Yesterday, Tasser10 posted a fanshot about OC Noel Mazzone interviewing with Tennessee for their vacant OC spot. The fanshot cited an NBC Sports article that indicated Mazzone was one of five candidates that interviewed for the position. Sounds like a pretty convincing report that Mazzone's eyes (and wallet) are wandering. Well, upon closer look, the source cited for that information was this odd tweet from a disc jockey in Tennessee:
UT OC candidates on my list: Mike DeBord, Zach Azzani, Matt Canada of NC State, Clay Helton of USC, Noel Mazzone of UCLA, Kurt Roper
— Jimmy Hyams (@JimmyHyams) January 29, 2015
Odd indeed. Now, I don't know if Mazzone interviewed with the Vols or not. It could very well be a case where this disc jockey tweeted out his top 5 candidates, and NBC Sports completely misread the tweet and ran with a bad story. It could also be that there is more to the story. At this point, I don't know. But that's the point.
If Coach Mazzone did not interview with Tennessee, he should say so. At this point in the recruiting cycle, any bit of information can be damaging, and this is a small fire that could be snuffed out very quickly if it truly is inaccurate.
Discuss.