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Starting Lineup Reveals Few Surprises
The two-deep lineup looks just about the way many projected it with decisions being made on key position battles:Several other positions were cleared up yesterday by Wannstedt as well:• The place-kicker was won by redshirt junior Dan Hutchins over redshirt freshman Kevin Harper, but, keeping with...
Don't Bet On It!: Around the SEC
A 7-1 ledger in last week’s SEC picks improved my record for the season to 22-2 in conference games, which sounds pretty impressive until you consider how many patsies the league crossed paths with in the first three weeks of the autumn. Please bear in mind, therefore, that my weekly disclaimer...
Bruce Pearl, Johnny Majors, James Berry and Jesse Mahelona to be honored Saturday
Emotions will be running high tomorrow at Neyland Stadium, even in pregame and at halftime. One of the men with the closest ties to the University of Tennessee's proud football tradition, former player and head coach Johnny Majors will return to Neyland Stadium to be honored as one of this week's...
Sprints Is Light // 08.06.09
'We talkin' 'bout practice' (V). Reporting today: Florida Gators: Can they live up to the hype? Kentucky Wildcats: Sure, they'll probably go to a bowl. But can they do it while defeating more than the nonconference cupcakes and weak SEC teams? Vanderbilt Commodores (non-freshmen): Can they...
The 50 Best Games of the Fulmer Era - #9: In The Downpour
I've heard younger Vol fans compare the dismissal of Phillip Fulmer to the dismissal of Johnny Majors without clearly understanding the circumstances surrounding the latter. Fulmer wasn't retained in the 2008 season, among other reasons, because the program had been in a state of decline for...
1972: The Rebound (Part Three)
For other seasons, go here. Part OnePart Two In Part Two, we took a look at one of the more emotionally draining months in Missouri history. Mizzou lost a heartbreaker to Oklahoma State by allowing a 54-yard touchdown on 4th-and-28 with 90 seconds left, then got positively steamrolled in Lincoln,...
Talking points: Lane Kiffin will Say Anything
Tennessee football Tennessee has offered Lakewood, California QB Jesse Scroggins. They offered Cincinnati, Ohio QB Andrew Hendrix last week. It might mean that Heaps ain't coming. Blake Bell has already committed elsewhere. Yeah, so Eddie Gran got kicked out of Pahokee High School on a...
Talking points: Orange and White crumbs edition
If we offer, he will come. LB Dexter Moody, the guy released from Georgia due to some altercation with a teacher or something, says that he will sign with Tennessee as soon as the Vols offer him a scholarship. Rebuilding bridges. Mike Hamilton and Lane Kiffin made a nice early attempt to repair...
Return to La-La Land: Fulmer Goes Back to Tennessee, and Other Spring Game Action
He must have felt a bit like Alice stepping through the looking glass, but Phil Fulmer returned to Tennessee on Saturday -- which means he bested Johnny Majors by something approaching 17 years. Speaking of Majors -- Fulmer did, which raised some eyebrows among those familiar with the...
Johnny Majors in the house. That Neyland Built. And that Fulmer has vacated.
Yeah, so Johnny Majors, who's never forgiven Phillip Fulmer and likely never will, actually found his way into a practice meeting and onto the practice field after 17 years of staying away. Not surprisingly, Majors praised everything about the practice, including the tempo, the energy, the effort,...
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