Got offers from just about all of the top programs in the country is a pretty good indication the kid is pretty good, IMO.

Also....if we keep him it will be a big shock IMO.

I've said for years that to make a course harder you don't have to make them longer.....make hitting fairways a premium. If you miss the fairway then be in 4-5 inches of rough.....make being in a bunker a punishment, the way bunkers are here players would rather be in a greenside bunker than greenside rough. Make the greens hard and fast...as in brick hard where the best players in the world can't throw darts at pins. Make it where the best up and down players make the cut and the one that aren't go home on Friday afternoon.

Courses here for some reason over the years decided having a plush, green, soft course was the thing. The course I belong to has done the same thing....can't play a round without them fertilizing the greens, fairways and pouring water to the whole course.

Best talent we've had in years....experienced talent too. We'll lose some top talent after this season most likely. New coach at UGA, USC, Mizzou......2nd year coach at FL with a first year QB most likely.

If Butch can't win big this season and also win the East....not sure he ever will. This very well could be a make or break season for Butch. JMO

Great get....Now we need more in-state kids to commit to us in the coming weeks. Long way to go but even with this commit we are still ranked in the high 20's right now.

Congrats!!!

They probably know that now most schools will just send a pep band or no band....They will have 250 more tickets to sell now.

Our punter has 2 more years IIRC and he's a good one. Don't blame Townsend wanting go somewhere that he can play.

Court date was set for May of 2018......Yes, 2018.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local/gag-order-issued-in-university-of-tennessee-sex-assault-lawsuit-381755171.html?d=mobile

Got my 50 year reunion coming up before too long. Funny, I can remember my high school years much better than my college years. I guess that's the  effect.

I was going to play golf today but we got 3 inches of rain last night here. Have to wait until tomorrow even though the amateur's come out on the weekends and slow things up.

http://athlonsports.com/college-football/10-ways-first-issue-athlon-proves-sec-never-changes

To celebrate National Wine Day.....I just finished 3 beers. 

Clockwork let me explain. My wife's view toward life was almost as dark and jaded as mine still is. When I would make that statement, she would look exasperated, look down, and loudly proclaim she was never bitter until she met me. I would reply Well I had hair when we meet.    We lived together 41 years of which we were married 37 years. She died in September last year. My wife had the best sense of humor and about the driest wit of anyone I ever met. But sometimes, the looks on the waitstaff when I order beer is priceless. 

Good story....Sounds like you were blessed for many years to be with her. Hope things get just a tad better for you each day.

I have no idea if it's true...but I saw it posted on another site that some folks already had hotel reservations and the hotels wouldn't let them change or let them out?

If true....I'd be pi$$ed.

Craft beer and fruity beer are not at all the same thing, and what you're drinking tastes more like water than beer-- IMO, of course. I'm beyond criticizing people for what they drink these days, so if that's what you like, good for you. We'll agree to disagree.

I don't drink fruity beers either but I drink beer that has flavor. Malt, hops-- those are what beer should taste like and you don't get either from the mass-produced American swill. This is what's in my fridge right now: http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/7463/
 
With that said, like BDV I get tired of beer sometimes. I'm in one of those periods now, and for the last year+ I've barely had any. I'll drink wine sometimes, but more than anything I drink whisky these days.

I said I grew up on those beers...I didn't say I still drink them. 99.9999% of the beer in my frig at all times are imports. Most are German.....some from Japan and some from Italy. Very seldom do I have a domestic beer.

Also I enjoy some good high alcohol beer too.

If I lose my taste for beer please have me committed. Started drinking beer in the mid-60's....Falstaff....PBR...Old Milwaukee....Schlitz. I can't drink this fufu beer crap that's out there now. Beer shouldn't tasted like damn fruit....craft beer and IPA's should be banned and dumped in the ocean, IMO.

I've got a frig full of beer right now.....I assure you it's beer and not kool-aide tasting beer.

I stopped drinking liquor about 7 years ago because I drank it like water.....I'd go through 3-4 750Mil of Vodka every week and would barely get a buzz...had to put it down and don't miss it. Wine, cant help you....never cared for it.

Bama will hire this guy.

I traveled, vacationed, got away more when I worked than I do since I retired. Pressure and stress of a job made me get away....now I just don't have too. Wife and me like to take short trips or weekend get a ways. We spend more time with the grandkids...me playing golf 3-4 times a week and we fish a lot.

To each his own......I haven't watched a total of 2 hours of NBA in the past 30 plus years.

Wasn't his injury lower leg? If it was his knee I must have missed it.

Best of luck to him.

https://tennessee.n.rivals.com/news/stewart-walking-away-from-football

Depends if our passing game and WRs are much improved. The good defenses....Bama, A&M, UGA, FL, Virginia Tech will load the box if it isn't.

Been hearing Butch say for 3 years our vertical passing game has to improve and it hasn't....Not holding my breath that it does.

What I found funny was when team after team were passing on Tunsil and Saint Freeze gets on national TV and tells the nation all is well and there is a bigger plan for Tunsil. Little did Saint Freeze know that less than 2 hours later the plan was for Tunsil to throw him and Ole Miss under the bus.

Finebaum interviewed the SEC commish on his show Friday.....Finebaum was asking him about all the draft buzz from Tunsil that occurred Thursday night and Finebaum asked him if he was watching the draft when all this occurred. The commish reply.....No, I was in Tuscaloosa watching Alabama play in their beautiful baseball stadium.

Right then and there I thought......Yep, more of the same.

Alex Ellis went to the Titans