I can understand the frustration, and I agree that we probably shouldn’t get over-excited about a win against Mississippi State, but some very good things happened last night, and I hope I never get to the point where I can’t enjoy a win like that.

"[J]ust the last team in the West" knocked off a very good, undefeated Vanderbilt team last week. It’s plain shameful of the folks who are hellbent on a coaching change; particularly at mid-season.

The internet has many benefits, but one glaring negative is the ability of people to disseminate blind rage anonymously. There’s no accountability with comments on message boards, other than the possibility of the comment getting deleted or the user’s IP getting banned. And I say that as somebody who regularly writes in a pseudo-anonymous fashion. (There is, however, plenty enough information on this blog to identify me if anybody felt like it. Meh.)

The fire-Fulmer-at-all-costs-and-regardless-of-all-occurrences meme is the ‘hip’ writing position in that it’s easy to find plenty of people who will support your tricky, sorta-witty phrases. If you want Fulmer fired, that’s fine. There are plenty of reasons to feel that way. Ditto if you want to keep him. But letting your stance on Fulmer interfere with watching the game is silly. It’s an easy rut to fall into, but it’s silly.

There are people there right now complaining that Jarvis Jiles is too cocky and that it’s sad that UT is only pulling in recruits ranked in the Top 100 now and not in the Top 25 like they used to.

It would be funny if people like this weren’t going to be voting in about 3 weeks. (Not because of any supposed political affiliation, just the demonstration of the complete absence of any sort of ability to think critically or make rational judgments.)