Talk to his teammates and coaches, and two words seem to stand out when they’re asked about University of Tennessee at Chattanooga junior defensive end Joseph Bakhole.
Potential and consistency.
He came to UTC with a ton of the first; he has a good chance of reaching that because he’s starting to get the second.
Bakhole was ranked as one of the top 10 defensive ends in the NCAA transfer portal during the most recent offseason. He chose the Mocs, who reached the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs last year, after spending two seasons at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, a Football Bowl Subdivision program.
The 2023 season had been a frustrating one for the 6-foot-2, 243-pound Bakhole as Ricky Logo, the ULM defensive line coach who had recruited him to the school, left to take a job at UNLV in late December 2022 and was replaced by a first-year position coach who had just been promoted from graduate assistant.