Have a question for all of you.....

For the past 8 - 9 years, about 10 of us (and more some games) have tailgated in the grassy area beside the Lake Ave Garage - beside old fraternity row.  This has always been perfect because we have all had parking passes at the garage.  When we first started 8 - 9 years ago, we were the one ones there.  Now, it has become an awesome tailgating experience and is packed!  There was even a wedding there last year...thought that was kind of weird!

With that said, apparently UT is turning the garage over to all students for a new dorm that is opening in the fall, so there goes our parking garage for games.  We have been given the following choices: Ag campus (don't like the idea of riding a bus to the game), Lot 23 (beside Hess but in the middle of the campus--not sure about the tailgating atmosphere), Lot behind Clement Hall (same question about tailgating atmosphere), and 11 st garage.  Here is my question...the 11st garage is beside the grassy area of World's Fair park.  Would they allow you to tailgate on the grassy area?  We are also thinking about parking at Wendy's and still tailgating at our normal spot.  Any ideas on good areas to tailgate at or thoughts?

Asking if we should be having discussions about someone's future sounds like firing to me, but maybe not.  Again, my question is outside of Geno, who would you want? 

So are we saying that if Butch gets us to the sec championship game two straight years and can't get us in the playoffs that he should be fired??? That is basically what you guys are saying here. Holly won the sec regular season championship last yr and advanced to the elite 8 and this year won the sec tournament championship and got a #1 seed in the tournament and you guys want her fired?

Look I don"t know if she is the right fit or not but these discussions are stupid right now. Replacing someone like pat was going to be tuff to begin with and she is still trying to do that and it isn't like she has let us slip considerable. Remember what we said about pearl living in Knoxville and that being difficult for Martin? Same can be sad for pat and holly especially since pat still comes to practices and games. Also name someone outside of geno that you would hire??

Does holly need to change some things, yes but geez calling for her firing is premature at best. Also the lady vols still have a schedule of who's who just not uconn. They still play ND every year. Stanford every year and other top programs.

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I disagree completely.  The #3 team got beat today in one of those quarterfinal games and #25 is struggling with a bad Houston team.  Also, crowds are not good because they divide the tickets between all schools so say I have a ticket for the second afternoon game today and don't want to go to the first game, then yes the crowds look awful.  That is exactly what is happening here in Memphis with the AAC game. 

All this comes as Barton finds his stroke again. Also in at least two of those games, McRae has had "off" night shooting.  Imagine what the season could have been if Barton  had played like this all year long! The FR PG is good but lacked an offensive skill set so we were playing 5 on 4. However with Barton playing like this we have 5 scores that can beat teams different ways. You double down on the big men and Barton and McRae can make you pay. You play straight up and our bigs can hurt you.

Aren't you a ray of sunshine.  Geez...give me a freaking break. 

I think Dobbs gets a bad break...the kid was a freshman that got thrown into the mix during the last part of the season.  Let's see what he can do with a full year under his belt.  Also, like everyone else...apparently Ferguson is supposed to be the #1 anyway.

We have a favorable schedule the rest of the way so maybe just maybe.....

Agree with the cooling off period but he even went off on Crabtree again the in post game interview after he "cooled off".  The guy is an idiot and I hope Peyton lights him up.

I saw that on facebook and laughed so hard!

I see Kiffin as a good hire FOR BAMA. He is great recruiter, he has a good offensive mind to be an effective OC. He is obviously very good at handling young QB's. I think this is the main reason they hired him. They will be breaking in new QB's and he fits the bill perfectly. Plus from what I saw at UT, the kids really liked to play for him. I for one liked the swagger he brought to UT. But that's about it. The slime factor also figures in.

I am fairly sure that Simms their 2nd string QB is either a senior or at least a junior.  This isn't the first time that Bama has had to replace a senior QB.  They had to do it when McElroy graduated and AJ took over...which turned out well, so they obivously know how to do it. I don't see this hire being to help with the QB transition.

I don't get the hire for a couple of reasons:

1.) Lane likes to pop off to the media any chance he gets and now he is working for a control freak.  I just don't see how that works.
2.) Lane has proved time and time again, he thumbs his nose at the NCAA rule book.....and now is working for a school that has shown countless times they don't know how to follow rules either.  SOunds like a marriage made in heaven to me.
3.) Lane has said he wants to run a high powered offense...that isn't what Saban runs. Saban likes to run between the tackles and play defense.

I have a really good friend that is a Bama fan and he doesn't understand this hire either.  Wasn't he co-OC at USC with Steve?  I don't know how good his recruiting is....I never thought he was a good spot of talent.  He told Boyd to look else where.  He told Bruce Petty to look else where.  Several others that turned out to be studs for other schools and Lane said they weren't good for UT.  The ones he did bring to knoxville turned out to be head cases.  And like another poster said, Bama doesn't need help on the recruiting end...they get all the 5 stars they want.  To me, this is a head scratcher....why bring in someone that has alot of baggage and alot of problems EVERYWHERE he has been?  You are Bama and you could have anyone you wanted. 

You think we're bad now? Take Maymon and Stokes and Barton out of the lineup and see what happens. This wouldn't even be an NIT team. It would be more on the level of Wade Houston's last team at Tennessee.

The funny thing is we aren't an NIT team with them either.

Our situation is really similar to Bama's situation before.  They suffered through 4 coaches before finally getting it right and had some fairly awful seasons.  Funny how it happens everywhere.

Agree with that.  I am a Henry Co grad so I was glad they did that...but when they passed on 4 straight downs with 2 mins to go...I couldn't believe it.  They were gashing us in the rushing game.

I posted the same thing about chest pains and his daughters getting their daddy back on facebook last night.

WOW..another example of what a disservice it would have been if Oho St had won last night to go to the national championship game.  What I want to know is how the Big 10 got to be so bad. 

One of my friends and I were talking about this and he said FSU will kill them and I said I am not so sure.  Auburn's rushing attack is awesome.  I thought Auburn would have problems with Bama's D and they didn't.  I then thought Auburn would have problems with Miz D Line and they didn't.  I just think that Offense is hard to stop and FSU had the weakest schedule among the last 4 teams in the BCS standings...so it isn't like they are all world.  Their FR QB last night made some FR throws too. 

I like Charles but Gus gets on my nerves.  He acts like every play is the greatest play ever.  Just gets old after about 4 or 5 times.  Verne needs to retire.  But I like Gary.  He knows his football.

Nice!

I think Missouri loses alot of their skill players this yr.  I could be wrong...but I swear that is what one of their fans told me at the game this yr.

I knew that and that format is correct IF all #1 seeds advance. Henry co is a 1 seed and Clarksville ne is #7 seed but yet Henry co travels to northeast

Here is what I don't understand....Henry Co was the #1 seed but because of a TSSAA rule, they now have to travel to Clarksville NE in the Semi-Finals.  Somehow, this does not make sense!

Agree.  This team is so different at home than on the road.  Also, Dobbs played like a FR on the road in his first start. Things should slow down a little bit for him this week.