rustytanton
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Good for him. I really hope things work out for him there better than they did at Tennessee.
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College football also encourages a pride of place; something other popular sports in the south, like Nascar, don't. Karyn Rybacki, a professor at Northern Michigan University, says that's a big deal in the South, where "people will describe themselves as being from Alabama or Georgia even if they've worked in San Francisco for the last 20 years."
Tennessee-Kentucky gameday Twitterin' archive
by rustytanton
on Dec 1, 2008 8:16 AM PST
Since the widget doesn't keep a running archive, I've saved my Twittering from the Tennessee-Kentucky game for posterity here:
- Gassing up, then heading to knoxville 9:14 AM Nov 29th from mobile web
- Sweet, the hotel let me check in early..here's the view out of my room http://twitpic.com/ozu2 1:03 PM Nov 29th from twitterrific
- joel tells me my messages are in the open thread on rocky top talk..hi everyone! Hope the game is better than the weather is here. 1:05 PM Nov 29th from twitterrific
- heading down to mellow mushroom on the strip 1:07 PM Nov 29th from twitterrific
- At mellow mushroom with hooper and his wife..come on down! 2:11 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- hooper took off.. probably going to make my way to a bar in a few minutes 2:58 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- surprised Georgia didn't fake that punt, lol 3:05 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- At the roaming gnome, where Charlie peppers used to be, having a beer and watching the end of the uga game 3:30 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- @Nastinchka don't miss the clientelle, but I do miss the Rooster Cogburn sandwich 3:36 PM Nov 29th from mobile web in reply to Nastinchka
- one more beer, then over to Neyland for the Vol Walk 3:53 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- Crowd on cumberland ave really thin for two hours before gametimr 4:17 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- Pretty good crowd for the vol walk at least http://twitpic.com/p1u5 4:26 PM Nov 29th from twitterrific
- coach fulmer's last vol walk http://twitpic.com/p1wt 4:34 PM Nov 29th from twitterrific
- torn: it's warm in the university ctr and this bench is comfortable. But would like another beer before the game starts 4:53 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- Slumming at the moe's beer stand. Don't judge, they have a tv with the Bama game on 5:05 PM Nov 29th from mobile web
- @amberlrhea that's the one! @JaseLP no, you're thinking of the A1 Pluto 5:33 PM Nov 29th from mobile web in reply to amberlrhea
- Did fortune ever smile upon me tonight: I am in The Dry http://twitpic.com/p2ru 6:06 PM Nov 29th from twitterrific
- A lot of fans booed crompton when he was announced in the starting line-up...at least no one booed fulmer 6:12 PM Nov 29th from txt
- announcer after introducing seniors: "we'd also like to honor a true Volunteer. from Winchester, Tenn., Phillip Fulmer" 6:47 PM Nov 29th from txt
- Neyland is still loud even +/- 30,000 short of capacity 6:49 PM Nov 29th from txt
- I just feel bad for Jonathan Crompton at this point. I mean, he has to be trying his best, right? Right? 7:02 PM Nov 29th from txt
- a little concerned that vendors here serve something called a 'Smokey Dog' 7:47 PM Nov 29th from txt
- up-close encounter with a boo-bird. its plummage is most vibrant when it encounters fosterus fumblitus 7:58 PM Nov 29th from txt
- pride played alma mater while a slideshow tribute to fulmer played on jumbotron 8:14 PM Nov 29th from txt
- crowd chants 'phillip fulmer' 8:15 PM Nov 29th from txt
- I hope Mike Hamilton knows what he's doing 8:57 PM Nov 29th from txt
- Coaches and players hugging as the pride plays the Tennessee Waltz 9:37 PM Nov 29th from txt
- players carry fulmer out as the pride plays rocky top http://twitpic.com/p4pg 9:40 PM Nov 29th from twitterrific
- got about a mile to walk to the hotel..cold, but at least it isn't raining 9:58 PM Nov 29th from txt
Thanks to Joel for posting my stream to the front page! I had fun interacting with y'all before the game started and it got to be too much to follow from my lowly EDGE connection. I hope to be able to do it again next year, either with this whizbang or with whichever whizbang replaces it.
And thanks to hooper and his wife for meeting up with me at Mellow Mushroom before the game. They're good people whom I hope to run into again in the future.
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Incident involving UT president's wife mars social event : Local News : GoVolsXtra.com
Keep it classy Mrs. Petersen!
Anybody going to be in town for the game this weekend?
by rustytanton
on Nov 24, 2008 5:49 PM PST
Not too many people I know will be in town given the holiday. But I will be because I'm, like, a real fan or something.
Pre-game beers?
This thing says my fan post needs to be at least 75 words, so here is a quote from the forward Phillip Fulmer wrote in Ray Glier's How to Be a Volunteer:
I'm not just passing through here. I'm not looking for my next job. This is my dream job, and this is my home. I told Vicki, my wife, when we were first married not to buy drapes for the house because I didn't know how long we would be here. I was a coach, and in this profession, things can happen. This was in 1981.
We've been here 26 years. Finally, we bought drapes.
My awesome girlfriend bought me that book for my birthday. I hope to get an afternoon with it soon.
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It’s hard to imagine things getting much worse for the Tennessee Volunteers.
This week, they learned coach Phillip Fulmer was being forced out of his job at the end of the season. Then, with bowl eligibility on the line, they lost Saturday’s homecoming game against Wyoming 13-7.
With Vanderbilt and Kentucky still ahead, the Vols (3-7, 1-5 SEC) could still reach a new low. They’re one loss away from piling up the most losses in the program’s more than 100-year history. Before this season, Tennessee had lost seven games only once, in 1977.
Aside from tying Tennessee’s record for losses, this team holds several other distinctions.
It’s the first in program history to lose to a Mountain West opponent. And averaging just 16 points per game, it’s become the least productive since the 1964 squad, which averaged eight per game.
The Vols have 47 bowl appearances, the second most in NCAA history. But for the second time in four years, they won’t be making a postseason appearance.
Adams: Kelly, Pearl like two peas in a pod : Columns : GoVolsXtra.com
I think the Pearl connections are mostly logical leaps, but it's good to see the fishwrapper put a word in for Kelly.
The Tennessee players really stepped up for their old coach: I hope you can pick up the sarcasm in that sentence. The Volunteers showed their anger and indignation at Phillip Fulmer’s press conference last week and spoke of the injustice of asking Fulmer to step down with football left to play on the schedule. But when it came time to play Saturday against a bad Wyoming team, the Volunteers did not live up to their name. Granted, everyone now has to admit that Tennessee just isn’t a very good team. But we’re talking Wyoming, who lost to BYU, Utah, and TCU by a combined score of 138-14. What the players did, unknowingly, was validate the decision of the administration. Fairburn’s Eric Berry has been a warrior on that team all season. He is a real football player. But I don’t know about the rest of those guys. The next coach at Tennessee, whoever he is, is going to have some work to do with this group of players. There may be a bunch of four-star talent up there, but I don’t see a whole lot of four-star hearts.
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