You didn't read the fine print.

All SEC games will be televised (except the school gets to keep the rights to one game a year for PPV where they keep all the money).

So she shouldn't miss any other games.  PPV is overpriced anyway, IMO.

One million billion to nothing.  Vols (fizzleing spell checker!) of course.

Seems like a big step down. Maybe its the relative proximity to Columbus and the short time.  Or maybe he just suxes (fizzleing spell checker).  

lol.  I think its funny.  We should drill Montana.  I am more worried about Cincy, but I am pretty sure we roll into Gainesville 2-0.

Owwwwwwwwww!

Prayers sent.

Rumors already started that he is to coach the team again in 2014 - 2015 season.


Well, really I just made that up.  Bet I won't be the first though.

No, he's taking over from Pat for the LADY Vols.   Get it right.

You may scoff, but their recruiting has really taken off.  I see no reason they can't repeat as East champs, with the division down the way it is.  It may still be a reach to suppose they could beat bammer  or LSU (the two West faves), but losing Jefferson is going to hurt LSU IMO and I am still not sold on bammer.  They have a great D, but I will believe they have an offense of any sort when I see it.

It's a reach, but not so far as you might suppose.  It could happen IMO.

Well now that he's charged with a felony they have to suspend him, right? If they don't, I lose any respect I had for Miles. And when I say that, in spite of his eccentricities, he has won consistently and has not struck me as an "outlaw" like Jimmy Johnson or Barry Switzer, who pretty much knowingly got away with whatever they could IMO.

I would say that I will lose respect for LSU also, but I pretty much already assume everything down there is crooked and corrupt, so....

I got it.  Pat wants to stick around 3 years, so Pearl can come back and replace her.  Was the show cause just for men's bball, or also wimmen's    But in three years it won't matter.  Maybe this is why Pat wants to stick around three years. 

PS I am joking, but seriously...!   

I would like to see VPI, but someone earlier suggested they are fat, dumb and happy in the SEC and may not wish to leave.  They have recently had almost a bye into the championship game and they get plenty of bball revenue as well.I am not sure they want to come into the SEC and get beat up, but I would welcome them if they do.

Personally, I hope Jefferson is back in the lineup by the time they play us.  That guy sucks.

He actually played really well the second half of the season.  I am glad he's gone.  His replacement is also worse than him IMO.

They actually didn't notify them that they are leaving for sure, just that they are "exploring options".  It's definitely not official yet. 

Pearl hammered and Kiffin skates.

This makes me sad.

Yes for sure it's unjust.  The only comment I could make is that Kiffin really was only found guilty of secondary violations, which we should be grateful for, since unfortunately they occurred at our school.

So as big as a scumbag as he is, I can see why he did not get in worse trouble.

That in no way justifies what the NCAA did to Pearl, at least, not on the surface of it.

Clay Travis has said all the negative news lately is "the Fulmer curse" but I say it is the Hamilton curse it seems everything Hamilton touched turned to shizzle.

Negative news?  WTF is he talking about?  The news from the NCAA is POSITIVE!  I was scared to death we were going to get the absolute shizzle hammered out of us.  I almost think OSU and Miami did us a favor. 

We are out from under the NCAA cloud, recruiting is going great, and prospects of improving over last season look pretty good also.  Football-wise, I don't know what else we could ask for.

I am not phased by Janzen Jackson.  I thought he should have been gone long ago and didn't necessarily expect him to make it through the season.  We have a talented secondary even without him IMO.

As for Pat, I don't count that as "bad news" in a SPORTS sense.  That's bad news in her personal health, which is far more important than anything that could happen to our sports program.  I feel for her and her family, but I don't take it as bad news for the University or athletic department.  IMO the impact on her and her family is far more of import than anything that happens to the program that might affect me as a fan.  And I am definitely not implying that you or anyone else views that differently, just saying I don't lump that in with things like Janzen getting kicked off the team or wins and losses, etc.

Anyway, getting back to my original point...I don't really see a whole lot of bad news, here, today on August 25.  Over the last 2-3 years, yes, tons of bad stuff, but it started when Fulmer was still here.  But Clay is out of his mind if he thinks anything this summer compares to fall of 2008, Jan 2010 or April of this year. 

My family moved to Knoxville in late May of 1982, during the last big recession and in time to get caught in the traffic from the 1982 World's Fair.   My first memory of a game is when we played LSU that year in early September.  I had not been in town long, was still too young to drive, and had nothing else to do so I listened to the game on my sister's (who was at work) stereo in the dark with headsets while my parents watched some program on TV I didn't care for (It was a night game).  Fuad Reviez hit an incredibly long FG on the last play of the game to tie it (I think it was a 60-yarder).  I really was not a UT fan though, but I did follow them since they were the local team and most of my new friends at school liked them.  I also recall the bammer game that year.  UT broke an 11-game win streak by bammer.  What I recall most was that one of the most popular kids in school, whose parents were from Birmingham, and so was a huge bammer fan, told me I was crazy for saying the Vols could win.  I had some fun with that on the Monday after the game and the kids in that particular class took a liking to me after that (it was Driver's Ed, I think), except of course for the loud mouthed bammer fan.  Fun times.  I had actually been a huge Notre Dame fan since age 11 (moved to Tennessee at 15) but Notre Dame and bammer had a big rivalry in those days and had just finished a home and home series and I didn't care for them at all, so that bonded me with the UT fans.  After that first year, I was only a very casual fan of the Vols, and only because I lived in Knoxville.  In fact, I don't have strong memories of too many other games from the rest of high school.  Then college rolled around and I decided to go to UT, and so then I was a fan for real.  But even in college, I mainly went to games for social reasons.  I was not a "die hard" fan.  Then my senior year we unexpectedly went 11-1 and I happened to have become good friends with a huge fan, and we went to Birminingham for the UT game.  It was a lot of fun in spite of the drubbing.  That all made me a bigger fan.

