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theutvolunteers said:
I've lived in Texas 5 years and my wife is native. Never heard or witnessed cinnamon roll and chili.
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Most of my family is from Texas, and I was born there. I haven't heard of that either.

I grew up on Texas chili, but my wife does not like any spice in her food. She found a chili recipe with brown sugar in it, and I will say that it is good.
 
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Dust10 said:
The Midwest is not "yankeeland," my friend.

Also, Texas Chili and grilled cheese ftw.
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It's North of the Mason-Dixon line. It's Yankeeland. I lived in Indiana for 5 years...in a town called YANKEEtown. I have a lot of family that still live up there. The ones not born there would like to leave, but seem to get sucked back into staying. It's like a vacuum. The ones born there are as yankee as anyone else.
 
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Jake Steinberg
@steiny31: 37 of the 44 Pro Bowler's were 3-star or lower recruits. Don't let a system define you. Stars don't measure heart.

* I did not check to see if this is accurate, just saw it tweeted and thought it was interesting. I would have to imagine this is an anomaly.
 
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BaldBiker said:
It's North of the Mason-Dixon line. It's Yankeeland. I lived in Indiana for 5 years...in a town called YANKEEtown. I have a lot of family that still live up there. The ones not born there would like to leave, but seem to get sucked back into staying. It's like a vacuum. The ones born there are as yankee as anyone else.
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#1Volfaninmo said:
Oh, it's yankeeland.
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Hello friends... Wait. What is your PB and chili position?
 
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Brice update on the AD search:

From folks on Rocky Top to folks on Capitol Hill in Nashville, 247Sports reached out this week to approximately six people with direct or indirect ties to the University of Tennessee’s ongoing search for its next athletics director --- and not a one of those individuals expected any sort of end-of-February timeline.

Two people close to the process and with longstanding interests in UT athletics both “believe” and “expect” a decision on the replacement --- no names of merit beyond David Blackburn and Jon Gilbert are being mentioned --- to come well in advance of this week’s earlier suggestions regarding a timeline, with both saying, “I just don’t think that’s accurate.”

Multiple people on the Hill expect a decision by mid-January; it’s important here to remember that after being confirmed a week ago, Beverly J. Davenport, UT’s new chancellor on Rocky Top, does begin earning a prorated salary in January and can begin wading into the waters she must first traverse --- which include nearly a half-dozen high-profile openings on UT’s flagship campus; the obviously most pressing being vice chancellor/director of athletics.

Multiple sources familiar with the Chattanooga search resulting in Arth’s hire indicate that candidates were told upfront that Blackburn has consistently emerged as the frontrunner to helm UT athletics. Some coaches were eliminated through the vetting process; others withdrew due to the expectation that Blackburn’s move to Rocky Top was “heating up.”
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31VFL said:
Jake Steinberg
@steiny31: 37 of the 44 Pro Bowler's were 3-star or lower recruits. Don't let a system define you. Stars don't measure heart.

* I did not check to see if this is accurate, just saw it tweeted and thought it was interesting. I would have to imagine this is an anomaly.
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Brace yourself...
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Don't they have a Jack Brown's or two near you now? I live near the original JB in Harrisonburg, VA. Their burgers are great and their craft beer selection is even better. The Elvis is one of their burgers, it has PB and Bacon. They use Wagyu beef. Highly recommend.
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JB's is good stuff. I live about 10 minutes from the one in Nashville and have been multiple times. Burgers are pretty small so I usually order two or double patties but they are dang good burgers.
 
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More from Brice:

While we’re on the subject of naming a new A.D. and after speaking at length Tuesday with a renowned media expert with deep ties to collegiate and professional athletics, UT clearly is missing a golden opportunity if it doesn’t name Hart’s replacement by Monday.

Forget for a moment all the tangible reasons this is so needed --- read: coaches, especially Butch Jones, deserve to know whom they’re aligning themselves with and who has their backs in 2017, not to mention pragmatic purposes of new contracts and such --- and focus on the prime opportunity to seize full momentum in the state on the heels of the Christmas holiday.

Tennessee reports to Nashville Monday evening for its on-site bowl preparations for the Dec. 30 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, and imagine for a moment how captivating a Music City presser introducing a new athletics director in conjunction with the Vols’ arrival could have been? Especially as UT seeks to reassert itself in the Midstate, both on the football field and on the recruiting trail.

As this individual, who’s advised dozens of athletes and sports personalities on national marketing campaigns, notes, “It clearly makes too much sense.”

