Chattanooga Mocs mostly can wait for new talent to play

UTC players, and coach Russ Huesman, center, with son Levi Huesman, sing the alma mater after defeating Indiana State Saturday at Finley Stadium.

Because of the level of talent from previous recruiting classes, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team won’t need much immediate help from this year’s heralded signing class.

A quality group of returning starters and experienced underclassmen will mean most positions should be spoken for by the time the 13 new recruits join the team.

“Some people may have forgotten, but we were a fairly young team last year, so we’ll have a lot of guys with experience coming back,” UTC coach Russ Huesman said. “There were some really talented freshmen last year who wound up redshirting for one reason or another, and they’ll be competing along with the new guys once they get on campus, and all that competition should be good for us.

“We feel like we filled most of our needs with this year’s class, and we did that with guys who are very talented. But you never know until they get here just how good they are, so we’ll wait and see.”