Once upon a time, the Tennessee football team struggled to convince any highly rated defensive linemen to come to Knoxville, and the Vols defense plummeted to the bottom of the league because of it.
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Year after year came and went with UT middling in the trenches. Former coach Phillip Fulmer occasionally found a diamond in the rough during his latter years; Lane Kiffin and Derek Dooley rarely did when it came to the defensive front.
Oh, how things have changed under coach Butch Jones and defensive line coach Steve Stripling.