re: McKonkey for Georgia

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“Georgia is a really good offer. But I hear Tennessee is still his No. 1 school. The Bulldogs have a shot, but if Tennessee ever offers, I think he will go play up there.”

That was the gist of what was being said. Some of it even right. But not all of it.

The Vols were his team. McConkey said back then if they were to offer, it would be “something special” that he’d have to think long and hard about.

“He probably would have gone to Tennessee if they would have offered him,” Poag said. “He sure loved Tennessee growing up.”

Jim Chaney, the UT offensive coordinator at the time, came down to Chatsworth to see him. Yet he was in and out and 30 minutes. Tops. He didn’t take any pictures or see the UT stuff in the McConkey home

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