Vols T logoKNOXVILLE — Call it Jordan McRae’s secret.
The Tennessee basketball guard admitted Wednesday night before his Rocky Top League game that he had too much body fat. Good luck finding it on the 6-foot-5, 174-pound junior’s wiry frame, but he blamed the golden-arched fast-food joint that is just steps away from UT’s campus.
Then Nicodemus Christopher was hired 30 days ago as the basketball Volunteers’ strength coach.
“I was a big McDonald’s fiend before he came here,” McRae said with a smile. “I had a lot of fat, believe it or not. I’m trying to tone down on that.”
Christopher joined UT from Purdue, coach Cuonzo Martin’s alma mater, where he was a sports performance assistant. That was Christopher’s second job working with college athletes; he spent a semester as a volunteer at Stanford and some time working with professional athletes in Texas.