But I didn't really become a huge fan until I graduated and moved to bammer.  One of my worst game memories is watching the blocked kick roll down the field from my 40-yard line seat in 1990 and knowing I had to go back to bammer and face the crazy fans.  I had been confident we would win.  After all, we were no. 3 in the country and undefeated, and bammer was only 3-3 coming in to the game.  I think I turned against Johnny Majors right there and then, lol.  That season I started to become a huge fan.  It wasn't just the frustration of the bammer game, I remember watching the Vols in the season opening Kickoff Classic and thinking how cool it was to go to a university that had a big time football program I could identify with after graduating.  Suddenly I understood why alumni get so crazy and pay kids.  Football is like a link back to college and source of pride in your school.  From there it just grew.   I attended every bammer game between 1987 and 1998, road and home, and I can't even begin to describe my frustration with that game from 1991 to 1994 (24-19L, 17-10L, 24-24T, 21-14L).  We played them so close EVERY YEAR...and JUST.COULD.NOT.WIN!!!! I remember sitting in the stands in 1994 and wondering seriously if we would ever beat them.  Needless to say, 1995 bammer is one of my favorite games, and I was there to enjoy every minute of it.   

It wasn't just about the bammer series though, it was the fact I think that as soon as I graduated UT started to become a really bigtime program.  Our 1990 team could easily have won it all, and probably should have, and that was the first season after I graduated.  I went to the Sugar Bowl that year, to this day the only bowl game I have attended.  I have fond (if somewhat drunken) memories of it.   Another thing that helped was that in 1991 I started working with a friend who was from Maryville and a co-op student at my place of employment, so he was still in school.  in 1991 and 1992 we would drive up for home games, crash at his brother's condo in Fort Sanders, then party there before heading over to various frat house, condos, apartments, you name it, we made the rounds.  That was something I never had time for in college because I had to study so much, and you can believe I made up for lost time.  To this day, those are some of my fondest memories of UT football.  Not only did I have time to properly party prior to the game, but I had the means to afford to do some things I never did in college.  We typically would end up at his friend's condo a few blocks from the stadium and then a whole mass of screaming students and young alums like me of perhaps 30-40 people decked in orange, with AT LEAST ONE UT flag being waved, would attack the stadium screaming "Go Big Orange" "fizzle bama", "Go Vols" or whatever else we could think of at the top of our lungs.  To this day, I have never felt so much a part of the experience as I did in those days.  Good times!

From there I was a big fan throughout the 90s.  It helped that during that entire period our team was building up to the MNC in 1998.  Every year seemed to leave me a bit hungrier.  It's almost hard to relate to now, because we got so spoiled later.  I still remember being thrilled with the attention UT got in 1996.  We had just expanded our stadium to the largest in the country (even beating Michigan for awhile), Wuerffel and Manning were the top Heisman candidates and UT and UF were both in the top 5 in the country.  I can recall being excited about that game all summer.  The funny thing is, I went with a friend from work who was not even a Vol fan, he just wanted something to do that weekend, and we made the mistake of buying student tickets when that was the first year they really cracked down on being able to get in with them.   We ended up watching it in a sports bar, and I almost got into a fight with some gators.  But the main reason I bring that game up is that 3-4 years later games like that seemed almost routine.  It seems like from that point to early 2002, just about every game UT had was big in some ways.  That was the peak. 

Anyway, I have had many good times since then, such as the 2005 LSU game I attended with Pirate, and hope to have many more.  I will always be a big UT fan, and hope we get to the top again, but I will root just as hard no matter what.

Part of me also thinks that as a country we are way too serious about sports, and that it would be all funner if people took it less seriously.  It's supposed to be entertainment, but some people act like their lives depend on it, particularly down here in ole bammy.

Well for one thing, just look at him.  Does this look like a guy worthy of anything more than distrust and scorn?  Put a bowtie on him, and he'd fit right in at Vandy.  Hell, I bet his wife even smokes weed.

lol.  A little harsh to pick on someone for their appearance, donchathink?

In the case of Bruce, I am pretty sure there was worse stuff that probably just could not be proven.  We are IMO very fortunate to get off this lightly.

Rucker?  Who is this Rucker you speak of? 

At this point I am just going to say good riddance.   I was not sure he should have been spared after the Pilot store fiasco anyway.  It seemed to me that his level of talent played a role in that decision, since he had a prior history going into it.

Congrats!  That's a big ole boy.  Hope his momma is doing well.   

I didn't realize the gators lost so much off their OL.  Interesting combo with a whole new offense coming in.  We have some recent experience with that.   

And as good an OC as Weiss supposedly is, his first year at Notre Dame was not impressive offense-wise.   Later on they clicked and the real problem was defense, but I suspect they will struggle a bit this year.

Agree, but it's possible that what we heard in public about Bruce was only the tip of the iceberg.  Let's hope no further revelations emerge in the next couple of weeks.  Not a good time for that.

Apparently he was making money...or something.   

BOOM!

I stopped short of the Asteroid, but I thought about it.   

http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16

Hope you're right about Arkie.  One of the bigger "what if" games on our schedule IMO.