Comments by richvol
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Posted on May 14 at 10:27 a.m.
The NCAA needs to step in and put an immediate stop to this crap. This sort of idiocy is one of the worst things wrong with American society today. Deifying children,along with the attendant idolizing of them and athletes in general,is indicative of misplaced priorities.
I love sports, especially college sports, but can't we keep it in perspective. The attitude of "the rules that govern the rest of society don't apply to me" is the result of this sort of too much too soon. It's readily apparent what it does to give this kind of attention to kids as you see examples of athletes out of control everyday. This is just a plain common sense issue.
Posted on May 13 at 10:51 a.m.
In the 90's Tennessee cleaned up on d-linemen. What is it that has changed so much that we don't even hear a word about us recruiting one now? What's the byline you hear all the time in the presidential race? "It's the economy stupid". Well guess what...It's defensive linemen stupid!
It's great to recruit young men like this but Tennessee needs to have one recruiter focused solely on bringing in defensive linemen. That defense is what won us a national championship in '98. Duh!
Posted on May 13 at 9:52 a.m.
Skills not position...he may play some shooting guard but he's too valuable around the paint to not play the four. The best competition in the country couldn't stop him last year at the four.
Posted on May 11 at 9:09 a.m.
The threat of the three ball is going to be different for everyone. Most everyone will follow the strategy of packing it in as mentioned by chkrbrd. That makes playing fastbreak ball even more important to scoring and pressure defense critical to set it up with steals. Our team will miss JaJuan's steals but this years squad should be much more athletic which will help both critical areas.
I would look for scoring averages to drop nationwide as three point percentages decline. Attempts should decline as well. Hopson and Maze both shoot the jumper and can drive the lane. Tyler Smith can do whatever he wants with focused effort. If Prince and Cameron Tatum improve Tennessee can be a nightmare for anyone to handle.
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Posted on May 11 at 8:36 a.m.
What a great story of perserverance. You know this young man will be successful at anything he chooses. An excellent hire for anyone who's looking for a hard worker.
Posted on May 10 at 4:44 p.m.
I remember Mr. Carter very well and Bobby Langston too. They were a fixture in Knoxville culture for many years.
When I was nine years old back in the fifties I was allowed to ride the bus uptown on Saturdays, by myself,to go to the Bijou,Rivera or Tennessee. I would spend all day uptown watching movies and have lunch at the Orange Julius. It's amazing how times have changed. How many parents would let their kid do that now. Mr. Carter was everpresent on those Saturday evenings.
Bobby was always around UT football games or campus. The other man I remember so well was Arnold Zandi,the "yummies for your tummies" stadium salesman at UT games. He was at every game for years.
Posted on May 8 at 7:58 a.m.
There is enough good pitching in the Knoxville high school system to produce wins against all these instate teams ( except probably Vanderbilt). This is ridiculous...give'em hell Coach.
Posted on May 8 at 7:19 a.m.
"Down to 37 DB's" that's unfortunately true Kingsportvol. We offer and sign too many 5'8" to 5'11" kids that weigh 170lbs every year. There's a ton of them on the team already.
We should be focused on offering 30 or so 6'3" to 6'6" kids that weigh 250 or above a free ride. The reports that we get indicate that we offer 8 or 9 a year. You get what you focus on and that's where our aim needs to be. There are at least 100 of these size kids in every graduating class and those are the ones that we need to get and develop.
Football is a game that's won in the trenches... period.
Posted on May 8 at 6:54 a.m.
I overheard a discussion that included some UT donors that said Ramar Smith and Brian Williams got into a fistfight somewhere on campus and that Jordan Howell got up in Coach Pearl's face at the end of the season or during the tourney. That was why they were benched during the NCAA.
Does anyone know the facts on this or if it even happened?
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Posted on May 14 at 10:39 a.m.
I agree sjt18 with most of your comments but I do not believe it has nothing to do with the Tennessee program. The '98 defensive line came from South Carolina and Spurrier is not exactly getting it done for the Gamecocks. Yes there is competition in the SEC but there are other places to look...just like Tennessee has done forever. Signing 3 or 4 big athletic kids a year is not too much to ask and I don't mean offensive linemen who can't play defense.
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