Comments by jmaples54

Written on John Adams: UT baseball takes 'baby step,' still needs leaps of improvement :

in response to WaltGoVoIs:

Well, Adams. Since you had a prominent role in wrecking the football program, you must surely know that any revival of UT Baseball must follow the revival of the team that plays on Shields-Watkins Field.

Not that you care.

Walt

UT '81

"prominent role in wrecking the football program"
the powers that be could not care less what one newspaper columnist says or thinks.

"you must surely know that any revival of UT baseball must follow the revival of the team that plays on Shields-Watkins field."
this makes no sense at all.

you are making a poor case for your intelligence, my friend.

Written on John Adams: New coach, recruits big draws for spring game:

in response to rockytop321:

Nothing new, just another way for him to remind us we've sucked lately. God why is this all the KNS has to offer?

Some people would say you must be pretty smart, since you already knew:

1. Tennessee fans set a NCAA and Guinness record with a crowd of over 73,000 at the spring game in 1986.

2. Alabama has had three spring-game crowds over 90,000.

3. The '85 SEC crown was Tennessee's first in 16 years, and the team wound up 4th in the nation.

4. UT's second biggest spring game attendance was in 2009: 51,000 to see Lane Kiffin's team.

Some people might say you're really smart. I would say you're really ignorant, that just like me you didn't know any of those things.

In addition to being ignorant, you are unrealistic. What the heck do you expect, Pulitzer-winning journalism every week?

You are also petty. You know who the KNS staff is, and you couldn't do any better if you stayed up all night.

Instead of asking God about the KNS staff, why don't you ask him for some perspective in life?

Written on John Adams: Mack Brown still has championship aspirations:

in response to SummittsCourt:

I guess JA didn't have any Vols teams to kick while they are down so he decided to write this cra ppy article.

guess you didn't have a wife, kid or dog to kick while they were down, so you decided to write your typical crappy drivel.

did you not read the mccullers article yesterday?

Written on John Adams: UT hopes one Daniel McCullers play will lead to others:

please. john adams, you must stop writing these interesting, positive articles! we have regular posters who cannot bring themselves to praise you, so they are ready to burst with pent-up bitterness. have mercy on these twisted souls.

Written on John Adams: New staff won over Daniel Hood with its love for the game:

in response to AlcoVOLic:

wow...actually a good article from adams. no doom and gloom, slight jab at dooley, but that can be expected of him and many of the upcoming comments from other GVX-ers

i will temporarily suspend my disdain for adams for this article...i, however, also don't believe he could do this twice in a row

guess you missed the several articles adams wrote about the lady vols'tourney run. complimentary and upbeat.

unlike you.

actually, i wouldn't expect people like you to read lady vol articles...for the most part those are classy tennessee fans.

Written on Jordan McRae, Jarnell Stokes apply for evaluation from NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee :

in response to PaulMorrow:

I've seen some responses mentioning former Vols Scotty Hopson and Tobias Harris, an based on their success (Tobias is now playing for the Orlando Magic wearing his familiar Jersey #12, and Scotty, IDK what he's doing now), I think J. McRae needs to play his Senior Year and Jarnell needs an extra year, or 2, maybe 3 at UTK. Scotty Hop left after his Jr. year and he went undrafted in the 2011 NBA Draft and IDK if he's currently playing overseas or if he got a regular job working 8-5. With Tobias, if he'd stayed at UT for an extra year, he'd probably would've been drafted higher by a team better than the Charlotte Bobcats and probably would've not been traded on draft night. If you look at former Lady Vols Glory Johnson and Shekinna Stricklen, they stayed at Tennessee all 4 Seasons and Glory played 28 MPG and started 28/34 WNBA Games Shekinna played 23 MPG (majority off the bench with 3 starts) in 34 Games. Both Girls did well and have good stats for their Rookie Season last summer and they were also high draft picks too. If Jordan McRae and Jarnell Stokes came back to be a Tennessee Volunteer next season, they can IMPROVE their game and have great Rookie #'s like some of the former Lady Volunteers. That's what I think. I just want to see our players (both Vols & Lady Vols) DO GREAT in the NBA & WNBA if they choose to go pro=)!!!!

scotty has played the last 2 seasons in israel. he averaged about 18 points last season. he has admitted he didn't give it his all at ut and that it was a mistake to leave early.

