Talking Points: joke to boomerang against Memphis?

by Joel on Nov 6, 2009 7:23 AM EST in Rocky Top Talking Points Comment 8 comments

Memphis coach Tommy West has made a stupid joke about a dog suggesting that Lane Kiffin is not all that smart. Tennessee players perhaps in danger of overlooking the Tigers are now focused.
Lane Kiffin still won't confirm that reigning SEC freshman of the week Janzen Jackson is suspended for the Memphis game -- it's Kiffin's practice not to comment on such things until afterwards -- but Jackson watched practice from a distance on Thursday and Monte has said that either Prentiss Waggner or freshman Darren Myles, Jr. will start alongside Eric Berry, so there you go. Yay for deductive reasoning.
We neglected to add the passive-aggressive little old lady to the Record of Wrongs this week.
UT commitment Jacques Smith's status with Tennessee remains solid after reports indicated that he'd been suspended for the first game of high school playoffs for fighting with a teammate. His coach called DaCoachO as soon as it happened, and O told him that they knew Smith well enough that they weren't overly concerned with it.
It appears that there will only be two officials visitors this weekend: Ahmad Dixon and Marques Pair.
Is this the week that Berry breaks the record? Time is running out.

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I don't know.

We discounted the effects of Lane Kiffin’s comments on teams that we faced (e.g. Florida and South Carolina). Granted, it seems less likely for UT to be overlooked with the emotion that was already in place, but I just don’t know how much better UT would really play. I’m not a big fan of the ‘now we’re really going to play hard’ line of reasoning.

But I’m not in the locker room, either.

by Hooper on Nov 6, 2009 8:31 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

I don’t understand it, either. It didn’t really strike me as a dig, so . . . you know.

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by Joel on Nov 6, 2009 8:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hopefully this helps us more than it did Florida and South Carolina

It wasn’t even very funny.

by Incipient_Senescence on Nov 6, 2009 9:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It certainly wasn't a big deal.

by Hooper on Nov 6, 2009 9:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What I do find more funny than the joke

IS GVX linking to the printer-friendly version of the article in the Commercial Appeal

I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Nov 6, 2009 8:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

heh

Nice catch.

by Hooper on Nov 6, 2009 8:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If you have to explain the joke...

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by Will on Nov 6, 2009 9:59 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I liked the joke.

What I don’t like is the fact Kiffin’s All-American JR is talking it up like it has the team fired up more so than normal. I’m with hooper on this one….and I, too, am not in the locker room.

by ChattVol on Nov 6, 2009 10:52 AM EST reply actions 0 recs