Comments by NGage

Written on Robert Gillespie of West Virginia leading candidate for RB coach :

in response to Johnny_Aint_No_Del_Shofner:

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LOL....try to keep up with what goes on in the world if you are going to comment...your post is filled with erroneous information.

1) the coaches got more money because when you move up in divisions the pay scale goes up (as is true for any business)

2) Graham wasn't dumped upon. He came here for the same or more pay, then was due an increase for next year -- which they were going to give him. Then, when he told them he was going to FSU (Graham doing the dumping), UT offered to match the $300k that FSU was going to pay him.

3) No discrimination when Thigpen is one of the highest paid asst's. And a quick look would show anyone without a chip on their shoulder that the pay scale was largely based on experience.

4) IF they hire Gillespie, he has NFL experience...he played in the league for 2 years.

5) Again, a quick and honest examination of Fulmer clearly indicates his time was past. The conference had passed him by. Look at his overall record (and who the wins were against) in his last 10 seasons.

6) Most will cheer them on in a wait and see manner. You sound like you've given up, or are clinging to something from the past. You might as well move on, and leave the rest of us to cheer them on.

Written on In Butch Jones' 'VOLympics,' UT players will earn, lose points for actions away from field:

in response to volhome:

This is a superb idea. Accountability to yourself, your team, and then the university can be fostered. The guys can learn what it means to care for and about the team, and then bring that to the team as a whole. Coach, we are behind you 100% in this houshold. Great idea.

A huge +1...this fosters responsibility and a sense of team.

I like it.

Written on Former UT football player Dennis Rogan arrested :

Such a shame....a waste. That kid had talent, and with a better head and some good coaching, he could have made it to the NFL for more than a cup of gatorade.

Written on John Adams: CAK QB Charlie High still thinking big despite recruiting rejections :

UT should ask him to come in as an invited walk-on, and tell him they will give him a chance to prove himself for a future scholarship.

Written on Mark Wiedmer: Vols' missing MVP very evident in loss:

What they need is the same thing they've needed for a long time now:

A player or two that can actually shoot.

Written on All-American Kelsey Robinson among 4 players transferring from Tennessee volleyball program:

Seriously....what's going on up on The Hill? The whole place is a mess, from academics it athletics. ...multiple university presidents, multiple coaches, players either in trouble or leaving left and right.

It's embarrassing.

Written on John Adams among 3 selected for induction into Tennessee Sports Writers Hall of Fame :

This is just the newspaper old boys club mutual appreciation society in full force. Hang around long enough, be one of the boys, and get your pat on the back.

The bar must be set pretty low on that "Hall of Fame".

Speaking of bars...see first paragraph. LOL

Written on Geoff Calkins: Ex-Vol Dave Bennett locked in biggest battle yet:

He was a good guy. Knew him back in the day. Sorry to hear of this, and sorry for his family's loss. May he RIP.

Written on John Adams: Another rivalry headed the wrong way for UT :

Hey look! Another John Adams/KNS article that gets as many slams against UT as it can possibly cram into one article.

Hey, KNS...how's that circulation? Going up or going down?

Written on Quarterback Tyler Bray selects agent Don Yee :

in response to rockypop:

Tyler Bray and Tennessee has been an uncomfortable relationship from the get-go. He didn't get many big time offers out of high school, except maybe USC, where he would have been a third string QB. And, with Lane Kiffin as coach, UT seemed like a good choice.

His three years at Tennessee have been mercurial at best. He and Dooley obviously clashed, and there's no reason to think he would have enhanced his draft position under a new system if he had stayed.

The guy's no Peyton Manning, and for all his talent and accomplishments, he'll be leaving UT with little love lost among fans because of his immaturity, recklessness, and inconsistency. However, without him, it's hard to imagine how bad things could have been.

Because he's now a former Vol, I think all UT fans would wish him well, and hope that in his new career, he'll represent the university and himself with class and a passionate work ethic.

You got it exactly correct.

Written on Derek Reese picks up the pieces for Vols, 51-47 :

Oh, and beware:

ugly wins eventually become ugly losses.

Written on John Adams: Bowl season heats up without UT:

in response to Rumblefish:

JA....Where in this column are you telling us readers something we didn't already know???

There are folks who pile on Adams for kicking the Tennessee dog while it's down. Fair enough.

There are also folks who say that JA simply tells the truth that folks don't want to hear. Fair enough.

My beef with Adams??---the fact that he actually gets paid to state the obvious and does nothing more. I'll ask again JA....where in this story (or any of your other stories) have you told the fanbase of something they were not aware of already???

KNS editors....please take the time to actually read JA's submissions and ask the same question that I am before sending them out for print/online. Thanks.

