Category: Vols Football Recruiting

  • Monday tidbits: Cofer, Turman, new offers and Vol baseball

    Here are a few things you may have missed on Monday: Respected college baseball writer Kendall Rogers was asked about the Vols’ post season chances. Rogers wrote, “Jimmy, The Vols still have a high RPI and some nice wins, especially in non-conference play, but still have work to do with a series @ MS State…

  • Torrance Gibson: Vols lead for five-star quarterback

    Class of 2015 Five-star dual-threat quarterback Torrance Gibson released his top 15 schools on Monday, and listed Tennessee as his leader. “Top 15 list pic.twitter.com/3t6vruiAhG,” he tweeted. His top 15 schools in order are: Tennessee, Auburn, LSU, Ohio State, Clemson, Oklahoma, Miami, Florida, NC State, Oregon, UCF, Virginia Tech, Alabama, Michigan and Nebraska. Listed at…

  • Chubb: Butch Jones was the hardest coach to turn down

    Remember class of 2014 5-star running back Nick Chubb? Butch Jones tried to woo him away from Georgia last year, but to no avail. Chubb recently interviewed with the Atlanta Journal Constitution and Michael Carvell asked: Which college coach was the hardest to turn down? Chubb answered: “Probably Coach (Butch) Jones from Tennessee. He just…

  • Basketball recruiting. One down, but who’s next?

    Here’s what we learned yesterday about a few guys suspected to be on Donnie Tyndall‘s radar. –Tariq Owens doesn’t have an official visit scheduled to Tennessee at this point, according to his dad, but there does seem to be at least “some interest.” He visited Temple yesterday. –Willie Carmichael has been officially released by Southern Miss…