Ooltewah's Smith doing best to promote Vols

Jacques Smith already has a summer job, one that allows him to put a little money in his pocket before turning his attention to his senior season with the Ooltewah High School football program. But Smith also has taken on the added chore of an unofficial recruiter for the University of Tennessee, hoping to help the Vols pocket a few more prep All-Americans.

The Volunteers' new coaching staff is loaded with recruiting specialists, but Smith lends a hand in selling the program to other prospects and their families as often as he can. The latest sales pitch was last weekend when Smith came up for the final day of UT's three-day skills camp and became fast friends with the Vols' top quarterback target, Jesse Scroggins.

Scroggins was touring the UT campus with his family but did not work out during the camp. With help from mammoth Louisiana defensive tackle commitment Anthony Johnson (6-foot-4, 300), the personable and well-spoken Smith used a defensive drill to illustrate to Scroggins and his family the benefits of joining the Vols.

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