CHATTANOOGA - Tuesday night's sold-out Big Orange Caravan stop at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo brought plenty of energy to the tri-state area.
More energy is coming.
First-year Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin told the Times Free Press on Tuesday night that fiery assistant head coach Ed Orgeron has been assigned to recruit the Chattanooga area.
Read full story at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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volstasis writes:
Unlease the coonazz.
volstasis writes:
Sorry (Unleash)
HonoluluVol writes:
Sounds like a winner winner chicken dinner!!!! Go get'em CEO, "If I'd been at UT longer, I'd locked you up!!!" Got to love that quote. GO VOLS!!!
HonoluluVol writes:
So what does everyone think about Percy Harvin pising hot at the Combiines?? Think it will hurt his draft stock any????
allvol9 writes:
Great news to hear Kiffin assigned Orgeron to the Chattanooga area. The area coaches are going to love that!
gnm53108 writes:
Ed,bring home the beef.
I'd love to see those d-lines that we had in the late 90's and early 00's.
pdhuff#552644 writes:
Dupree said he blamed it on his scoring a 6 on the Wonderlic test.
Dupree is seldom worng.
belayvol writes:
Go O! I think he can cover the entire area in 24 hours with about 2 cases of Red Bull.
101st_AIRBORNE_VOL (Inactive) writes:
I hope he covers all of Louisiana too. I think there's as much talent there as there is in Florida. All those great LSU recruiting classes they've had since Saban was there were heavy on the in-state recruits. Also, we got Peyton from there. Gotta step it up there, seems like they have with Broussard's commitment!
stevefrommemphis writes:
Kiffin showed up in Chattanooga wearing a sport shirt with the tail not tucked in and once while telling a story used an expletive I have never heard from Majors or Fulmer at one of these events (synonym for dung). I don't even remember Kevin O'Neill cursing at the Big Orange Caravan. Don't get me wrong; I don't care if he wears a dress if he can beat Alabama and Florida while playing by the rules, but if he can't..... it's going to be a train wreck.
ctownvol writes:
The bad part is they get 8 points for spelling their name correctly. How ya reckon he passed any classes at UF?
GREEKDAWG writes:
His Dad work's at a gym here in Atlanta and said his son is hanging out with "Mike Vick type characters"
pdhuff#552644 writes:
Makes a Gator flutter with pride about that boy's academic prowess.
Not to mention how quick he can make a blunt, but that's just rumour.
Vay_Owe_Ale_Ace writes:
Nice article, Wes. After Coach O was hired, I read "Meat Market," and I wish I would've read it before he got canned from Ole Miss. The man can flat out recruit, and I would LOVE to see an article concerning Coach O and recruiting. Say, "a day in the life of..." or something along those lines.
If you haven't read the book, and want to get fired up about recruiting, check it out.
ctownvol writes:
What part of Atlanta you in Greek? I'm in Covington.
GREEKDAWG writes:
Lilburn,my boys went to Parkview
ctownvol writes:
Daddy always said "It's a shame stupidity ain't painful"
ctownvol writes:
Were they before Francouer?
GREEKDAWG writes:
The oldest was a year ahead and other was a year behind,,he's a great kid
ctownvol writes:
Yes he is. I have met his dad Dave on several occasions. I used to spend a lot of time in your neck of the woods. A good friend of mine grew up about a mile from the intersection of Five Forks Trickum and Killian Hill.
give_him_6 writes:
Hmmmm, I wonder how many of the other "wonder gay-tors" are hot?? Grass must do a Gay-tor good!! LoL!!! Poor little Harvin can get NFL substance abuse help and he hasn't even been drafted yet!! What a great ambassador for the Gay-Tors!!!
GREEKDAWG writes:
That's where I live,right near that intersection
ctownvol writes:
You know any Sibleys?
GREEKDAWG writes:
No,but I did spend night in a Holiday Inn,,,,just a little humor
ctownvol writes:
I hear ya. Good one.
