After the offseason crept by like a funeral procession, the Tennessee football team raced onto the field for its first practice of the fall Tuesday night.
It may have been the slowest the Volunteers were the entire evening.
The biggest news that came out of a very newsy night in Knoxville was the fact that everybody noticed how much bigger, more athletic and especially faster the Vols looked.
Two full-to-the-brim recruiting classes of highly ranked, SEC-caliber athletes brought in by coach Butch Jones have noticeably improved the caliber of player on Rocky Top.
Unlike UT teams of the past five or six years, this crop of Vols have benefited from coaching continuity, being in the same strength-and-conditioning program for multiple years now, and they've made physical improvements because of it.