The 6-foot-3, 220-pound McCoy is setto officially join the Vols this month to attend May mini-session classes, giving them a veteran wide receiver capable of helping them replace former starters Jonesand, McCoy, who has three remaining seasons of eligibility, said he chose Tennessee because of itsdevelopment at wide receiver and his opportunity to make an immediate impactin coach, His official visit to Tennessee in late March allowed him to attend at least a portion of two of the Vols spring practices and spend plenty of time with Heupels staff, including first-yearwide receivers coach, During the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, McCoy caught 21 passes for 236 yards and two touchdowns in six games while playing in a USC receiving corps that included a 2021 fourth-round NFL draft pick in, The Vols havent made any promises to McCoy, he said, about the role he might play once he arrives at Tennessee later this spring. That 2019 out-of-state load was more miss than hit, though. Big, strong and physical as a wideout with good hands and high-level body control. LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Wide receiver Bru McCoy (4) of the USC Trojans warms up before the spring game at Los Angeles Coliseum on April 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. During the 2021 season and the following off-season, the Tennessee football team lost 18 players to the transfer portal. Bru McCoy reels in a short touchdown on fourth down for USC vs. Oregon. But Heupels staff has made it clear that he will have a chance to compete for immediate playing time and perhaps even earn the starting job opposite fifth-year senior, GET A VIP MEMBERSHIP TO GOVOLS247 JUST $1 FOR THE FIRST MONTH. USC, which conducted its own Title IX investigation, did not reinstate McCoy and did not allow him to participate in team activities last season. During his high school career he passed for 6,027 yards with 55 touchdowns and rushed for 2,975 yards and 48 touchdowns. He'd wake up at 6 a.m., walk to the training facility to get his temperature taken, find it was still over 100, walk back to his apartment and try to sleep on his stiff leather couch, sweating the rest of the day. Some were very welcoming, happy he had returned, he says, and others were not. He felt that what he needed to do was more important than the potential backlash he knew he would receive. As much as they want you to be a great player and productive, they want you to be a great man. McCoy, who attended Santa Ana Mater Dei High, was viewed as one of the top prospects to come out of Southern California in recent memory when he committed to USC in January 2019. A coach he had never even been coached by. He was a 5-star, 247Sports' No. In Tennessee's 31-14 win over Clemson in the Orange Bowl, Bru McCoy, Squirrel White and Ramel Keyton started. Genuinely good. USC wide receiver Bru McCoy runs the ball during the 2020 Pac-12 championship game against Oregon. According to Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports, wide receiver recruit Bru McCoy who has already started taking classes at USCis in the NCAA transfer portal. It was one of the hardest things he'd ever done. 247: 90 #20 RB #23 in CA N/A Rivals: 5.9 #7 RB #11 in CA #129 overall Committed to Georgia Bulldogs on October 10, 2022 . The former five-star receiver was expected to step into a major role on USCs offense in 2021 but never took the field following a July 24 arrest on suspicion of felony intimate partner violence. "'Why am I living life in such a hurry?'". No. The Vols havent made any promises to McCoy, he said, about the role he might play once he arrives at Tennessee later this spring. 0:53. I thought Bru McCoy's recruitment was going to be the most clusterfucky, but Zach Evans even has him beat. At the time he didn't want to talk about what happened. So I came in with just an open mind completely. He thought attending Mater Dei, instead of going to neighborhood Palos Verdes High School, was the best option to achieve his college football dreams. Players no longer require permission from their coaches in order to transfer. At first, he was diagnosed with strep throat, but the fevers grew inconsistent. They saw his competitiveness. Quietness will get you to where you want to be.". The recruiting saga of 2019 five-star receiver Bru McCoy keeps on getting weirder. - Named the 2018 MaxPreps National Football Player of the Year and the 2019 All-American Bowl Player of the Year. Heres how to order today! We're on the phone with Bru McCoy! "I've never steered you wrong in my life," Bru remembers his dad telling him. Who can help student-athletes cash in? 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Recently he completed a trip around the peninsula, about 22 miles, his calves burning, his back aching. He had to learn and rethink and recalculate and mess up and grow in front of hundreds and thousands of people. A few weeks ago, Shelby found an old highlight tape of Bru reposted on Instagram. He wasn't sure if his judgment was cloudedif he had chosen this place just because it was steeped in childhood nostalgia. That he was more than his transfers, his skills on the field. Bru went with his gut, entering the transfer portal in late January 2019, but things didn't feel normal when he arrived at Texas. When Alexa was learning to ride a bike at age five, a three-year-old Bru asked for one tooneeding to be better at riding than her. He was an athlete. Saying Uiagalelei is going to be Clemson . The receiver officially entered the transfer portal on Thursday night, seeking a new start to his college. Photo via @BruMcCoy on Instagram. "Unique two-way player with a high projection at receiver or outside linebacker. 