In 2024–2025, UT football will hire Cincinnati native De’Rail Sims to take Jerry Mack’s place as Tennessee’s new running backs coach.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. On Monday afternoon, WBIR was informed by sources that Tennessee Football hired De’Rail Sims, a Cincinnati native, to take Jerry Mack’s place as the team’s running backs coach for the 2024–2025 campaign.
Mack left the Vols earlier this month to take a similar job with the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL.
Sims coached at the Power-5 level for four years. After two years at Louisville, he most recently worked as a coach in Cincinnati.
Corey Kiner, who ran for 1,047 yards and five touchdowns last season, was the leader of Cincy’s backfield.
With the transfer to Knoxville, the native of South Carolina will be able to live nearer to his hometown. Sims is connected to East Tennessee because he was a coach at Carson-Newman in the past.
Dylan Sampson and Cameron Seldon are coming back to Tennessee.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Wednesday night at Lindsey Nelson Stadium, No. 9 Tennessee baseball sprang to life in the second inning of a mercy rule victory against ETSU.
The Vols defeated the Bucs 16-0 in the second inning by scoring 11 runs, ten of which came with two outs. In the victory, Tennessee scored 16 runs, which surpassed the total for the Vols’ first four games.With two outs and a 1-0 advantage going into the second inning, Cannon Peebles ignited the inning with an RBI fielder’s choice that made it 2-0. After then, Tennessee scored eleven more runs, three of them were home runs, to take a 12-0 lead at the end of the inning. Christian Moore’s first home run of the season made it 10-0, and then rookie Dean Curley hit his first career home run to make it 7-3. Billy Amick then left the yard to extend the score to 13-0.
Colby Backus, a redshirt junior, put the finishing touches on the victory in the sixth inning with a three-run home run.
In his first professional appearance for UT, fellow freshman and former Pigeon Forge standout Dylan Loy emerged victorious despite rookie pitcher Matthew Dallas starting the game and pitching three scoreless innings. Loy had two strikeouts in one inning of scoreless relief. To finish the game, Tennessee sent out Marcus Phillips, Brayden Sharp, and JJ Garcia; between them, they allowed just one hit and recorded two strikeouts.