Written on John Adams: Louisville taught UT a big-game lesson :

in response to rogatl2002#222395:

You know I have thought before that UT fans were really too rough on you Adams but your columns today and yesterday are really pieces of trash. They are not insightful in any way. UT deserves better. All you do it state obvious things that we can see for ourself....instead of adding to our understanding by pointing out things your readers might not see for themselves. This column is worthy of a first year journalism student writing for the Daily Beacon...not the senior sportswriter for a major city newspaper.

i'm sorry, you must be smarter than me since you obviously saw how bad massengale was. silly me, focusing on simmons' poor play.

you and adams-- what a brainy pair. since you know so much, i'm sure everyone would love it if you would post some intelligent stories on this site.

no, you wouldn't get paid the big bucks adams gets, but hey, to show us all how you can conjure up insights that none of the rest of us can imagine-- that would surely be more constructive that merely stating that you are smarter than adams.

can you start tomorrow?

Written on John Adams: Kamiko Williams' value increases as UT advances:

in response to Mrlogic:

John Adams Quote:
In fact, Williams should have had an opportunity to make more plays in the second half during which she took only one shot.
But the ball kept going to Simmons as if she were at the top of her game. She followed a 1-for-7 first half by missing all eight second-half shots, including a layup.

I think Adams makes a good point. Get the ball to the player that is hot. After a one for seven first half by Simmons and the way Williams was playing you have to get it to her. Maybe in the next game Simmons will have the hot hand.

kamiko is undeniably the key to the ladies future success in the tournament. she brings a wild-card element that other teams wouldn't have expected earlier in her career. talk about peaking at the right time!

as for the posters on this website, the lady vol fans are by far the most positive and polite.

there have been some people (men, i presume), who have been furiously critical of john adams. i haven't seen it much on responses to lady vol articles, but these fools believe and spout nonsense. john adams didn't get fulmer fired or dooley hired (or fired).

thank goodness most of these trolls have crawled back into their holes. (maybe they're hibernating til football season.) i hope, but doubt, they are reading adams's articles and have seen the light.

Written on The addition of Darius Thompson means someone is going or someone isn't coming on Vols' roster:

in response to Katphan29:

Kentucky Basketball's New Death Star.

Wall Street Journal article. Interesting read:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001...

this year's kentucky team got the star treatment too, sports illustrated article and all that. how'd that work out?

Written on Butch Jones says of event countering Nick Saban: 'I'll do anything in Tennessee':

in response to Giverny:

Retired USAF explains a lot........but please tell me I'm just curious are you from the era that joined the military because you couldn't get a job at the utility company or sewage treatment plant or the one where people joined as a compromise to avoid going to jail...

are u the one who says he is friends and formerly neighbors with pat summitt?

Written on Butch Jones says of event countering Nick Saban: 'I'll do anything in Tennessee':

in response to Giverny:

I've heard Sabin speak formally and informally and he's not a great orator but lets face it he's much more adept than Jones.....

Speakifin just ain't Jones thing....now hyperbolic, gross exaggeration for effect and dangling participle's are.....as well as abusing any and all grammatical elements of the English language..

Seriously in regards to Jones being a representative of our highest academic institution is an embarrassment...

you are indeed an embarrassment... to yourself.

don't go critiquing someone else's grammar when you misuse the apostrophe in "participles" and mangle the subject ("seriously in regards to jones being a representative of our highest academic institution" does not qualify as a subjective clause) of your last sentence.

i am not counting "speakifin" as a mistake. maybe it's just a colloquialism.

Written on Offseason could be time to evaluate Cuonzo Martin's contract:

in response to snowpeapod#263184:

What in the heck are you talking about? The guy has only been here two years. If any contracts need to be evaluated it's those of some KNS sports writers.

your extension as a poster has been rejected. you are a free agent. please try to get on with kentucky's or alabama' fan sites.

Written on Time was needed for Vols to build chemistry without Jeronne Maymon:

weak link on this team was golden. disappeared for whole games on offense. defensive liability. no consistent leadership. cuonzo has to light his fire or replace him.

