Today On Rocky Top: Senior Day In Tennessee
By Zach Ragan
From The Tennessean
"Before Donnie Tyndall even had a chance to meet with Josh Richardson, he had heard the senior had one foot out the door.As Tennessee transitioned from coach Cuonzo Martin to Tyndall, rumors circulated that Richardson might transfer. Tyndall had heard that Richardson might go play for Indiana.But when they met in Tyndall’s office, it was abundantly clear to him that the respectful player who sat across from him was who he wanted to lead his team in his first year as the Vols’ coach.Read more at The Tennessean"
From The Times Free Press
"Tennessee won’t face the situation on the football field for another few months.The Volunteers are getting an off-the-field version of one of the game’s most pressure-packed plays every week this offseason in the latest installment of coach Butch Jones’s long and growing list of mottos and slogans.What the third-year coach is calling “Fourth-and-1 Wednesdays” has become as much a part of the players’ offseason program as weightlifting, conditioning workouts and voluntary on-field work, though the new addition has much more of an off-field focus as part of Tennessee’s “Vol for Life” program.Each week, the Vols host speakers on various topics, ranging from leadership and accountability in everyday life to more specific real-life situations.Read more at The Times Free Press"
From The Daily Beacon
"The Tennessee Volunteers baseball team fell to the Grand Canyon Antelopes 1-0 Saturday afternoon after winning the series opener 4-1 on Friday night. The Vols mustered only 6 hits in the game and very rarely strung those hits together to threaten to score.“We’re not playing with a freshman group anymore,” Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano stated. “We have an older group, and we still haven’t broken through the experience they’ve had to overcome these things.“This is our third one-run loss in five losses. As a head coach, that’s very disappointing to me.”Read more at The Daily Beacon"