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Talking Points: del.icio.us aftertaste and serious tongue lashings edition

  • The votes are in and y'all have voted "Got a Man . . . It's Caught" as the Best Play of 2006.
  • Remember this as you're hearing all of the talk about last Saturday's scrimmage: Erik Ainge's first scrimmage last year went so well that coach Cutcliffe had to stifle talk of a quarterback controversy.
  • Okay, so the RTT del.icio.us experiment is mostly dead. For now. It may be magic, but it's also work. Doing it through the feed reader required one to click to open the dialog box, type in the title (no, it wouldn't populate for me, argh), type in the relevant tags, and hit submit. And that's just if they're shared without commentary. Now that there are dozens of new Tennessee articles each day to sort through, it just took too much time.

    Enter Google Reader Shared Items. A keyboard shortcut and you're done. You can always (for now!) find a running list over on the left sidebar, and I may post an abbreviated version in Talking Point posts. Like I did here. So there. It will auto-update throughout the day, so check back early and often.

  • Don't miss Andy's preview of Tennessee over at the FanHouse. Prediction? "The SEC East team that goes to Atlanta will be less the "winner" of the division and more the survivor. UT could easily be a 6-2 or even 5-3 team in conference play and still get to the Georgia Dome. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see the Vols start the season 1-2 (losses to Cal and Florida) and then win eight of the last nine to take the division." Sounds about right to me.
  • With all the talk about Tennessee utilizing the no-huddle offense liberally this season, The Power T gives us a quick lesson on how it might look. With pictures!
  • Tennessee's coaches are feeling pretty good about the left side of the offensive line with Eric Young having secured the starting left tackle spot and Anthony Parker probably having secured the left guard spot, but they're still trying to get to a happy place on the right side. In the mix are the Ramon(e)s (Foster and Johnson), Chris Scott, and Jacques McClendon.
  • Receivers coach Trooper Taylor reportedly had trouble sleeping Saturday night after giving Kenny O'Neal a "beauty" of a tongue lashing at Saturday's scrimmage. He apparently felt so bad about some of the things he said to O'Neal that he apologized the next day. Wouldn't you love to see a transcript of that! For his part, O'Neal shook it off and caught a long touchdown pass afterward. You've heard of receivers running post routes before. Now we have the post-lashing route.

All for now.

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I wonder
I wonder if Trooper's tirade went anything like this:

"This ain't intermurals, brother...IT'S DIVISION ONE FOOTBALL!!!"

Whatever he said, I'm glad it worked.  Hopefully Kenny will find his own, internal motivation soon.  External motivation can be an excellent kick in the pants that can yeild short-term results, but champions are motivated from within.  Besides, I'd sure hate to see Trooper loose the spontaneous intensity that we've all grown to love because he feels bad for his players.

by Aerobab on Aug 14, 2007 10:27 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Asking for a recount........
I swear XTFL was the play of the year.
Beat Cal! (And I really don't like Mike Conley, Jr.)

by gramsey712 on Aug 14, 2007 11:26 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm with you
I call conspiracy...I'm certain that President Bush issued an Executive Order to the AFA cadets to visit "that Rocky Top site" and to vote for "He's got a man...".

Either that or the "anti-war defeatocrats" crowd made visits/voted to ensure that the US military loses at any cost.

Loose-loose, I suppose.

[/scarcastic politico rant]

by Aerobab on Aug 14, 2007 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Or
Has the purveyor of this site let some funny business go on and let Jonathan Crompton stuff the (virtual) ballot box???  Huh, Joel, huh? HUH?

This seems almost as crooked as the MLB all-star voting.  Almost.

Beat Cal! (And I really don't like Mike Conley, Jr.)

by gramsey712 on Aug 14, 2007 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Also...
Does anybody have any inside information on what Coach Chavis is brewing up for this fall?  I just saw this headline in the feeder which reminded me of a blurb I heard about on the news last night...that UT is considering a base 3-4 defesnse, based on a tremendous LB corps and an atyipcally 'weak' DL.  I haven't made it to any practices/scrimmages this spring/summer and haven't seen this possiblity discussed in any articles.

Any insight would be appreciated.

by Aerobab on Aug 14, 2007 12:01 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Here you go...
My attempt at answering here.

by CornFromAJar on Aug 15, 2007 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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