Very accurate, and very astute post.

Written on Derek Reese picks up the pieces for Vols, 51-47 :

Man, oh man, could this team (and UT's bball teams for a while now) use some shooters. Remember the fine art of shooting the basketball? Used to be a big part of the game.

Written on USC gave Lane Kiffin loan for house, but there's a catch:

in response to RoadTrip:

KNS' love affair with Kiffin continues, while their distaste for their paid subcribers continues. Merry Christmas KNS. My wish for you is they you never have a real competitor because you will be bankrupt within a year of their appearance.

Actually, I'd love to see them have a legitimate competitor.
Shoulda put that one on my list.

Written on Central Michigan focus for Butch Jones' coaching staff at Tennessee :

KNS, I down you for all the negative and hit pieces you do on the UT program (largely Adams), so it's nice to see an article like this every now and then. Must be the Christmas season, LOL. Merry Christmas, KNS.

Written on John Adams: Avoiding Oregon would be worse than losing to it:

Hey look! Another sneaky, underhanded, slam from Adams. Got to hand it to you, KNS....always consistent.

Written on John Adams: The right quarterback could speed up UT turnaround :

Hey look...yet another article in the KNS running down the UT program.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Written on John Adams: Tennessee fans might not mind if juniors leave early :

What a great Thanksgiving article!

Stay classy KNS, stay classy.

Written on Cutcliffe says he's staying at Duke in 2013:

Yea!!!!!!

Written on Tennessee-Vanderbilt Report Card :

in response to NGage:

Uh, yeah....might want to re-check that coaching grade. Maybe you didn't see the game, but we got blown out -- by Vandy. Even the commentators noted how our lines were so much bigger than Vandy's. Yet we failed to just pound on them.
If you had watched the game (which I have to assume you didn't if you gave coaching a D), you would have seen that with the 1st half trickling to a close Dooley elected to kick a worthless FG from about the 5 yd line instead of going for it...but then he elected to go for it on 4th down with a fake punt from his own 18. Oh, and if you'd watched the game, you would have not only seen that they weren't pounding the outsized Vandy with the run (even more important with a QB struggling), but instead chose to inexplicably pull Bray and throw Worley in out of the blue.

I'm not sure who does this grading for the KNS, but someone new needs to do it next season.

I give the coaching and the KNS grading both a F.

Oh, and to be clear -- my F for the KNS grading is for the season, not just this game.

With the KNS grading curve, I could have gone to any Ivy League school and graduated with honors.

Written on Tennessee-Vanderbilt Report Card :

Uh, yeah....might want to re-check that coaching grade. Maybe you didn't see the game, but we got blown out -- by Vandy. Even the commentators noted how our lines were so much bigger than Vandy's. Yet we failed to just pound on them.
If you had watched the game (which I have to assume you didn't if you gave coaching a D), you would have seen that with the 1st half trickling to a close Dooley elected to kick a worthless FG from about the 5 yd line instead of going for it...but then he elected to go for it on 4th down with a fake punt from his own 18. Oh, and if you'd watched the game, you would have not only seen that they weren't pounding the outsized Vandy with the run (even more important with a QB struggling), but instead chose to inexplicably pull Bray and throw Worley in out of the blue.

I'm not sure who does this grading for the KNS, but someone new needs to do it next season.

I give the coaching and the KNS grading both a F.

Written on Report card :

in response to NeedForSpeed:

Who is more incompetent? The nit wit that puts the grades on this report card or the UT defense?

Can we get a poll on that?

Amen, NeedForSpeed.....weekly these grades are a joke. Must be grading on a curve.....big curve.

Written on 'Hip issue' slows Derek Dooley:

What a great article!
Dooley has hip issue, walking gingerly.

Maybe I should go to the KNS front page for other stories like this:

"Building catches fire. It burns down."

Love articles with no real details.

Written on UT long jumper Tyler Montez Anderson charged with beating girlfriend with cast-clad arm :

Bye, bye, loser! Hit the bricks!
Send him on his way.

Written on John Adams: Elite Eight best place to play Baylor :

in response to timetotellthetruth:

Because, unlike you, we are not idiots.

Nice. Attack the messenger when you can't attack the message.

- 6'8"
- lack of breast tissue
- face that looks like a boy
- voice deeper, or as deep as most guys
- hint of an Adam's apple

No way -- or at least it's highly questionable and worthy of being addressed -- that Grainer is typical female both genetically and chromosomally.

It's one thing to be a man amongst boys, and have that advantage (I'm looking at you, Greg Oden, LOL)....it's another to be a man amongst girls (Britney Grainer, very possibly).

