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Wellway?s Weekly Rant - MSU edition
2007-10-12 21:45:00 Obviously, the Tennessee Volunteers football team took advantage of their lone bye week of the season by coming out and playing their best ballgame of the year and defeating Georgia 35-14 last Saturday on a blazing hot October afternoon at Neyland Stadium. More About: Rant , Weekly , Edition , Well
Dougherty?s Diatribe 10/11/2007
2007-10-12 18:41:00 What a weekend down on the bayou as LSU hands Florida its second straight loss 28-24. The Gators appeared to control the momentum of this slugfest between SEC titans for most of the night but the Tigers remain undefeated as the undoubted number one ranked team in America behind the aggressive decision making of Coach Les Myles.
The Halfcourt Trap - Conference Edition
2007-10-12 01:15:00 With a good portion of the sporting world engaged in debate about which conference is college football's strongest this season, it seems like a perfect time to take a look at how the 6 major conferences shake out a month before tipoff. Without further delay, here we go. More About: Trap , Edition , Conference
Guitar Shots To The Head: To Tell the Truth Edition
2007-10-09 05:11:00 Happy New Year!!! Surely I am not the only Vol fan that has Auld Lang Syne playing on a continuous loop in my home, in the office and in the car? All of the sudden everything feels new again. Auburn handed the Volunteers a Christmas present last week, and on New Year?s Eve the Vols decided it was time to celebrate. More About: Truth , Guitar , Shots , Head , Edition
Young Talent Today/Titles Tomorrow
2007-10-08 17:10:00 The brutality of playing in the SEC has every team besides LSU showing signs of schizophrenia. Tennessee gets slaughtered by Florida, but then plays their best game weeks later. Florida Follows their victory over the Vols with 2 straight conference loses, one of which came at home to Auburn who had just lost at home to MIss. St. More About: Today , Young , Tomorrow , Talent , Lent
Dougherty?s Diatribe 10-4
2007-10-05 17:24:00 College football has beauty that can be illustrated in many shades. You have the storied traditions of historic programs that carry presence with them when they charge on to the Fall Saturday fields of dreams.
The Halfcourt Trap - SEC West Edition
2007-10-04 00:34:00 Some predictions are better left unmade. The SEC West is an utter jumble. If my math is correct, there are 24 possible orders of finish for the teams I pick 3-6 in the division. More About: Trap , Edition
Guitar Shots to the Head 10/1
2007-10-02 21:36:00 For me, as a child it got no better than watching WTBS. I was in the second grade when I was speaking to my dad on the telephone telling him about this hilarious, brand new show that I had seen. It was ?The Three Stooges?. More About: Guitar , Shots , Head
Dougherty?s Diatribe 9/27
2007-09-28 06:55:00 This column is usually designed to focus on the SEC, however there is a polarizing issue resonating in the Big 12 and expanding into pop culture. Last weekend, Oklahoma St. gave up a school record 718 yards of total offense but defeated Texas Tech in a shootout 49-45. That, however, is neither where the story begins nor where it ends.
Volunteers look for improvement over bye week
2007-09-27 20:57:00 The University of Tennessee?s football team has certainly had a rough month of September. The schedule did not do Phil Fulmer?s young team any favors by having to face two of the Top 6 teams in America on the road. More About: Volunteers , Week , Improvement , Improv , Prove
The Halfcourt Trap 9/26
2007-09-26 06:01:00 Having finished my three day football odyssey, it's time to get down to making my preseason hoops prognostications. Without further delay, here are the official Hatvol SEC East predictions: More About: Trap
Guitar Shots To The Head 9/25
2007-09-25 21:27:00 I was in line at one of my favorite pizza joints on the planet last night in Lexington, Kentucky, and a Kentucky fan actually held the door open for me. I can only assume that he saw that I was wearing my favorite Tennessee hat, and felt a little sorry for me. More About: Guitar , Shots , Head
Dougherty?s Diatribe 9/20/2007
2007-09-21 04:03:00 The empirical data suggests that the Tennessee football program has fallen from the conference elite into more of an SEC middle class. The numbers speak for themselves. Tennessee is the fifth best team in the SEC since 2001.
