Rocky Top Talking Points: basketball league and FanHouse edition

by Joel on Jun 21, 2007 8:00 AM EDT in Rocky Top Talking Points Comment 6 comments

Well, only gramsey712 posted a response to my question of whether it was possible to have too much basketball or football, but judging from the recent upsurge in Google search traffic, y'all are really interested in the Pilot Rocky Top basketball league. I have to admit that the whole thing has injected some life into the hot, dry summer.
Speaking of the Pilot Rocky Top League, Tyler Smith is excited about finishing his college career at Tennessee. Vol fans are excited, too.
It must be FanHouse day at Rocky Top Talk. Andy has a post on the merging of video games and film study, and Ryan shows some appreciation for coach Fulmer and his humble involvement in the Jason Foundation. Ryan also located and posted this YouTube:
Somehow, I missed the announcement that Tennessee will be doing a home and home with USC in basketball starting in 2008. Fortunately, Conquest Chronicles didn't.

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Too much

I thought I posted my "too much" comment in the original thread (guess not), but here's my thoughts tied into Daryle Singletary's:

Too much fun? What's that mean?
It's like too much money, there's no such thing
It's like a girl too pretty, with too much class
Being too lucky, a car too fast
No matter what they say I've done
I ain't never had too much fun

Just substitute "football" and/or "basketball for "fun" since both sports are, well, fun.

Also, I got real excited about the USC-UT home and home tidbit...but then I realized I made the same mistake as Matthew.

I haven't checked up on the PRTL, but apparently they're offensive-scorefests from some of the point totals I heard about earlier this week.

by Aerobab on Jun 21, 2007 10:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

tyler smith

a lot of people aren't excited about tyler smith

by OneNationUnderVols on Jun 21, 2007 8:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm

What do you mean?

Go Vols!

by Joel on Jun 21, 2007 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

here

The Smiths were so adamant about not giving Pearl a chance in the process that the elder Smith, Billy, even took to going on various sports radio shows around the state and blasting Pearl for his "lack of integrity, ethics and honor." That was a charge made to me in April of '05. Billy Smith called Pearl everything but Jerry Green in the process, even vowing that he would hit the phones and try and poison Tennessee's recruiting efforts. Billy Smith, upset with Pearl's refusal to grant his son a release from his scholarship, went as far on Bill King's show on WNSR Radio in Nashville to describe the then-new UT head coach as "a butthole."

http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2007/17_17/sports.html

by OneNationUnderVols on Jun 23, 2007 2:05 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Callers, too?

I haven't been listening to talk radio for the last few weeks. Is that just Basillo stirring up trouble, or are callers not welcoming Smith back, too?

Go Vols!

by Joel on Jun 23, 2007 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i live in nashville

i don't listen to knoxville radio. even if i did live in knoxville, i don't know if i would listen because from what i've heard there's a lot of sugar coating. small mike, a popular UT fan that calls shows all across the south, says he's off the bandwagon until tyler smith leaves UT. i'd say there's a few people who don't like the Smiths @ all but more people are welcoming him than those that aren't because they only care about results and Tyler makes the team a lot better.

by OneNationUnderVols on Jun 23, 2007 7:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs