MOBILE, Ala. — South Alabama’s fledgling football program has signed to play a game at Tennessee in 2013.
“South Alabama beginning a football program is great for the sport and I think you will see an excellent product emerge,” UT athletic director Mike Hamilton said in a release. “This game is a win for both schools and we look forward to welcoming Jaguar fans to Knoxville.”
The Jaguars begin play next season and will be part of the Sun Belt Conference. The contract is for a single game with the Vols on Nov. 9, 2013.
“When you look at South Alabama football, Tennessee is where we want to be in the long run,” South Alabama coach Joey Jones said. “It’s exciting to know that our start-up program is going to be playing Tennessee in five years. These are the types of schools that we want to play in the future. Even though the game is years away, it’s a great step for us on our way to becoming a big-time program.”
The South Alabama game is UT’s second announced game for that season. The Vols play Sept. 14, 2013, at Oregon to conclude a home-and-home series.
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Comments » 48
mikec1000000 writes:
Woo hooo! unlike previous years, we are scheduling a "cupcake" for an opener??? then again...by 2013...they may be good enough to beat UT if we keep fielding teams like the one we have now.
givehim6 writes:
Maybe by 2013 UT will have there --stuff-- together and beable to look good and beat these guys.
Striker writes:
I say we keep CPF now, he might just have enough time to prepare and win this one...
volguy41nlouisiana writes:
Hmmmmm lets see...Eric Berry is a Sophomore. After the season, we redshirt him, then we pull a galooly on him aka Tonya Harding. The NCAA will give him 4 years more of eligibility, and we can win the South Alabama game. Brilliant
NoMoreWooAfterGoodOleRockyTop writes:
Sexton just successfully negotiated a contract extension for FOOLmer and Co. through 2015. Was that a cheer I just heard coming from LA?
khelton657 writes:
Ya gotta be kidding me..who cares
TommyJack writes:
Risky bidness.
BLUETREESforTN writes:
I would like to throw some ideas out there for the perfect case scenario get Cutcliffe back down here on the hill, but we all know this want happen. 2nd motion please please go find Trooper Taylor and bring him on back because this guy can and does get involved with the players which had our sidelines totally pumped the entire time he was there ! where we can get back into the rhythm of pounding the rock and being competitive to what our neighbors south of us has accomplished !! and for real why did we let these guys ever leave the hill !!!!! Jon Gruden is also a name to throw into the mix it's a long shot but worth looking into all they can say is no. please whoever we get to head the program in the forward direction lets do some in state recruiting and actually get commitments from our state players instead of having them come in as true freshman on Alabama and playing against us. then maybe we could even compete with these guys when they come to town.
drum45 writes:
Hey Hiresanders....if you think the T on the helment stands for Terrible, then why don't you find another team to pull for. We've got enough jerks around here anyway! I for one still have pride in that T!
GoVol writes:
BlueTrees - I believe you missed a few english classes, but I think I got the general meaning of what you are trying to say. Skipping school didn't pay off too well!
Hopson2008 writes:
Since when does the season begin on Nov. 9th? This will probably be the homecoming game.
TommyJack writes:
GoVol: While I don't agree with any of BlueTree's 3 points, maybe you were a little hard on him. JMO.
Volunatic writes:
Umm, we DID beat a team from Alabama this year. Something happen to your short-term memory?
I'm all for picking on Sun Belt teams. It's better than picking on Division 1AA teams, like every other team in the SEC East has done this season.
Besides, Phil has never lost to a team from that conference. (Saban lost to one last year, though.)
GoVol writes:
TJ - just having some fun. Didn't mean anything by it. My only real care right now is wanting to see PF done.
milchkine writes:
Trooper and Sanders were in Knoxville in 2005 that ended with a record of 5-6, so stop with the crying about letting Trooper go.
TommyJack writes:
Well I'm with you there my brother.
milchkine writes:
Fulmer is done, it is just a matter of how hard the divorce is going to be. A loss at USC and retirement will be announced next week. A win means he will try to hold on and it will get ugly.
BLUETREESforTN writes:
so trooper gets the blame for the sanders trend.
lol
murrayvol writes:
What! After posting on another thread that he should get 2 more years to FIX IT. :)
TommyJack writes:
That was tongue firmly in cheek, Murray, I would have fired his azz years ago.
WVVOLFAN writes:
what you said drum!
we may be having a bad year and a bad streak, but i am still at UT fan.
take it somewhere else hiresanders
NO_DIGGITY writes:
Hopefully Coach Manning will have the team ready to play.
Naffy say Me like, Me Like.
jrobertadams#251201 writes:
"cupcake for an opener??You think the season starts on November 09, 2013???
TommyJack writes:
Looks like a Homecomer to me.
BLUETREESforTN writes:
well now my lit. professor told me to lie my head down and he would pass me i guess it worked! but thinks for the comment! lol
GO VOLS !!!!!!
