In the fall of 2017, Glen Elarbee was Missouri's offensive line coach, and Jerome Carvin was a four-star tackle prospect out of Cordova High School near Memphis.

Tennessee welcomed more sizable news in men's basketball Thursday.

It could always be assumed that Cooper Mays had his share of challenges growing up two years behind older brother Cade, who has always been taller, bigger and more heralded.

Now that's some inside presence.

There has been plenty written and said so far this spring when it comes to Tennessee's new up-tempo offense under new football coach Josh Heupel, both from the offensive pieces and from those trying to stop it.

When you're sitting in a nearly empty Neyland Stadium watching a 173-minute University of Tennessee spring football practice, you have a lot of time to consider the upcoming Vols season.

Tennessee men's basketball program has a full coaching staff again.

There are your garden variety, blood-runs-orange University of Tennessee football fanatics. Then there's Angie Miller of Sevierville.

There are a multitude of new aspects to Tennessee's football program this spring.

If an overhaul in college basketball is defined by having to replace more than half of a roster's scholarship players, put Tennessee in that category.

So, who won the first scrimmage of the Josh Heupel era?

There was a two-week stretch in January when Tennessee running backs Ty Chandler and Eric Gray entered the NCAA transfer portal.

Wednesday was a bit of a roster management day for the Tennessee men's basketball team.

Tennessee secondary coach Willie Martinez has the daily task in practice of getting his defensive backs geared to stop Josh Heupel's up-tempo offense in which footballs are flying freely.

Tennessee junior linebacker Aaron Beasley has been suspended from team activities as the Knoxville Police Department looks into allegations that he injured a six-month-old cat that belongs to his girlfriend's roommate.

Tennessee men's basketball coach Rick Barnes lost an assistant Monday but gained one as well.

It doesn't take long to detect that footballs have been flying around Knoxville practices recently as new Tennessee coach Josh Heupel and his staff implement a drastically different offensive system for the Volunteers.

Tennessee's men's basketball program found some success through the NCAA transfer portal Saturday, landing former Auburn guard Justin Powell.

Since Tennessee lured UCF football coach Josh Heupel in late January to clean up the massive mess left by predecessor Jeremy Pruitt, the Volunteers have lost the state's premier quarterback prospect to Alabama and the state's top running back recruit to Georgia.

Ever since Josh Heupel was hired in late January as Tennessee's new football coach, a fast-paced brand of offense has been promised to Volunteers faithful.

Although the outbreak of the coronavirus had halted spring football this time last year, Tim Banks still had the comfort of being in his fifth year on the staff at Penn State, which had played in the Rose, Fiesta, Citrus and Cotton bowls the four previous seasons.

Fresh off its first three-game sweep of LSU since 2008, Tennessee is out to its best start in Southeastern Conference play in 20 years.

Tennessee freshman guard Jaden Springer announced Monday afternoon that he has signed with an agent and will enter the NBA draft.