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Tennessee football: What went wrong for Vols on National Signing Day 2019?

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 15: A view of the outside of Neyland Stadium before a game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers on September 15, 2012 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 15: A view of the outside of Neyland Stadium before a game between the Florida Gators and Tennessee Volunteers on September 15, 2012 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images) /
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Tennessee football recruiting had a splash of a National Signing Day, but it wasn’t all perfect. Here are five things that went wrong for the Volunteers.

For the most part, Rocky Top is ecstatic about National Signing Day. Tennessee football had a huge splash by signing three new recruits to what was already a Top 20 class, making it a Top 12 class by the end of the day.

Considering how many people they lost out on last year and the fact that they came off a 5-7 season Jeremy Pruitt’s first year, there’s no way to ignore how successful that was. And overall, it was indeed a good day for the Vols.

But very rarely is National Signing Day perfect for any team, and Tennessee football still has quite a few issues it needs to resolve. After all, they still didn’t get a Top 10 class, and their class is only in the middle of the pack in the SEC.

In this post, we’re going to take a look at the things that were problematic for the Vols on National Signing Day. These issues may not outweigh the success of the day, but they are things that we simply can’t ignore.

Pruitt suffered a few key losses, still left some holes to fill, and hasn’t fully locked down his class. All of those issues have to be addressed going forward if the Vols are going to remain a successful program in the future.

Simply put, the Vols expect a return to the golden days of national recruiting, fair or not. And if that’s going to happen in the future, there are a few things that happened to this team that Pruitt can’t afford to have happen going forward. They are also issues for him as he tries to rebuild the program from the ground up.

So what are these issues? How significant could they end up being in the future? Let’s go ahead and break them all down. Here are the five things that went wrong for Tennessee football recruiting on National Signing Day 2019.

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