Written on John Adams: Falling short of potential not an option for Taber Spani:

thanks for being such a positive part of the lady vols program, taber! i'm sure you will continue to be successful in life.

good article, adams.

Written on Season ends for Vols in NIT opener, 75-67:

in response to TheEffect:

Nah! Tennessee losing at home in the first round of the NIT for the SECOND year in a row is way more funny! At least Kentucky's NIT flop is sandwiched between TWO NCAA National Championships!!

"the greatest program in ncaa history" losing in the first round of the nit is infinitely more humiliating than tennessee's loss.

not only robert morris--your mildcats got torched in an all-time worst loss this season to a team that couldn't beat mercer?!?

tennessee fans have had quite a down spell, or beating kentucky perhaps wouldn't be so special.

oh, and i wouldn't go out and bet the trailer mortgage on kentucky winning next year-- i recall a sports illustrated article from this past season trying to hand kentucky this year's crown. yeah, right.

Written on John Adams: Another celebration for first-year coach Holly Warlick:

in response to tovolny:

Is it just me, or do you resent the Pat Summitt dis? Why couldn't John have made this a true tribute to LVs? I anticipate the worst when John puts ink on paper, so I don't know for sure how to take him. I know he is misunderstood, but his negative light on Coach Summitt seems to define him as far as UT Sports are concerned. He is out to drag us down...the typical Wolf in Sheep's clothing approach. It really is sad that the proud UT fans have this guy to relate the UT sports scene...sad....very sad.

only a negative person like you cannot see the positives in this story.

your hatred for john adams clouds your perspective about tennessee sports. adams is most certainly misunderstood, mainly by you and your ilk. his only comments about pat were concerning how tough last year's situation was on holly. you can't see the forest for the trees.

you and giverNY, what is it? maybe yall should change your names: unfunNY, whiNY, puNY, oblivioNY...

Written on No. 2 seed Lady Vols open with Oral Roberts; Baylor is No. 1 seed:

in response to Giverny:

Excellent question...and without going into great detail the most significant reason is that it would completely free the staff and players from any residual encumbrances....IE having to considering Pat's program and Pat's current situation....

I can only imagine how difficult its been for the current staff, players and Pat attempting to say and do all the right things in an attempt to avoid anything that could be perceived as any disrespect or 'slight' for the other...

Anecdotally speaking I had an experience in my career where I was a senior manager of a department and my very successful and popular predecessor remained with the company primarily so he could get 30 years before exiting...

He was in an entirely different capacity and 1500 miles away but I had to always be aware of his 'presence' in what I said and did...

lol. you were the one broaching the subject of why pat wasn't at the viewing party.

for all i know you might be a nice guy but your posts are quickly gaining you the image of the most obnoxious poster on this site.

Written on John Adams: 'Bracketology' not an exact science:

only about 1/4 of the teams have a real chance to even make the final four (win 4-5 games). there is no real difference between the last 30 in and the first 30 out.

to me the best answer is to imitate the football bowls-- include every team that has a .500 record. this would at most be about 170 teams and would only add one week to the tournament.

Written on John Adams: SEC membership no boon in basketball :

best results of the season:

1. 20 wins for the vols without their best player all year.

2. the development of jordan mcrae.

3. kentucky taking a giant step backward.

Written on Tennessee left in the hands of the committee, but Cuonzo Martin thinks his team deserves to be in:

in response to Giverny:

Its interesting to see what Martin 'thinks'....if only Brookings, Carnegie, RAND or one of the more distinguished Think Tanks needed the perspective of a walking , talking (well I guess you could consider that talking) 'box of rocks' thinks Martin would be in demand....

Of course the chances of that happening are about the same as Purdue 'calling him home'...

to me this whole season, nit or not, was worth it to give the (alleged) best program in college history, the WORST BEATING we have ever given them.

erny, how do you "see" what coach martin "thinks?"

if ccm is a "box of rocks," then based on what i know about him, and how you represent about yourself, you must be a bag of hot air, nothing more.

