MURFREESBORO — Tennessee’s Big Orange Caravan made its third stop in as many days Wednesday, this time at Miller Coliseum.
Unlike past years’ events, when often one notable coach would appear at a caravan stop, all three big names were on hand for Murfreesboro’s orange-clad fans.
Vols football head coach Derek Dooley, men’s basketball head coach Cuonzo Martin and new women’s basketball head coach Holly Warlick joined athletic director Dave Hart for the third stop of a seven-city UT tour.
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SevenT writes:
At least Tennessee is consistent, each of the 3 coaches (Dooley, Martin and Warlick) making this three ring circus carnival caravan have very little experience, are good losers and nobody outide of the Orange Bubble has ever heard of them.
Just like PT Barnum said, "there is a sucker born every minute." In this case the suckers are any UT fan who shows up for one of these events.
VolGrad writes:
Somebody really ought to take the trash out there at KNS. It keeps spilling over into the story comments.
GerryOP writes:
26-1 ... Deal with it.
born2ride writes:
I wonder if a fan will get into a shouting match with Dooley like the Memphis stop.
voloffaith writes:
No wondering on my part if trolladytes will grow up and for many stay on their own teams website...PT Barnum was also referencing them as the KNS is more than happy to have ewe be the sucker for the day spewing them all the way to the bank.....some call it 'cheap change' so thanks for the 'cheap' entertainment everyday as we see many of you sadly parade yourself amidst the trash heap thinking all the time all is rosy.....tra la la la all the day.....whew
ProfessionalHandicapper writes:
MTSU head basketball coach Kermit Davis was by far the best coach in that town yesterday.
Witch_Doctors writes:
Witch Doctor say you are the best Handicapper in your trailer park! lol
Bones never lie.
SewaneeVolFan writes:
When it comes to posting, it's not exactly true that UT fans "lack all conviction" about Coaches Dooley, Martin, and Warlick.
After all, real UT fans know that we're far from the full evidence having come in. Dooley has had only two years to dig out of the mess he inherited, Martin one to dig out of the one he inherited, and Warlick hasn't even started yet but has lost five seniors who started this year. (Trolls preemptively ripping Holly shows all you need to know about their position as so-called UT supporters.)
Real UT fans who have the honesty to concede that they can't see the future are at least willing to see what the future will bring.
However, if the posts of UT fans sometimes lack conviction, the nearly automatic trollalogues (trollarants?) that appear every time KNS mentions a UT coach are ample proof (as if we ever needed it) that trolls never lack it and that "the worst/Are full of passionate intensity."
VolGrad writes:
Only if the grandiloquent Roy Adams decides to show up again... like at the Memphis stop.
CroKev writes:
"Guaranteed"? Then why haven't you responded to my bet?
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Voice / Handicapped / Bodeane / Wall-E / Goodest / Saliva's Husband / Merless / et al.
OK, here's the challenge: If UT wins 8 or more games this year, you all promise to stay off GoVolsXtra for 1 year. If they win 7 or less, then I promise to stay off for a year. Of course, this assumes that we're all men of integrity (i.e., won't change our screen names). I'm confident in my claims; how about you?
CroKev writes:
I heard Franklin stopped by to get Dooley's autograph.
VolGrad writes:
Funny. :D
volthrunthru#658770 writes:
Rinnnnng!!!!!
Congratulations. You get the kewpie doll for hitting the bullseye dead center!!!!!
UT's former athletics director Mike "DoofusButHighlyPaid" Hamilton and his agent---who was the agent for several coaches on UT's staff---need to be investigated by the TBI, in my opinion.
Having a fox guard the henhouse from the guy who negotiates the fox's feeding arrangements and represents all the other foxes in all the negotiations with the henhouse or its owners may seem to be something like conflict of interest. This is, of course, my opinion.
And looking at the Trustees' relationships with supposed oversight would be a good idea, too, in my opinion.
Funny thing...when the agent disolved his partnership with a fellow Memphis sports agent, two years ago, the agent went to a Hollywood Talent agency with the block of business---and the ethics of Hollywood talent agents is somewhat lower than al Qaeda's. And the pressure will be on to grow profitability in the business, from the Hollywood agents, in my opinion, almost to a certainty.
