Vol Club Confidential: Rod Clark

Tennessee men’s basketball assistant coach Rod Clark is a fast rising coaching star and he joined Vol Club Confidential sponsored by Knoxville Smiles to dive into his early career and more.

“This is one of the most special places I’ve ever been,” Clark said of Rocky Top, “Being from Kansas City, Missouri, the closest major university is Kansas. The energy that campus has is unbelievable obviously and the basketball environment is unreal but I’ve never been to a place where you could say the football environment is unreal, the basketball environment is unreal, the baseball environment is unreal, the women’s basketball environment is unreal, softball is unreal. The energy that is in this place and city for the Vols is no other. I tell recruits all the time, we are the pro team.”

Clark has been a young and hungry recruiter since he arrived on campus. So what has made him a go to ace on the recruiting trail?

“Just like what this program is about,” Clark said. “We are organic and real. We are about family first. We are about relationships and I think us as a staff do a good job of following that blue print when it comes to the guys we bring in to the program. We are ourselves. We make sure the families know their kids are going to be well taken care of cared for and about.”

Watch the full episode below.

Up Next: No. 11 Tennessee vs. UT Martin

After two games in The Bahamas, Tennessee will return home to host Tennessee Martin on Wednesday at Food City Center, a 4 p.m. Eastern Time start on SEC Network+.

Syracuse comes to Knoxville on December 3 for the SEC-ACC Challenge on the Vols go back on the road on December 10 for a neutral-site game against Miami in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 

Tennessee stays on the road at Illinois on December 14, finishing a two-year home-and-home that started with a win over the Illini in Knoxville last December.