coach pruitt has been recruiting me since he was at bama, so i just went down there to check it back out, said haselwood, whos ranked the no. 3 overall prospect and no. 1 wide receiver in the industry-generated 247sports composite for the 2019 class. it was pretty cool. It was more than what i expected, so thats all a really good thing.
While haselwood said he came away from his past visits to tennessee with a favorable opinion of the vols, he admitted he wouldnt have considered going there back then, i wouldnt because i just couldnt see myself there. but now things have changed a little bit, maybe because of the coaching staff, added haselwood, who previously attended tennessees win over florida at neyland stadium on sept. 24, 2016.
the coaches that just got in, they came from winning programs, so i know the program that theyre about to build right now is going to be pretty solid. when butch jones was there, it was kind of a different vibe, haselwood said. i can feel it now, though.
johnson, who left memphis last month to complete pruitts first staff at tennessee, made a good first impression on haselwood. i can tell we were brought up the same way, haselwood said of johnson. we kind of clicked, with the way he was talking and stuff. Definitely, thats a good thing, too pretty cool.
haselwood said pruitt, johnson and the rest of the vols coaches made it clear that they plan to continue recruiting him despite his commitment to georgia. basically, they were saying theyre trying to stretch the ball vertically and make explosive plays and stuff like that. And they said im the perfect guy to do it, haselwood said. (pruitt) said that i remind him of some receiver that played for lsu back in the day, and he said im pretty aggressive and he likes that.
