Their fans absolutely hate their O line coach. From their Reddit page:
"UT has to overpay for all there big time recruits because Knoxville is a remote town ."
"Bro Frye has not cast a wide enough net - the lack of offers is baffling and disturbing. He put all his chips in for Sanders and now he has no backup plan. I understand that you can't really compete with what Tennessee offered, but Frye is the problem here."
"Ohio State has been a top 3 spending school in NIL. So before you try to say we got out bid, we likley didn't
Frye was just a terrible hire."
"This is his 3rd class. There have been 24 top 100 OTs not from Ohio in those three classes
0 are Buckeyes."
"Honestly, F him. He made a foolish choice.
First, there’s zero chance Ohio State’s offer to him wasn’t at least comparable.
If a guy wants to go spend his college career at a middle of the road team, never playing for championships and just collecting his NIL and hanging with his high school girlfriend that’s not the kind of player that I want on our roster.
We want the guys that want to go against the toughest competition and want to win championships.
I get that he’s playing in the SEC. What I mean by the toughest competition is in practice. This is why guys go to Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State."