Written on UT signee Robert Hubbs says Vols will 'do some damage' in NCAA tournament:

in response to claiborneh:

UT Vols signee says, "We don't stand a chance. I'm not sure we will get in, but if we do I say we will wont be able to do any damage. Well probably get knocked out first game."

Another lame article with such insightful opinion from a teenager

put down the remote and step away from sports. go back to your psychology today magazine. (or mad magazine-- is it still in circulation?)

Written on Vols get needed win at Auburn, 82-75:

in response to PHAT_VOL:

With Mammon back next year and Hubbs coming in we will be where we need to be to make a move on the SEC title.
GO VOLS!!!

i know you spell fat that way on purpose, but jerrone might prefer that you spell HIS name correctly: Maymon.

Written on John Adams: Night and day difference in last two Lady Vols' games :

in response to emailnodata:

@under
sorry, but I, too,take Adams as being a condescending snot on this one.

He's a columnist, he gets paid for drawing comments and eyeballs.

I'm not nearly as close to the Vol/LV program as I sued to be, and I can tell you I felt for those ladies. I was watching on ESPNU on a 46-inch screen, and it was easy to see from play 1 that the A&N game had not warn off physically, emotionally, or mentally. Those players sold out every ounce they had to beat a physically superior A&M, and just could NOT bring it back in gear in front of a hostile crowd, physical team, and.....whatever else.

So, yeah, Adams wrote the column, and I'm calling him out for being a jerk.

they cut the nets down thursday night. i think sunday's loss might have been a good wakeup call. if the girls don't play quicker and more aggressive, AND get ready to play 3 games in 3 days, they won't be cutting down any more nets.

you can call adams a jerk, a snot all you want. nobody cares, especially adams. sounds like you'd be a great sportswriter-- why don't you try it? just ignore those crybabies who don't like what you write.

Written on Incoming QB Joshua Dobbs receives academic award:

in response to bUTch_please:

Tomorrows column from JA, "How the lack of ethnic diversity on Coach Jones' staff will impact Josh Dobbs."

Complete with a companion article by Woodbery listing the IQ's of Coach Jones staff and a comparison showing the lowest combined IQ staff in the SEC.

zzz

Written on Former UT strength coach Troy Wills arrested for breaking into arena office:

in response to philgreen5#410561:

Is there ever any good news from the hill?

according to grandcanyon vol, creekroad, et al, it's all john adams's fault.

Written on John Adams: Role players play a major role to back McRae :

in response to GrandCanyonVol:

I have to agree with creekroad. I have read you many times John, and you have a knack for the negative part of the program, than you do the positive. You seem to delight yourself when Tennessee loses a game or something else negative happens in the program. You have a character hangup, no doubt about that. Maybe because of your childhood...who knows! You will meet the Lord soon, and He knows all about you and what makes you enjoy the dark side of things. I think I know why, but I will let Him tell you......

you and others, in reviewing the work of john adams, seem to delight in the negative energy of criticism, even when adams writes a positive piece. is this because of something from your childhood?

i'm confused. doesn't god also sees your hate and slander? he may not excuse it as a character hangup, but see it for what it is-- an intentional effort to hurt someone. is this the example of christ? or is your god someone... else?

perhaps you too will be judged.
didn't the lord say "love your enemy," and "turn the other cheek?" throwing around talk of eternal judgement over a sports column makes you sound like, sorry to say it, a nut.

Written on John Adams: Losing Jay Graham is more than just losing a running backs coach:

in response to abnermc:

Having JA for knox news is worse than no news ...much worse.. Please don't read this junk folks . Headline is all you need.

as a relatively new adams hater ( i haven't seen your byline recently) i say follow your own advice. don't read and don't comment. everybody is happy. john adams could not care less about you and your kind.
graham leaving can't be spun positively. you folks who underestimate the importance of race on the staff are the same breed that hates adams. out of touch.

Written on How will Tennessee men's basketball finish out the regular season?:

i know who 3 of the 7 are: se7en, whine will be so fine, and unprofessionally handicapped.

