Recent content by Hank Bukowski

Good points. Heup may see this and decide to roll with either Merk or GMac this fall. The other one will leave and Faizon may stay for a year playing behind the starter. Or he may not. In this day and age, “QB depth” may mean we have two scholarship QBs on the team. Three would mean we have a...

As I remember it, we’ve always had “fat” or “flabby” linemen, just like every other college football program. I don’t care what they look like with their shirts off as long as they get the job done between the whistles.

Okay…and we evidently don’t have the NIL money to buy just one of those six.

My stupid question for today: why don’t we have the NIL for it? This is the new formula these days…any school with the money can buy the best team that money can buy.

Sorry, but I have a hard time getting excited about a kid I’ve never heard of transferring from a school I’ve never heard of in a conference I’ve never heard of.

To me, Jones’s unforgivable sin was not using Jalen Hurd and Alvin Kamara together to wreak havoc on opposing defenses. I will never forgive him for that.

Good grief. I guess it’s time I go back on my meds.

Okay. Thanks for refreshing my memory. I do remember now that you’ve reminded me. Has any freshman QB started regularly since Peyton?

Good points. But, forgive me, I’ve heard this claim too many times before with other QBs who’ve yet to even enroll at Tennessee. We have a tradition of not starting freshmen QBs unless we have no choice. We’ve had many, many good-to-great QBs at Tennessee and I can remember none, not a one, who...

This. Or maybe 9-3.

Good points. I’m not seeing anything like a championship team this year, not while breaking in a new OL. I see a ceiling of maybe 9-3. And Brandon isn’t going to start as a freshman. Sure, bring in a caretaker to help us this year while we develop our two QBs to fight it out next year.

If that is true, if he actually did that, I would have told him to clean out his locker on the spot, withheld his next NIL payment, and maybe sued him for breach of contract.

No, brother, it doesn’t make me wonder at all. I don’t care. He gone and I’ll never have to try to pronounce his name again.

I don’t know…half of me says “adapt to the new reality or perish” and the other half digs in my old-school heels and says “we only want the kids and families who want to be here.” I’m pretty much digging in my heels at this point.

No idea. This is a Pete Thamiel story from ESPN less than ann hour ago.