Talking points: ho-hum edition

by Joel Hollingsworth on Apr 30, 2009 7:44 AM EDT in Rocky Top Talking Points

Tennessee football

Monte Kiffin only got 90% of his defense installed ($) in the spring.
Oy. We need some news. Jake Heaps being interested ($) doesn't really count for me, but there it is.
I am working on a huge project that you will be interested in and that I'm not sure that I can talk about in this space yet. I should be done with it in about three weeks. After that, expect a bunch of great stuff for the summer, including a Best Plays of 2009 Bracket (or we may just call it "Eric Berry vs. Eric Berry"), a season recap, in-depth profiles of the incoming freshmen, previews of this year's opponents, and hopefully some other stuff. Until then, it appears that the Rocky Top Talk Twitter feed has drawn in some new readers (Hello!), and for those, you might want to check out the most popular feature of last summer -- LOL Logos!

SEC

The lack of news has apparently reached a level 5 pandemic or something sortof thing-ish item.
Yeah.

NCAA

Well, here's something. Buzz Peterson is returning to Appalachian State to become its head basketball coach again. Good luck across the ridge, Buzz.
Is the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry the best in college football?
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I would probably go with Texas/Oklahoma.

The question is “right now”, and it’s hard to imagine a rivalry being a much bigger deal. The article brings up a lot of great reasons in UT/OU’s corner and is worth a read; I’ll add to it that the tiebreaker from last year has just made things even better.

And right now, it’s really difficult to find another great and traditional rivalry that isn’t lopsided. Ones that come to mind are: Michigan/OSU, USC/Notre Dame, UT/Alabama, UT/Florida (though not really traditional yet), Michigan/Notre Dame (though the problem isn’t lopsidedness), USC/UCLA, Alabama/Auburn, Arkansas/Texas (if they even play), Texas/TAMU, Oklahoma/Nebraska, and even Army/Navy.

by David Hooper on Apr 30, 2009 8:29 AM EDT reply actions

It's the most important rivalry

It’s replaced FSU/Miami, FSU/Florida, and Michigan/Ohio State as the game you have to watch each year just because you know it’s going to have a significant impact on the National Championship. And playing in the same division always makes a rivalry even more important. Playing games like last year’s shootout doesn’t hurt either.

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by Will Shelton on Apr 30, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Let me guess...

Saban’s breathing mask would have vertical stripes to make him look taller.

by David Hooper on Apr 30, 2009 12:28 PM EDT reply actions

And to make him look like Hannibal Lechter.

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by Joel Hollingsworth on Apr 30, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions

M'thoughts:

Bostrodomus finally got up into present day-land. Twitter … you are mine. Though it’s full of very, very random stuff because all I’m doing is updating it when inspiration strikes with this nifty twitter-bar thingie for Firefox.

Nice to see Buzz back at App :) Our (I’ll remind you, the reader, that I did attend ASU my Freshman year. Some good stuff happened that year, as you might recall. Hopefully Buzz’s return will reinvigorate the basketball team. One complaint I had with the Basketball program was that they never asked people to come to their games. So they didn’t.

NO! Bame Game is biggest rivalry because thatswhattraditionisallABOUT! rawr awr rawr! =foams at the mouth and runs around in circles=

by bobo_the_vol on Apr 30, 2009 1:58 PM EDT reply actions

Twitter? For you?

I figured you already knew what everyone’s Tweets would say before they were posted.

by David Hooper on Apr 30, 2009 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Gotta keep up the non-all-knowing illusion.

You understand. I already know you do.

by bobo_the_vol on Apr 30, 2009 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I've kinda been living under a rock

the past couple of days with finals and such. Imagine my surprise, or on second thought lack thereof, that this past week has been “Florida Week” over on ESPN’s College Football Today. Today was the first episode I’ve seen, they did an expose on Tebow’s workout regimen, so I don’t know if this is a series of programs where ESPN is going to focus on different schools each week or if Verne Lunquist just happened to pull some strings this week.

It’s frustrating, I come out of my hole in the library early one day to get a college football fix and I’m bombarded by UF. Geezzzzz….anyway I just had to vent….

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!-Andrew Jackson

by jimvols on Apr 30, 2009 4:16 PM EDT reply actions

A lot of it is probably due to the ESPN contract with the SEC.

They’re going to hype the SEC like crazy now because it’s good for their business. I’ll be interested to see how they handle Tennessee. At the very least, we know the new coaching staff will be dying to get on ESPN.

by David Hooper on Apr 30, 2009 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Chris Fowler was here a couple of weeks ago

by rblakeh on Apr 30, 2009 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah, thats right.

I heard about some of the ESPN crew being over at the practice field before the O/W game or something along those lines. I guess I can’t complain as long as ESPN shares the proverbial “media wealth”. It was just annoying that for the first time in days that I turn on ESPN I see Tebow’s mug…

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!-Andrew Jackson

by jimvols on Apr 30, 2009 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions