It all started at the place where “Rocky Top” reigns supreme, where the orange and white are worn proudly in all their checkered glory.
Before becoming an assistant coach at Maryland in March 2018, AJ Bonetti was an assistant coach in Knoxville, with Tennessee volleyball. There, he and several other assistant coaches had an idea.
“I wanna say it started probably three years ago,” Bonetti told Testudo Times. “A group of us there started to get into some colorful socks because the options at Tennessee are orange and orange.”
You read that correctly. Socks.
“We had to get creative with our socks and a few of us were able to do that,” Bonetti said.