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Talking points: around the interwebosphere edition
Tennessee Walk on Nick Branum is not acting (or being treated like) a walk on. Dave Hooker cautions Lane Kiffin not to resort to junior college or a pool of transfers to solve the QB situation. Congratulations to John Currie, a 10-year vet of the Tennessee athletic department and Mike...
Reading Between the Lines: Changes in UT Football From Last Year
Ordinarily, when a news article has an eye-popping line, I will post it up as a FanShot and highlight the curiosity in the brief text I write with it. That's the fairest way to handle articles, as it encourages everybody to read the article at the source and give the webhit to the person who wrote...
3 things I learned at lunch: keeping up with Eric Berry
Stuff I heard on my iPod while eating lunch in my car, vaguely half remembered, probably incorrectly, un- fact-checked or otherwise verified, and probably just made up in between sips of aspartame. Yes, the morning reports were full of stuff talking about how good the tempo at practice was...
Talking points: WE TALKIN' 'BOUT PRACTICE edition
Tennessee football Tennessee held the first spring practice of the Kiffin Chimera Era, and the center head was pleased. The QBs completed 78 and 75 percent of their passes. They fumbled no snaps. There were only two false starts and only two dropped passes. There was only one offside call. Not...
Talking points: Human Resources has rules, too? edition
Tennessee The Lady Vols routed Alabama 80-61 last night. Shekinna Striklen suffered a scary injury, but it appears that it's not as severe as initially believed. The men find themselves in a four-way tie for the SEC East and are therefore in control of their own destiny. Of course, we also have...
Talking points: it's all about the energy edition
Tennessee Tennessee hasn't signed a quarterback in two years. The plan is to position the team to go out and get the best QB in the nation this year. Hey, it could happen. Orgeron was the guy responsible for signing Matt Leinart and Carson Palmer, both Heisman winners at Southern Cal. Still, a...
Volunteer defensive line proving critics wrong
I'm thinking it's too early to really make this pronouncement, but The Tennessean is saying that the defensive line is proving critics wrong. They did play well against UCLA, and that's good, but I for one am tiring of the whole back-against-the-wall-circle-the-wagons-prove-the-critics-wrong...
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