Rocky Top Talking Points: And now back to our regularly scheduled programming edition

by Joel on Feb 2, 2007 7:12 AM EST in Tennessee Volunteer Football Comment 2 comments

Whew. All of this year's winners of the inaugural College Football Blogger Awards are over in the Trophy Case. The race will tighten up next year, as the winners have made themselves ineligible by winning. Congrats to all of the winners, runners up, and nominees and thanks to everyone for following us around the 'sphere the last couple of days. Thanks, too, to the Rocky Top Talkers for excusing the varied focus and the consequent sparsity of posting on the Vols recently. We're now back to regularly scheduled programming.
Pretty big game for the Pantheon (15-7, 3-4 SEC) tomorrow against the dreaded Gators (20-2, 7-0 SEC). I say "pretty big" because (1) Tennessee is unranked and Florida is ranked No. 1; (2) it's at Florida; (3) the Discombobulator probably won't be available; (4) Florida's thirst for revenge for having lost twice to the Vols last season has not yet been quenched even to a degree; (5) we'll get to play them at home later, when most of these factors will likely have changed; and (6) it falls during the weekend of a really big game. Lincoln Financial Sports has the telecast at 3:00 p.m.
On the gridiron, the Vols have landed the tailback they wanted, Lennon Creer from Tatum, Texas. We won't spend a lot of time on recruiting here until everything is inked, but it's worth noting that Tennessee is putting together what looks to be a wicked good class.
Dawg Sports is out of the gate in a hurry in the race for next year's Bran Muffin with the debut of Can We All Agree. Let me be the first to agree that "if you lose the game, you lose the argument, too."

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Hmmm

"The race will tighten up next year, as the winners have made themselves ineligible by winning."

I know I'm not on the rules committee or anything, but this doesn't seem right. And won't that add yet another layer of data reduction come voting time? Is the sole intent of that rule to eliminate another year of "Orson, Orson, Orson!"?

by Aerobab on Feb 2, 2007 8:37 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Smokey Lives

Todd is happy to report that he doesn't have to travel to Knoxville this weekend. Although I'm not quite happy with his statement that we, Vol fans, have to be thankful for Florida. The teeter-totter is pretty balanced on turning Smokey VIII (I think) into a martyr at the hands of a "Florida loss". I mean, there are other Smokey's waiting and ready to take the throne, right?

Anybody else with me, or am I THAT disillusioned?

by Aerobab on Feb 2, 2007 9:37 AM EST reply actions 0 recs