WR’s decommitment from Vols a loss however not alarming

The state of South Carolina has been giving Tennessee soccer issues over the previous month. Lower than three weeks after the Vols’ School Soccer Playoff hopes have been dashes with a 63-38 loss to the Gamecocks on the street, they’ve now misplaced an elite dedication of their 2024 class from that state.

Mazeo Bennett, a four-star throughout the board out of Greenville Excessive College in Greenville, S.C., has now decommitted from the Vols. Standing between 5’11” and 6’0″ and weighing within the vary of of 165 to 175 kilos, he was dedicated to this system for slightly below two months.

In actual fact, Bennett dedicated to the Vols a day after they beat the Alabama Crimson Tide, when one other receiver from South Carolina, went for 5 touchdowns and over 200 yards. Bennett introduced his choice to decommit from Tennessee soccer on Twitter.

Put my belief in God. By no means failed me pic.twitter.com/tDn4buNmmM

— JEFE (@TheMazeoBennett) December 9, 2022

Make no mistake, this decommitment is a loss. Receivers of his caliber are arduous to return by, and there was each cause to consider he might ultimately play the function of Hyatt this 12 months. Nonetheless, whereas he’s a loss, the departure shouldn’t be alarming.

Usually, when elite prospects like this decommitment, you begin to surprise if one thing internally is mistaken with this system. Heupel and the Vols dropping to the Gamecocks lower than a month in the past would elevate such pink flags right here.

Butch Jones’ ultimate class suffered a wave of decommitments for this particular cause. When a program is floundering, gamers wish to leap ship, and so they typically occasions know extra about what’s occurring on the within than the general public does.

In the event you take a look at Bennett’s assertion, although, that’s clearly not the case. He particularly mentioned the adjustments within the teaching employees. It seems Alex Golesh, who simply left his function as Tennessee soccer’s offensive coordinator to grow to be head coach of the South Florida Bulls, had an enormous function in his recruitment.

Because of this, that is simply a kind of random situations the place an elite participant who dedicated to an assistant coach is now wanting elsewhere as a result of that assistant coach is gone. If that occurs a couple of occasions, the Vols shall be positive, as they are going to lose extra assistants.

Heck, relying on who Heupel brings in as his new offensive coordinator, there’s an opportunity the Vols win Bennett again. He nonetheless has the Vols as one in all his high faculties, as he talked about. It simply looks like proper now, with Golesh gone, he desires to maintain issues open, and there’s nothing mistaken with that or the UT program.

Heupel and Tennessee soccer have already got two four-stars dedicated for 2024, and given the success he simply had, he’ll be capable to discover some elite receivers for that class. All in all, there’s no cause to panic over this one, however retaining him would clearly have been preferable.