Rocky Top Tennessee 2009: what's in that 128-page thing?
by Joel Hollingsworth on Jun 30, 2009 3:00 PM EDT
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Ah, at long last we can publish the table of contents for Rocky Top Tennessee 2009. You can pre-order right now and get the thing a couple of weeks before it hits the newsstands on July 21.
Life In The Fast Lane: 2009 Volunteers Position Profiles
by Joel Hollingsworth
Cue The Quickening
by Wes Rucker
Eric Crunch Berry
by David Hooper
Five Impact Freshmen And The Class Of 2009
by Josh Ward
The Agony & The Agony
by Holly Anderson
Self-Inflicted Wounds
by Joel Hollingsworth
Know Your Enemy: A Look At Tennessee's 2009 Opponents
by Holly Anderson
And Now A Word From Your Enemy: The Florida Gators
by Spencer Hall
And Now A Word From Your Enemy: Alabama Crimson Tide
by Todd Jones
And Now A Word From Your Enemy: Georgia Bulldogs
by Doug Gillett
Assembling a Coaching Staff
by Drew Edwards
Introducing The New Coaches
by Brad Shepard
Brand New Schemes
by Chris Brown and Matt Hinton
Countering The Culture
by John Pennington
Southern Cal Comes To Knoxville
by Bruce Feldmen
Recruiting For A National Championship
by Joel Hollingsworth
Reversing Apathy
by Will Shelton
Relative Pain
by Brian Cook
"Football Is Not Fun If You Lose. Period."
by Clay Travis
Still Sparkling At 90
by Matt Fisher
Farewell To The Man In The Arena
by Joel Hollingsworth
Phillip Fulmer's Legacy
by Will Shelton
Bios for each of the contributors is here. You should be able to divine the topic for most of those articles from the titles, but for the articles that are more ambiguously-named, there is clarification after the jump.
- Rucker's Cue the Quickening is an article comparing 2008-2009 Jonathan Crompton to 2005-2006 Erik Ainge.
- Holly's The Agony and The Agony is the 2008 season review as only Holly can do it.
- My Self-Inflicted Wounds is an analysis of the handful of plays that defined the 2008 season.
- Chris Brown and Matt Hinton team up to provide some much-needed detail on Lane's offense and Monte's Tampa-2 defense.
- John Pennington's Countering the Culture is a look at how the Tennessee football program has gotten to where it is right now and what Lane Kiffin needs to do to reverse the trend.
- My Recruiting for a National Championship is me not learning not to play with numbers and making the case that recruiting is necessary, but not sufficient, to compete for national championships.
- Will's Reversing Apathy is an article on the fan's role in the turn around.
- MGoBrian's Relative Pain is a comparison of Michigan's first year under Rich Rodriguez last season to the way the table's set for Tennessee for its first year under a new head coach.
- Clay's "Football is not fun if you lose. Period." is an interview with Josh McNeil.
- Matt's Still Sparkling at 90 is a piece on the history of Neyland Stadium and its new face lift, with lots o pretty pics.
- The last two articles from me and Will are in tribute to Fulmer.
In all, there's a lot of really good stuff in there that you won't want to miss. Pre-order now or find it on the shelves beginning on July 21.
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How'd they get it to fit?
(Sry. Had to before someone else did…)
by David Hooper on Jun 30, 2009 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Looks like some good articles
By some good writers as well (though I was very surprised to see Brian Cook writing an article at first glance….but after reading the title it does make sense). I will be ordering a copy.
I agree.
I’d rather not even think about the travesty that is Michigan football. The comparison is apples to oranges anyway. Rodriguez was a successful coach at WVU who brought a new system to a group of Big 10 “athletes.” As much as I hate him for being a d__khead with the way he left, I think if he can get some recruits he’ll probably be successful up there.
I might buy if someone would rip that section out before I get it.
It's actually one of the better pieces
I thought it was hilarious.
Rocky Top Talk
by Joel Hollingsworth on Jul 1, 2009 6:08 AM EDT up reply actions
I have a chimney charcoal starter
You stuff newspaper in the bottom to start it. Presuming the interior pages aren’t glossy, I’ll take any you don’t want off your hands.
"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook
to be honest,
as fun as this is, it’s kinda weird to talk about burning the very first sports annual I’ve ever been published in…
I'm only funnin'
If I didn’t congratulate y’all in an earlier post, congratulations! Way to do us proud.
"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook
oh, me too.
I didn’t mean anything by that. Other than it does actually feel a little weird. Not that it’s going to stop me. ;-)
My wife . . .
. . . and kids wanted to throw it in the toilet several times this spring before it was even done.
BTW, we be glossy — it’s an anti-TP technique, I think.
Rocky Top Talk
by Joel Hollingsworth on Jul 1, 2009 9:41 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have absolutely no clue on shipment times.
But if it’s scheduled for the 6th, I would guess that they’ll arrive in most locations on the 8th or 9th. Would that work for you?
(And again, I have no clue. I’m not involved in that at all.)
by David Hooper on Jun 30, 2009 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Leaving town early on the 11th.
I think it ships from NC (if memory serves), so the odds seem pretty good…
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