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Lance Thompson Leaves Vols, Returns to Alabama
As both birdjam and Caban have already noted, Tennessee defensive line coach Lance Thompson is leaving the Vols to take the Alabama outside linebackers position recently vacated by new Vol defensive coordinator Sal Sunseri. You can't really blame the guy; he's been passed over twice now for the UT...
2010 Tennessee Football Coaching Staff
Now that the Vols have rounded out their new coaching staff with the hiring of Chuck Smith, we thought we'd take a look at these guys collectively. Some of the assistant hires got a little lost in the shuffle of recruiting, but on the whole, this is a staff with a solid balance of NFL and SEC...
Talking Points: Lane Kiffin hearts Pahokee, Pahokee hearts Lane
Tennessee football So much for Pahokee blowback. Tennessee has 58 players from Florida at its camp this week, including 13 from Pahokee High School. Among all of the noise in the Great Lane Kiffin Debate, my answer to someone's question about the possible effect of Kiffin's Pahokee comment painted...
Talking points: Nick Reveiz outlifts Dan Williams edition
Tennessee Football This actually came out yesterday, but everybody's piling on today, so I will, too. At their first meeting, Lane Kiffin made the understandable assumption that Nick Reveiz was a -- gasp! -- kicker. Yeah, well, coach, most kickers don't outlift your linemen.Lance Thompson, by...
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...
Lane Kiffin: Kickin' Ant Hills and Takin' Names
One of the endemic problems in Tennessee's football program over the past few years was a lack of excitement and interest. Even when the Vols surprisingly made the SEC Championship Game in 2007, most people yawned and assumed they'd lose to heavy favorite LSU. The star of Tennessee, as well as that...
3 things I learned at lunch: more chest-thumping from the Kiffin Recruiting Chimera
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. There was apparently a post-NSD recruiting party somewhere in Knoxville this morning with the...
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...
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