Signing Day By the Numbers

By Cameron Harris on February 4, 2012 8:32 AM

For many college football fans, National Signing Day seems like Christmas in February. This year, UTSports.com went all out to provide Vol fans with up-to-the-second information about Tennessee's signing class with a FaxCam, constant updates via Twitter, complete signee bios, video highlights and much, much more.

Tennessee fans, the best in the country, ate it all up. Below is a statistical recap of 2012 National Signing Day at Tennessee.

- 252,312 total page impressions on the UTSports.com Signing Day Central. That ranked fifth in the CBS Sports Interactive Network. Here are the top 5: 1. Alabama (394,139), 2. Michigan (290,143), 3. Notre Dame (271,590), 4. Oklahoma (266,231), 5. Tennessee (252,312).

- 99,451 total views on all of the videos (live and highlights) provided on UTSports.com

- 53,070 views of the "FaxCam" live video stream

- 24,469 combined views of the individual signee highlight videos

- 15,774 views of the list of signees alone

- The top three most-viewed player bios were junior college wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson, junior college defensive tackle Daniel McCullers and high school running back Davante Borque

- With 5,263 views, Bourque's highlight video led the way

- 9,376 fans tuned in live to UTSports.com to watch Coach Dooley's signing day press conference

- 112 total Twitter updates through the official Tennessee football Twitter account, @Vol_Football, which currently sports over 26,000 followers

- Those tweets were retweeted over 600 times by Vol fans

The top two retweeted posts are below:

The newest member of the #Vols is 5-star JUCO WR Cordarrelle Patterson!
-- Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) February 1, 2012

The newest member of the #Vols is WR Drae Bowles of Jackson, Tenn. a 4-star
-- Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) February 1, 2012

On the day after National Signing Day, Vol fans were asked about their favorite part of UTSports.com's coverage. Here are a few of their comments:

RT @patrick1016: @Vol_Football THe best part were the updates of the most recent recruits to sign! I enjoyed it throuroughly
-- Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) February 2, 2012

Hinshaw's Cameo RT @Vol_Football: What was your favorite part of National Signing Day coverage on UTSports.com?
-- Travis Wolfe (@letsgocamp) February 2, 2012

RT @JeffStaffordTN: @Vol_Football When Patterson's fax came through.
-- Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) February 2, 2012

@Vol_Football CDDs press conference at the end, and the excitement it made me feel for #Vol football. #VFL #GBO
-- Eddie Edwards Jr (@VOLSfan2883) February 2, 2012

@Vol_Football Dooley's correlation of social media to barber shops. "There were a lot of haircuts being given."
-- Ben Garrett (@benwgarrett) February 2, 2012

@Vol_FootballThe AWESOME updates so I did not have to leave my deck #mybossthoughtIwasworking #proudVOLfan
-- Brock A Webster (@B_RockW) February 2, 2012

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