Yet the BOT welcomes this kind of representation of its coaches...and athletics directors...
So UT's Brand is sold down the river, in my view. If you don't believe it, remember that we are no longer Orange and White, but BLACK and Orange and White or BLACK and Orange...
when we are not Blue and Orange and White...
and that is the result of Hamilton, the agents, coaches and an ethical compass that says anything is okay as long as we get paid for it. Remember...Hamilton hired Lane Kiffin...and the basketball coach who sometimes looks clueless in non-up&down the floor situations...
and remember that our Trustees think we need to go to Alabama for a new athletics director---ALABAMA????? ALA XXing BAMA???
Doug Dickey could come out of retirement and do a hexx of a lot better than the FB, BB, BB2 or swishing...er, swimming team has done in hiring coaches and posting records.
DUHHHHHH???????
gc_scvol writes:
What a load of babble. You gonna stroke out?
Witch_Doctors writes:
Ding Ding Ding! Witch Doctor say we have a winner! lol. best comment of the week! lol
Bones never lie.
VolGrad writes:
To: volthrunthru#658770
No way I'm gonna' reply to that laundry list of schizophrenic prose just to have it reposted.
You need to get back on your meds, dude. Seriously.
Go Vols! This is BOC!!
orangecountyvols writes:
Vol fans,
The magic word is Dooley. It excites and incites the ever present trolls doesn't it?
I just turned on the computer, went to GVX, and surely as soon as I saw a topic with Derek's name in it.......predictably an endless line of trolls such as the brat ( greatest ) Seven, Bodeane ( the copy cat kid )and old reliable......un-professional handicapper. No friends, I didn't read any of their silly garbage, just knew pretty much what they always say, but their names were enough. Oh, Merlot, forgot you. How in the world when mentioning whiners could anyone miss the sipper?
thevoice writes:
Speaking for myself and not the others you listed, I'm not concerned about wins at this moment. Just show me significant progress.
PUL4VOLS writes:
I have yet to see a list of coaches who will replace the man Merlot guarantees is a dead duck after two years. Where is it? I know at least one of you brilliantizers on here has some inside information say from, the great-grandmother of the aunt of the cousin of someone who does laundry in the dressing room. Where is the list? I need to know since you are so certain he is gone..... I wait........
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
Well, that kid, greatest-turd-in-the-punchbowl, claims it will be Bill Cowher (because he is personally going to bring Cowher in). So I guess we can bank on that.
<rolling eyes>
VolGrad writes:
Sounds like small minds speaking big words trying to make like a prophet of doom and despair. Repeating the same old rhetorical incantations and attempting to marginalize the faithful.
Go Vols! This is BOC!!!
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
and you keep drinking that Drano, spanking that monkey and praying to that porcelain god.
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
Everybody who knows women's basketball knows who Holly Warlick is, and Martin would have been a shoe-in for COY last season if UK hadn't been as dominant as they were.
Whoever said our three coaches are unheard of has a brain the size of a testical, and only about half as smart.
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mountainbrook writes:
Don't quit your day job. You are not even a good troll.
VolGrad writes:
Roy was upset before he got there and probably didn't hear a word Coach Dooley said. And I seriously doubt you know what the "consensus" of those attending was. You can only speak for those who agree with you, a small number I'm sure, and marginalize the rest to make yourself feel secure. I am not a "Doolaid Drinker." But if it makes you feel better thinking I am and that thereby, none of my words mean anything..., well, by all means, have a nice life.
Go Vols!
VolFanInTheBoro (Inactive) writes:
You say you would like for UT to be competitive like Vanderbilt? The Vols beat Vandy Mr. Greatest in your own mind
orangecountyvols writes:
Vols,
Sorry. In closing let me say in my list of trolls consumed with any thoughts of CDD, I inadvertently omitted one other whiner, none other than one of the biggest losers to 'grace' this site.........the ever-crybaby Jeff. This troll should be careful with the word revenge.........that will probably come back to bite him.
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
Ah, my old buddy Moctezuma's_Revenge. He has at least a partial claim to King of the Losers.
flatrock writes:
CDD can be judged after he has a senior class (REMINDER: he inherited the weakest (in numbers and quality) UT roster in the last 50 years and the dumbest fanbase in the SEC). Fulmer, with a roster that included Peyton and a busload of future NFLers, lost to hapless Memphis State, then won the National Championship 2 years later. The win over Cincy- with a healthy roster- was a better indicator of where the program was than anything that happened after the injuries mounted. Go Vols!
