{"id":34220,"date":"2022-06-02T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T22:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/juco-ol-commits-to-vols-after-official-visit-set-to-enroll-soon\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T22:39:27","slug":"juco-ol-commits-to-vols-after-official-visit-set-to-enroll-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/juco-ol-commits-to-vols-after-official-visit-set-to-enroll-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Juco OL commits to Vols after official visit, set to enroll soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter figure\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s3media.247sports.com\/Uploads\/Assets\/616\/116\/11116616.JPEG?fit=bounds&amp;crop=620:320,offset-y0.50&amp;width=620&amp;height=320\" media=\"(max-width: 620px)\"\/><\/picture><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hudl.com\/embed\/video\/3\/6335480\/6203e835d45f840c0874c1f4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After piling up scholarship offers from more than a dozen schools in less than two months, <b>Savion Herring<\/b> wrapped up his whirlwind recruitment this week by traveling to Tennessee for his fifth and final official visit.  He returned home Thursday knowing that he will be joining the Vols in a matter of days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sophomore offensive lineman from Monroe College in New Rochelle, NY, announced Thursday afternoon that he has committed to Tennessee, giving the Vols a late addition to their 2022 recruiting class.  He also took official visits to Kansas, Syracuse, USF and Middle Tennessee before picking Tennessee over Kansas, choosing to continue his college career in the SEC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kentucky, South Carolina and Nebraska were among the other teams that showed interest in the 6-foot-4.5, 325-pound Herring, who has also received offers from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri, Iowa State, Connecticut, Akron, Toledo, Kent State, Buffalo, Temple and Old Dominion since March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herring said he plans to return to Tennessee in time to begin first-session summer classes next week.  Before publicly announcing his decision di lui, he told GoVols247 that he was sold on the idea of \u200b\u200bplaying for the Vols largely because of coach <b>Josh Heupel<\/b>&#8216;s staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe coaches, they really feel like family,\u201d Herring said.  \u201cI talked to the (current players), and the guys said, &#8216;Pretty much, what you see is really what you get,&#8217; and they said that&#8217;s not even a lie and that&#8217;s not BS.  They&#8217;re just straight-shooting it. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herring said he will have three years to play at least two remaining seasons of eligibility.  He said he&#8217;s currently petitioning for his 2019 season at Iowa Central Community College in Dodge City, Iowa, to count as a redshirt year, which could give him three remaining seasons of eligibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He appeared in five games last season at Monroe College, where he transferred after spending just one semester at Iowa Central.  Monroe didn&#8217;t compete during the 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A former Irvington (NJ) High School standout, Herring committed to Cincinnati in June 2018 going into his senior year of high school, but academics forced him to go the junior-college route.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herring said nothing about his official visit to Tennessee was &#8220;too surprising, but the facilities are really nice.&#8221;  His decision di lui, though, was more about the people he encountered there, including offensive line coach <b>Glen Elarbee<\/b> and other members of the Vols&#8217; staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverybody that&#8217;s on the staff &#8211; assistant, (graduate assistants) or anything like that in that manner &#8211; everybody&#8217;s just been really great,\u201d Herring said.  \u201cThey definitely have something special cooking up, so this season will be exciting to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverything checked out exactly how I thought.  And then for me, just visiting an SEC school, they&#8217;re all pretty much the same.  It&#8217;s really the people that make the difference, and that was pretty good. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tennessee&#8217;s coaches have told Herring that he&#8217;ll have an opportunity to compete for early playing time on the Vols&#8217; offensive line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey said there are some positions that&#8217;s not lock on officially, so he said there are some jobs up for grabs,\u201d he said.  &#8220;(Elarbee) said it ain&#8217;t going to be easy, but I have to compete, and I said I&#8217;m with that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herring said Tennessee has discussed potentially playing him at guard.  But the Vols were impressed by his length di lui, which he said could allow him to get a look at tackle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure alignright\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s3media.247sports.com\/Uploads\/Assets\/629\/116\/11116629.JPG?fit=bounds&amp;crop=240:320,offset-y0.50&amp;width=240&amp;height=320\" media=\"(max-width: 620px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s3media.247sports.com\/Uploads\/Assets\/629\/116\/11116629.JPG?fit=bounds&amp;crop=240:320,offset-y0.50&amp;width=240&amp;height=320\" media=\"(min-width: 620px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/s3media.247sports.com\/Uploads\/Assets\/629\/116\/11116629.JPG?fit=bounds&amp;crop=240:320,offset-y0.50&amp;width=240&amp;height=320\" media=\"(min-width: 900px)\"\/><\/picture><figcaption> <span class=\"meta\">(Photo: Courtesy of Savion Herring)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I mean, when they were doing the measurables on me, as far as height, weight and arm length, they were surprised,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;My arms were 85 inches, so they&#8217;re like, &#8216;You&#8217;ve got potential to play guard and tackle regardless of, like, the height difference because your arms are extremely long.&#8217;  He said he could put me some different places and see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s like 50-50.  They don&#8217;t really know (my position) yet. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of Herring&#8217;s friends, Tennessee senior linebacker <b>Juwan Mitchell<\/b>, served as his player host during his official visit to Knoxville, which started Tuesday morning.  Herring said he also spent time with Vols senior offensive lineman <b>Jerome Carvin<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe was just giving me some more feedback on pretty much how things would be when I get there,\u201d Herring said, recalling his conversations with Carvin.  &#8220;He said if you work hard and you&#8217;re about the team, and you&#8217;ll be focused and you stay true to yourself and everything like that, you&#8217;re going to be all right.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With his fast-moving recruitment now behind him, he said he&#8217;s looking forward to returning to Tennessee soon to officially get started with the Vols.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;ll be enrolling next week,\u201d Herring said.  &#8220;The ball will get rolling super, super fast.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-4\">\n    if(typeof fbq === 'undefined') {\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.defer=1;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '320233411816140');\n        fbq('init', '1575186632756631');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; After piling up scholarship offers from more than a dozen schools in less than two months, Savion Herring wrapped up his whirlwind recruitment this week by traveling to Tennessee for his fifth and final official visit. 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