1. Not until he explained why to them. he'd ask himself. His antibodies were very high, which meant his body was fighting something. The NCAA created the transfer portal on Oct. 15, 2018. We met the players and the entire coaching staff and everything they talked up lined up when we saw them in action. McCoy spent the spring semester at Texas before returning back to USC. He forgives himself. USC wide receiver Bru McCoy runs the ball during the 2020 Pac-12 championship game against Oregon. McCoy has had a less than stellar path to Tennessee . To the media. 2005-2023 CBS INTERACTIVE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ", "I have to act. Three trades in a chaotic top five, The new law changing service academy football, and the coaches pushing back, Realignment chatter: How the Pac-12 holds the key to it all. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound McCoy is setto officially join the Vols this month to attend May mini-session classes, giving them a veteran wide receiver capable of helping them replace former starters Jonesand JaVonta Payton. Thank god we landed Bijan and can enjoy this recruitment from the outside. This will be the first noted public visit McCoy has made, and it could go a long way for the Vols. During the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, McCoy caught 21 passes for 236 yards and two touchdowns in six games while playing in a USC receiving corps that included a 2021 fourth-round NFL draft pick in Amon-Ra St. Brown, a 2022 first-round NFL draft pick in Drake London and another receiver in Tyler Vaughns who spent the 2021 season on an NFL practice squad. Right now, there's a lot of uncertainty with McCoy's off-the-field situation. Your team is losing. It was incredibly awkward. McCoy came away convinced that he would thrive in Heupels system and enjoy playing for Tennessees coaches. He says he felt very hurried to get to school, feeling, at the time, that USC intentionally rushed him to get to campus and begin his first class so that his eligibility clock would startso that if he left, he would be classified as a transfer. "Everybody has an opinion, and there was no being right.". The dentist. Merrill, a sophomore and former Brentwood standout, was a productive backup with eight catches for 116 yards and three touchdowns this season. He just signed the papers in his school's library and then called Helton and told him how proud he was to be a Trojan. Why would he ever do that? This past year, he's had to look through himself. "Arrogant 18-year-old me thought, 'I'll just go to Texas. He didn't feel he needed to explain himself. Outstanding pass rusher who combines an explosive first step to get the edge with the power to bull rush a tackle or change direction and flashes a quick move to the inside. Is also a tremendous blocker and plays with incredible effort. Bru McCoy, Tennessee. So he didn't talk about it, remembering something his grandfather, Horace McCoy Sr., told him often, starting back when he was in ninth grade. Later that spring McCoy decided to re-enter the transfer portal and return to USC citing homesickness. In a lot of ways, Bru feels like he felt during freshman year of high school, when he didn't know what would happen, taking a leap of faith to attend Mater Dei. Theyre fired up. Potential early impact player at BCS level and high round NFL draft pick. But his departure via the NCAA transfer portal should bring the receivers saga at USC to a close after three disappointing years and only six total games. Even more eerie, he remembers the Texas staff asking him throughout the initial recruiting process, back when he was in high school: "What are you going to do when Kliff leaves? Wide receiver Walker Merrill and offensive lineman R.J. Perry became the eighth and ninth Tennessee football players to enter the transfer portal from the 2022 team. According to the Los Angeles Times, the former USC star tried to cast doubt on her credibility, . McCoy was arrested on suspicion of intimate partner violence last July and "temporarily removed from team activities". ', "I have something to prove to myself," Bru says. Others found him on LinkedIn to threaten death to his son. He had the size, the speed. Then he began sweating uncontrollably. All this misery, the back-and-forth. Can the Lions fix their defense? (Ashley Landis / Associated Press) After a lost season that began with his arrest and. More mindfulness. He trusts himself. His breakout appeared imminent until his July arrest threw his future with USC into serious doubt. See who he is without football. "I was just sitting there, thinking, this string of events is just too eerie, [like it's] screaming: 'Get out! That's why his family calls him "Bruiser"Bru for short (his real name is Horace III). Both former coach Clay Helton and interim coach Donte Williams declined at various points over the past season to address McCoys status amid the ongoing investigation. I'm not trying to imply that Smart is some bad guy or anything like that, but it's true that Georgia has