‘He screamed at us before the Vanderbilt game’ – Former Vols player shares story about Nigel Warrior from the end of the 2018 season
Former Tennessee Vols offensive lineman Ollie Lane told a great story about former UT defensive back Nigel Warrior.
Former Tennessee Vols offensive lineman Ollie Lane said this week on The Sports Source that the 2018 football team was “unmotivated”.
Lane, who played at Tennessee from 2018 to 2023, made the comment while discussing how the 2018 Vols weren’t motivated to go to a bowl game.
Tennessee finished 5-7 in 2018 (which was Jeremy Pruitt’s first season as the Vols’ head coach). UT lost to Vanderbilt 38-13 in the final game of the regular season.
Former Vols defensive back Nigel Warrior wasn’t happy with how Tennessee practiced during the final week of the regular season
“We had that happen in 2018. I mean, we didn’t want to go to a bowl game,” said Lane. “That team was unmotivated. I was a redshirt that year. We lost the Vanderbilt to go to the bowl game.”
“I remember very vividly, in 2018, one of our captain DBs (defensive backs) screamed at us before the Vanderbilt game,” said Lane. “That week of practice where we weren’t practicing good, he brought the whole team together and just started berating us about how we’re going to be broke in December because we won’t have any of the bowl trip money. And how everybody’s going to be disappointed when it doesn’t end up the way we want it to.”
Lane noted that the captain he was talking about was former Vols defensive back Nigel Warrior.
Warrior, who played at Tennessee from 2016 to 2019, was second on the team in tackles with eight in that loss to Vandy in 2018.
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