NO_DIGGITY writes:
Dr. Spiva had me convinced I was on a Spaceship and Wild Bill was convinced a boat load of girls were on their way to the Congo. I think Naffy may have come back on that boat. I had the same lit Professor, saw him dancing on top of a table at the Strohaus during the Worlds Fair.
We haven't had much luck against teams form L.A. lately, hopefully this Lower Alabubba team will be a cakewalk.
mikec1000000 writes:
LOL, sorry. I guess I was just so awe struck by our upcoming opponent that the actual date of the game slipped right by me! Perhaps I should "review the film" again
TommyJack writes:
Wild Bill Cherry?
jjhvols writes:
"That's Turrible" (Charles Barkley)
NO_DIGGITY writes:
Yes, Wild Bill Cherry for Economic Geography. Did he really say "What's your hurry girls the boat don't leave til tomorrow?" I think it was Urban Legend.
TommyJack writes:
Don't remember that one, but I heard him say some doozies. He was a piece of work. Would NOT make it one week in today's PC world.
dirtywhiteboy writes:
they'll be a bunch of tail kickers by then. surely we'll have a new hfc by then.
bowser writes:
Carson-Newman should have an open date somewhere in there. Now that might be interesting.
DennisVols writes:
Must be a real slow day in the news room. We get a paragraph 2 story about a team that doesn't exist, except on paper, at this point and how the Vols will play them 5 years from now.
One year we played GA for our homecomming game. Just another step towards blandness and staying average. Maybe we should just play South AL instead of Auburn and UAB instead of the real Univ. of Alabama.
In schools they call this dumbing down to make you look better.
khelton657 writes:
The thought of Trooper Taylor coming back scares me. One of Fulmer's problems was that he was a "Players Coach", something Taylor also seeems to be and that appears to mean he makes no demands of his players, everything done is fine, we still love you even though you continue to screw up, , they always love the person who makes no demands on them, never disciplines them, that way they love you.
He was passionate though..something you never see from a very un-dynamic Fulmer.....
mtnsvol44 writes:
Wow, what a contest this will be---or perhaps not if Vols play like they do this year.
Hey Mike, since we can't beat major teams, why not add Carson-Newman and Tusculum to the list? We might go 3-9!
GoVol writes:
Yes, he said it. I took his class. He said this during his last year...just before retirement. He was a hoot!
pdhuff#552644 writes:
I like it. If at first you don't succeed, lower your expectations while "fixing" it.
Wonder if Siwash has any open dates?
SFOrange writes:
maybe we'll have a effective offense by then.
UT 13 USA 0
stevefrommemphis writes:
I'll have two tickets for sale at $15 for the pair. That will be $5 in 2008 dollars.
bigorangedude writes:
"T Stands for Terrible".....
Despite the year we're having, anyone who feels that badly about our beloved Tennessee Volunteers, go find a new team to support and save your pathetic whining for another web site.
We'll get through this and the Volunteers will rise again.... Go Big Orange!!!
TommyJack writes:
Very disrespectful, PD. Let's keep this PC. See
http://www.thewikifire.org/index.php?...
jasonn1970 writes:
This is the kind of game the Vols should be playing in non-conference. Not a 1-AA team. But not a BCS conference team either.
Cherokee writes:
In my opinion, this game is about helping out a program that might one day be able to make recruiting good players in Alabama tougher for the Tide. UT would no doubt benefit from UAB and South Alabama turning into decent programs that can steal away some good players from Bama. The problem is, I don't think it will ever happen. UAB has been playing for several years now, and they have stunk almost the entire time. No player that Bama wants ends up at UAB, and I don't see any reason that South Alabama will be any different. It's a commuter campus much like UAB, with a very small fan base and not much of a student campus life. I just don't see either program ever being a threat to Auburn or Bama in in-state recruiting.
volboy81 writes:
Dont we also have Western Kentucky scheduled for 2013, on Sept 7?
luckymacy#423360 writes:
Wow, I'm so proud of my alma mater Tennessee. Let's schedule Maryville College too.
Pathetic but then again it's a fallout of the coacho ocho contract our pathetic excuse of an AD gave Fulmer. Reap what you sow...
stormblast writes:
Huh? Who? South Alabama?
Oh well...should be a pretty good game.
stormblast writes:
Hamilton, please don't sign Sewanee to play us. I live not too far from the campus. I don't think I can balance a season where I get to listen to snobby, little rich preppies rubbing a win over the Vols in my face, only then to continue trying to comprehend the idiotic slack-jawed yokels from Alabama just across the borderline chanting "WE BEAT THE VAWS!"
I can't imagine it. The sweaters around the neck, clean teeth, kackies, and loafers one week. Later, the shirtless, toothless, mindless, shoeless morons from Bama. It would be too much.
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