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Wellway’s Weekly Rant - MSU edition

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Obviously, the Tennessee Volunteers football team took advantage of their lone bye week of the season by coming out and playing their best ballgame of the year and defeating Georgia 35-14 last Saturday on a blazing hot October afternoon at Neyland Stadium.

Volunteers look for improvement over bye week

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

The University of Tennessee’s football team has certainly had a rough month of September. The schedule did not do Phil Fulmer’s young team any favors by having to face two of the Top 6 teams in America on the road.

Five Rocky Top ruminations

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Now that we are all over last week’s defensive no-show against California in Berkeley (wait…..Cal just scored again), here are five things to mull over in preparation for Southern Miss.

Concerns for Vols as Cal game looms

Friday, August 24th, 2007

As we thankfully head towards the game next weekend in Berkeley against Cal, some valid concerns are surfacing concerning the 2007 Tennessee Volunteers football team. Through my experience, fans and coaches alike go through paralysis by analysis at this point in the preseason and forget that these young men were all All-State or All-America somewhere in high school.

Five reasons to be excited about the upcoming season

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

It is finally almost “Football Time in Tennessee.” You can smell it in the air here in Middle Tennessee, despite it being 105°F outside.

Coker at the crossroads

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

I have debated blogging on this topic for a few days, but this morning I decided to go ahead with this. I am not writing this to disparage a young man, I am writing this to encourage a kid.

Vols need homerun threat at receiver

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Looking back on the history of Tennessee football, you quickly find that most Volunteer football teams seem to have big play threats at Wide Receiver. C’mon, you know that this university did not obtain the moniker “Wide Receiver U” for turning out one or two greats.