re: Haters Said UT Didn't Have A Chance In Hell.......

From Patrick Brown of the Chattanooga times free press..........

Though he goes to school 10 miles from Tennessee's campus and his father was an All-America defensive end at Tennessee in 1992 and a first-round NFL draft pack in 1993, Kelly admitted he was not a lock to play for the Vols. Despite his ties to the Vols, older sister Clarke "was in my ear," Kelly said, to pick Alabama, where she is a cheerleader.

He also had scholarship offers from Florida State, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Ohio State, Southern California, Clemson and others, but the arrival of Butch Jones and his staff to Tennessee, Kelly said, made a "huge difference" in his recruitment.

"If he wasn't here," he said. "I probably wouldn't be a commit. I wasn't a big fan of Coach [Derek] Dooley. I was looking to go elsewhere. I was really thinking about going to Alabama. The Tennessee fans probably don't want to hear that, but I'm a Vol, 100 percent."

See you couldn't be more wrong