Joe Osovet named Vols’ tight ends coach

[Sara Clark]

Joe Osovet, Tennessee’s Director of Programming for Football, has been promoted to tight ends coach for the Volunteers.

Vols Wire was informed of Osovet’s promotion by someone close to the situation Friday morning.

Joe Osovet named Vols’ tight ends coach, will bring 'unreal football mind' to staff

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

Very strong hire by Jeremy Pruitt

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Jumpin Gee Osovet!

Go get 'em, coach!

 

[Sara Clark]

 

[bpalmer28]

Giving the job to the man who's earned it. Props to CJP for giving Osovet a chance and rewarding him for a job well done.

 

[CAVPUT]

Like the comment about recruiting just not sure what it's based on?

 

[njvols]

Pruitt helping build Neid's resume...should get us another couple years on the staff before he gets his own gig.

 

[SpookyAction]

Osovet paid his dues and we have been very fortunate he stuck around this long for his opportunity.

 

[butchna]

Like the comment about recruiting just not sure what it's based on?

Point man on Villeaux and has been on a Atlantic seaboard tour the past two weeks. A HC in JUCO has to recruit a ton because his help is limited financially.

 

[Volfan76]

Like the comment about recruiting just not sure what it's based on?

Wondered that myself. I guess it had to be from his JUCO coaching career.

 

[Freak]

Good read on Osovet from Bruce Feldman in 2018.

In December, after he went 9–1 in his second year in charge at ASA College in Brooklyn, Osovet says he got a call out of the blue from Pruitt offering him an interview for the open wide receivers coach position on Pruitt’s staff at UT. Because Pruitt was still juggling two jobs and trying to get Alabama primed for a College Football Playoff run, he couldn’t be there in person, so new Vols offensive coordinator Tyson Helton and O-line coach Will Friend handled things. He didn’t get the job, but he did get some encouragement.

“They said I did an amazing job,” Osovet says. “Coach Pruitt said, ‘We’re not gonna hire you but I can promise you this, we’re gonna coach together one day. The entire staff had nothing but good things to say about you.’” On Tuesday, Pruitt made good on that pledge when he called Osovet back to offer him a job on the Vols’ staff as a quality control assistant. Osovet has had other opportunities, including another quality control job at the FBS level, but none that paid enough to justify uprooting his wife and two children.

https://www.si.com/college/2018/02/14/joe-osovet-jeremy-pruitt-tennessee-coaching-staff

 

[RollerVol]

good luck to Coach Sherrer but don't think his leaving hurts us...like the moves Coach Pruitt has made since...

GO BIG ORANGE!

 

[butchna]

Wondered that myself. I guess it had to be from his JUCO coaching career.

He’s done work HERE. He was tagged a lot in the past two offseasons in recruit tweets.

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Solid hire we need to use the tight ends more wish we had of got DW

 

[OleRockyTopTennessee]

Solid hire we need to use the tight ends more wish we had of got DW

I’m glad we didn’t get him. I have a feeling that he is going to be a bust. He didn’t start in the UA game. When he played, he was awful. I’ll correct myself if I’m wrong but for now I’ll say that was a great miss for us.

 

[lilesrt]

Giving the job to the man who's earned it. Props to CJP for giving Osovet a chance and rewarding him for a job well done.

 

[wmcovol]

So Neidmeyer is the LB coach?

 

[BeecherVol]

So Neidmeyer is the LB coach?

More than likely.

Glad to see Osovet get the promotion. It was coming here or somewhere else in the very near future.

 

[VolnJC]

Pruitt helping build Neid's resume...should get us another couple years on the staff before he gets his own gig.

Maybe he will have more time to recruit over there.. Nieds had a dreadful recruiting season this year

 

[Seattle Hillbilly]

Maybe he will have more time to recruit over there.. Nieds had a dreadful recruiting season this year

Would your opinion change if he brought in Evans?

 

[VolnJC]

Would your opinion change if he brought in Evans?

Would it be him or Graham?

 

[Seattle Hillbilly]

Would it be him or Graham?

Guess it wouldn't really matter much. There would be enough credit to go around.

 

[TJVol95]

Good let’s do it! GBO!!

 

[tennesseeduke]

Joe Osovet named Vols’ tight ends coach, will bring 'unreal football mind' to staff

Nieds heading to LB coach!

 

[wmcovol]

Maybe he will have more time to recruit over there.. Nieds had a dreadful recruiting season this year

I think the terrible start hurt Neids more than it did other guys. He's on the big national players and most of them blew Tennessee off as road kill at 1-4.