A lengthy "situational scrimmage" Saturday at Neyland Stadium featured live tackling on everyone except quarterbacks, offering a glimpse at Tennessee's progress through one week of practice under new coach Butch Jones.
Officially, the offense won 90-89. But the way in which teams lost or gained points wasn't always clear.
The weather was gorgeous -- sunny and about 65 degrees -- but a stiff wind at the stadium played havoc with the kicking and passing games.
Even so, quarterbacks Justin Worley and Nathan Peterman both appeared to play well.
For a full report on today's practice, check out our observations from the sidelines on the blog.
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Comments » 19
BIVOLAR_BEARE writes:
Both qb's played well..That's certainly good news..GBO!!
allvol8 writes:
Bear I am with you..luv seeing both QBs having a good outing! GBO!
BIVOLAR_BEARE writes:
Yep, I heard Peterman started out better playing against gusting winds, and Worley finished stronger to close out the scrimmage..It looks like I'm going to be wishing my Summer away once again..
AlpharettaVol writes:
Lots of detailed info on the scrimmage. Much more than in the past. Keep up the good work, Evan!
allvol8 writes:
That makes two of us.planning to get my fix at the orange and white game..pardon the pun but I have been Jonesing for football.
SignalMtnVol writes:
90 - 89 sounds like a real game score from last season. Hope we get the D mean and motivated this year.
kcbigorngX writes:
Evan doing work. Gracias
SummittsCourt writes:
Reading all of this positive news is going to make my head explode!
I am looking more and more forward to kickoff!
volthrunthru#658770 writes:
Glowing report. UT Football needs good news.That point having been made...just what is the idea of jumping the sports news story to somebody's personal blog, away from the Newspaper itself. We are trying to read the newspaper, not give hits to make the blog seem bigger to those internet measurement groups who register traffic online.
And the blog is a laugh, as far as reporting is concerned:
Never saw a reporter, in print, before who continuously referred to a coach by his first name.
Glad to see that any pretense of objective reporting is out the window, because now UT can save on P.R. managers, since the only home-market paper with daily coverage of UT Football has its principal football reporter on a first-name, chummy basis with the ole coacheyroo.
If you look back at the Cincinnati "Enquirer," a paper nationally respected; you will find that they did it the right way, calling him by last name and title, etc., or just last name.
Kissing up probably gets a lot of stories...but that is usually only a temptation in competitive situations. And there is no other daily paper involved anymore.
And it is only temptation for reporters who deserve the name "reporters."
Betcha no other reporter anywhere else in the Knoxville paper---or even in the small town weeklies anywhere in East Tennessee is calling an
$18MILLION DOLLAR GUARANTEED COMPENSATION PUBLIC OFFICIAL
by his or her first name.
Maybe the governor can get that deal, or the mayor; or the next public offical caught up in a sex scandal or bribery probe.
Not saying Jones is anything but the real deal, but can the reporters AT LEAST act like he and they are not sucking from the same bottle. (Of course if they are, there is not much left for the ole reporter; just ask the Athletics director about finances...but then maybe the reporter and A.D. are not as cozy...)
No wonder the paper is struggling. But if this works, maybe NBC can have its reporters sign off from the White House with something like:
I'm Evan's Eleven, chwein' the fat with Barrack, over here at the large white building...not sure how they named it that, but...what the hey...
Snapshot writes:
Really, that's all you have to do, complain about the reporter calling him Butch? Glad you enjoyed the article.
utvolfan1955 writes:
The title says Butch Jones but in the article it calls him coach Butch Jones. So what?
Theo writes:
Good grief,
who pp'd in your Wheaties?
BTW, a blog is not considered reporting, it is merely personal observations.
volthrunthru#658770 writes:
Theo,
Your sentiments as a loyal VOL are apprecated; but I understand blogs and online reporting a lot better than you do, I promise.
The point is simple: any reporter even trying to APPEAR objective does not call someone about whom they are writing, by the first name in an article OR A BLOG.
And bogging, which somehow is supposed to be more "personal" than a news story, merely shows in this case that the reporter is the coach's bubba, now, because first names are used throughout.
That is an $18Million dollar public employee, and the reporter has aready been coopted and is publicly on a first name basis with the coach---in the news copy.
What happens if a coach who has been cozyied up to like that does something that needs to be written about in a hard-ball tone; is anybody going to trust the reporter to report it straight up, hardnosed, after reading "bubba" copy for weeks or months?
More importantly, IS the reporter able to be objective, after writing "bubba" copy for months???
That is bush league journalism---small town writing at its miserable worst. Most small town papers would fire a reporter for that, on the 2nd or 3rd offense.
I am surprised that obviously no sports EDITOR at the KNS is managing this guy or his rambling, compromised prose.
Not saying he is compromised; just that his prose certainly is.
Reporters write without favoritism. Does he call former Coach Pearl "Bruce," or former coach Fulmer "Philip," or former Athletics Director Doug Dickey "Doug?" Does he call Dr. Cheek, "Jimmie?????"
His blog can be interpreted as revealing favoritism, because of all the use of first names.
"That ain't good"---although inappropriate to be used in copy gets the point across. Using first names gets a much different point across.
Just that simple.
utvolfan1955 writes:
Here is a link where the writer refers to the Gump coach as Nick Saban, not Coach Saban
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/bama-ope...
volthrunthru#658770 writes:
Uh...psst...Uh, Hotshot, or SureShot or whatever the login is...
Good reporters keep distance for mutiple reasons at multiple levels.
Period.
Sorry you do NOT enjoy the facts of good journalism.
volthrunthru#658770 writes:
The blog calls him "Butch" multiple times...with no last name.
That is chummy, not reporting. Despite the misunderstood concept that a reporter's blog is supposed to be his personal impressions,
good reporters keep space between themselves and those about whom they write---in person and in print.
So...having read the blog...do you understand now???
Reporters are neither to be biased for or against. They report---and that needs to be borne out even more so in blogs than normal news copy.
utvolfan1955 writes:
you are the only one in the world that cares
Snapshot writes:
Uh..psst..volrunover, or whatever the log in is...because mine has never changed, you need yo lighten up dude. Who made you the authority on how someone chooses to write their blog? You think none of the local media never called Fulmer by his first name? Let me help you with that, they did. Did you get your pantys in a wad over that too? Lighten up man, there are way to many other things in this life too worry about.
rb4346 writes:
Dude if that is what you are worried about then you you need to get a life. How long did it take you to come up with that post
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