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That particular combination looked awesome. The win was great. They were not a Kiffin thing. The players went to him and asked him if they could wear black for that Halloween game, and he gave it to them as a reward. I think it was a reward for their drubbing of Georgia. I could be wrong on that one, but it was definitely the players' idea, not Kiffin's.

You're showing your cluelessness, OB. It wasn't Bray's loko (sic) dance. Denarius Moore and Gerald Jones started it, before Bray was even playing. Aside from that, it was a great thing. It was something they shared, not just something one guy was doing to attract attention. Gradually, several players on the offense began doing it. It should have been encouraged. It might have become a team-wide thing, and they could have even encouraged fans in the stadium to do it. Hey, the Gators have their stupid Gator Chomp, and FSU has their tomahawk chop. Plenty of teams have such things. It's too bad it didn't get encouraged and catch on.

#3 on Rivals right now, and that flash-in-the-pan school in Texas that is about to make a terrible $450M investment that will take more than 50 years just to break even on (if they don't have to pay any interest) is the only SEC team currently ranked ahead of us.

That might explain why there were so many empty seats.

If he meant the 2010 game at Neyland, I hope he enjoyed watching Denarius Moore become the only UT receiver to get over 200 yards receiving in a single game. Oh, and the announced attendance for that 2010 game was 101,170. I wonder what empty seats he was looking at?

Last year there were some empty seats, and a lot of UK fans, but even 82,000 people is a huge crowd to a UK fan.

Although there are some players who are actually "uncoachable," if Bray was one of them, and Dooley was a good coach, he would have done him the same way the NFL teams did, and Worley would have been our starter the last two years.

No, either both Dooley and Bray were the problem, or Bray is reaping the rewards of not having a good coach to mentor him. Three years under the same head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and Bray was still not mature, not a leader, and had questionable mechanics? I'm of the opinion that, had he been working under somebody like Cutcliff or even (dare I say) Kiffin (sorry guys), he would have gone in the first two rounds -- easily.

The seats are already measured to fit a ten year old's butt. Let's hope they don't decide to increase the numbers by just making the seats even narrower. Wait! That's it! Make the seats in the visiting sections smaller and increase the number of seats that way. There. Problem solved.

For the better part of three years he was the starting QB at a major college football program. One of the most storied in the country. People should be impressed enough with his abilities just for that accomplishment. Nevermind the draft. There were 254 players drafted out of how many? I have read that there are over 800 college football teams. If each of them had 20 seniors/eligible juniors, then there were 254 players drafted out of a possible 16,000!

Don't phooey on a kid because he wasn't one of them (He should have been. There's no way all those other QBs who were drafted out of East Bumfk U were better than he.). Doug Flutie was drafted #285 overall, so he wouldn't have made it either. Kurt Warner didn't get drafted. Warren Moon didn't either. Oh, and what about Arian Foster?

I'd say most of them had a strong arm. Bray is impressive because he throws with the same velocity as Manning.

Now, to your first assertion. Bray was often criticized for forcing it to receivers who weren't particularly open. He had the testicular fortitude to drill it to them through tiny holes. One Da'Rick Rogers TD in the Cinci game in 2011 comes to mind. He was double covered and didn't have a step on anybody, but Bray fired it though a pin-hole to hit him right as both DBs got there. The picture of Da'Rick when he sat up, helmet gone, and held both hands straight out to the side, ball in one hand, with a huge smile on his face, is a classic.

It was a great catch and an impossibly perfect "frozen rope" throw.

I'd say the only reason Bray wasn't drafted is because of his punk image. I'm going to predict he does end up with a career on the football field. Hopefully this setback will cause the mental change he needs.

(note to KNS staff: Really? I can say "balls" but I can't say "c o j o n e s?" That makes a lot of sense......not! I chose "testicular fortitude" to avoid any removal of the post by the staff.)

Why does the athletic director have a contract to begin with?

How many administrative jobs do you know of that have that?

I understand why coaches have contracts. Recruits need to see that the coach who is recruiting them has some kind of job security that will mean they will probably still be there to coach the kid, and the coaching profession is very competitive (you don't want to lose your coach to another school). However, administrative wienies like Hart should just be normal, at will employees, like almost everybody else, who have to worry about keeping their job and don't have some contractual parachute that will make them rich even if they get fired. It's crazy!

