This guy is the ultimate player and rep for our school thank you Josh for Representing UT and Knoxville and giving of yourself to this little boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitaa8MGbt0&feature=player_embedded

And good riddance

Vol football. I cut and pasted this from a rivals board. Sucks it has gotten this bad.

LOL @ Gruden being the HC. He doesn't GAS about recruiting and would be just another in a long line of coaches cashing utjr checks long after he is gone. Nobody wants this job, it's a career killer. I pity all cfb fans having to endure more utjr fan predictions of championships to come with the next hire. For now, we can just enjoy the festering cyst eruption of what is utjr football.

Did not know Gruden was going to TEXAS!!!!   

I think we tried in 2012 but Jones was the best we could do, apparently.  Hope it goes better this time. 

In the end I am DAMN glad that DHART swung and missed on C Strong.  Think where we would be now.  People think Jones is a terrible coach but Strong proved at UT (not UTJR AKA TEXAS) that no matter how good a coach is at one location he can be HORRID at the next. 

What is this fascination with old retread coaches whose time never was or has passed? Cut is the answer to a trivia question in the Vol past that is not the answer to UT's problems. Fulmer? Why do we want to hire back a fired coach that soaked UT for $millions? Kelley? If he did not win a MNC at Oregon with all the money and cheating supporting him, why does any rational fan believe he will succeed here?

Big bucks to a big name coach is no guarantee of success.

Here is where the rubber meets the road!  We had a successful coach that loved UT and the fans were howling even though we were on average a 9 win team!  So the powers in place decided because of know it all fans that oh hell yeah time to get a new coach we are right you are all wrong!  Some were stating "be careful what you wish for" and now we are reaping what we sowed because of the way that Fulmer was fired and the arrogance of a bunch of know it alls!  Yes Fulmer had gotten lax, but you can change and make a fresh start after problems!  Now we are mired in a program that can't even put 5 o linemen together that can block worth a damn!

Jared has definitely not missed any meals he looks even more "bulkier" 

Okay, so saw it again on highlights this morning.  Clearly his hair.  Watch it yourself.   

I can only assume that college follows the NFL on "dread policy".   Go ahead and wear em, but if your hair gets pulled, it's on you.

Alabama's trans-gendered QB often puts hers (his?  xis???...someone help me out here) up in a bun.  That also helps with split ends I think.  That way a girl (?) doesn't have to spend 4 hours a day getting into the conditioner.   

I watched in on my DVR this morning and he clearly had ahold of the side of the face mask and NOT the hair.  He reached out and grabbed the face mask where it connects with the helmet in that kind of half circle thing that is screwed to the helmet.  In fact Callaway was clearly grabbing his face mask when he bounced up as well.  He would have known if he got tackled because of his hair!!!!

With the exception of Florida's offense, the top of the SEC East looked good today. And Florida may not need much offense if their D keeps playing like that.

The bottom of the East wasn't necessarily shabby, although Kentucky's win over SoMiss wasn't exactly awe-inspiring, and Mizzou's D was suspect.

Suspect = Nonexistent?  Mizzou's defense was MIA!  40 plus points by a FCS Team is crappy defense

UGA is Easonless at least till October according to lots of informed people and UFs offense was also MIA and UF fans know it! 

QB still crap, no offensive flow and D scored their points.  UF is pedestrian and the QB won't be a difference maker!

Missouri State.   21
Missouri.            20

2nd. Quarter. Missouri State already has over 250 yards of offense! 

Just goes to show you the media is by and large CLUELESS!

I didn't write the atricle. As for Jones, what knowledge do I lack? You think he's a good coach, I don't. Just opinion. When is he gonna win the SECE?

If you are going to down Knoxville you should actually do some research rather than relying on Internet Bravo Sierra to make your point.  I recently read materials compiled by the Department of Housing that ranks the top 10 cities above 25,000 population for Real Estate growth and investment opportunity as well as the trend in salaries and housing cost rise.  Knoxville rated in the top 10 (Number 7) of all cities in that population with a growth rate of 4.4% in median price and a growth of 1.1% in income and a total unemployment in the low 4 percent range.  Nashville was rated Number one with 4.7% growth so if we are hurting....bring on the hurt.....