Written on Mike Strange: Texas Vol fans welcome new era:

in response to snowpeapod#263184:

Another great article by Mike Strange. John Adams, you should stand up and bow to him. Some day you may be as good, but I doubt it.

living in austin in the 1980's i watched longhorn sports but never got to see the vols. my one tennessee sporting memory was going to san antonio to watch the usfl gunslingers host the tampa bay bandits. tampa bay was coached by steve spurrier (his first head coaching job) and the gunslingers by my high school coach, jim bates. i don't remember seeing spurrier throw his visor-- the bandits, named after minority owner burt reynolds's film franchise smoky and the bandits-- won the game. i do remember bates, ever the enthusiastic dynamo, executing leaping chest bumps with his players after big plays.
hopefully, vol fans in the show-me state will get to enjoy similar moments starting next football season.
as for snowpea, you're just a debbie downer. if it makes you feel good to slam adams from way out in left field, go for it. most people think comments like this are a waste of cyberspace. try to contribute something positive (i know you include a strange complement to go along with your strange blabbering).

Written on Mike Strange: Suddenly, beating Texas A&M is a big deal:

in response to orangecountyvols:

I disagree. Since the KNS staff doesn't seem to be inclined to deal with the trolls here, and then we have several people who say just "ignore the trolls and they will go away" there is nothing wrong with mlynn and others who realize idiots such as "9 is fine to be a troll".........aren't going to 'go away.'

The staff has allowed trolls to be here for a long time, along with clowns such as J Flowers who has defamed several Tennessee football players, ( Kremser and Glenn Ford ) so from time to time Vol fans have said enough is enough. I know it's wrong to address these idiots, it simply gets tiresome just seeing them here with their warped purpose.

you know what? it really doesn't matter.
some of these negatrolls vent about opposing fans, some vent about adams, and some vent about negatrolls (i'm one of those).
this is why we like sports. we can vent-- and it doesn't really matter.
so enjoy your sports and your venting.
don't know who's going to win, but it will be a 1 or 2 point game. gbo

Written on It comes full circle as Elston Turner Jr. gets crack against Vols' team his father was slighted by:

in response to CoverOrange:

Had a nervous break down (as it was termed then) in 1977 and never really recovered.

this was right during/after bernard king's problems. bernard had his youthful moments and he could have flamed out after a spectacular college career. if you don't remember him, imagine having a superquick, instinctive rebounder and versatile scorer, unstoppable by anyone. imagine tennessee having a first team all american
ernie was a second all american, and he was unstoppable too- large body, smooth, great outside shooter as well as inside moves.
ernie was a good leader, while bernard led with his play.
but it was bernard who was getting in trouble, much of it hushed up during his career. so what a tribute to the man that he continued his excellence in the nba. he was both player of the year and comeback poty (after serious knee injuries). by all accounts his post-playing career has been admirable. his public reconnection with the ut program, aided by cbp, has once again endeared him to the vol nation.
i don't know the extent of mears's mental health issues. he mostly stayed out of the public eye after retiring. he will be remembered as the greatest of tennessee men's basketball coaches.

Written on Humiliated Kentucky seeks to rebound vs Vanderbilt:

unfortunate that vandy is so bad. right, professionally handicapped?

Written on All of Jordan McRae's career-high 34 points "count" in 82-72 win over LSU:

cuonzo, unlike many of us fans, doesn't panic when the team is slow to gel early in the season. i admire his style.
may be too late to make the ncaa's unless we win the sec tourney. either way, i hope we can improve on last year's tournament results.

Written on Mike Strange: Jordan McRae was the man:

in response to VFL-az:

Nice article Mike!

I like reading articles which positively reflect UT wins. Too bad there are very few of them written in Knoxville.

FIRE JOHN ADAMS!!

many of uslike reading positive articles AND POSTS. you ruin the attitude you supposedly favor. so shut up.

Written on John Adams: It may turn heads, but Nick Saban's speaking gig in Athens (Tenn.) a hot ticket :

praise the lord that at least we won't be subjected to the rednosealchoholic's spewing anymore, since he has finally had enough. please become a lee college or utc fan. or just drink more.

Written on John Adams: It may turn heads, but Nick Saban's speaking gig in Athens (Tenn.) a hot ticket :

interesting. you got to hand it to saban. as he said to mal moore in his interview for the bama job, you won't be getting the best coach, you'll be getting the best recruiter. so far, butch jones seems to be getting it.
but my gosh, people, if you are really tennessee fans, can you ever shut off the negativity? how in the world does your wife, your kids, your boss and coworkers put up with this? i hope vol recruits don't visit this site.

