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UT’s O-line has pride in progress

KNOXVILLE – Offensive line coach Harry Hiestand has filled the University of Tennessee’s Haslam Field practice facility with the same rallying cry since spring practice.

“O-line pride!”

Sounds great. But what does it mean?

Even the Volunteers’ linemen didn’t know at first.

“We really didn’t understand it in the spring,” senior offensive guard Jarrod Shaw said with a laugh. “He would say it all the time, and we were looking around like, ‘What is he talking about?'”