What are they doing to fix these issues? I can guess one answer...raise taxes..lol. Over course it shouldn't be too surprising, it is happening all over the U.S. Just seems more so in the South.
ftp://http://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/06/16/50-worst-cities-to-live-in/

While your uninformed opinion and lack of knowledge is evident in your statements about Butch, your absolute lack of knowledge about Knoxville and East Tennessee proves just how much of a joke you are! 

It's unbelievable when you think about it. I was one year out of high school the last time Tennessee won an SEC championship. A college sophomore. And this year is our 20th high school reunion. 

So what

UT did not win an SEC championship many times before 85 in the 70s so it had been a long dry spell back then as well....the arguments everyone uses about us being SEC Champs all the time is so much perception and not as much reality.

Emeril lives!

Yes, I know him and have proudly helped him pack those tailgating items up in Knoxville. He is is one of the all-time great tailgaters and food connoisseurs ever to grace the great tailgating scene on the Quad at the University of Alabama.

When it comes to college football history knowledge he knows in his Orange heart who rolls. Seriously, even my wife and family admire his hospitality and cooking expertise so much!

BG

Thank you kind sir! I have been very busy the last couple of years working for a large software concern that has led me to not spend as much time tailgating as I did.   I truly appreciated breaking bread on the quad at Bama and sharing a pint or two of some cherry jubilees from the mountains of east tn!       

I have been working on some new recipes for my next forays into serious tailgating with my crowning achievement being a Cuban/BBQ combination that will be the next EmerilVOL tailgating triumph!

You are about as knowledgeable about football as my wife's cat

Your wife's cat would be better.  Hell at least he knows how to play with a ball....all volsboy knows how to play with is himself and his inflated ego!

Bite me. I see the same shizzle you see on the field. What has he accomplished that has impressed you?  He hasn't even won the SECE yet. I'm sorry, I don't see the same things you see to instill confidence. You don't get a more favorable schedule than the Vols had this past season, to at least win the SEC East. If he was to get fired, would the replacement be any better. The SEC has fired a lot of coaches good just because they can't beat Saban. Most of the new hires have been downgrades. So no, firing someone is not always the best move. But I see Jones never doing better than 9 wins. He just doesn't show the coach'em up ability that is needed in this league. If you are okay with that, so be it. Hopefully his new assistants can step up and improve things. We laugh at Kiffin, but I bet he would have improved Dobbs game more than anyone did at UT. Remember how much Crompton improved under his watch.

Did you pass reading comprehension?  I stated yes they underachieved, but if you actually knew something you would just STFU.  When Butch arrived he had 10 players that were SEC caliber athletes....10 out of over 100 athletes were SEC athletes.  So basically he was coaching pretty damn good to win 5 games the first year.  Next after he gets some talent on the hill over 70% of the starting defense misses multiple games.  That lack of depth is because he was behind the eight ball!  Using the god given brain youu have keeping your ears apart would indicate that UT is still struggling to get quality depth built up.  The first string has been quality, but the backups just were not there.  Yeah I was disappointed and if you fire Jones after just four years from when we basically were a dumpster fire from being an o child program, we are making it back and that is not going to happen overnight. 

We all know you HATE Butch and want him gone no matter what.  I tell you what if you are such a fizzleing know it all coach and program guru get your ass down to TN and donate your expertise to the program and put your fizzleing money where your mouth is!

But let's keep B. Jones around.

Yeah same ole VOLSBOY shizzle every time some coach is called out fire Jones!   Well frankly dumbass you have the moronic temperament of a fruit fly with your single minded get rid of Jones posts.  Yes UT underachieved last year, but fire a coach that has finally gotten UT back from the depths we had sunk to with the hiring of Fiffin and Fooley?  If you were the AD we would be hiring a new FB coach every freaking four years and that is the quick way to winning three games a year and my season tickets being worth shizzle!  When you give a few thousand to the University every year to secure tickets come talk to me otherwise STFU cause you are clueless!

I just got a receiver/antenna for my car.  I've never had the service before, and I'm not even sure that I want it now (I got a crazy low sale price for the hardware, which kind of made it a no-brainer purchase just in case I ever DO want the service).  Anyway, I hear stories all the time of people calling them up and getting a subscription for much lower than the advertised price.  What is your experience with this?  Can new customers get deals like that, or is it just for renewals?  How would I go about it?

