Recent content by VFL-82-JP

One would hope that each contract is performance-based. So if Nico, for instance, fails to attend required meet & greet events in Knoxville, he forfeits the corresponding percentage of that year's deal. And if he skips town, clearly not intending to make future sessions, that is breach of...

You should never, ever, under any conditions, be happy or smug or appreciative that bad things are happening to lads in the Vols program. Get your "I told you so" joy elsewhere, please. Go Vols! (and I'm not even one of those people you were targeting...just want you not to find pleasure in...

Different strokes for different folks. I'm really looking forward to it. Always wondered why we never played each other. They're a little brother, just like Vandy and ETSU and UT-Chatt and Memphis and MTSU and all the rest who live in the greenest state in the land of the free. Go Vols!

Syracuse, like many other mid-tier Power 4 programs (looking at you, Pitt and Iowa and Texas Tech and Oklahoma State and West Virginia), can make some noise from time to time. They can have a good year. Once in a while, they get a special player (Jim Brown, Donovan McNabb) who bumps them into...

Thrilled that we're going to play each other. Amazes me that this will be the First Time Ever. Wouldn't mind moving the game to Nashville, new NFL stadium, under this modified agreement: "You wanna play in Nissan? Cool. But we're not paying you anything. You willing to give up the $600k...

OP, you say "non conference schedule is weak" as if it varies wildly from year to year. It really doesn't. It's always three powder puffs (usually 2 G5, 1 FCS) plus one FBS peer that might or might not be a challenge. Some years, that;'s an Oregon. Sometimes, it's a Virginia. Either way...

*watches 7 little ducklings follow McDad around the joint* You're probably right.

Standing Tony's corner this strongly, and going out of your way to say his name seven times (all advertising is good advertising, eh?), I'm going to take a guess that you are one of the following (in order of decreasing probability): 1 - Tony himself, though portraying yourself as a third party...

Harbaugh and Sandusky want you to hold their beers. Art Briles, Hugh Freeze, Bobby Patrino and Mike Price are considering asking you to do the same.

It is important for the QB to lead the team. Perhaps the only position in all of sports where a leadership role is so strongly tied to a specific position. Doesn't have to be the point guard or power forward in basketball, or the pitcher or catcher in baseball, or the goalie in soccer. Only...

It always comes down to Team. Always. Always, always. When we get too caught up in the Amazing Talent or FIve Stars or Family Pedigree of this lad or that lad, we're losing focus on what's important. Team. Team chemistry, team work, team spirit, team cohesion. It's just Team. Go Vols!

I honestly and sincerely doubt Bama ranks that high. lol. I mean, just in the letter S, there are Samford, Stillman, and Spring Hill. I'm betting at least two of those also outrank Alabama academically. Heh. Go Vols!

I'm with him, preferring to stay at 12 spots in the CFP. The only teams that need to be in the playoff are those that have a legitimate shot at proving they are the best team in the country. There are never 12 of those, much less 16. Would probably have been ideal if we'd expanded to just 8...

You saw at least one. We all did. The Moonshine Mountain Cookie Company, or whatever they were called, and their deal with first Alontae Taylor, then Bru McCoy. Every interception (Alontae) or touchdown (Bru) wins all fans two free cookies, that deal? Yah, that was one of the first...