UT VOLS FOOTBALL NEWS

Tennessee’s official visit haul proved to be small, but efficient this weekend.Of five official visitors, the Vols picked up three commitments.Defensive backs Dave Clark and Dontavis Sapp and linebacker John Propst told the News Sentinel on Sunday they were committed to play football for UT.Clark could fill an immediate need for UT. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound safety from Independence (Kan …

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Derek Dooley wants everyone to know he’s got a mind of his own. That’s why he chose not to play football at Georgia, where his father made his name coaching. Or stick with Nick Saban as he built another championship program.

Hiestand (pronounced HE-stand) comes to the Vols after five seasons as offensive line coach with the Chicago Bears, where he helped the NFL franchise to its first Super Bowl appearance in 21 years.

Like the rest of the college football world, David Reaves was as surprised as anyone when Lane Kiffin bolted from Tennessee after one year to go to Southern Cal.

A month ago, I recounted a series of Tennessee football mishaps that covered the second half of the Memphis game all the way through news of an NCAA investigation into UT’s hostesses. Guess I should have waited.But how was I to know that was just a warm-up? Since then, UT has been routed by Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, jilted by coach Lane Kiffin, and lost as many recruiting …

Tennessee has owned Florida in basketball lately. Even former Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin knew it.

KNOXVILLE — Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley moved two steps closer to completing his football staff Saturday with the additions of assistant coach Harry Hiestand and football head strength coach Bennie Wylie.

Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley moved two steps closer to completing his football staff Saturday with hires from the NFL and Big 12 ranks.

Tennessee coach Derek Dooley moved two steps closer to completing his football staff Saturday with the additions of assistant coach Harry Hiestand and football head strength coach Bennie Wylie.Hiestand comes to the Vols after five seasons as offensive line coach with the Chicago Bears, where he helped the NFL franchise to its first Super Bowl appearance in 21 years. Before that, Hiestand coached …

Is even Old Man Winter working against Tennessee? In what already had to be considered as the strangest offseason in Volunteers football history, the program’s attempts to put the wraps on a recruiting class have been hindered by the major winter storm that passed through the state this weekend.