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Butch Jones Signing Day 2013 Press Conference

Tennessee football commitments
(National Signing Day, Feb. 6, 2013) Signs 21

Player	Position	Height	Weight	40YD	Hometown	Rating
1. A.J. Branisel	TE	6-4	225	4.5	South Euclid, Ohio
2. Jason Carr	DE	6-6	280	-	Memphis, TN
3. Riley Ferguson	QB	6-2	190	4.8	Matthews, NC
4. Malik Foreman	ATH	5-10	170	4.4	Kingsport, Tenn.
5. Joshua Dobbs	QB	6-3	190	-	Alpharetta, GA
6. Paul Harris	WR	6-4	186	-	Upper Marlboro, MD
7. Ryan Jenkins	WR	5-10	179	4.6	Marietta, GA
8. Lemond Johnson	ATH	6-1	190	4.5	Cooper City, FL
9. Riyahd Jones	DB	6-0	185	4.5	Garden City, KS
10. Brett Kendrick	OL	6-5	295	-	Knoxville, TN
11. Jabo Lee	RB	5-10	180	4.4	Dillon, SC
12. Jaylen Miller	DE	6-3	265	5.0	Gaffney, SC
13. Marquez North	WR	6-3	205	-	Charlotte, NC
14. Woody Quinn	TE	6-6	260	-	Santa Ana, CA
15. Jalen Reeves-Maybin	ATH	6-1	198	4.8	Clarksville, TN
16. Austin Sanders	OL	6-5	300	-	Cleveland, TN
17. Josh Smith	WR	6-1	185	-	Knoxville, TN
18. Cameron Sutton	DB	6-0	175	4.5	Jonesboro, GA
19. Corey Vereen	LB	6-2	220	-	Winter Garden, FL
20. Dylan Wiesman	OL	6-4	280	-	Cincinnati, Ohio
21. Malik Brown	DE	6-3	250	-	West Palm Beach, FL

Rank	School	Total	Commits	Commits	Commits	Avg Stars
1.	Alabama	25	4	13	8	3.84
2.	Ohio State	24	2	16	6	3.83
3.	Notre Dame	24	4	14	6	3.92
4.	Florida	28	2	14	11	3.61
5.	Michigan	27	1	16	9	3.63
6.	LSU	26	2	15	9	3.73
7.	Mississippi	27	3	9	15	3.56
8.	Auburn	23	2	9	12	4.07
9.	Florida State	21	2	9	9	3.57
10.	Texas A&M	31	0	15	15	3.45
11.	UCLA	23	0	16	6	3.65
12.	Georgia	32	0	15	17	3.47
13.	USC	12	5	7	0	4.42
14.	Clemson	23	0	10	10	3.32
15.	Oklahoma	24	0	7	14	3.17
16.	South Carolina	21	0	8	13	3.38
17.	Nebraska	25	0	5	19	3.16
18.	Washington	22	0	7	15	3.32
19.	Vanderbilt	26	0	5	20	3.15
20.	Tennessee	21	0	5	15	3.19
21.	Oregon	19	1	7	7	3.26
22.	Virginia Tech	19	1	3	15	3.26
23.	Texas	15	0	9	6	3.61
24.	West Virginia	28	0	2	22	2.96
25.	Mississippi State	21	1	2	16	3.11

News Brief

Football Recruiting 2013

(National Signing Day, Feb. 1, 2013) -- ESPN.com recruiting analyst Tom Lemming's Top 100. ET. Lemming will also have the latest on the top prospects who have yet to commit.
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	Butch Jones 2013 [Photos by AP]

Second time's a charm

  There was nothing second-class about Butch Jones' second recruiting class at Central Michigan ... or his second recruiting class at Cincinnati. They were first-class all the way. Now Jones appears to be following the same script at Tennessee: After a good salvage job with a hastily assembled first signing class, he is headed for a big-time haul with his second. The Vols already have a dozen commitments in a class that FOX Sports NEXT ranks No. 5 nationally. Commitment D'Andre Payne, a four-star cornerback from Washington, D.C., is convinced that Jones' second signing class at Tennessee is going to be a memorable one.