Vol43 writes:
From what I can see flatrock, you seem normal to me. Good post actually. Don't pay attention to troll idiots.
Vo2Vol writes:
You see there "greatest", you show your ignorance. When you get your impact players hurt, as we did on offense, our opponents can then defend us differently. We did not have the talent (or experience) to replace a play maker receiver and a quarterback. I will say that we cannot afford those type of injuries this year either but we are starting to have more quality depth. We have been playing a brutal SEC schedule with a JV team (predominantly Freshmen and Sophmores). We will have more upper classmen this year and we will see improvement. We will still need the younger players to step-up, but they do not need to be in the position of having to carry this team.
PUL4VOLS writes:
The Coaches talk transition while Trollnation on GVX talks trashishun and pretend they are really behind the program. My o my with all the reDooley repetitive rants, it's gonna be a long long way til the end of August, just a long way.
Will we ever fail to be reminded of that loss at the end of last season? Now what was the name of that team? Trollon.......
TheVolSnake writes:
If anyone ever wondered why Phillip Fulmer got canned, just take a look at the development of some of his highly touted recruits at the end of his tenure. You'll see no less than four on this list.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/11...
I loved Fulmer (He was recruiting my son) and don't mean to slam him at all, but his last few years were not up to par at all and this list didn't take in account all the arrests our players had during that time.
He took way to many changes on recruits his last couple of years. I do wish he had become the AD I think he would have done a great job. Nothing against Hart but Fulmer is and will always be a legend in TN.
Kiffen took even more chances and as everyone knows most of them didn't work out and is highlighted in the hyperlink Gerry and myself has posted several times.
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What's Wrong With Tennessee Football Has Nothing To Do With Derek Dooley
http://www.rockytoptalk.com/2011/10/3...
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Tennessee Volunteers Football: Grading Derek Dooley's Tenure as Head Coach
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/11...
TheVolSnake writes:
A good article on our Defense this year, if our D. Excels as I believe they will watch out, I truly believe our Offense will be much improved and very explosive
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/11...
This is one of the main reasons I feel we will have a 8-4 season if not better.
TheVolSnake writes:
Yesterday he finally replied to one of my questions and said he couldn’t get him (Cowher) till Dooley was gone, So in others words can’t do it and cant back his own claims. Buy the way he now has several new screen Names so he can support his own claims to himself.
TheVolSnake writes:
Another good article to read:
The Freak List: The 10 craziest athletes in college football
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootb...
Hunter is at number three a great write up:
3. Justin Hunter, Tennessee, WR: The Vols' 2011 season was torpedoed when the 6-4, 200-pound big-play wideout was lost for the year in mid-September with a torn ACL. On 33 career catches in a little over one full season of college ball, he has caught nine TDs and is averaging a gaudy 22 yards per reception. Vols coaches breathed a big sigh after watching Hunter score on a 50-yard TD reception on the first possession of the second spring scrimmage last month.
Hunter is a spectacular talent: he has been timed at 4.42 electronically, has broad-jumped over 11 feet, and vertical jumped 41.5 inches. As a track athlete he has high jumped 7-3 and long jumped more than 26 feet. If Tennessee has any shot of getting back to being a top 15 team this season, it is going to need a huge year from Hunter.
Then add D Rodgers, Cordarrelle Patterson, Z Rodgers, Alton Howard (WR and Kick return man) Groom and Bowles in the WR mix and TE's of Mychal Rivera, Downs and Clear. Then our all our backs can catch in fact Neal played WR last year and Lane had several catches: we have a LOT of great weapons to throw too.
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
I didn't realize it was unacceptable to say trolls don't have testicles. It's just a statement of medical fact (prove me wrong). Unicorns don't have them either.
TheVolSnake writes:
I cant wait to see the rest of the team broken down by position. Mainly Defense and O. Line, I think we all know about the WR's and still will be a good read.
Breaking down the RB's:
http://tennessee.rivals.com/content.a...
Breaking down the QB's:
http://tennessee.rivals.com/content.a...
