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in response to SevenT:

First whiff was when Chuckie laughed out loud at the UT job offer.

Second when Charlie Strong turned down Tennessee to stay at Louisville everyone knew the UT program was in the complete dumpster.

I think it is hilarious that PHart is now bragging about hiring the third or fourth person on the hiring list.

Next season Bobby Petrino's Western Kentucky team will wax Tennessee and all the vol fans will be calling for Jones' head.

Just Saying

in response to cheetah-vol:

Last night, I drank my Doolaid along with a few shots of Johnny Majors and smoked Kiffin blunts.

I listened to the Florida St./Bama version of “You Cheating Hart” while having a conspiracy plan in the form of a Gator tattooed on my Cheek.

Now I am deeply in debt and owe everyone money, and all my ex’s are filing lawsuits against me.

This morning, I read from “The Book of The Truth Squad” where the stories of The Greatest and his disciples made me realize I betrayed Coach Phil Fulmer, Coach Butch Jones is the second coming of Dooley, and I am delusional, a sunshine pumper, and a sycophant.

It is written that unless I start posting apocalyptic comments with multiple screen names about the UTAD that are totally unrelated to the GVX articles others are commenting on, then I am destined to burn in Hades along with the rest of the VOL NATION who dare to say anything constructive or positive.

Gosh, now I feel so guilty for being a supportive VOL fan all these years. I must’ve been hallucinating. Boohoohoo.

in response to SevenT:

The beer bottle throwing, jet ski idiot round.

in response to SevenT:

Sophmore from Coalfield? Just gotta say WOW....Perhaps there is a 8th grader out there that should be given a shot? My how desperate UT has become.

Just Saying

in response to formervol1950s:

For all of us who played for the VOLS...thanks Peyton and God bless !

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in response to VolunteerLifer:

There's no place for your kind of smugness on this or any other site, know-it-all.

in response to fratricide08:

I got to see the Lady Vols and Pat's work from a perspective few others have -- as a student/peer and later as some of my own students. They were different from every other university program whether a club or sport or any other sanctioned group.

After having a few in class, I looked forward to whenever I got a new student handing me their letter on the first day of class because I knew at once that I could expect certain things from them from day one (with many other students, you don't know what to expect from them until a few weeks had passed and you got a chance to know them better). IOW, it didn't take long for me to know that no matter how shy or outgoing that I had a student who would go all out, check on their grades regularly, let me know in advance if they were going to miss class due to a university function (instead of after the fact) and ask about what they needed to do in order to excel etc.

Her work and the emphasis she placed on excellence in all things was reflected in her students/players.

I'm glad to hear that she remembers those relationships because as someone who has taught others the joy truly is in seeing others succeed and my students, all of them regardless of whether they were student athletes, club affiliated, older student returning to college or just your regular enrollee, were the ones who taught me that.

in response to chaos001:

Way to grind it out!

Big props need to be given to the strength and conditioning team for UT. You could tell that TAMU was worn down by that last overtime (btw, how many overtimes occurred today!) and we were still kicking.

GBO!

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in response to volthrunthru#658770:

Nobody wants to hear a bunch of mouthy 19-or-20-somethings mouth off about "payback" in the SEC,

even when the mouthy guy's team can really issue payback. Clearly this Vol team cannot issue payback to anybody but losers at this point.

UT basketball needs help to find its way, at this point. Martin is obviously a man of great compassion and an overcomer, personally; but leading a nationally successful athletics program takes much, much more than that.

Certainly, for instance, his assistant coaches leave a lot to be desired, including his strength coach who desses like he is going to a bar in a seedy part of town...and who has a hair-do that clearly is at odds with the type of image that Universities need to project.

Big$$$ donors do not give to fund glow-in-the-dark dressers or haircuts that look like they were done with a weed eater. Professional attire and appearance standards need to be shown to Martin and his people.

A guy who never should have been hired in the first place---an individual who reportedly posed nude on his own website and was of work when hired---needs help choosing clothes and hairstyles that provide the kind of image needed by UT.

Martin's had fired a top, nationally respected, Strength and Conditioning coach to hire this replacemenet. Reports are that the S&C coach thought some of Martin's ideas were not up to SEC level training, and showed disrespect because of it. (Martin is another who had come from a directional school to national power UT, like Lane Kiffin, Derek Dooley and new football coach Butch Jones.)

So lack of a base of high level contacts is a problem that frames part of Martin's difficulties at UT. The SouthEast Missouris of the world do not turn out many Elite-8 level graduates, coaches and alumni---unless, of course, Jimmy Cheek is Chancellor and Mike Hamilton or Dave Hart are making decisions.

Historically UT wants and seeks to maintain a look and atmosphere of classic (classy?) appearance, progressive but solidly anchored values and atletics teams that are consistent winners.

Obviously Martin needs help in saying "no" to non-UT type people, since his choice for coaching S&C had worked previously, before losing his job, at Martin's alma mater, Purdue.
Maybe Martin had no other contacts to call to identify a S&C contact that could win at big-time levels. But there is a reason that the guy was not working---maybe more than one reason.

He needs to shape up his appearance or ship out to some other websit than UT's.

And for a coach whose predecessor took multiple-teams in a row to the Sweet-16, to tell a booster group that he was getting advice form a high school coach shows how far UT Sports have fallen.

And the fact that nobody in that booster group questioned it publicly shows how numb UT boosters have become, after more than one-half a decade of failures and incredibly wretched leadership in most sports and overall.

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