I have it in both vehicles now and when they wanted me to pay them $800 to renew for three years I said "hasta la vista, baby" and then they said ok for 120 per year all access....took it and will do the same thing next year to!

Sung to the tune "We're Not Going to Take It" by Twsited Sister

We're not gonna take it.....
We're tired of Saban's sh@t
We're gonna whip your f@cken a$$

We've got the right to kick it
We've got the fight to burn it
We've got the team to kick it.....

(spoken) Bama's A$$ we want to kick it

We're not gonna take it
We're tired of Saban's sh@t
We're gonna whip your f@cken a$$

 

 

Tell him to get that thing higher

Sorry Emeril. They were supposed to beat UF. They just made it more exciting than it needed to be. I bet you weren't feeling like this at halftime. They did a great job in the second half. Some of the best football UT has played in years. I'm cautiously optimistic. From what I've seen they SHOULD win the east. Should is the key word. Just no explanation as to why they came out so flat again. If they do put together a whole game, look out. But we said that last year too, just opposite situations. Couldn't finish last year. But if they continue to finish, all is well.

Actually I thought we had played better than the score indicated and we had done some positive things we had not done previously in big games.  Yeah we dropped some passes and blew some opportunities but we did not forget the maxims...and it seems like so many (including Herb) keep forgetting the maxims....when at first the breaks go against you PUT ON MORE STEAM.....and this team has done that this year.  So while some were freaking out I was confident in what this team had done the lest five minutes of the second quarter and I knew we got the ball to start the second half.....and I was not one of the ones booing the team when they left to go to the locker room.....

I was really confident that this team had played "tight" the first quarter and a half and this could not last......so I was convinced we could win the game throughout.....yeah call me stupid or orange glasses or whatever...but when we win I am gonna call you out for being a blowhard about Butch when he has been making strides to bringing this program back from the depths it had sunk to with the hire of Fooley Dooley and ole Lame Kiffin that all the millennial a thought was the second coming of Gawd!

Here is your plate of crow to feast on!  You have 'diatribed' over and over about the lack of Butch's big game wins and how he is such a pathetic coach.....well yesterday that 4 ton monkey is off his back and it is your time to eat a heaping helping of black feathered cawer.....and if you doubt that I suggest you review the statistics for the game.  At the start of the second half UF had 310 yards of offense and at the end of the third quarter that had 303...and that means they had -7 yards total offense for the quarter and 0 first downs.  Yep ole Butch just torched your toilet paper all to hell!  Now it is time to have a mea culpea and admit how f'en wrong you are!  You are not a bad coach if you can get your team to come out and hang that kind of defense on a team while scoring 38 straight points and hanging a big ole L on Swamp Donkey and Jalen Turdbor.....so what you got to say now?

game at Bristol, what do think of it as a football venue? Great, good, okay, bad or terrible. How long did it take you to get out of town after the game? I know that during race days that place is like the Hotel California, you can check in but you csn never leave..lol. I remember it taking a couple of hours to get home and our house was just a couple of miles up the Volunteer Parkway in Blue Ridge.

I enjoyed it with my buds but the security BS like we were going to take a flight was of stupid proportions and when they saw it would take another hour to get everyone in the security people had a change of "heart" and killed the BS.  The pre game and the pageantry was tremendous and 150k was a tremendous sight, but the game was hard to follow if you were binocularless due to the distance from the field for most of the people. The game was fun but would I do it once every three years.....HELL NO.  The trip back was good and I was home in bed by 3:30 AM

We left TYS at 9 AM and were in Bristol at 10:45

internet posters
or are you a droid?

Come on he is a ROBOT we all know that.....

So...bringing this back to the top. We seem to have anywhere from 6 - 8 that could make it that Friday, September 2nd from 4pm - ?? at the Casual Pint Hardin Valley here in Knoxville.. I checked with Casual Pint and it is $35/hour to reserve the big room. Plus, any other costs if we bring in any food to have for dinner. Everyone still interested? If so, I'd be more than happy to call Casual Pint and book that room ahead of time.

Everyone still interested?

Sorry all the Thursday game has meant that I will be taking my SO to our anniversary dinner on Friday evening so we will be celebrating our 21st on Friday night.