros to going up there than there is cons.
Dormady said hes definitely excited to join the Vols.
Its weird to know that my high-school career is over and Im done with high school. Thats definitely kind of weird, knowing that this is my last day, he said.
But Im excited about the next chapter and just building as a man going into college, and as a player as well.
He said he absolutely feels better prepared for what awaits him at Tennessee after his father, Mike Dormady, who serves as Boernes head coach, incorporated some of the Vols offensive plays and terminology into his teams playbook this year.
As I go up there, its just trying to get back in the system and learning as much as I can and picking up as much as I can, as quickly as I can, I guess, the younger Dormady said. That way, whenever I get there in January, its just building on it and its not starting from the ground level.
Obviously, with me doing some stuff this year inside that system, that helped and thats a foundation. Now its just kind of building on that and learning little things about football that you dont get in high school.
Dormady said hes eager to begin competing with Tennessee sophomore starter Joshua Dobbs and the rest of the Vols quarterbacks.
Anywhere you go, its going to be a competition, Dormady said. And obviously (Dobbs has) gotten much more experience than I have, so Im just going to go in and try to get better as I can and see how things work out and then kind of go from there.
Going into it, its whoever has the job, and obviously hes got it right now, so its just working on my skills and then building on those and seeing how things go through the spring.
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