On recruiting for the early signing period coming up later this month:
"This early signing period is unprecedented, so everybody is trying to figure it out. There's a lot of different angles to it because you don't have to sign, you can sign, if you're a mid-year recruit you could go either way. I think it's important that once we get our staff together that number one, we identify who fits at the University of Tennessee. That's important. Then we've got to get in front of them and do the best job that we can do to convince them to come to the University of Tennessee.
"One thing that I've figured out in recruiting is you worry about the ones that you get, you don't worry about the ones you don't. That's the most important, so that's what we'll do. We'll target, we'll have critical factors at every position. For instance, at defensive back we're going to look for guys that have size, speed, they can play the ball in the deep part of the field, they can open their hips and tackle, they've got the ability to play man-to-man. Every position we'll have critical factors. The next thing you've got to go to is, what's their intangibles? Are they leaders? Are they dependable? Do they have any kind of issues? Because you've kind of got to go through that and make sure. So, I want to make sure in the next 10 days that we don't sign somebody that doesn't fit that. I'd rather wait and find a guy that we know for sure fits what we're looking for here. So, I'm going to tell you right now, don't get all out of whack at this early signing period if you look out there. I don't even know what we have got committed. We'll talk about it when we get here. I've been doing other things today, but we'll figure it out. Don't you worry, we'll figure it out. And again, worry about the ones we get, not the ones we don't."