Written on Mike Strange: Is routing Kentucky proof the Vols are ready to surge? :

in response to 9willbesofine:

UF will bring reality back very quickly. Vawls won't even keep that one close. ut just beat a bad UK team without their best player. Not that big of a deal. Cool your jets.

how lame is posting the same thing 2 days in a row? as I said yesterday, when you put a whuppin' for the ages-- all-time biggest victory margin- on the supposed best program in the nation, IT IS A BIG DEAL.
if you are a tenn. fan, you aren't much of one. if you're a Kentucky fan, 2 bad for you. you're the one with the cooled jets, in fact your jets are about sputtered out. maybe next year, loser.

Written on Never Better: Vols score biggest victory ever against Kentucky, 88-58 :

in response to tovolny:

The Vols did a good job. The players seemed to move faster and seemed more aggressive. The odd thing that I noticed, they seemed surprised every time something good happened, AND they probably strutted and gloated too much for a few people. The push by More on a Kentucky player as he was stumbling out of bounds maybe was not necessary. I enjoyed the victory, but there was something that just didn't taste right. Probably I was thinking: why haven't they played like this all year, and can they keep it up(?). I played football, basketball, baseball, ran track and was on the swimming and golf teams; but, my heart is with football. I am very hungry for a football victory sandwich. GO BIG ORANGE____play like Vols.

record-breaking alltime biggest victory over the top team in ncaa history-- and something "doesn't taste right"? maybe as a six-sport star, you can't relate. I admire your athletic prowess, if true. however, something just doesn't smell right. maybe it's my feet.

Written on Mike Strange: Is routing Kentucky proof the Vols are ready to surge? :

in response to bigdisbig:

The Florida game will show if the Vols are for real. They have beat no one yet. You can say Ky. was a great win but in reality Ky. is not the Ky. we are all used to seeing. Ky is weak and will do good to win another SEC game without Noel. The games at Texas A&M and Missouri will be very tough. I was impressed with the way they played against the Cats but its the only great game they have played all year long in reality. All you delusional fans can hate on me all you want but I guess YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!! LMAO

for referring to ccm as a "lower-level coach" as well as your ignorant bloviating you will forever be known on this site as Lower Level Person.

Written on Mike Strange: Is routing Kentucky proof the Vols are ready to surge? :

in response to 9willbesofine:

UF will bring reality back very quickly. Vawls won't even keep that one close. ut just beat a bad UK team without their best player. Not that big of a deal. Cool your jets.

all time largest margin of victory against "best" basketball factory in the game? sorry but that is that big of a deal.
can you not see the forest for the trees? this season will fade in memory, but a 30-point whacking of the "big blue" will never be forgotten by vol fans. of which you apparently are not one.
also for you cuonzo deniers, he continues a nice little streak of beating the defending national champs.

Written on John Adams: Vols turn rivalry topsy-turvy :

in response to formerflgranny:

Sorry adams that you had to toss out all the prewritten articles you had already wrote before this game. I know that hurt your ego but I think it is funny!!!!

sorry troll that u had to toss out all those screeches about how adams always trashes the vols. I know it hurts your ego but everyone else laughs at your comments.

Written on John Adams: Vols turn rivalry topsy-turvy :

in response to ALWAYS_TIME_2_TROLL:

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yeah like kentuck's win in football.

Written on Mike Strange: Vols-Cats: It takes two for the rivalry tango :

in response to usnavyvolfan_on_duty:

I disagree for two reasons. First, a loss would do quite a bit of damage to their tournament prospects, at least as far as the seeding. Secondly, they make the trek to Knoxville every year and end up making half of TBA blue, so obviously it means SOMETHING to them.
Anyway, today should be a good game. Stokes has really come along since the meeting in Lexington, so I like our chances.

stokes played with a lot of confidence, but so did the rest of the team. cuonzo is continuing the progress of last year: improving as the season goes on. where are those crybabies who don't like cuonzo's "boring" style?

