Mississippi running back Jaylen Walton (6) breaks out of the grasp of Tennessee defensive back LaDarrell McNeil (33) for a 7-yard touchdown run in their game in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014.OXFORD, Miss. – For the next six weeks or so, Jack Jones will be focused on finishing strong with his current team.
The offensive lineman and Tennessee commitment from Murfreesboro doesn’t plan to let that hinder some of his recruiting efforts for his future one.
While Jones and his Oakland High School team are 7-1 and hoping for a deep run in the TSSAA Class 6A playoffs after Friday night’s win against La Vergne, he’s also a staple at Tennessee’s home games this season and trying to stay in the ear of some other in-state players the Volunteers are targeting for their 2015 class.
“At this point, you’ve been recruited for a year and a half now — a lot of these guys — by Tennessee,” Jones said this past week. “You know where you want to be, and you know if you want to be a Vol or not. I’m not one of those guys that likes to sit there and say, ‘Hey, come on, man, you’re going to be amazing.’ If you want to come, you want to come.
“I want to play with dudes that are fired up to come be a Vol and are hyped and want to run out of that ‘T.’ They don’t care — they know that’s where they want to go. They’re not going to sit around and pick a hat and do all this crap. It is what it is sometimes, but I think you know, and when you know you just need to make that decision.”