Listen, call me all the names you want....but there are at least enough signs there that somewhere along the way she should have to prove to someone that she indeed was born fully female. Otherwise, it's an uneven playing field.

Or, everyone can continue to look the other way....like they've done with performance enhancing drugs in so many other sports.

Written on Brittney Griner's dunks worth more than points to Baylor :

Brittney Griner is a guy....why hasn't this been brought up, or at least questioned -- by someone? No chest, face looks like a guy, hint of and Adam's apple, and voice like a guy.

Written on John Adams: Elite Eight best place to play Baylor :

Brittney Griner is a guy....why hasn't this been brought up, or at least questioned?

Written on John Adams: Recruiting reveals state of UT program :

KNS, you are lucky you are the only game in town. Soon, even that won't save you.

I hope the University freezes you out until you decide to get reporters who aren't so hostile to the school.

You don't have to be Homers, but you also don't have to be hostile or an antagonist.

Written on John Adams: Recruiting reveals state of UT program :

Hey look! Another negatively slanted article on UT from the KNS!

Yes, UT has been down in several sports for some time now....but the KNS never fails to go beyond just reporting "what is", instead choosing to try to portray things in as negative light as possible. It's almost as if they both want things to be bad, and want to aid in them being that way.

Written on Mike Strange: What will Jarnell Stokes do next? :

He is a great player, for sure, but like mentioned...there have been several others that were great too.

What I really wish we could see is Stokes playing along side Hobson and Tobias Harris. Man.....that woulda been something.

Written on WR Matt Milton to transfer to Louisville:

Oh....the article says it's because of an illness, to be closer to home.

Free agency, here we come!

Written on UT's end-of-season report card :

Wow.....you guys continue to grade on one very generous curve.

Seriously, if this is how you are going to grade....what's the point? (and it's been consistently lenient all season)

Written on John Adams: Cincinnati still C-USA at heart :

Nice of the Knoxville newspaper to give Cincy bulletin board material. It's almost like someone's trying to undermine the program from the pages of the paper (or internet).

Written on John Adams: One-and-done not a good thing:

in response to carbonzip:

Do Kentucky's one and done players continue classes after the tournament?

I bet most of the one and done's barely go to class at all....why would they? They mostly know they are one and done, and do just as little as they have to in order to play. It's a farce.

Written on John Adams: One-and-done not a good thing:

"Until the NCAA can work out a better arrangement with the NBA...."

I'm sorry....it's not up to the NCAA and the NBA to decide for others what they can and can't do with their life (or shouldn't be). It's collusion and restraint of trade, and should be against the law....but like all things in life, the decisions go in favor of those with money and power (see child related legislation vs elderly related legislation -- and in children's case the lack thereof). Current law and collegiate rulings basically makes these kids endenchered servants to the NCAA and member institutions.

That is the real problem of the one-and-done situation. Plus, as we've been reminded more and more, let's just drop the charade of collegiate athletics as being amateur and/or about anything other than making money for all involved -- schools, athletes, and all the other peripheral players.

The sleaziness and hypocrisy is just about enough to disgust a person and make one want to have nothing to do with any of it. And, for the record, I'm a former collegiate athletic participant.

Written on Gerald Jones speaks his mind to recruit about UT, Auburn:

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Written on Gerald Jones speaks his mind to recruit about UT, Auburn:

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Written on Gerald Jones speaks his mind to recruit about UT, Auburn:

Why would Trooper Taylor have Gabe Wright call Gerald Jones......unless he thought it would help get him to AU.
He certainly wouldn't have him call Gerald Jones if he thought it would sway Wright to UT.

Written on Ex-Vol football player gets diversion on sex charges involving teen boy:

in response to gglardon50#417841:

so it's ok that he did it.Just don't report it until AFTER signing day right.
Kind of like it's ok that Pearl is a lier but the Sent.is really the problem for reporting it.

Hey, it is what it is: a follow-up to a secondary story that would typically be buried in the middle pages of the local section somewhere.

Of course, the KNS chooses to post it front and center in the sports section the day before signing day.

Again....they have set a pattern over the last few years with stuff/articles like this.

Written on Ex-Vol football player gets diversion on sex charges involving teen boy:

Oh....and BTW, way to play it all up with the headline. :rolleyes:

That headline, while technically correct, doesn't even begin to accurately reflect what supposedly happened. Yet it does sensationalize it, and portray it in as nefarious light as possible.

Congrats KNS...as they like to say, "stay classy".

Written on Ex-Vol football player gets diversion on sex charges involving teen boy:

Every time I try to give the KNS the benefit of the doubt about having some kind of agenda against UT, you guys step up and remind me why I begin to feel that way. Let's see...it's the day before signing day, and once again there is an article that could smear the rep of the football program. What is this?...like the 3rd or 4th year in a row now?