The Halfcourt Trap 9/18
2007-09-18 07:11:00 As I pack for the beginning of my Footballapalooza '07 Tour, I'm confronted with a question many Tennessee fans are facing today: How do you identify a college program in decline? After some thought, here are Hatvol's Six Signs Of Program Apocalypse. More About: Trap
Guitar Shots to the Head 9/16
2007-09-17 02:42:00 I have always wanted to be a meteorologist, and now I am considering making it a second career. Imagine how much UT fans would pay for a forecast of the next ?Perfect Storm?. After the Florida game the realization began to creep in rather quickly. More About: Football , Guitar , Shots , Head
From Saurian Sagacity - Mergz on Vols and Gators
2007-09-14 05:00:00 Our small group of Gato r fans walked briskly through the burnt orange crowd, heads slightly down, eyes averted from contact. ?Do nothing to provoke them?, I told my friends, ?They are already pissed off?. More About: Football , Saga , Gators
Dougherty?s Diatribe 9/12
2007-09-13 18:56:00 The polls list USC as the top team in the country and it's tough to argue that unless you have seen LSU play this year. I understand that USC is an unbelievably talented team that has rolled off quite a run over the last few years. USC is 60-6 since 2002. More About: Football
Guitar Shots to The Head 9-11
2007-09-11 10:04:00 So now it begins. The Gators and the Vols embark on another battle for supremacy in the SEC east. Too bad that Coach Fulmer?s arch nemesis may once again have a say, when it comes to the SEC Eastern Division Crown. South Carolina will be in the hunt for the east. More About: Football , Guitar , Shots , Head
The Halfcourt Trap Vol. I, No. 5.
2007-09-11 10:02:00 As I watched South Florida add Auburn to their growing list of victims, I thought about who the ascending teams in college hoops will be this season. Here are the 6 that came to mind. More About: Trap
SEC weak on D
2007-09-09 22:55:00 The first two weeks of the college football season has delivered a mixed bag of results for SEC teams, and left us with more questions than answers. In fact there are really only two things that I know for sure at this point. More About: Football
Five Rocky Top ruminations
2007-09-08 10:42:00 Now that we are all over last week?s defensive no-show against California in Berkeley (wait?..Cal just scored again), here are five things to mull over in preparation for Southern Miss. More About: Football , Rocky , Mina
The Halfcourt Trap - September 3rd
2007-09-05 08:14:00 Sitting in the San Francisco Airport after spending a day wondering which defensive performance was worse, Saturday night's debacle or the 1988 annihilation at the hands of Washington State, I reviewed the last couple of weeks worth of college hoops happenings. Here are six that caught my eye: More About: Trap , September , Sept
Dougherty?s Diatribe (9/3)
2007-09-05 08:12:00 Well we?re off and running, the 2007 college football season has kicked off. We had a wonderful weekend of college football featuring massive blowouts, doses of reality for historic programs and unlikely upsets. Oklahoma scored 79 points its first time out, without Adrian Peterson and now prepare for a visit from the U. Texas will not walk through the Big 12. More About: Football
Guitar shots to the head - September 2nd
2007-09-05 07:18:00 I woke up this morning, and I gave the calendar a second glance. Yep, it was still September 2, 2007. It just feels like September 16. If I could throw a few banana peels in the flux capacitor and fire the up the ole Delorean I would go all the way back to August when there was the promise of a new day More About: Football , Guitar , Shots , Head
The line is where it?s won
2007-09-05 06:32:00 Trailing 38-21 early in the third quarter Arian Foster broke free down the left side of the field to the California 2 yard line. After one run for no gain and an incomplete pass, UT faced third and goal from the 2. The Vols took a time out after Lucas Taylor gained one on a quarterback draw. More About: Football , Line
The Halfcourt Trap - August 27
2007-08-28 17:07:00 While packing for San Francisco and ruminating about lunch at Big Nate's BBQ tomorrow, I started thinking about travel. That led me to ponder which transfers are most important to their team's fate this season. More About: Basketball , Trap , August
Pre-Season Bliss
2007-08-27 22:08:00 It's go time college football fan! Right now, everyone has the same dream. With the 2007 season kicking off this week, all fans carry the torch of hope and possibility. Some torches will be extinguished in the first week. More About: Season , Seas
Guitar Shots to The Head - August 26
2007-08-27 01:57:00 Sometimes, all we can do is sit back and reflect on the beauty of the English language. Sure, the classical languages are more descriptive, and French and Italian sound more romantic, but for a football coach, only English will do. More About: Football , Guitar , Shots , Head , August
LaMarcus Coker is back
2007-08-25 00:31:00 According to several sources LaMarcus Coker has rejoined the Vols football team. More About: Back , Lama , Amar
Concerns for Vols as Cal game looms
More articles from this author:2007-08-24 21:38:00 As we thankfully head towards the game next weekend in Berkeley against Cal, some valid concerns are surfacing concerning the 2007 Tennessee Volunteers football team. Through my experience, fans and coaches alike go through paralysis by analysis at this point in the preseason and forget that these young men were all All-State or All-America somewhere in high school. More About: Football , Game , L Game , Concerns 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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