KNOXVILLE — Junior tight end Jacob Warren met with media Wednesday and discussed his position coach Joe Osovet.
Warren said Osovet “is going to try to be the best at everything he does.”
Osovet is in his first season overseeing the Vols’ tight ends.
“If it’s something he doesn’t necessarily know, he’s willing to listen to any of us,” Warren said of Osovet.
Osovet came to Tennessee in Feb. 2018 from ASA College where he served as head coach. He held a position of Player Development for Tennessee in 2018 during Jeremy Pruitt’s first season as the Vols’ head coach. Last season, Osovet served as Director of Programming for Football.
During his first season working with Tennessee’s tight ends, Osovet has been a father figure for the unit.
“I’m super appreciative of Coach Oz and everything he has done,” Warren said. “Just kind of the role he has taken in my life and my football career.
“He has really become a good father figure to us as the tight ends. It’s obvious he cares for us and is willing to do whatever it takes to make us comfortable and to teach us the right ways.”
Osovet is known as the RPO innovator.
In 2001, he started running an offensive scheme called a manipulation.
19 years later, the scheme used to manipulate defenders is the face of offenses throughout the sport of football, as they are now referenced as RPOs.