I am guessing that if he has already transferred once that he needs to be a grad transfer to play immediately, otherwise he will have to sit out a year. I would take him as he fits this offense very well with his rushing and receiving abilities out of the backfield.

How good he is or isn't, and how experienced he is, those aren't the points. The point is that Buzz was venting about the Selection Committee. Why did Lunardi get so offended that he had to respond? Why the #NotMyFirstBracket hashtag, as if he was the reason TAMU did or didn't get into the tournament?

Those are rhetorical questions, of course. The answer is that Lunardi is so sensitive to it because he's the committee's water-carrier and gets fed inside info to share with the public in exchange for trying to shape public opinion of the process. Not unlike John Currie using Dan Wolken for much the same reasons on Schiano Sunday (and Wolken similarly getting offended at Tennessee fans who criticized the potential hire of Schiano.)

Lunardi did not like Buzz's comments. He responded with a bunch of crap and a hashtag of #NotMyFirstBracket. He must be 12 years old.

Hopefully Barnes take that #3 seed, dips it in a little concrete to form a chip, and then places it on the teams shoulder.

Read some where the Bills could have held a WR on every play for a 5yd penalty because the time is not put back on the clock.

All I know is someone needs to start beating both these teams. Have you heard any rumors or facts that when OU and Texas join, Bama and Auburn are moving to the SECe?

Hopefully that is the case versus the pod stuff that have been kicked around.

with the basketball loss on Wednesday followed by yesterdays debacle. Today I continue with my goal to keep Georgia from winning the NC. To do that and since it is the first game, I need to pull for Alabama to beat Cincinnati as I think they have the best shot of knocking off GA. Of course, the Wolverine is my favorite mammal today.

After the first running play that did not get a 1st down he should have called TO saving around 7-8 seconds. The long downfield passes were frustrating. However, there were probably 6-8 times during the game where our WR's were 2 yards or more behind the Purdue DB's. You can't ask for more than that and we needed our QB to hit them like he is suppose to.

Granted we played with 71 scholarship players and a previous walk-on at RT for nearly half the season, and with this we set the single season Tennessee scoring record with a HC that has been here only for 11 months.

Next year hopefully we can improve on both lines of scrimmage where we can run the ball when we need to and pressure the QB without having to send LB's and DB's.

another pic I found

Love that picture with the UT on the hillside. Look at the parking in the lower right. Hopefully you are not in a hurry trying to leave with all those cars jammed together.

A post from another site summed it up well for me:

"Media: Tennessee doesn't suck like they are supposed to, so let's write a hit piece on the 2017 coaching search."

starting DT Octavious Oxendine for the year with a torn meniscus. Tough loss when getting ready to play a run-oriented Georgia offense this Saturday.

They have an open date this weekend and then a trip to Blacksburg. If they take out Va Tech in 2 weeks they are probably the odds on favorite to represent the ACC Coastal.

We need to build any depth and experience from the younger players that we can. I hope I have to refer to the numerical roster 20+ times on Saturday.

In his career, he has passed for over 8,000 yards. That would put him 4th on our career passing yards list.

This kid is dangerous, that is why I think the key to the game is which team can pressure the QB.

Of all the running backs, the coaching change hurt him more than anyone. He is simply a different style back than what HC Heupel uses in his offense.

The vast majority of my guarded optimism about the upcoming season is simply improved QB play versus last year. It is hard for me to imagine the play of any of our 3 QB's could be any worse than what I saw last year.

GBO

College football has been my favorite sport since going to Neyland for the first time and watching the Vols vs. UCSB in 1971.  At that time, the SEC was a 10 team Conference where winning the Conference and getting to the Sugar Bowl was huge. The National Champion was crowned via an evolving system that generally worked and always generated interesting discussions.

The regular season in college football, which is probably the greatest seasons in sports has been hanging on by a thread. What the plan looks to be now is 20 team conferences where two teams could conceivably play each other 3 times in a season. Rosters shift every year via the portal, throw in NIL and we are looking like the NFL on Saturdays.

I get it that times change, nothing stays the same, and money talks, but I fear there is a point not too far off where people start to lose interest? We can at least possible be a pod champion.

Must be the white shoes ... like Reno Hightower

I have always heard that a school has veto power if they choose of any additions to the conference of a school in their state. Like SC-Clemson, KY-Louisville, GA-GT, etc. Will be interesting to see if that is indeed true and available to A&M if that is the case.

His chance to continue playing in the SEC is slim at the very best. His "leadership" is looking for non-SEC options after causing him to miss out on winter conditioning and spring practice with any school. 

If he does, he needs to find a different weight zone - he was too light last year, lost his impact ability at the point of tackle.
I wish I could do cuts to show the (night and day) difference in him filling the hole as a FR and last year
Pruitt seemed all about speed behind the lines
I suspect the new weight scheme would be more in tune with his needs but who knows.  

His stuff of Rodriguez on 3rd down was a thing of beauty.

PS - That stand was probably the high water mark for me with Pruitt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW29CRHL600

Given what the LB position looks like I hope he makes amends and returns to the team, if the team agrees. What he may see that if he wants to play in the SEC the easiest path to do that is to stay in Knoxville. Going to another SEC school means waiting for the NCAA and the SEC to approve the transfer which could take months. What his dad may be doing is reaching out to non-SEC schools for other options.