Dooley Explains His "We Needed to Lose to Kentucky" Comment And Jarnell Stokes Vows To Beat Them In Rupp
by Joel Hollingsworth on Feb 3, 2012 8:13 AM EST
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Dooley's fate at UT depends on wins, not recruits | The Tennessean | tennessean.com
Um, yeah, but winning sorta depends on recruits.
UT Vols join SEC list with offers for Ridgeland High School’s Vonn Bell | timesfreepress.com
Vonn Bell’s list of football scholarship offers grew by one Thursday, and it was the one he had been waiting on for some time.
VolQuest.com - Dooley talks pressure, the off-season and more
"The fear always makes the wolf bigger than it is."
VolQuest.com - Dooley talks state of program in Q-A
"And I also made the comment that upset a lot of people that we needed to lose that Kentucky game for the long term health of the program. People didn't like to hear that. That didn't mean that I wanted to lose. And that doesn't mean I didn't work my tail off to prevent something like that from happening, but I knew we weren't right in a lot of areas. I knew that had we won and gone to a bowl and everyone feels like we are still on track that it would have been harder to correct a lot of issues that I felt needed to be addressed to get this thing right. When you lose a game like that, it allows you to sharpen your focus. It brings a group together. You find out who's really ready to roll up their sleeves and get this thing going. And I have seen a total attitude change in our football team in a positive way and that excites me. Sometimes you have to get knocked on your face before you can get to the top."
SEC Signee Comparison; MrSEC Rankings 2012 | MrSEC
Pretty interesting three-way breakdown of the SEC's recruiting classes.
Source: Derrick Ansley added to UT staff " GoVolsXtra
More connections to Alabama, although this one's a bit more tenuous.
Jarnell Stokes ready to get more physical " GoVolsXtra
"I saw it was all over ESPN; I'm definitely not used to getting my shot blocked,'' the 6-foot-8, 270-pound Stokes said Thursday. "That's something I will learn from. I have to stay with my mechanics, using my left hand and throwing my body into them, that's how you defeat a shot blocker, and something I'll do next time. "It definitely made me more hungry. I definitely wanted to win,'' he said. "If anything, I want to win at Rupp Arena. I plan on winning, before I leave, at Rupp Arena. I'm saying that on the record right now. It made me more hungry and made me dislike Kentucky more.'
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On three-star chests and five-star arms.
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4th in the Mr SEC recruiting rankings?
It’s really hard to disagree much with their methodology either.
Also, it’s kinda embarrassing when the utsports site can’t correctly spell the names of our opponents (Siena, by the way). They did it twice too, so it’s not a typo.
If I cared more about my UNC side, I'd call myself "Tar Volon," and that'd be awesome.
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by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 3, 2012 9:42 AM EST reply actions
This is the first time I've really looked at rankings.
I’m surprised LSU didn’t have a better recruiting year. Not that their year was bad, but they’re tied with us on Mr. SEC, and they just played in the NC game.
"Do the Titans have a miracle left in them in what has been a magical season to this point? If they do, they need it now. Christie kicks it high and short. Gonna be fielded by Lorenzo Neal at the 25; he dishes it back to Wycheck; he throws it across the field to Dyson. 30, 40, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, endzone...touchdown, Titans! There are no flags on the field! It's a miracle! Tennessee has pulled a miracle! A miracle for the Titans!"
by TennesseeTyrants on Feb 3, 2012 9:59 AM EST reply actions
Vonn Bell
Is a monster, and if everything goes well on his Feb. visit, he’ll probably pull the trigger. Already UA and UGA offers.
Monster.
Go Vols!
Holdin' it down on enemy grounds.
Anti-Snail on offense; Give me a slobberknocker, or give me death!
I love it, Jarnell!
You’re supposed to hate UK! Dislike is a good beginning.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Also...
David Climer is a jackwagon.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Also...
people who don’t understand what Dooley is saying about the Kentucky loss are just lacking in intelligence. Please note I didn’t say “agree”.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Yeah I understand what he was saying
it’s called a spin-job. Or maybe he’s just “looking on the bright side of life”.
Still, I love Dooley as a person. We’ll see about the coaching part.
Yeah I see what he is saying,
but its definitely a spin-job. I think its naive to say that the team is better off losing and not getting 30 extra days of practice (or how ever many it is), than winning and getting it. The extra practice and game could definitely have helped out a lot with our younger guys for next year.
Generally I agree but given the set of circumstances of last year
I think that team was just done, baked, burnt out and not sure a bunch of extra practices and a crap bowl game was the better option this year.
This was a team broken by just a freaky string of bad luck injuries to the most critical players then they had to play one of the toughest schedules in the country and being as young and physically and emotionally immature on top of that they just needed to shut it down.
