“Honestly, when I got to Tennessee, I thought it was going to be a lot different from California, but it wasn’t,” Frazier said on this. “The weather was right. It wasn’t too hot or too cold. It felt humid, and they have a lot of trees and stuff like that. It reminded a lot of California.”
“The thing that stood out about it is really that you see why SEC schools dominate college football,” Frazier said of the visit. “Just the way everything was broken down from being in the weight room to the training room to the academics, and showing how and why you can be successful in the things you do. When I went to the weight room, it was broken down and showed how the drills you are doing are being done for a purpose and not just for no reason. Same thing happened when I went to the nutrition room, the planner and the meal prep; everything is planned out for you. It was very much different, and there is no reason you should not be successful at Tennessee. I had a great experience.”
“It was amazing,” he said of the time spent with the Tennessee staff. “Basically, everything was about showing me how I would fit in their offense and going over the film. They went through my play-type and showed me how I could be used all over the field. They are an offense that everyone thinks just passes the ball, but they are the top offense in the country. They had both running backs score over ten touchdowns. They passed the ball 52% and ran the ball 48%, so they evened out the game. They had two great backs in the backfield carrying the ball, and they were showing me how I fit the offense well and how they get their studs in one-on-one positions and allow them to make plays, and they save their bodies to get them ready for the top level, which is the NFL. They have something great going over there, and I can see why they had a great season last year.”
He is a very big-time family man,” Frazier said on Heupel. “I saw that about him. So when I talked to Bru McCoy because he went to Mater Dei also, he explained to me how a lot of other schools say they are really big on family, but he showed me why. Bru explained to me that he didn’t go anywhere for holidays this season, so he went over to coach Heupel’s house and was able to spend some time with him, so that plays a big part in a player’s mental health. That really shows that he is big on making the program about family and not just about football. The conversation (with Heupel) was really great. It was basically just showing me how I can be great at the school. They did more than enough,” he said of this. “I had a really great time.”
“I want to make sure that is a school that is not all about ball, and I can trust the coach,” he said of this. “I am not going to play ball forever, and I want it to be bigger than football. I want them to develop me the best they can be. I just want it to be bigger than football is the main thing.”