Bruce Miller can’t explain why A.J. Johnson is so enamored with the University of Tennessee.
But considering Johnson, a four-star linebacker out of Gainesville (Ga.) High School, can’t put why he’s chosen the Volunteers two separate times into words himself, his coach’s ignorance is probably justified.
“I don’t know, it’s just that feeling you get,” the 6-foot-3, 230-pound Johnson said. “That’s the place I want to be and play.”
“He just likes Tennessee,” said Miller, Gainesville’s coach since 2002. “I do not know [why]. Every time he goes up there he just tells me, ‘Coach, I just like it.'”
Not one to wait for last-month or signing day drama, Johnson, the No. 8 inside linebacker and No. 11 player in Georgia according to Rivals.com, committed to UT in October of 2009 after visiting for UT’s 45-19 win against Georgia. When former coach Lane Kiffin left for Southern Cal last January, though, he naturally opened his recruitment back up