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Patience Justified: Tennessee Volunteers Steamroll Georgia Bulldogs 45-19

Patience is the most difficult virtue for any fan base to acquire.  For a fanbase of a storied program coming off of a disastrous 2008 campaign, asking for patience might as well be asking for th...

Tennessee vs. Auburn: Two Sides of the Same Coin

They are two traditional powerhouses in the SEC, old rivals turned mere acquaintances in the last two decades.  But in the last two years, there have been no two teams who mirrored each other as ...

Talking Points: let's play one degree of Monte Kiffin edition

Forget Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Last week, it was Urban Meyer who claimed to have a good relationship with Tennessee defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin. This week, it's Ohio head coach Frank Solic...

Tennessee Volunteers Practice Report

I had the luxury of heading out to watch the team practice for a while today, which constituted my first real opportunity to watch the coaching staff in action.  (I don't count the Orange and Whi...

Rebooting the Tennessee Volunteer football program: 2009 begins today

Click for big. Happy August, 2009, folks. We've hit the reset button on the Tennessee Volunteer football program, and the thing reboots today when the team reports for the beginning of the Lane Kiffi...

Monte Kiffin will outwork you today, tomorrow, and always

You can't stop Monte Kiffin. Sure he's 69, but don't dare bring that up as a negative in front of him. According to Lane, Monte is fond of saying he's "69 going on 49," and of reminding people that he...

Talking Points: Monte building resistance to misdirection

One of the things Monte Kiffin is teaching his players is resistance to misdirection: In fact, when asked recently to pinpoint the biggest lesson he has learned from new Vol defensive coordinator Mon...

Talking Points: Tennessee still desperately seeking Scroggins

  Tennessee That "story-edit" up there? Yeah, I don't know, either. Bug. Will be squashed soon. You know I wish that I had Jesse's word. Eleven days and counting until Jesse Scroggins announces ...

Summer Reading: Did You Know About The Other Kiffin?

Perusing the internet for news and information this afternoon, I ran across an article by Dirk Chatelain of the Omaha World-Herald.  Before I go on, I must admit my shame in not even realizing th...

The Obfuscation of Success: The Kiffin Era And ... Grammar???

There's a part of me that loves to watch people.  I'm really an observer by nature, so opportunities to sit back and see human dynamics in action (rather than be in the middle of the fray) are qu...


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