“Really, I feel like this bowl game is just gonna give us a step to just really go out there and continue to just prove and show who we are every day in his locker room. That’s something that we’re really just trying to put out there is just who we are as Tennessee football team. This bowl game gives us another opportunity for that.”
“The last time I didn’t play football with Jabari was probably little league football, because we played [together] in middle school, we played high school, college. Yeah, little league football. But at the same time, we played against each other in little league football. But it’d be different, for sure. Whatever he do, like, it’d be different, for sure.”
, really, like I said, after the [Vanderbilt] game like, it really got to it. Like, everybody was trying to see what everybody wanted to do. And you know, we all just … a lot of guys that want to be here have been through the program and just feel like it’s another step the program can be. And we just talked to each other — me, Coop [Cooper Mays], other guys just, like, ‘Let’s come back, we use our presence, us who we are, and just try to make the best out of it. And at the same time, like grow for our opportunity, as well.’”