"Coach Jones told us a scenario about the second class he's had (at his previous stops), and it's going to be good, man," Payne told InsideTennessee earlier this spring. "There's going to be some good things going on. They've got some good commits committed and some other guys that are probably going to commit soon." After replacing Derek Dooley as head coach in mid-December, Jones had just six weeks to try and rescue Tennessee's 2013 signing class. Now that he has more time to build relationships with prospects, he is taking Tennessee's recruiting to a whole new level for 2014. Jones already has 12 commitments, including five four-star recruits - Payne, running back Jalen Hurd, safety Todd Kelly Jr., plus tight ends Daniel Helm and Ethan Wolf. Coleman Thomas, though a three-star recruit, is rated America's No. 3 center prospect.
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	Malik Brown said Doug Marrone's departure was a big reason he picked Tennessee over Syracuse. [Photo by AP]

Top recruit Malik Brown used a 'point system' to choose Tennessee over Syracuse

Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. - In 27 seconds Malik Brown said all he needed to say. He was honest and blunt, forceful and direct: If Doug Marrone had never left, he would have undoubtedly signed with Syracuse. "When I committed to Syracuse, I committed to the contract of Coach Marrone, Coach Morrison and Coach Anselmo - three guys that I've built a big relationship with," Brown said in front of an audience of roughly 75 people. "If you know anything about contracts, after you commit to a contract and the contract changes, that contract is now void. So that's why today I will be decommitting from Syracuse and signing with the University of Tennessee."

Brown, a three-star defensive end from Dwyer High School in Florida, was greeted with rousing cheers and applause from his family and friends as he selected the Volunteers over Syracuse and South Florida. Cameras flashed. Brown beamed. With his announcement, Syracuse and head coach Scott Shafer lost arguably the best player in the 2013 recruiting class. Though he was only a three-star prospect according to recruiting websites, Brown gained an additional 30 pounds since his senior season ended. He know stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 250 pounds, making him a menacing outside linebacker/defensive end hybrid.
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Tennessee Football Recruiting: Grading Volunteers' 2013 Class

  National signing day has come and gone. The Tennessee Volunteers finished No. 25 according to the 247Composite, which is good considering the fact that Butch Jones took over when they were No. 47. Here's a position-by-position breakdown and grading for the 2013 recruiting class. The stories for today are undoubtedly going to revolve around Vonn Bell's surprised decision, and to a lesser degree, Joshua Dobbs flip from Arizona State. Only time will tell which one will have the bigger impact on the Vols, though I already have my suspicions. Before we begin, I want to do a bit of shameless self-promotion with this tweet I sent out right before Malik Brown signed with the Vols:

In terms of what the Vols needed and who they targeted, it's hard to imagine a scenario where they would've done much better than reeling in Riley Ferguson and Joshua Dobbs. Ferguson, a 3-star from North Carolina, was a long-time commit to Tennessee and made it official earlier today. He also fielded offers from Alabama, Clemson, LSU, Michigan and Notre Dame.
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  Watch this page for the latest list of 2013 Tennessee football signees. Tennessee beat writer Evan Woodbery has a snapshot look at each Tennessee signee. Woodbery will also be live chatting about National Signing Day on his blog. We are also working closely with our recruiting site, govols247, to bring you the latest coverage. See its Signing Day Central page to see the latest from govols247's Kevin Ryan, Wes Rucker and Ryan Callahan.

One big miss for the Vols is Vonn Bell, who was thought to be favoring Tennessee, signed with Ohio State. Bell, a 5-11, 180 pound safety from Rossville, Ga. (Ridgeland High School) has a 5-star ranking on the 247Composite rankings and is the No. 26 prospect overall nationally and the No. 2 safety. Bell was one of three elite national recruits targeted by Butch Jones and the only one to go down to National Signing Day, but he chose Ohio State in a televised announced on ESPNU.
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  Tennessee has added a late signee to its 2012 class -- linebacker Kenneth Bynum of Jacksonville, Fla. The 6-foot-1, 215-pound Bynum had originally committed to Cincinnati, but Tennessee offered him a scholarship a few days before signing day. He decided to extend his recruitment past signing day and took a visit to Tennessee.

The Vols lost a couple of linebackers -- Otha Peters and Dalton Santos -- in the final days leading up to signing day, and Bynum announced on Wednesday that he would be joining Tennessee in the fall. Bynum is ranked by ESPN as the No. 56 outside linebacker prospect in the country. He was ranked as the No. 77 prospect in the state of Florida.