August 14, Monday (updating throughout the day)
- Calhouns’ BBQ inside Neyland? Have I been asleep or is this new?
- Barnett, Kamara and Dobbs all made NFL.com’s best rookie performances from preseason week 1.
- Monday’s practice was closed to the media once again, but here are a few photos from UT: photo1 | photo2 | photo3 | photo4 | photo5 | photo6 | photo7 .
- Tennessee is ranked No. 6 in the latest 2018 composite class rankings from Scout.
- ESPN published an interesting stat concerning Tennessee this morning: ’17 Days until 1st Thursday of CFB Season: Tennessee set the FBS record with 17 straight regular-season shutouts from Nov. 1938 to Oct. 1940′
- The ‘college football professor’ Adam McClintock has updated his analytics on Tennessee. His numbers predict a 10-2 regular season, with the only losses coming to Florida and Alabama.
- The Battle of Atlantis matchups are set, according to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, and the Vols get Purdue. “Battle of Atlantis matchups, per source: Purdue vs. Tennessee, Villanova vs. Western Kentucky, NC State vs. Arizona, SMU vs. Northern Iowa.”
- Leave it to at least one media outlet to pick up on Butch and his slogans. The Associated Press picked up on Jones’ comments that every coach has slogans and how it’s blow out of proportion here at Tennessee. Of course, the article wouldn’t be complete without references to “champions of life” and “five-star hearts.” — discussion: CBJ discusses slogans
- Yesterday was Media Day for the Tennessee football team. You can watch Butch’s press conference and read my notes in this thread. There are also a bunch of player videos posted.
- Nike unveiled two new Tennessee-themed shoes that go on sale this morning. This page has links that will go live at 10 a.m. where you can purchase them. As always, in full disclosure, if you purchase them through our links, we make a small percentage on each sale. Thanks for your support.
- Happy Monday everyone (if such a thing exists). If you missed it over the weekend, there were tons of updates in the FreakNotes weekend edition.
