KNOXVILLE – The shuffling has continued for Tennessee’s 2012 football recruiting class.
After two junior college players signed elsewhere and UT parted ways with a high school running back last month, the Volunteers have lost two more committed prospects the past two days.
Keithon Redding, a receiver from Decatur’s Columbia High School in Georgia, decommitted from UT on Monday. The 6-foot, 190-pound Redding pledged to the Vols in July, but he noticed a change he didn’t like when receivers coach Charlie Baggett left the program after the 2011 season.
“I made my commitment based on Coach Baggett because I had a real close relationship with him,” Redding said in an interview with the Times Free Press on Monday night. “My commitment was based on him, really, but once he left, everything seemed to change for me. It’s like I lost contact with Tennessee once he left.
“It was my decision. I sat down with my family, and we all came to the conclusion that it would be best for me if I just left.”