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David Reaves interviewed in NCAA invesitgation
Perhaps the most interesting and potentially most important figure in this whole NCAA investigation is David Reaves, Kiffin's brother-in-law and QB coach here at UT, who found out about Lane's departure from Knoxville like the rest of us, and didn't get chosen to make the trip to Southern Cal with...
Stepping Back: A Look at the Tyler Bray Commitment
Judging the the web traffic yesterday, Tyler Bray's commitment to Tennessee was considered the biggest piece of recruiting news since Bryce Brown. Message boards like VolQuest and VolNation went bersek within minutes of the initial announcements. News sites were tripping over each other trying to...
Talking Points: Tennessee to remove names from jerseys?
Tennessee football Where the jerseys have no name. In his make-UT's-jersey submission, ChattVol mentioned the possibility of jettisoning the names from the jerseys this season. I think that's actually a probability, as, if I remember correctly, there were no names on the jerseys for the spring...
Anatomy of an Anticipated Storyline
UPDATE: Wiz has updated his original post to point out that the man in question is Lane and the blonde in question is indeed Layla. He also very graciously cites this post. A hearty hat tip to the Wiz, who was undoubtedly time-constrained or he would have sleuthed it all out himself. It's...
Talking points: have we been here before edition?
Mike Strange helps Vol fans with their strange new position on the bubble. In short, it's a bit like football and the BCS (remember that?) in that we not only need to win our games, we need to keep an eye on other teams vying for the same limited slots. Here are our rooting interests this...
Recruiting U: the innovation we didn't expect
Much like The Season of Which We Do Not Speak, there were a myriad of problems during this past Season of Constant Sorrow. Two of the most-cited reasons for the offensive inefficiency we witnessed in 2008 were the inexperienced/incompetent quarterback play and the attempt to implement an overly...
Rating Steve Spurrier's Assistant Coach Hires
News out of Columbia today is that Coach Spurrier has hired former Arkansas secondary coach Lorenzo Ward to fill the same spot at Carolina; Ward replaces Ron Cooper, who departed for LSU. Spurrier has now filled his four vacancies, with Ward replacing Cooper in the secondary, G. A. Mangus replacing...
Smelley to Transfer; G. A. Mangus Hired as Offensive Coordinator
Two big stories coming out of Columbia here and here, with Chris Smelley electing to transfer and pursue baseball at another school and Spurrier hiring G. A. Mangus to take over David Reaves's old job as QB coach. First of all, I like the Mangus hire. Reaves did not do a good job developing Smelley...
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