I expect this team to post 9+ wins this year. I really, really want a 10 win season even if the 10th win comes from the bowl game. It is time.
And finally...
I had not read anything over at ASOLOL in a while, so I took a look. Gee, I forgot what arrogant homers some of the folks there can be. Makes me love and appreciate RTT even more, especially the great guys who run it and write for it.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
by sddbaker on Feb 3, 2012 11:18 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
I like a lot of the folks there
but seriously, one of them commented that if their QB is decent, they definitely should win in Knoxville this year. In football.
If I cared more about my UNC side, I'd call myself "Tar Volon," and that'd be awesome.
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by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 3, 2012 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
Hello ladies. Look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me.
Agreed
I thoroughly enjoyed the last two minutes of my life playing that little trick. And I’m not even kidding.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Feb 3, 2012 12:17 PM EST up reply actions
So they actually flow out of his mouth?
I’ve always reversed that, for whatever reason.
Formerly 'snail. You get used to it after a while.
by Chris Pendley on Feb 3, 2012 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
There's a right brain / left brain test very similar to that.
A silhouette of a dancer that’s rotating. If it’s rotating clockwise, you’re right brained (or left, I can’t remember which). If it’s rotating counterclockwise, you’re the other brained.
But I see it backwards too.
by David Hooper on Feb 3, 2012 12:51 PM EST up reply actions
Ah.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/left-brain-right-brain-and-the-spinning-girl/
And they say the right brain / left brain thing is bunk. Still, I always see clockwise.
by David Hooper on Feb 3, 2012 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
I just see large breasts
Hello ladies. Look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me.
But I do see them rotating counter-clockwise.
Hello ladies. Look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me.
I also see a female with very nice proportions
But I see her rotating clockwise.
No homer.
by kidbourbon on Feb 3, 2012 9:03 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I finally got her to rotate counter-clockwise
It took some effort, though.
No homer.
by kidbourbon on Feb 3, 2012 9:10 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Have to admit
She was probably the most aesthetically pleasing optical illusion I’ve encountered.
Whoever drew that silhouette didn’t have to make her hot, but they went ahead and went that extra mile and did make her hot. And that was nice of them to do.
No homer.
by kidbourbon on Feb 3, 2012 11:30 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I saw clockwise
after about 45 seconds, I saw counterclockwise for about 15 seconds, and then it changed back. I definitely can’t control which one I’m seeing. The switch just happened
If I cared more about my UNC side, I'd call myself "Tar Volon," and that'd be awesome.
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by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 3, 2012 11:26 PM EST up reply actions
I finally got to the point where I could flip it back and forth.
No homer.
by kidbourbon on Feb 3, 2012 11:30 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
What's interesting is that for some people...
…the switch will just happen. For me, I had to make a conscious effort to change it. She would have kept going clockwise forever.
No homer.
by kidbourbon on Feb 3, 2012 11:38 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I tried and tried and tried and couldn't flip it
and then I blinked and it was flipped. And then I blinked again about 15 seconds later and it flipped back. After a minute of consciously trying to flip it and failing
If I cared more about my UNC side, I'd call myself "Tar Volon," and that'd be awesome.
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by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 4, 2012 12:03 AM EST up reply actions
That's the test
for something else…
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Huh.
I guess I’ll take that down, flip it, and reverse it.
In my brain.
Formerly 'snail. You get used to it after a while.
by Chris Pendley on Feb 3, 2012 2:03 PM EST up reply actions
She just keeps changing back and forth on me, although the first time I looked at it, I got clockwise.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
That's how I discovered it
Because whenI first saw it, they were flowing into his mouth. But from the dog, it appears that you’re supposed to see them flowing out. So I stared a bit longer, and made it go the other way.
lolololol
I saw all that too. Stared for a few minutes before I copied it over.
Hello ladies. Look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me.
I originally saw them flowing into the mouth
but I figured that didn’t make much sense
If I cared more about my UNC side, I'd call myself "Tar Volon," and that'd be awesome.
Bolts, Canes, Preds (now in different conferences!). Canes mini-STH. Southern hockey solidarity
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by Incipient_Senescence on Feb 3, 2012 11:26 PM EST up reply actions
Von Bell is fo' realz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7SbwTUHGdU
Had an unreal 148.5 tackles, 119 solo, 5 INTs, 3 FF, 5 FRec, and 3 TDs
Offensively he had 502 yard receiving, 300 rushing and 11 TDs
Gives me the impression...
that he’ll make someone a very good punt returner too. Great instincts with the ball in his hands, although his catching technique is a little rough.
What do you mean 'someone'
He’s going to make us, UT, a very good punt returner.
Do Want.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
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