wagee12
March 2nd, 2009, 11:13 AM
Brian Vogler called his UT trip "fun" and said he connected well with the Vols' coaches.
"They walked out of the room, turned out the lights and two coaches came running in, some UT players joined in with him. They didn't take their shirts off. But all the players and recruits ran down from their chairs onto stage and just started getting crunk. Everybody got in a big circle and it was like before a game, everybody shouting 'UT! UT!'."
More than just the theatrics of the event piqued the attention of Vogler, a multi-sport standout who also plays AAU basketball for the Georgia Stars and will participate in track and field for his Brookstone School squad.
"I talked to (Kiffin) here and there throughout the day, he was just saying how excited he was for me to come up there," Vogler recalled. "I introduced him to my dad and he got to talk to him for a couple minutes or so.
"My dad, right away, right after he was done meeting coach Kiffin, he told me he thought that it seemed like I had some kind of bond or something with them. I've never been like that around other coaches, to just feel so free and so open. When I told them (his parents) about coaches ripping their shirts off, my dad said he'd never heard of anything like that before."
"They walked out of the room, turned out the lights and two coaches came running in, some UT players joined in with him. They didn't take their shirts off. But all the players and recruits ran down from their chairs onto stage and just started getting crunk. Everybody got in a big circle and it was like before a game, everybody shouting 'UT! UT!'."
More than just the theatrics of the event piqued the attention of Vogler, a multi-sport standout who also plays AAU basketball for the Georgia Stars and will participate in track and field for his Brookstone School squad.
"I talked to (Kiffin) here and there throughout the day, he was just saying how excited he was for me to come up there," Vogler recalled. "I introduced him to my dad and he got to talk to him for a couple minutes or so.
"My dad, right away, right after he was done meeting coach Kiffin, he told me he thought that it seemed like I had some kind of bond or something with them. I've never been like that around other coaches, to just feel so free and so open. When I told them (his parents) about coaches ripping their shirts off, my dad said he'd never heard of anything like that before."