FAYETTEVILLE — Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello and assistant Josh Elander aren’t the only ones coaching on a new side of the Arkansas-Tennessee series this weekend.
Arkansas volunteer coach Taylor Smart played two seasons at Tennessee and was the Volunteers’ student assistant coach in 2017.
“It’s definitely a little weird playing against the team that I was always rooting for and play for, and bled orange for quite a while, and still do a little bit,” Smart said.
“I know a couple of those guys over there, the players that are juniors and seniors now….I’m always in the orange and rooting for them, but I’m rooting against them this weekend and want to put it on them.