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DeusExMachina said:
Anyone got any updates on Bru McCoy?? I know he visited, I know he was "in the student directory", I know we got a bunch of CBs for him......then information went away.
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I don't know that he registered for classes (I guess that's what it means to be "in the directory"), but I don't think that it would be binding, anyway.

How did you come to be a Vols fan, having grown up 45 miles from Atlanta-Fulton Co. stadium?
 
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Christian Lowe said:
Small rant incoming. Need to voice an opinion somewhere that I’ve kind of come to the conclusion of during the Vandy series drama.

I keep seeing college baseball fans of other schools, and even some Tennessee fans (my dad included), saying Tennessee is obnoxious and they need to shut up and act like they’ve been there, etc. You know, all the normal stuff the baseball fun police have been saying for a decade now in the MLB.

But, as a Tennessee fan who has watched Serrano ball and the hell we were in forever (thanks unc), I think Tennessee is obnoxious. Very much so.

But it’s good for the growth of the game. Mike Honcho went viral. Luc Lipcius talking **** to literally every Vandy infielder as he ran the bases and staring at his bat like “wanna check this one too?” Is a storyline. It’s passion. It’s personality. It’s what baseball is missing that every other sport has because old heads don’t recognize that times have changed.

The best way I can put it is more people listened to Howard stern every day that hated him than who loved him because they wanted to see what he would do next.

That’s Tennessee baseball.


Okay I’ll get off my soapbox now.
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I'm an avid baseball fan and couldn't possibly agree more. Its well past time for people to stop trying to legislate the emotions of fans and players in this sport. It's a game, being played mostly by young men and kids. If you think that they shouldn't show emotion after SWEEPING VANDERBILT then it's not a player problem, it's a you problem.
 
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Bru McCoy –

I think everyone pretty much knows all about McCoy but I wanted to take a closer look at his on paper production in the limited action he had at USC. He was playing behind three upper classmen, receivers who were thought to be NFL bound. His only playing time was in the 6-game 2020 covid season and he appeared in all 6 games. He was the 4th receiver in the rotation. I’ve provided his stats below side-by-side with the USC QB stats. McCoy was the leading receiver in the game at Utah and at home against the Oregon Ducks.

Classes end at USC on April 29. Exams are May 4-11 and commencement is May 13.

Here’s the thing – I’m very doubtful that our running game is going to improve against teams like Georgia and Alabama or anyone else that has an elite defensive line. I just don’t think success is possible against a brick wall. Georgia for the last couple years has been rotating up to 10 elite defensive linemen over the course of their games. Offensive lines that can’t do the same hardly stand a chance. Every snap requires maximum effort and against the very best. You’re not going to last long. Nobody runs against that sort of front. We played 3 of the top 4 run defenses last year and outside our QBs against Pitt we couldn’t move the football on the ground.

We lit up those defenses though with our air attack, well once Hooker took over that is. Alabama couldn’t run all that well against Georgia but they did just enough in the SEC championship game to complement their passing game to come out ahead. Georgia completely stuffed the Tide’s running game in the national title game and owing to the absence of Bama’s two leading receivers, the Dawgs won the day.

I think we still have some issues but landing McCoy is I think going to bring us closer to being competitive with elite teams. On paper, Alabama is already a toss-up for us this year, owing to the game being in Neyland, but we’re not that far from pushing the Georgia game to within toss-up range. Landing McCoy is an instant impact and should be a measurable upgrade to our offense. jmo.

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Cosmo Kramer said:
My uncle was a huge hunter. No telling how much money he has spent on Taxidermy. Multiple Deer, Elk, Ram, Sheep, Caribou, Full Black Bear, Brown Bear, Antelope, Ox, Mountain Lion, Moose,
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This is my goal. Have my house or just my man cave with wild a$$ animals I’ve hunted.
 
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engineerVOL said:
What kind of beer pairs best with Kangaroo steak? 🦘

An IPA, it’s really hoppy.
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Yeah...making his first start since a life altering, catastrophic leg and body injury accident just 13 months ago..at Augusta..

I just don't see making the cut happening. If he does, it will be a near miraculous achievement.

He will be in tremendous pain before halfway through his second round from walking those hills.
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I think he makes the cut. I do not think he contends. But if he were to somehow win, what a story for the ages.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Yeah...making his first start since a life altering, catastrophic leg and body injury accident just 13 months ago..at Augusta..

I just don't see making the cut happening. If he does, it will be a near miraculous achievement.

He will be in tremendous pain before halfway through his second round from walking those hills.
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had forgotten about that. crazy.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Kind of a dumpy little town and then you walk into heaven on earth. Eat an egg salad sandwich or pimento cheese and take in your surroundings. Also take an allergy pill if you get allergies. One year I went, a green breeze blew off the hill on the side of 13.
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My wife lived and worked in Augusta before we got married. She really enjoyed it. I have been down there a couple times, but both were in July so all I can recall is how hot and humid it was, LOL.
 
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Orange. said:
How did you come to be a Vols fan, having grown up 45 miles from Atlanta-Fulton Co. stadium?
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Warning: this is gonna be long.

I've told this story before, but I don't mind retelling it. I'm not originally from Georgia, I'm not even originally from the south. Until my eighth grade year, we lived in north central Michigan, up near my grandparents. Grandpa was a VERY proud alumnus of The University of Michigan, and a lot of Saturday mornings were spent either in Ann Arbor or watching from home.

We moved to Georgia in the summer of (IIRC) 1992, to a little "blink and you'll miss it" town without a stoplight between Cartersville and Rome. There was this little store up around the corner from our place, and behind the counter was a bouffant-equipped, pistol-carrying, five foot six inch ball of sass, fire, and southern hospitality named Pat. Pat was originally from Maryville, and ALWAYS wore a Power T pin, every day, didn't matter what she wore, that pin was always gonna be there.

I asked her about it one day (she and my family became good friends, to the point where she became "Grandma Pat"), and was informed that the proudest moment of her life was that day in 1968 when she graduated from "the greatest school in the country" (her exact words), The University of Tennessee. She would tell me stories of great players at Tennessee (my parents did not GAF about sports until my little brothers did, but that's a whole different topic), and she never had a single good thing to say about Alabama.

Fast-forward a little bit, and I guess my pestering paid off because I was invited to join her on her trip north one Saturday to Neyland Stadium. Time, alcohol, age, and some mind-altering substances in my youth have clouded my memory a bit as to the opponent (I'm pretty sure I was 15, which would have made it the 1994 season, and I always thought that the first game I attended was v. UCLA, but Tennessee played @ UCLA in 1994; and I could have sworn that Andy Kelly was the starter; but '94 was Peyton; and I can clearly remember watching games with Heath Shuler because I found it funny that a QB wore #21......IDK now, I've slept since then, and have consumed more than my fair share of tetrahydrocannabinol).

Anyways, we drove north on that fall Saturday, up I-75 about 2.5 hours (Grandma Pat definitely had a bit of a lead foot), and I soon greeted by the sight of this gigantic stadium sitting next to a river, with a WHOLE bunch of folks wearing orange and white. I know it sounds trite, but as soon as we walked into Neyland, it changed me. My allegiance was no longer maize and blue (make no mistake, I will ALWAYS have an affinity for them unless they're playing Tennessee), it was firmly and solidly Orange and White, and has been since.
 
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Catching up from all the talk last night about Elk, and recall a friend of mine from back in the late 80's who went on hunts out west every year. He presented me with a nice elk roast from one of his trips that we cooked in a large crock pot with the roast wrapped in bacon. I remember how mouth-watering good that thing turned out to be but haven't had any since.
 
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