This is going to be a topic of conversation tonight on VolNation Live. Check it out in great detail before tonight’s show. There will be a quiz later.

Oh, thank goodness this weekend is finally upon us. The College Football season got kicked off last night as most of us probably watched South Carolina dismantle an undermanned and offensively inept North Carolina State Wolf pack team that fit the billing as a lower tier ACC team. The good news about that game…….the SEC didn’t get embarrassed by, let’s face it, a bad ACC team.

Volnation, buckle your chinstraps. The time for talk has come and gone. With apologies to Jimmy Buffet, come Monday it will be alright. We’ve spent nine lonely months in a big orange haze, and it is time for kickoff to arrive.

This week’s column was inspired by a lunchtime debate about how big a mistake Guy Morriss in leaving Kentucky for Baylor. Some jobs are just graveyards. Here are the worst jobs in the six major conferences.

As I stumble around work attempting to appear to be accomplishing tasks, visions of footballs fly in my minds eye. It’s game week! No college football nut like me can get anything done this college football eve. And I know that I am not alone.

Video of the Vols final scrimmage on Thursday.

What’s up Volnation? As I compose this fluff piece I think about the garbage I have to take out in the morning, the kids I must get ready for school, the job for which I must give full effort while thinking about how college football starts next week. And, obviously orange and white face painters believe football season begins on Labor Day evening. Either way, the movement is afoot and any kind of significant concentration level is difficult to attain.

When he was recruited Jonathan Crompton was the next big thing. Sitting near the top of every recruiting service’s list, he was 6 foot 4 inches of potential, and it didn’t stop there. Once he committed to the Vols he became an immediate extension of the Tennessee recruiting staff. Every time a Vol fan got online he or she read about another recruit being swayed by Crompton’s own recruiting pitches. The fans of the Big Orange immediately took notice.

The NCAA Membership Services staff informed the University of Tennessee that Brandon Warren was cleared to play this season.
Brandon Warren won his appeal and will be eligible to play on September 1st against UCLA.
Discuss Brandon Warren’s eligibility with other Vol fans in the Vols forum.
-utsports release on Brandon Warren
-GoVolsXtra coverage of Brandon Warren
-Chris Low’s coverage [...]

With students returning to campus, it’s time for the Trap to return. Let’s get it going.