Rocky Top Talking Points: random, random, random edition

by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 29, 2007 7:07 AM EST in Tennessee Volunteer Football

The CFBA Cabal is very close to completing the posts announcing the winners of the 2006 College Football Blogger Awards. The tentative plan is to announce them over two days later this week. Stay tuned.
Sunday Morning Quarterback discovers Ron Zook's secret recruiting methods. Ohhhhh, so that's how he does it.
Tough game yesterday for the basketball Vols against Kentucky. After leading by one at the half, the Vols watched Kentucky go on a 20-2 run, hitting five of its 11 three-pointers, in the second half. Stat of the game: Chris Lofton -- DNP, closely followed by this one: 8-27 on three point attempts. And once Kentucky realized that JaJuan Smith was the only one who could hit from behind the arc, they keyed on him.
The Vols have now lost five of their last six games, all of them on the road, but they return home for five of its next seven. Lofton will test his ankle today in practice.
Oh, and one more thing about basketball. John Pennington ($) is right:

When center Major Wingate decided to put on some Bob Marley albums, grab a bag of Cheetos and go all Matthew McConaughey and then fail/skip a drug test, UT coach Bruce Pearl's second team took a big hit (no pun intended).

The Wildcats out-rebounded the Vols 42-27.
Okay, one more thing, I promise. Had you heard that Vanderbilt men's basketball coach Kevin Stallings referred to coach Hulk as "that idiot a------" prior to the Lady Vols v. Duke game last week? Discuss.
The football Vols fill a Demetrice Morley-sized and -shaped hole with the addition of junior college safety Nevin McKenzie to this year's list of commitments.
Over and out.

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JaJuan Smith

He siad we would win by 20. I get tired of him. He takes bad shots and makes stupid decisions with the ball.

Why in the world are guys like Wayne Chism and Childress takeing quick three point shots?

I just don't understand some of the guys on this team.

If I made the team I would be the best free throw shooter with the last name Smith on the team.

by Smitty @ Rocky Top Talk on Jan 29, 2007 8:50 AM EST reply actions

I can hear it now...

"Now at the line, 'Smitty Smith' who is from the charity stripe this season. When I asked him about this incredible streak of over 1000 consecutive free-throws made, this is what he had to say:

'Well, ya know? I just go out there and do what I do, ya know? Ya know, I'm just like maaaan, I just gotta thank the Big Man Upstairs for blessing me with the skillz needed to carry the rest of my team, ya know? Ya know, it's like, I just, do my own thang...I just keep it real, ya know?'"

by Aerobab on Jan 29, 2007 9:23 AM EST up reply actions

ha ha ha

JaJuan is from my home town too. So if i made the team I would be the best free throw shooter with the last name Smith from Cleveland, TN.

by Smitty @ Rocky Top Talk on Jan 29, 2007 9:49 AM EST up reply actions

Roger

Roger, Big Daddy...we hear you loud and clear.

The box score from the UT-UK game are disgusting. Here's a sampling:

UK out-rebounded UT 42-27.
D. Bradshaw, 28 mins, zero pts.
J. Tabb, 24 mins, 4 pts.
J. Howell, 23 mins, 3 pts.
D. Crews, 18 mins, 2 pts.
R. Childress, 16 mins, 2 pts.
UT was 5-10 from the stripe, compared to 11-13 for UK.

There are a million other stats that I could toss around, but really the point I'm trying to make is that the UT offense (minus a player or 2) is really, really, really bad. The only positives that I get out of this game is that J. Smith continues to elevate his game (25 pts on 5-11 from 3 pt. land) in Lofton's absence, and that no Vols got into foul trouble.

Other thoughts:

Kevin Stallings = Jealous crybaby that Pearl got national media attention for a day. He should just be ignored. (Although I see some great signage opprotunities when Vandy comes to Knoxville. "Our coach is cooler than your coach" with a picture of "The Orange Hulk" placed next to Crybaby Kevin.)
I hope we have lots of positive talk about Nevin McKenzie this fall. Lord knows the expectations will be there.
If you haven't read SMQ's Zook-recruiting post...READ IT NOW!!!!! I nearly pee my pants every time I read it (and possibly did the 1st time I read it)!!
Weed is bad, bad stuff. (Why couldn't Major just have said "No"?)

by Aerobab on Jan 29, 2007 9:12 AM EST reply actions

Incentification

Whoever gets that picture on t.v. gets a free Rocky Top Talk t-shirt.

As soon as we get them made up.

Which will likely be after the turn of the decade.

Consider yourself incentivized.

Go Vols!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 29, 2007 5:25 PM EST up reply actions

Kevin Stallings

What did he say? I don't feel like paying the Knox News to read stuff when I can come here and get all the Vols news I need and more.

by Smitty @ Rocky Top Talk on Jan 29, 2007 9:51 AM EST reply actions

Crybaby Kevin

An exerpt of the article:

"Stallings was conversing with ushers, who had indirectly referred to Pearl and his players coming down through the stands for Monday's Lady Vols game versus Duke. Pearl painted his chest orange and was sporting the letter 'V'.

[Mickey] Dearstone said the comment on Pearl came in the context of Stallings saying he had no intention of doing anything like that "idiot a------ does."

FYI, you can pull up the full article by Googling "Kevin Stallings" and "a------" in the same search. ;-)

by Aerobab on Jan 29, 2007 10:44 AM EST up reply actions