Sunday Feb 05
To get to JLTA from Knoxville, take I-40 West to exit 376 Pellissippi Parkway and travel north toward Oak Ridge. Take the third exit Hardin Valley Road. Turn right and travel 1.1 miles and you will see our black & gold road sign on the left next to our cross street, Willow Point Way. Our campus is located at 2620 Willow Point Way. Since Willow Point Way is not yet on many GPS Maps, we suggest you program 10230 Hardin Valley Road to find us. After 14 years on Phillip Fulmer's staff, and training some of the top athletes in the country, Johnny Long decided to say so long to college football. "I wanted to stay in Knoxville. I love Knoxville and the coaching carousel goes so fast with coaches, you know you're in one place for one years or two years. You're packing up your family. You're leaving. You're moving somewhere else. I wanted to make Knoxville my home and all of a sudden this dream started coming to life," Long said. This year he opened up the Johnny Long Training Academy. They offer camps and personal training to all ages and a variety of sports. Long says teaching the younger kids is a lot different from the college athletes he was used to training. "I've had a couple cry. I've had to put my arm around them and tell them everything's going to be ok. I'm had to tell some of them, 'No you're not going to be a quarterback, you're going to be an offensive lineman and shock a lot of dreams, but the response here has just been great."Lifter http://www.wbir.com/video/default.aspx?aid=94848#/Johnny+Long+continues+training+after+leaving+UT/108856034001