Keenan Pili, a former Brigham Young University linebacker, is adjusting to Tennessee’s football team, as are the other 26 newcomers who joined the Volunteers through the transfer portal or as midyear entrants from high school.
Pili is just at a different point in his life.
“It’s been really smooth,” the 6-foot-3, 238-pounder from Provo, Utah, said at a news conference this week. “I discuss it with my wife (Lindsey) all the time. It’s been a smooth transition for us, and I tell her that the team culture here is excellent and strong.
“You come in, and you never know how it’s going to be, but Tennessee has been really loving, and the players have been great to me.”
Pili (pronounced PEE-lee) and his wife reside in Knoxville. “I had no idea he was married.
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