Former Vols' assistant coach is looking to guide Heritage to the playoffs in 2025.
Former Tennessee assistant football coach Joe Osovet will begin his fourth season as head coach at Heritage High School in Maryville, Tennessee.
Osovet served as tight ends coach for the Vols in 2020. He also served as Tennessee’s Director of Player Development (2018) and Director of Football Programming (2019) under head coach Jeremy Pruitt.
In 2024, Osovet and the Mountaineers went 5-5. Heritage, however, failed to qualify for the TSSAA Class 5-A playoffs, going 0-4 in Region 2-5A play. The Mountaineers were 3-7 in 2023 after going 4-6 during Osovet's first season in 2022. He inherited a team who went 0-10 in 2021.
Osovet discussed the 2025 season and Heritage competing to make the playoffs with Vols Wire.
"This is the year at Heritage," he said at KFOA media day. "We're excited, but this is the year that we have to make the playoffs. When I got here, we started seven freshmen, and now, those freshmen are seniors."
Heritage will open its season against Clinton High School on Aug. 22 at Dragon Stadium in Clinton, Tennessee. Clinton is coached by Jake Dawson, who was Osovet's one-time assistant. The two also worked together under Pruitt with the Vols.
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