Written on News Sentinel earns nine awards in APSE contest :

obviously these foreigners, Yankees, liberal elites, vol-haters, and toejam sniffers have never read the kns... never sensed the shame and disregard for the average vol fan between the lines, yea even in the lines of the poison pen hacks of the kns. why, these sportswriters ain't even from around here. claiborneh, greervol22 and all the other literary critics we are blessed to have in east Tennessee know that john adams et al hate the vols and love to stick it to the vol nation at every opportunity. they go out of their way to create snarky sarcasm to make us look bad and feel bad. they never praise and uplift. when they do tell the truth, it's almost always bad. that's why I ignore every one of these awards that comes the news-sentinel's way. what does the ap know anyway? they should give the awards to the Tuscaloosa, Gainesville, and Lexington papers. those guys know where their bread is buttered. no negativity there. so why do we get stuck with the most illiterate, vile, ignorant sportswriters on the planet? because the most knowledgeable vol fans don't have the time to sit around and chew the fat with coaches and players and type at a keyboard. they have real jobs. (most of them) so thankfully at least they have time to thoughtfully comment on the stupid articles posted by this know-nothing kns staff. thank god for tomcat, tovolny, and their intellectual counterparts. FIGHT ON FANS! one day we'll get some real sportswriters in here!

Written on Vols find recipe for victory on the road, 58-46 :

in response to asmith:

this a ut chat board and a uk fan is posting more than anybody. who really looks like a moron, or jarhead?

i seem to recall a vandy fan crowing just the other day about how great it is to be a dore fan. where is he now?

Written on John Adams: Lady Vols need to go deep in recruiting :

another thought provoking article. we have comments on both sides of the depth issue, the predictable debbie downer, the adams hater, both sides of the economics-- looks like you accomplished your mission (stimulating the discussion of sport), john!

Written on John Adams: Vols need to show recruits a good ride :

in response to Olddogsrule:

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Written on John Adams: Don't hang your hat on recruiting decisions, they are tough on fans :

Hamilton was the worst AD in Tennessee history, and firing Fulmer had little to do with it.

The native Tennessean with the 102-52 record and a national championship, the former vol player and assistant, had several minor NCAA violations and probations, had recruited quite a few players who ended up being troublemakers, had 2 losing seasons in his last 4, and had lost much of the fanbase. I had very mixed emotions about firing Fulmer, and I'm sure many other fans did also.

Hamilton's big plus was hiring Pearl.

His big screwups were
1) hiring Kiffin (that decision looks worse as time goes on.)
2) hiring Raleigh.
3) hiring Dooley (although you have to cut him a bit of slack because of when Kiffin left.)
4) letting Pearl twist in the wind, and even undermining the team with his comments before the NCAA tourney.
5) giving monstrous payoffs to all the above.
6) having the gall to accept a $1m+ payoff himself upon his exit.
7) leaving the athletic department in terrible financial condition. Perhaps you saw the article in bleacher report the other day:

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/d9ya1?ut...

Written on John Adams: Don't hang your hat on recruiting decisions, they are tough on fans :

thru-n-thru:
"For Adams this is heavy hitting intellectual endeavor. His best, in my opinion, misuse of space was being the fulcrum on which Mike Hamilton fired Phillip Fulmer.

Insiders believe Hamilton used to leak to Adams, early, the police blotters when any footballer got into trouble, so Adams could gun Fulmer for Hamilton, Cheek and others who were unable to go head-to-head with Fulmer and win on merit."

Anyone who thinks john adams has any pull with the university AD, president, or even the fans is delusional. IMO the majority of KNS readers either like adams or have no opinion. There are ten or fifteen like you, who have quite the obsession with him.
How many of these UT "insiders" have you spoken with? Or maybe you are one of the insiders, eh? Yeah, thats the ticket-- you are fulmer's close confidant. You bleed orange. And you live in a fantasy world.

Written on John Adams: Win or lose, games take toll on Vols :

in response to 8inarow:

Henderston to get slapped twice in a row, Saturday night in TitleTown.

don't know where you think titletown is. maybe you have a continuous habit of sticking "t" where it doesn't belong, like "henderston", so maybe you meant "littletown."

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