Seriously, the KNS is the most anti-homer paper I've ever seen. Yes, you need to keep your journalistic integrity, but some stories can be run at different times and not infringe upon that integrity.

The KNS seems to not only post more negative slanted articles than any other paper I've seen covering their home team....but you also seem to time them for doing the most damage.

Written on Head official backs refs for Music City :

This is major CYA.

1) NCAA Rule Book Section 1 Article 3b.
http://www.oficiales.org/A_200....ule...
Winning Team and Final Score
ARTICLE 3. a. The teams shall be awarded points for scoring according to
rule and, unless the game is forfeited, the team having the larger score at the
end of the game, including extra periods, shall be the winning team.
b. The game is ended and the score is final when the referee so declares.

The head official called the game over. So the game, by the rules, was over.....replay officials have no say. It was a full 27 seconds later that they came back with the review call. That is both against the rules -- as evidenced above -- and insane....a half a minute after the game was called done. It would be different if they had immediately called for review....but almost 30 seconds later? No way.

2) They had 11 men lined up, plus a holder, plus a kicker, plus the guys running off the field. At any one time, they had as many as 16-18 men on the field of play, and when the ball was snapped they had 13 lined up to play. 13! At minimum, they should have been assessed a 15yd penalty, not a 5 yarder. Big difference between a 39 and a 49 game winner into the wind.....and that was the one to tie the game.

3) The catch/no-catch on the big pass reception could have gone either way (the one that set up the FG to tie), but by all appearances the receiver landed helmet first out of bounds. Also, they got an extra 15yds for a launching penalty on Janzen Jackson. See the "launching" rules:
http://www.ncaapublications.co...nloa...

Page 236
Initiating Contact/ Targeting An Opponent
Article 3
Approved Ruling 9-1-3

II- Receiver A83 has just leaped and received a forward pass, B45 launches and drives into A83 above the shoulder area with his helmet or shoulder.

Ruling- Foul by B45 for targeting and initiating contact with a defenseless opponent above the shoulders. Ejection for a flagrant foul.

JJ hit the guy at, or below, the shoulder level --- no foul.

They will never admit it, but the refs totally botched the end of the game (just as much as our Vols did).

Written on Slive says 'welcome' to Dooley and as for that other guy ... :

Not to take a pro or anti stance on anything else .....just to point out:
This article just confirms that Slive had a hard-on for Kiffin and that Myer was concerned with the new competition Kiffin was going to bring.

Written on Adams: It's the next best thing after UT vs. UConn :

in response to rogatl2002#222395:

when your wide pulls your pants down does she as for a chromosome test? stop being a bigot. calling her an IT is just ignorant and diminishes us all a bit if we don;t speak up. just because she is different doesn;t mean she is weird.

I don't understand "when your wide pulls your pants down does she as for a chromosome test?" That question makes no sense.

However, I do agree that calling her, or him, an "it" is unnecessarily mean. Yet, no one called her weird....just questioned if she is indeed female, or fully female.

Again, see the South African track star situation for reference: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world...

Written on Adams: It's the next best thing after UT vs. UConn :

in response to YankeeVol:

Just give it up....please. How about if we start by questioning your gender, just for fun.

I asked a serious, honest and valid question based on the physical evidence in the public realm (height, body frame, deep voice, aggressiveness, and facial structure). Your attempt to insult me is a poor attempt at deflecting from the issue.

Written on Adams: It's the next best thing after UT vs. UConn :

Ok...I'm not trying to start a flame war -- this is an honest question. Is there anyone questioning this Griner's sex? I heard her interview after beating UT, and she sounded -- and looked -- like a male. That was the first time I have ever seen/heard her, and I immediately thought she was a he. Could this be another situation like that South African track star?

Written on NCAA investigating Brown's eligibility:

I wonder just who it was that prompted this investigation? One of our rivals maybe?

Written on Fulmer: Clawson will stay upstairs :

Once agian....we have to turn the season around.

Same song, another verse.

Good grief, I'm tired of year in year out having this same kind of season. Always starting in the hole, always having to fight back to have a decent season. Always the same mistakes, over and over, and over.

Rinse repeat, until you are 8 or 9 and 4. Mediocrity, thy color is orange.

Way to set the bar high, Hamilton. Phil....just milk it for all it's worth, work like heck, review the film, and just do enough to keep your fat paycheck coming in. Must be nice to be so financially connected to the big wigs that they are willing to let you run into the ground the program you once lifted up.

Resting on your laurels, living off of past glory.

Yeah!!.....no wait, YAWN!

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