Staff Photo by Dan Henry / The Chattanooga Times Free Press- 3/17/17. David Cobb is the Chattanooga Times Free Press’s new Tennessee beat reporter. Taken on March 16, 2017.KNOXVILLE – Tennessee’s focus with its 2019 football recruiting class materialized before the Volunteers ever played a game under their first-year coach.
Jeremy Pruitt and the rest of the staff started going after big players, guys that can stock the offensive and defensive lines and play a vintage, powerful style.
Now it is clear why.
Three games have illustrated what this coaching staff recognized soon after arriving at Tennessee and probably long before.
Recruiting stars be danged, the Vols are not strong in the trenches.