He gets a five year contract that guarantees him a $50K raise every year -- just for being there! For those who aren't great at math, with a starting salary of $575K, that first $50K raise was almost 10% -- and he didn't have to do anything but be alive to earn it!

There are an aweful lot of people in our military with waaaaay more responsibility, and lives in the balance, who will be lucky to get a 1% increase next year (the smallest increase for the military in over 50 years, and quite a bit less than inflation).

It's pretty unbelievable that nobody drafted Bray when you think about it. There were 11 QBs drafted. There's no way there were 11 better qualified. I feel bad for the kid. On the other hand, Arian Foster was undrafted too. Doug Flutie won the Heisman and since he was drafted as the number 285 overall pick, we can only assume that he would have been undrafted in this draft. Tyler still has a shot. I wish him the best of luck.

I remember how exciting it was watching the Clausen (Casey) - lead Vols offense when the chips were down. Casey was a clutch player, and no opponent could rest on a lead until after the final buzzer. I haven't gone back to research it, but he lead a lot of come-from-behind drives and almost always came through. That's something Bray wasn't ever known for. Clausen was better when the pressure was on. Bray, not so much.

I know the article is about Lane, but the part I like the best is when CBJ says he's been so consumed with our football program that he hasn't given much thought to stuff like the possibility of adding a 9th conference game. He's too busy being the coach and putting together a top-5 class for next year to worry about phooey like that. Go Coach!

I can almost see him -- playing his video and saying, "Ohhhh, man. I wish I could go back in time. I'd take state."

You have just defined "fair-weather fan." Since you aren't actually a Vol fan, maybe you should go somewhere else? I understand Bama is having a pretty good run right now. Maybe you should become a Tide fan? When they fall on hard times again (which they eventually will), you can move over to whomever is winning then.

In the meantime, you can work on your character issues.

Both of them impressed me by getting scholarships to play for the Vols. Beyond that, I've seen Worley play under very difficult circumstances, as freshman against some of the toughest teams in the country, and I haven't seen Peterman play at all. Saying I'm impressed or not, wouldn't mean squat. They don't need to impress me. They need to impress the coaches and I'll take their word for it.

GFY.

I'd say they are comparing coaching styles. Let's hope in a few years they're also comparing results.

A great Alabama coach -- a legend -- never beat a Neyland-coached UT team. Let's dream of a Neyland-like UT coach going unbeaten against another great Bama coach. (We can dream, can't we?)

Absolutely. That freak Griner will be gone now, and Mulkey will have to try to win without him. That advantage is gone, and she just lost her best shot at another championship for a while.

I hope you switch hands every now and then.

Hey, Times Free Press! Hire a new editor or two to proofread your articles.

"How will Tennessee's new defensive use Eric Gordon?" New defensive what? Then there's "comfortability." Even if it were a real word (which it isn't) it's very awkward to the reader. "Develop a level of comfortability?" Why not try "comfort" instead? It's an actual word. People think using big words makes them sound smarter, but when they're making up those big words, it kinda backfires.

Before anybody starts in with the "grammar police" thing, let me just say that it's one thing for commenters on an article to use poor spelling or grammar, or use the wrong version of a word (there, their, they're). It's something entirely different when professional writers to do it in their published works.

Is it always a "down SEC" in your mind? Didn't I hear the announcers say there are ten SEC teams in the top 100 power rankings? More than any other conference?

The defense has always been there. I'm convinced that the offense struggled because of the loss of Maymon and injuries that Golden and McBee both had to deal with to their shooting arms (one wrist, one shoulder, I believe). Now that Stokes has adjusted to life without Maymon, Golden and McBee have both returned to form (knock on wood) and McRae has started to score the way he proved he could in the Rocky Top League a couple of years ago (when he averaged more about 45 points/game), the offense has become (maybe) as good as the defense. This is not the same team we were watching 5-6 weeks ago.

You should be able to watch the replay on ESPN3 or with the WatchESPN app.

I agree 100%, and also let's remember that he's been dealing with an injury to his shooting arm/wrist/shoulder this season that has obviously affected his shooting. His 3-point percentage is down to 34.7% for the season, and he hasn't taken a lot of shots this year that he normally would, but he's 7-10 in the last three games. I'm psyched to see that he seems to be getting his stroke and his confidence back now, just at the right time.

+1

And just look how Kiffy did this year with all that blue-chip talent.