The hard truth is that Pearl is probably the best coach we could ever hope to come here.

Clowney "sure knocked the 'poop' outa him."

"Who dare? Who dat?"
 

"Power bomb, compliments of Captain Insano."

I really don't care.  I just want him gone.  He should of been benched in the Florida game when he gave up in the second half.  He is just not a leader or a winner.  Forget the arm, its the head that's the problem.

I haven't seen one this year so it's hard to decide.

They would not be the only ones.

It may be the worst in the history of college football.  You have to practice to get this bad.  I would expect you could find 11 guys on the street before the game and get better D play than this.

Worst defense in Tennessee history.  I really miss Wilcox.  I don't know if he is that good but this version of D makes anything look better.

and this is the worst defense I have ever seen.  They are slow, always out of position, and have no clue what is going on.  I miss Wilcox real bad.  He can coach rings around Sunseri. 

Bray has that QUIT look all over him tonight.

Talk about TOUCHY.  I was just suggesting that folks take a deep breath first.  But before I start PREACHING again....

Wow.  Sometimes I think it's best to wait and see what is really happening.  This is the first I have heard of Arnett leaving.  To bad really.  He had made some noise this year and I think he would of been a real threat next year. 

First of all, has Dooley even spoken on this matter?  It seems to me that everyone is on a feeding frenzy of internet rumors.  This happens a lot in the internet age.  I would like to wait until I hear what he has to say before I get all worked up.  If he declines Arnetts request then we can form a true opinion.  Right now, this is all just speculation.  This reminds me of the 'bump' that was leaked out about Pearl that was used to undermine him.  Then after all was said and done we find out the 'bump' was not real.  All I have to say is Chill Out folks.  It's the week between Christmas and the new year.  Is Dooley even in town right now?  Not only that, it's the end of the recruiting season when rumors are flying everywhere.  How bout we just tone it down a notch and enjoy the season.  There is no rush on this subject at all.  Go enjoy the bowl games.

Peace and good tidings to all.

I guess these are home games?  Against nobody teams?  Wow.  When the real games start it's going to get pretty ugly.  What are the chances we are coach shopping again next year.

Uh, do we need to review the 97 heistman vote in the same light.  Bunch of crybabies.

Lets see.  SEC undefeated in BCS championship games.  SEC in more championship games than anyone else.  To me it sounds like all these teams were deserving.  If they weren't, then why did they win?  Simple logic here folks.

I bought a nook color (refurbished) cheap.  Then I re-rooted it into a (almost) fully functioning android tablet.  When you add in the overclock feature, you can do almost anything with it except take pictures.  I recently saw them going for 120 clams.  After re-rooting you can add in the Barnes and Noble app, the Kindle app, and about any other thing you want.  You can even Netflix with it.  My wife was skeptical at first but now I can't get the thing away from her (she got hooked on angry birds  ).  I might also add that the color screen on a nook is excellent.

Dooley challenged the fumble.  He won the challenge.  We also recovered the ball.  Possession is also something that can be challenged.  The refs totally screwed up on this.  And to add insult to injury they charged us a TO even after we won the challenge.  If I were the coach on that play I would have marched out onto the field and stood over the ball until I was given a complete and sensible explanation.  One thing I would recommend to Dooley is that he get the rule book down and learn what the rules are in the off season.  He gives up on calls way to easy.

I don't think that was right.  You can challenge a fumble recovery.  In fact, it happens in almost every game.  Those announcers are really, really stupid. It was our ball and we got screwed.

Bray looked HORRIBLE!  Threw bad passes and looked like he had never played a game before.  Holding the ball until he was sacked.  He was throwing the ball into the dirt there at the end.  I was almost wishing they would have pulled him out and put Worley in.

That play on the 1st and goal at 6 yard line where we are lined up with Neal taking the snap was really bad.  How can he line up as the QB to get the ball and not be looking for it?  He just was not looking for the ball at all and couldn't even find it on the ground after he fumbled.

What the heck has happened to D. Young?  He's turned into a big chicken back there on punt returns.  Lets the ball roll past him or fair catches the ball when he has 10 yards of return in front of him.  Is he now afraid to get hit?

How the heck did we lose a time out on the review?  It's was a fumble and that was the whole purpose of the review.  Dooley won the call. 

We NEED a punter really bad.  Darr has a popgun leg.

Z. Rodgers will never make a catch in traffic.  If he gets hit he always drops the ball.

D. Rodgers dropped one of the biggest catches of the year.  If he holds on to that easy 3rd down catch on our next to last series then he probably gets 20 yards on the play.  Instead we have to punt.

How the heck do we ignore ky blitzing on every first down play and not do something to take advantage of it?  It was EVERY first down and not once do we hit a quick screen or draw or something.  ky was not even trying to disguise it either.  Come to think of it, I don't think we threw one screen pass all year with Bray as QB.  I know we did with Worley and we had some success.

I hate to say it but a lot of the guys playing today looked like they just wanted to get this year over with.

Down by 3 and Young lets a put go rolling past him pinning us way back.
We drive down the field and are in scoring position and Neal lets the ball get hiked past him while he's not looking.
ky fumbles and we come up with it only to be told it's not our ball.

What the SHIZZLE is going on here?

Much ado about nothing. 

I heard that rumor as well...Last year.  I know vandy is upset because of their kickers but I would probably trade them both of ours for both of theirs.  Their punter was backing us up all night and their kicker was knocking them into the endzone.  Palardy and Darr are busts so far.  30 - 35 yard punts won't even land you the starting job in high school.

1, 2 and 3.  And we had to play them all.  A friend at work asked me at the start of the season how the Vols would do this year.  I told him that we should be a better team but we may have a worse record than last year because of who we had to play.  Given the injuries we had, I have to say that I stand by my statement.  If we can finish strong this year, then next year we may be a pretty decent team.  Regardless, the schedule can't be any tougher so I am a little optimistic.

Looks like rematch is all but certain unless LSU drops one to Arky next week.

We had several long drives down the field in the second half.  We only scored on one but the offense was showing some real signs of life out there tonight.  We should be able to do much better next week since Bray got the rust knocked off tonight and Vandy waxed uk last week.

We finally are not playing a top 5 team and we looked a little better than we have in the past.  I don't think there is a another team in the country that has played as many top 20 teams this year.  Add to that that our QB is playing with a broken hand for the first time in 6 weeks and all the adversity around the team and I think they did pretty well.  They sucked it up and played with heart.  I'm proud of them.