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Lannom Sowell's Men's Basketball Recruiting Profile
* Signal Mountain HS, Signal Mountain, TN
* 6-7, 250
This thread may not belong in recruiting as this kid is already an enrolled student, but Sowell is an intriguing prospect. He's a big guy who opted to play basketball in HS but not football. Have read that he was a very physical presence as a post player with a bit of mean streak. And while the odds are slim that he'll ever make an impact on the football field, you just never know.
As for Sowell, paying attention to the university web site paid off in his rare bid to join the Vols' football team after having not played at Signal Mountain. "I heard about the opportunity to walk on through the UT web site," he said. "The tryouts were on Jan. 22 and I just decided to go out there and try for it."
The plan worked out well.
Coaches asked Sowell if he played football in high school and he "straight out" told them he had not, but he had experience playing basketball.
"Their reaction was a lot better than you would expect," the 18-year-old business marketing major said in a telephone interview from Knoxville. "I talked with Patrick Abernathy, who's the head of the walk-on process and when I told him I did not play football, he said, 'You know what? We can work with that. I can't coach size, but we can coach football.'"
Owls' Toser Gets Preferred Walk-On Spot At Tennessee - Chattanoogan.com
