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Tennessee football: Five potential concerns about Vols promoting Joe Osovet

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 29: The Tennessee Volunteers run onto the field before the start of their game against the South Carolina Gamecocks on October 29, 2005 at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 29: The Tennessee Volunteers run onto the field before the start of their game against the South Carolina Gamecocks on October 29, 2005 at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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After two years in an off-field role, Tennessee football promoted Joe Osovet to tight ends coach. Here are the potential concerns for the Volunteers.

Not everything works out. And when it comes to staff changes, there are lots of hits and misses. Given the history of Tennessee football staff changes over the past decade, Vols fans should know first-hand what assistant coach hires can do to a program.

Promotions sometimes have the worst effects. We remember what happened when Butch Jones promoted Larry Scott from tight ends coach to offensive coordinator in 2017. Well, now Jeremy Pruitt is promoting somebody from an off-field role to tight ends coach.

We’re talking, of course, about Joe Osovet. Now, Pruitt’s hires and staff changes have appeared to work out pretty well so far, and Osovet comes highly touted. But that doesn’t mean that he is the perfect hire for Tennessee football, and there are plenty of reasons to worry about the move.

In this post, we’re going to break down the biggest potential concerns with Rocky Top promoting Osovet to tight ends coach. Now, to be fair, we have touted the hire in other ways, but every staff move should come with a bit of a red flag. After all, there have been hires that surprisingly failed in the past, and it’s possible for any of them.

Osovet, despite the hype behind that, is not immune to such skepticism yet. Pruitt, despite his success so far with staff hires, is not likely to bat 1.000. So there’s a very good chance that the drawbacks with this move become magnified over time.

That won’t be confirmed any time soon. But it’s worth bringing up. And remember, as we bring out these concerns, know that we have mentioned way more positives about this promotion than negatives. We just have to bring balance.

So what are these possible negatives? How legitimate are they? Let’s go ahead and break them all down here. These are the five potential concerns about Tennessee football promoting Joe Osovet to replace Brian Niedermeyer as tight ends coach.

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