There are countless other opportunities that, at least on the outside looking in, also are going to be underutilized. Bowl week and the week between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays typically is a relatively less hectic time for those powerbrokers, be it legislators, state officials or simply mega-money boosters, who could be meeting and forming a vision alongside Davenport and UT’s next A.D.

Simply put, if UT doesn’t have an A.D. in place before Feb. 1 --- and not because it’s the first day of the month but because it’s the earliest possible date for the annual national signing day bonanza --- then it is not placing enough emphasis on not merely steadying things but giving Jones & Co. the tools they deserve to give the Vols their best chance for on-field success in 2017.
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nicksjuzunk said:
Bulking season. 4,300 calories today... No need to think about them :)
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I'm doing a very light bulk, and it's still killing me to eat this much. I guess I could eat dirtier, but I've gotten so used to eating sub-2000 cals on a clean diet that going over 3000 is rough.

Also, on the whole cinnamon roll/chili thing. I'm born and raised southern middle TN and my public school system always served cinnamon rolls with our chili. 1. It's tasty af. 2. With my mom being from Chicago, it never seemed weird to me.
 
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Even some family members of some Vols’ assistant coaches are of the belief that multiple assistant coaches are not returning to the staff in 2017, again, for various reasons.

Nonetheless, the two Vols’ assistants 247Sports most consistently hear as likely to pursue other opportunities are Don Mahoney and Willie Martinez. Interestingly enough, those two coaches --- especially Mahoney --- have guys who love playing for them. As does Steve Stripling, who’s been coaching since the late-1970s but is refreshing in his bowl practice approach with his energy and enthusiasm. If you ever bump into Derek Barnett or Corey Vereen or one of those guys, ask them how they enjoy playing for Stripling. It’s an incredibly tight-knit group.
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Nonetheless, UT still is going to be in the market for a quarterbacks coach and likely multiple assistant coaches on the defensive side of the ball. No one is quashing the trio of names we continue to hear in various capacities: Brady Hoke, Terry Fair and Mark Helfrich. Remember, Helfrich and Hoke still are receiving buyout money. Well, Helfrich is just transitioning into his $11.5 million parachute from Nike U., aka Oregon, while just this month Hoke receives the last payment of his 24-month, $3-million buyout from Michigan.

Unquestionably other names are out there for Tennessee, but bowl prep, the coaching carousel and UT’s own campus carousel is impeding some external progress. Still, we’re told emphatically the Vols are making calls.
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glichtenwalter said:
I love cinnamon too. In fact, I often mix PB, honey, raw oatmeal, and cinnamon and eat that for breakfast or a snack before I go work out. Don't care for it in my chili though.
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You're an officer, you don't work out! The closest you do to working out is mud runs and taking selfies with your oxygen deprivation mask on!
 
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The state’s audit investigation into the UT football program is likely concluding shortly after the New Year, and no one sees a scenario that involves a happy ending and return to Rocky Top for former football operations director Chris Spognardi, on paid administrative leave since mid-August.

We won’t know the ins and outs of that months-long, highly invasive audit until the state releases its report.

What I do know is that just within the past week, a former senior UT administrator emphasized to me a belief that fault rested in a disorganized paper trail but simply could not fathom any sort of deliberate disappearance of funds. Time will tell.

What I do know is that the state’s audit includes considerable interviews and should not be forgotten as hardly seeking to examine just the work of Spognardi. Many, many current members of UT’s football and general athletics departments, as well as former ones, were on the interview list according to no less than three independent sources.
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Appalachiamuck said:
I grew up on the Ohio River bordering IN and KY, between Cincy and Louisville. My mom grew up in eastern KY and we always had PB and crackers or cornbread with our chilli. My wife is from TX and thinks cornbread is the only thing you would ever eat with chilli. I'll have to try grilled cheese, I love it with my soups.
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Prepare for your life to be altered. Also, prepare yourself for a period of mourning for the years of your life that you have wasted by not combining these two at an earlier age.

Also, Ulysees, I'm down with you on Louisville. We stayed there for a few days in June, 2015. We stayed at a hotel just across from 4th Street Live. It was the grossest, most overrated place I've ever been in my life. My work was paying for our meals and accommodations, and I still decided to leave a day early!
 
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Oh boy...

Travis will be available today from 3-4 p.m. ET for a Q-A session centering on his Culture story, the way he approached it and more.

We ask all of you to get your questions in here and please be civil. No cursing, no flinging insults but fire away with your questions.

Just hung up w/ Shannon Terry and our boss, William Wilkerson, who long has advocated this and really battled for this board. Folks from HQ will moderate. So please be civil but be as direct as you wish.

And then please let this be Santa's visit to me & we all move forward from here.
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This should be fun to watch.
 
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