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Tennessee Vols Morning Report: New AD, New WR Coach, Women’s SEC Awards

By Caleb Calhoun

Sep 5, 2015; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fans flies the United States flag and the Volunteer flag prior to the game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 5, 2015; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fans flies the United States flag and the Volunteer flag prior to the game against the Bowling Green Falcons at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /
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A new Tennessee Vols athletic director and wide receivers coach along with women’s SEC awards lead the Volunteers updates for Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

Happy first day of March! And what a crazy news day the Tennessee Vols are coming off of!

With the end of the women’s basketball regular season here, the men’s basketball program still playing to get back on the bubble with two games left, and softball and baseball season hitting full swing, the news all surrounded things not related to those instances.

From the entire athletic department to the football program to important dates in the summer, Vol Nation was slammed with huge news.

There are two football stories, a basketball recruiting story, and women’s basketball awards.

But let’s start with the biggest news surrounding the athletic department.

Tennessee Vols hire John Currie as athletic director – Rhiannon Potkey, Knoxville News Sentinel

Despite Phillip Fulmer and David Blackburn as the leading candidates for a while, the Tennessee Vols made a shock hire for their new athletic director by bringing back a guy who served in the athletic department in Knoxville from 1997 to 1998 and 2000 to 2009.

"Currie, 45, has spent the last eight years as the athletic director at Kansas State. He begins his duties at UT on April 1.Currie is replacing Dave Hart, who announced his retirement on Aug. 18 after six years at UT."

Tennessee football set to hire Kevin Beard as WR Coach – Luke Slabaugh, WBIR

A week after the news broke that Zach Azzanni would be leaving the Tennessee Vols for the NFL, Butch Jones appears to have found a replacement. Sources indicate that he will bring in Kevin Beard to coach wide receivers.

"Beard, 36, joined the FIU staff in 2017 after spending the 2016 season at Georgia as a quality control coach. Prior to his time at Georgia, Beard spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Miami. His time at Miami overlaps with that of Tennessee offensive coordinator Larry Scott, who coached at Miami from 2013-2015.The team has not yet confirmed the news.Former 247Sports contributor John Brice first reported a deal was close Tuesday morning."

Tennessee Vols SEC Media dates scheduled – UTSports

In a sign that it’s already time to look forward to next year’s football season, the SEC released its Media Days schedule for this summer. The dates are Monday, July 10 through Thursday, July 13.

"Tennessee football head coach Butch Jones and select student-athletes will be featured along with Arkansas and LSU on July 10.The SEC Network and ESPN will once again be on site to bring SEC Media Days to a national audience. Six times since 1992 has the SEC Media Days predicted champion proceeded to win the SEC Championship, including two of the last three seasons."

Three Tennessee Lady Vols named All-SEC – SECSports

Diamond DeShields was named First Team All-SEC for the 2016-2017, and Jaime Nared and Mercedes Russell both made Second Team All-SEC for the season.

"First-team and second-team All-SEC honorees, All-Freshman team, All-Defensive team, along with Player, Coach and Freshman, Defensive Player, 6th Player and Scholar-Athlete of the Year were chosen by the league’s 14 coaches."

Four-star forward from French commits to Tennessee Basketball – Grant Ramey, GoVols247

Tennessee Vols head coach Rick Barnes secured his biggest commitment since he arrived in Knoxville in four-star forward Yves Pons. A 6’6″ wingman, Pons should be able to come in and immediately replace Robert Hubbs III next year, so he’s a huge pickup.

"Pons’ primary recruiter at Tennessee was assistant coach Michael Schwartz, though Barnes played an aggressive role in chasing the prized recruit.He ultimately chose Tennessee over the Florida Gators because of Barnes’ history of player development and production of NBA talent during his coaching career."

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