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Butch Jones: We never promise playing time. We promise only an opportunity to compete.

Butch Jones: You can never have too many OL or DL. We need more of both, and we'll have to get more down the road.

Vols OC Mike Bakajian: TE coach Mark Elder was the recruiting coordinator with us at Cincinnati, and he recruited the entire state of TN for us, so he knew lots of coaches and players and was huge for us with this class.

Vols DC/LB coach John Jancek: Certainly we'd have like to add more LBs to this class. We'll have to address that going forward.

Vols DB coach Willie Martinez: "We can recruit the best of the best here. This is a great place, and everybody in the nation knows that."

Vols WR coach Zach Azzani: "What we did in 31 days was remarkable ... and from now on we'll have 365."

i like his out look on the trial and tribulation, the storm has passed!

We'll have more tonight, tomorrow, the next day, the next day, and so on, and so on and ....

Was going to watch the exact same thing. I would like to listen/watch the press conference in its entirety

Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

Wow.

While I don't disagree that Coach Jones is treating his players as if they are his sons, the reason he had the players introduce themselves was so that they could see us, not us see them. As part of his character building program he will give his players(and his sons) every opportunity to gain a measure of self-confidence by speaking publicly and having them look the audience in the eye to deliver their message. This goes hand in hand with the quote attributed to one of the recruits that said, "Coach Jones said 'always carry your briefcase in your left hand so you can shake hands with your right hand.'"
In his hiring presser he alluded to the fact that he prepares his players for the NFL in every way, not just on the field. While we may not have gotten as many ***** recruits as we would have liked, I really like what Coach Jones is doing.