Its not just one coach that hits me up from Tennessee every day, its multiple coaches, Reed explained. If they are going to hit me up every day and show lots of love, of course Im going to come up here and visit.
Plus, theyre in the SEC, its Tennessee. I wanted to see what Tennessee looks like and I love it.
Reed continued, It was really nice. Ive been waiting to come here. Everything was really cool; nice facilities, good coaches. It was a good day.
While he had been anticipating a visit to Knoxville, the Vols and coach Butch Jones surpassed his expectations.
They passed (expectations), Reed said. This is really nice. Ive never seen anything like this. I like coach Jones, coach (Mahoney), they seem like good people. It was a really nice visit.
Reed was able to sit down with Jones and it was clear when the conversation was over that hes wanted on Rocky Top.
Coach Jones was just like, We love you. We want you here really bad, Reed said. Weve just got to continue to build that relationship.
Reed plans to have a top five in the month or so and the Vols are likely to make the cut. Other schools coming after the Lone Star State product hard include Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, TCU and Oklahoma.
And while most of his suitors are from the Big 12 he is intrigued about by playing in the SEC.
They play good competition every week, Reed said. Who wouldnt want to play Alabama, LSU, Tennessee or Ole Miss or Georgia? Every year they have players get drafted to the NFL and thats who you want to play against. I want to play against the best of the best.
