Although the Vols were sore, tired, and hot yesterday at practice, coach Britches coolly informed them that "nobody really cares." Only the offensive line gets a pacifier (excuse me, mouthpiece), which Dooley described as in a newborn "lay on our back and whine stage." He must have really enjoyed that analogy, because he toyed with it for what seemed like forever. Check out the video; Dooley started riffing on the o-line-as-newborns concept and kept going for so long I wondered whether he was going to find his way back to the point. He did, though, and the point was this: the offensive line has a long way to go to get ready for games this fall.
"They let us get out in space and give us the opportunity to make double moves," he said. "You're not always running a 10-yard out. Sometimes you'll run 10-yard out and up or a 10-yard out and spin back in ... whatever. It gives us an opportunity to make some moves and get in some space."
"I was up here last night watching tape at ten o’clock and both of them were up there with me," Thompson said of Johnson and Reveiz. "I left and said I am going home to get some sleep you guys need to do the same. They are just football junkies and as a coach that’s what you love about them."
"Blessed with the ability to seemingly suspend himself in mid-air" is how the evaluation of Prince is written on the Web site. "... clever around the basket ..."