Top 10 college football fight songs
Steve Phillips is making a list.
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The secret lives of UT athletes
Steve Phillips has some thoughts on judging young athletes without knowing what they’re dealing with or doing off the court or playing field:
I have a good enough memory to recall my own erratic and sometimes questionable behavior in my college years. (Some would say that would still apply today.) I also consider myself a reasonable [...]
Dane Bradshaw: future politico?
Wyatt Clemmer thinks UT hoops star Dane Bradshaw has a future in politics:
Dane Bradshaw for Mayor?? Well, maybe not anytime soon. But after watching him work the crowd tonight at a roast for coach Bruce Pearl, I wouldn’t rule it out at some point in the future. Dane was the ultimate feel-good [...]
Read More..>>The heroic Chris Lofton
Rob Huddleston sums up what a lot of Tennesseans are feeling today:
Whether Chris Lofton ever plays in the NBA is irrelevant for how Vol fans will remember him. I hope he does for his own satisfaction, because his work ethic and selflessness should be rewarded. My selfish hope is that I’m in attendance with my [...]
Read More..>>Can UT crash through basketball’s glass ceiling?
That’s the question fans are asking today, before the big game:
The closest the Vols have come to making a regional final was last year when they led Ohio State by 20 points in the first half and by 17 at halftime but ultimately lost 85-84.
“That game taught us that no matter how many points you [...]
Does ESPN have an “Orange Vendetta?”
Steve Phillips cites the evidence:
No matter what statistical data is laid before the committee, their perception of who is playing well and who the best teams are makes a lot of difference. (Remember the NASCAR reference?) It is human nature, and I can’t swear I wouldn’t take my own predetermined feelings into the room if [...]
Finding the Big Orange in unexpected places
In honor of the Vols’ big win this afternoon, I give you this:
What you are looking at is the waterproofing underneath one of the fountains on Legislative Plaza in Nashville. The contractor asked the architect if he could create the Power T before the permanent stones were put in place. So the “T” is now [...]
Read More..>>UT-Memphis game breaks ESPN ratings record
Wow.
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What does the Vandy loss mean for UT?
Big Orange Michael says he’s still on a high from the Memphis game:
As for me, I’m going to enjoy being listed as the number one team in the country for another few days. I’m going to revel in it. I’m going to hope the Vols learned that you’ve got to make free-throws in critical places [...]
Read More..>>We’re #2!!!
Who would have ever predicted this just a few short years ago? Pretty neat.
The Tennessee Volunteers reached their highest basketball ranking ever and set up a #1 vs #2 showdown against Memphis on Saturday.
The Volunteers are 23-2, the best start in school history, and are on track to win the school’s first outright men’s SEC [...]
Fulmer gets spanked
VOLuntarily Conservative isn’t thrilled with this year’s recruiting class:
Coach Fulmer, who gets to take much of the credit for past outstanding recruiting classes, gets to take the blame for this one. Fulmer supporters will resort to staff changes, arrests, negative recruiting, etc., as the reasons for this failure, but other schools (Alabama and South Carolina [...]
Let the bad jokes about the Vols’ recruiting amenities begin…
Two UT players were arrested Friday night, driving around Fort Sanders in a car containing both “marijuana cigars” (per Darrell Debusk of KPD) and a recruit in town on an official visit.
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Hatin’ on UT
Big Orange Michael thinks that Tennessean columnist Joe Biddle has an irrational and poorly researched dislike for the Vols:
If he had bothered to spent five seconds looking at the facts here instead of rushing to blame UT and Fulmer for every thing that goes wrong, he’d learn some things. In the old days, coaches were [...]