GREEKDAWG writes:
The class after Jeff graduated with 5 state champs rings 3 football & 2 baseball
ctownvol writes:
I remember going to the Football championship game his senior year when they played Northside Warner Robbins. I had to see what all the hype was about with that Francouer kid.
volhallathunder writes:
Top story on ESPN this morning:
Wide receivers Percy Harvin and Brandon Tate tested positive for marijuana
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft09...
GREEKDAWG writes:
Those were special times,oh well the "hay days" are over all the new power is up north in the county.Our Braves are sucking the big one
ctownvol writes:
Maybe the Braves will figure out it takes more than 2 or 3 runs to win ball games on a consistent basis.
ctownvol writes:
Percy got confused. He kept hearing people say he was a burner and thought it was ok to burn one before the combine. What a doofus!
jzt writes:
Why would Orgeron not be in Memphis, he has to be very familiar with that area from his days at Ole Miss.
ctownvol writes:
With enough Red Bull he can handle both and then some.
GREEKDAWG writes:
That's the problem he's very familiar with the area and the Memphis bartenders say he's a terrible tipper
auttat writes:
I think a coach can have more than one area to recruit in. Let's see, there are 50 states...multiply that by cities per state...divide by 9...I think you get more than 1.
auttat writes:
If you feel the urge, take out stress ball and relax. The only way to solve it is to ignore it.
stinky_pinky writes:
is this true?
DennisVols writes:
A true gator would know about this because Meyer has been question by several media sites concerning his use of curse words when addressing an crowd.
Just a couple months back a Gainesville reporter said it was embarrassing how many times he used the s..t word in a speech at a coaches clinic.
Of course they will never admit that their coach is classless they will just come up with another sorry excuse for why he does it.
ctownvol writes:
Let me get this straight Butch. You, of all people, are calling someone else a dunce? Pot meet kettle. Kettle meet pot.
ctownvol writes:
It couldn't have been Meyer. He was out of town on vacation or visiting his dad in the hospital or some such bs.
DennisVols writes:
Hey ctownvol I'm also in the ATL area.
Up on the north side metro.
givehim6 writes:
CLK & staff are building a wall around Tennessee as promise. If our boys are not good enough why are teams like bama, UGA, AU, MISS. ST. N.D. to mention a few after our guys?
99gator writes:
are we really going to point fingers at people who smoke marijuana.
an 18-22 year old male college student who used marijuana. that's so rare these days.
nevermind that the current culture we live in finds it more acceptable than smoking a cigarette.
i am not going to give the kid a standing ovation, but, let's not pretend marijuana hasn't found its way up the tennessee hills.
Irwin_Linker writes:
I'm from the west side of the State so I'm not to familiar with Chatt, but didnt Ok State have a stud reciever from there. I agree that in state talent is low, but I also feel there is a lot of talent in Memphis that gets overlooked.
UrbanStopCallingMe writes:
I think the real issue is not that he smoked any, its that he's stupid enough to smoke it knowing that he's about to get tested for it. This could potentially make him fall in the draft, and that will cost him money.
murrayvol writes:
Can't remember. Was he in pre med or pre law?
UrbanStopCallingMe writes:
Preschool maybe?
volgrog#210164 writes:
Not saying that Chatt. is a great D1 recruiting area, but I do believe there have been several quality D1 players from the area if I remember correctly including Eddie Moore, Gerald Riggs, BJ Coleman, Jacque Smith (the kid for next year), Jacque McClendon, and a guy named Reggie White a few years back. I'm sure I missed quite a few since I'm not from the area.
Also, there are some really good kids from NE Alabama and Northern Georgia (e.g. Jason Allen if memory serves,and a guy named T.0.-he's poison now, but I heard he was not a problem in college).
I may be wrong on some of the players, but the ones we've gotten from the area have been pretty solid to great players.
ctownvol writes:
Exactly. I did my fair share of stupid things as an 18 year old, but none that immediately could've cost me millions of dollars. That's the point. He's stupid for doing it WHEN he did.
Volunatic writes:
That's classic, ctownvol. You should pass along more of your dad's sayings on these boards-- I bet there's a lot of other good ones.
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