{"id":464,"date":"2014-05-13T20:56:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=464"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:22:56","slug":"willie-carmichael-signs-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2014\/05\/13\/willie-carmichael-signs-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Carmichael signs with Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Willie Carmichael<\/strong>, a 6-foot8, 195-pound power forward from Wekiva High School in Apopka, Florida, has signed with Tennessee. &#8220;<em><span style=\"color: #292f33\">Officially a Tennessee volunteer #<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #292f33\"><em>VFl<\/em> <\/span><a class=\"twitter-timeline-link\" style=\"color: #0084b4\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/tlpcJYTnR7\">pic.twitter.com\/tlpcJYTnR7<\/a>,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_williec24\/status\/466367691981611010\">he tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The commit is Tennessee&#8217;s third today and fourth since yesterday (<a title=\"Ian Chiles commits to Tennessee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2014\/05\/13\/ian-chiles-commits-tennessee\/\"><strong>Ian Chiles<\/strong><\/a>, <a title=\"Eric McKnight commits to Tennessee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2014\/05\/12\/eric-mcknight-commits-tennessee\/\"><strong>Erik McKnight<\/strong><\/a>, <a title=\"Devon Baulkman signs with Tennessee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2014\/05\/13\/devon-baulkman-signs-tennessee\/\"><strong>Devon Baulkman<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Carmichael originally signed with Southern Miss, but asked for and was granted a release from his national letter of intent after coach <strong>Donnie Tyndall<\/strong> left for Tennessee. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govolsxtra.com\/news\/2014\/may\/13\/former-southern-miss-signee-willie-carmichael-he\/\">picked the Vols<\/a> over Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast and Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Coach Tyndall and his staff have been on me from the beginning<\/em>,&#8221; Carmichael <a href=\"https:\/\/tennessee.rivals.com\/content.asp?SID=879&amp;CID=1640920\">told Rivals.com<\/a>. &#8220;<em>They saw me at a Disney showcase tournament and I was dominating one of their recruits. He recognized my high motor and told me that I reminded him of Kenneth Faried that played for him<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carmichael is the second former signee from Southern Miss to sign with Tennessee, joining JUCO guard <strong>Devan Baulkman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[Forum discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-basketball\/218137-14-fl-pf-willie-carmichael-ut-5.html#post10179944\"><strong>&#8217;14 FL PF Willie Carmichael (UT Commit 5\/13\/14)<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Carmichael, a 6-foot8, 195-pound power forward from Wekiva High School in Apopka, Florida, has signed with Tennessee. &#8220;Officially a Tennessee volunteer #VFl pic.twitter.com\/tlpcJYTnR7,&#8221; he tweeted. The commit is Tennessee&#8217;s third today and fourth since yesterday (Ian Chiles, Erik McKnight, Devon Baulkman). Carmichael originally signed with Southern Miss, but asked for and was granted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vols-basketball-recruiting","tag-willie-carmichael"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}