not had the cleanest record when it comes to signing players with off-the-field questions. The way I saw it is, theres an opportunity, said McCoy, who was ranked the No. That's what one man said when Horace McCoy Jr. answered the phone. Going back to USC, in the summer of 2019, Bru had to confront his former teammates. "He was in eighth grade, and he was a Division I player to me," says Darryl Lance Johnson, who has coached dozens of Division I players in his 40-year career and coached Bru throughout his childhood. But others were not as understanding. He's never going to be anything." Bru had arrived at USC in good shape but began to feel beyond drained after every workout. Herald-Times. He had a 101-degree fever. They supported him, stepped aside. There were a lot of factors that went in to his decision, McCoys father Horace said, via 247Sports. He was a young man, and he was making adult decisions.". No matter what anyone said about him as an offensive player, as a defensive player, he was still their son. He had done something few young athletes do: chased his own happiness. But after former USC offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury left Los Angeles to become the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, McCoy transferred to Texas. Time, distance, perspective, made him feel like two different people. USC WR Bru McCoy has entered the NCAA transfer portal, @latimes can confirm. The former five-star recruit did not suit up for the Trojans this year following an. He slowed down, taking a redshirt and looking forward to a return for the 2020 season. So while most of the sport's high-profile transfers have already committed, here is a look at the top 10 uncommitted transfers following Sunday's portal deadline. Ryan Kartje is the USC beat writer at the Los Angeles Times. However, schools are under no obligation to keep a player on scholarship once they enter the portal. The issue of Bru's eligibility ultimately rests with the . He took a redshirt in 2019, played six games (three starts) in 2020 and did not play. The boy didn't even get a yard. Had I known the things I know now, truthfully I would have never left USC and went to Texas. Runs well enough to get behind a defense, makes the tough catch look routine and can do something with the ball in his hands after the catch as well. "I didn't really have a sense of self-identity," he says. Big, strong and physical as a wideout with good hands and high-level body control. They felt he had turned his back on them. Runs well enough to get behind a defense, makes the tough catch look routine and can do something with the ball in his hands after the catch as well. They've all come to realize something: The people who comment are just people too. Someone like me, I think I will thrive here. Shelby McCoy remembers being stopped at the supermarket. [Capture the thrills of Tennessee football's epic 2022 season with our special newbook. CHECK OUT: Timeline of the. The district attorneys office declined to file charges against McCoy last August, citing insufficient evidence. But USC continued to investigate, and McCoy ultimately never returned to the football field. However, he did not tally a single catch in 2021. There were 2,646 FBS players to enter the transfer portal during the 2020-21 transfer cycle, per a source. Potential early impact player at BCS level and high round NFL draft pick.". "I remember being this hungry," he says. He shattered his ankle in sixth grade, and when Alexa ran out to the P.E. "I was embarrassed, honestly," Bru says. "I thoroughly enjoyed my time there," he says. Tennessee finished Heupel's second season ranked sixth by The Associated Press college football poll, the Vols' highest finish since 2001. "It's no excuse, but I was 18. Then she did what she tries not to do: scrolled down to the comments. Singer averaged 16.7 yards per . We talked about this, not answering people.". Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. USC meant everything to him. However, the university continued its investigation and McCoy never returned to the program. Big, strong and physical as a wideout with good hands and high-level body control. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. A fascinating prospect due to his ability to play both wide receiver and edge rusher at an elite level, McCoy ranked as the No. The 247 guys for every single site are so sick of this kid - it's insane. Somebody's son. Now, he comes to a Volunteers offense that ranked top 10 in college football a year ago and features Hendon Hooker as one of the SEC's most efficient quarterbacks. From talking to Chase and Velus, it just piqued my interest, McCoy said. "I'm 19," Bru said. A doctor suggested it may have been a virus that was no longer present but still couldn't determine what he had. The wide receiver didn't play for the Trojans a year ago, but did appear in six games during the 2020 season. His family knew his character, and he would rely on them more. Rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top prospects at every position from Kiper, McShay, Miller, Reid, Kiper's new Big Board rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top 25 prospects, Syracuse QB Shrader to miss spring practice, Sources: Asst. "I'm not going to tell you what you're doing is right, because it's not. 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