Breaking down the TE's/FB
http://tennessee.rivals.com/content.a...
I see a lot of improvements in the Running Backs this year under coach Jay Graham, I think the lack of a Running backs coach last year really hurt the running game. They also forgot to add Channing Fugate who can and has before played FB I think they (the article writer) may list him as a LB.
Remember we also have a 4 Star back coming in Davante Bourque who is 6'3" and 200 and has speed, I would like to see him in the backfield this year with Lane or Neal (he is big enough to play a FB if needed) and has break away speed of a tailback.
Razzle writes:
You're wasting your time talking to Gomer the Great. You know, he and Ernest T. are in good with Bill Cowher.
BleednUrnge81 writes:
your an idiot.
GBO and have a good'n.
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
"I am the gatekeeper dof this site. I respond with the most outlandish posts." -- Turdyboy
TheVolSnake writes:
20 Ronnie Wingo Jr. | 6-3, 231, Jr., 2V 106 Attempts 670 Yards
33 Dennis Johnson | 5-9, 213, Sr., 3V 104 Attempts 458 Yards
Notice one Jr and one Sr took his place behind a senior QB
So from what I can tell you are comparing the lost of one running back with two upperclassman replacements to fill in.
To the lost of the QB and WR combo that was leading the SEC in total yards and are predicted to be the fourth best duo (QB and WR) this upcoming year 2012. We even tried to move Neal to WR to make up for the lost of Hunter. By the way we lost Lane for the first part of the season and Lathers for the whole season along with others. I would guess we had more injuries to key players than any other SEC team on both sides of the ball.
Also it was talked about last year on nearly every telecast about the Vols being the youngest team in the SEC. Look at the numbers of Freshman started over the last two years compared to every other team in the SEC.
So your comparison is very weak. Try again
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
GTIPB, whenever I want to post something feeble, my own words will never work. I just dont have the ability to come up with anything feeble, so your words are the obvious choice.
You are the Peyton Manning of feeble.
born2ride writes:
Year Zero - UT football was in a mess when Dooley took over.
Last Year - Hunter and Bray hurt.
This Year - 7 new assistant coaches.
All we get out of Dooley are excuses for not winning.
TheVolSnake writes:
Sorry meant Young not Lane was injured first part of the year.
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
GTIPB (aka toddyboy) -- the most delusional, conceited idiot who ever fouled this site.
Kid has been schooled so many times he should have at least five PhD's by now, yet he just keeps on telling himself he's doing the schooling. He can't win, so he plays pretend, like an 8 year old. I keep waiting for him to comeback with something like, "My dad can beat up your dad!"
TheVolSnake writes:
Now you have gone totally wacko you just point out Freshman and SO. on NC teams which you could do with every NC team. This did not compare the lost of Key players with limited back up.
The question then on these two players you named if they had gone down would have ever team won the NC? the answer is yes the rest of the teams were outstanding.
In 11 Trent ran for 98 yards and one TD in the NC game and Mccarron didn't even throw a TD in the game and the Defense from that team only allowed 9 TD for the entire year, so bottom-line your D was the main difference.
I was trying to get the 2009 stats but wouldn't come up on Yahoo but I suspect the same type of trend.
So try again worlds greatest loser
TheVolSnake writes:
This was the Statement:
So from what I can tell you are comparing the lost of one running back with two upperclassman replacements to fill in.
To the lost of the QB and WR combo that was leading the SEC in total yards and are predicted to be the fourth best duo (QB and WR) this upcoming year 2012. We even tried to move Neal to WR to make up for the lost of Hunter. By the way we lost Lane for the first part of the season and Lathers for the whole season along with others. I would guess we had more injuries to key players than any other SEC team on both sides of the ball.
So now we understand you cant read
Try again Worlds Greatest Loser
10seVol85_Part_Deux writes:
He didn't just go totally whacko. He's always been that way.
His mention of Richardson and McCarron is completely irrelevant. McCarron QB'd a team that only started three underclassmen, and none of them were true freshmen.
If those two had both been injured at the same time, then there might have been an impact, but with the depth Bama had/has, it wouldn't have been that big of a deal.
GTIPB can't even come close to a logical, coherent argument. Every time he posts, all I can think of is Billy Madison.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvid...
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