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DaYon Cooper commits to Tennessee after backing off his pledge to Florida State!

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🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

DaYon Cooper, a three-star athlete from South Pittsburgh, Tenn., announced his commitment to Tennessee on Monday a day after he decommitted from Florida State. GoVols247's Ryan Callahan and Ben McKee reacted to Cooper's decision on the latest GoVols247 Podcast.

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0:00.0

Welcome into the Govall's 24-7 podcast, a breaking news edition here on Monday, June 15th,

0:06.4

because Ryan, after a big recruiting weekend, Tennessee caps it off with essentially another flip.

0:14.3

Yeah, absolutely.

0:15.2

This is an in-state get as well.

0:17.8

Deion Cooper, the athlete from South Pittsburgh High School, essentially

0:22.4

flipping, as you said, from Florida State to Tennessee, decommitted from Florida State

0:27.2

on Sunday right after wrapping up his official visit to Knoxville. And, you know, it's essentially

0:33.3

his mind was set on Tennessee before he announced that but just waited a little while longer to

0:38.2

announce the actual commitment so Tennessee getting a guy wanted all along in state that this is a guy

0:44.7

that they were you know frankly a little surprised to see him commit to Florida State back in early

0:49.3

April at the time because vol seemed to be in pretty good shape and they thought they had a pitch on his side that would line up with what he wanted

0:58.9

to do, which is play wide receiver.

1:01.1

And at the end of the day, Tennessee was able to, I think, take advantage of that

1:04.1

and convince him that Tennessee was the right fit for him on that side of the ball,

1:12.9

doing what he wanted to do. And staying in state i think you know sort of the cherry on top for him but he just felt he always felt

1:17.5

comfortable there always like the idea of playing at tennessee and to see him uh getting uh another

1:24.7

giving tennessee another chance you kind of knew this might end up happening once he scheduled

1:28.6

the official visit, but still had to play it out. And Florida State was recruiting him as a defensive

1:33.2

back. That was sort of the interesting thing about this. You know, you had Tennessee and Oklahoma

1:36.7

State that both hosted him on official visits, liked him at wide receiver. Florida State liked

1:41.4

him in the secondary. And that's just not where his heart was when it came to

1:45.4

the position he wants to play in college. So give Tennessee credit for continuing to stay after it,

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