Around the SB Nation: Tennessee not a "notable" team in the SEC

by Joel Hollingsworth on Aug 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT in Rocky Top Talking Points

Team Speed Kills gives fans new to college football the nutshell version of, well, everything. Vol fans will note that Tennessee does not merit mention as a "notable" team in the SEC.
The Rivalry, Esq. busts out the powdered wig and [sort of] makes the case for Michigan.
Black Shoe Diaries reacts to the news that Penn St. will be playing Indiana in Washington, D.C. in 2010.
Roll Bama Roll walks readers through an exhaustive, comprehensive recap of the last decade in college football and concludes that a lot can change in a decade.
Jevan Snead for Heisman? Juice Williams for Heisman?

Tweet Comment 26 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

The appropriate passive-aggressive response

Would be to make a list of “notable” college football blogs on SBNation, and to list all of them but Team Speed Kills.

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Aug 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

R4\

by danmarcel on Aug 28, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Gah.

Rec’d and concurred, before my computer went all Poltergeist on me.

I’ve been fairly underwhelmed by TSK.

by danmarcel on Aug 28, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Poltergeists?

I thought I was the only one still running Vista.

Actually, I love TSK and think they do a great job. Just had to call them on that oversight, though.

Rocky Top Talk

by Joel Hollingsworth on Aug 28, 2009 1:45 PM EDT up reply actions

As ye sow, so shall ye reap!

Or, get Bobo to tell you what you’ll reap, and then sow accordingly.

by bobo_the_vol on Aug 28, 2009 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

The Windows Skip Rule holds.

Skip every other major release and you can’t go wrong. Back to 3.1.1:

Keep 3.1.1
Skip 95
Keep 98/NT
Skip 2000/Me
Keep XP
Skip Vista

Therefore,
Keep Windows 7 (I got my half-price preorder in this summer…)

by David Hooper on Aug 28, 2009 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Ugh, and I just "upgraded" to Vista last year.

And then they release a new one, and with those prices? Puh-lease. Practically armed robbery. They should give everyone a free copy of 7 that has Vista as a way to say sorry and please dont run to apple (which I don’t want to do either).

Probably going to have to wipe my HD and system this weekend and start over, my laptop is getting buggy and probably going to start crashing in 2 weeks for no reason.

RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
Member of the Committee to Keep Keith Bulluck.
Eric Berry for Heisman!!

by Pride of the Southland on Aug 28, 2009 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Having said all that, the copy of Vista on my work computer hasn’t given me a single issue yet.

But I see your point; they released Vista too soon b/c of Leopard and I think they got burned for it. It’s really awesome in 7 that they’re shipping both the 32- and 64-bit in one package so you decide at the point of installation which way you want to go. I ordered mine via hard copy so I can wait until the semester break before installing it. It’s a full-on clean install from XP, so I’m planning a few days of internet silence, where I do nothing but watch bowl games while it loads. :-D

by David Hooper on Aug 28, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Actually I'm running OS 10.5.8

So what the poltergeist did was make me hit return about three times in succession. So maybe not so much a poltergeist as epilepsy.

And perhaps I’m just a too sensitive homer, but it has always seemed to me that TSKs covergae of Tennessee is a bit more antagonistic that necessary. Of course, this may just be anxiety because it’s 8 FREAKIN DAYS TIL FOOTBALL STARTS AND WHY WONT IT JUST FREAKIN START ALREADY.

Sorry. I’m better now.

by danmarcel on Aug 28, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions

No, you're right.

It’s run by a Gamecock fan and a Gator fan and they’re not overly concerned about editorializing their anti-UT stance out of their writing. It is a blog, after all.

But yeah. Football. Here. Now. Are we really so difficult to please?

by David Hooper on Aug 28, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions

My fantasy football draft is on Saturday, I don’t know what I’m going to do because I will be in Indiana as its a live draft. Any idea what stations are carrying it?

RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
Member of the Committee to Keep Keith Bulluck.
Eric Berry for Heisman!!

by Pride of the Southland on Aug 28, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions

It's supposed to be on the SEC Network.

It might be paralleled on ESPN 360 for IP addresses outside the SEC Network’s coverage, but other than that I can’t really help.

by David Hooper on Aug 28, 2009 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Ya only moved the headstones!

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Aug 28, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Everybody's gonna be so sorry

When the vols kick the hell out of everything that moves this year

by cincyvol6198 on Aug 28, 2009 4:15 PM EDT reply actions

I won't be sorry. :-D

by David Hooper on Aug 28, 2009 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

For the record

In every case but Michigan, “Notable Teams” refers to teams that have been given a shot to win a conference championship and/or that are in the preseason top 25.

Team Speed Kills
SBNation's SEC Blog

by Year2 on Aug 28, 2009 5:53 PM EDT reply actions

And Michigan?

;-)

by David Hooper on Aug 28, 2009 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions

And that was the one that gigged me.

As I read the post, I really had no problem with the omission until I saw Michigan on there. Ah well; c’est la guerre. Here’s to hoping that our performance over the next few years makes a future omission indefensible.

by danmarcel on Aug 28, 2009 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Michigan was there because they’re synonymous with the Big Ten and I was having trouble coming up with a third team that would challenge Ohio State and Penn State. The thing is pushing 3200 words as it is; I nearly left Georgia out because I had instituted a 4 teams per conference limit but figured I couldn’t leave out the preseason No. 13 team. If I had included every team with an interesting story, Tennessee obviously would have been in.

Team Speed Kills
SBNation's SEC Blog

by Year2 on Aug 28, 2009 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey, Year2

Thanks for coming over and stepping into the hornet’s nest I created in your honor. ;-)

I see your point about being top-heavy in the SEC and why you included Michigan. Fact is, we’re not really in the conversation in the SEC because it’s so competitive, and although I think the program still has a Michigan-ish quality to it in that it’s a traditional powerhouse of the league, I think my reaction was more to being reminded of this.

As danmarcel said above, though, hopefully this season and the following ones can make this all a moot point.

Rocky Top Talk

by Joel Hollingsworth on Aug 29, 2009 7:49 AM EDT up reply actions