Clay Travis' On Rocky Top

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I am in the process of finishing this book. I was wondering what you guys thought on this book. I have enjoyed the inside look that Clay got while he was traveling with the team. I think it also gives a real inside look at Mike Hamilton and the whole process of firing Phil Fulmer.

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Awesome book!!! You should listen to Clay on 104.5 the zone 3 hour lunch break 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday.
 
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I thought it was great. I think it was great Fulmer let Clay travel with the team, and seemed to never exclude him.

I haven't read Dixieland Delight, but I've heard nothing but great things about it either.
 
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I always like reading Clay...Did you know that sucker won a car during halftime at a Titan Game a few years ago? Dixieland Delight is a tour around the SEC stadiums...its a good read. You will learn about "Bama Bangs"...its a true education.
 
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It was a fine book...but I expected a little more perspective from the behind the scenes look he got...I felt like a lot of it could have been written from any well-spoken fan's perspective. Because it was interesting and about TN, I enjoyed it, but I expected more, honestly.
 
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badkarma said:
I always like reading Clay...Did you know that sucker won a car during halftime at a Titan Game a few years ago? Dixieland Delight is a tour around the SEC stadiums...its a good read. You will learn about "Bama Bangs"...its a true education.
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and that LSU fans smell like Corndogs.....
 
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i enjoyed the fact clay took several different aspects of UT football and got to follow them all. I think one of my favorite parts of the book is when he road with the truck driver to the south carolina game. It was a sad part of the book also cause it was basically the down fall for Fulmer. We all know it was Fulmer's time to go but Clay put it in perspective by saying that Fulmer gave almost all his life to Tennessee in some shape form or fashion and truley loves Tenn with all his heart
 
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badkarma said:
I always like reading Clay...Did you know that sucker won a car during halftime at a Titan Game a few years ago? Dixieland Delight is a tour around the SEC stadiums...its a good read. You will learn about "Bama Bangs"...its a true education.
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He also married a former cheerleader so I'm pretty sure that's only the second best thing he's gotten from the NFL :good!:
 
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I thought it was a great read. The Dixieland Delight book is also very good if you haven't read it yet.
 
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ChattVolFan said:
That only comes on in Nashville doesnt it?
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You can stream if live on your computer...you'll just have to google the radio station...

I've read On Rocky Top and Dixieland Delight. I loved both books, obviously I liked ORT a little bit better since it focused on my Vols, but if you like ORT, you'll definitely like DD, too.
 
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I'm probably going to read it soon. I couldn't bring myself to read it while on the Lane train because I thought it would suck to revisit that year with the excitement of a new era dawning. Now that I've gotten burnt by 11-22 I think it's a good time to look back at the Fulmer era.
 
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I really enjoyed the Dixieland Delight, more so than ORT. I thought the DD book was written much like I might have as a fan if given the opportunity and of course the creativity. As to ORT I knew how it was going to end ...SAD. This season I read ORT again each week when we faced the various teams and that was interesting.

The entire season I was hoping we would hear CT was writing a book on 2009 and the CLK "era?" But having written a non fiction book (unpublished at this time) I knew that such an endeavor is extremely time consuming and hard work.

Oh well here's hoping CT gets on a roll and we have more to come about the VOLS under Coach DD.

Go Vols
 
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TennTradition said:
It was a fine book...but I expected a little more perspective from the behind the scenes look he got...I felt like a lot of it could have been written from any well-spoken fan's perspective. Because it was interesting and about TN, I enjoyed it, but I expected more, honestly.
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I agree and will add that I actually found little new information. He only rehashed the news of the season although there was some inside insight. I bought my copy on Ebay, read it and sold it. It was not anything I thought interesting enough to keep in my book collection. I realize mine is a minority view.
 
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As a UT homer I eagerly read On Rocky Top and enjoyed it; however I thought that Bruce Feldman's Meat Market made it look like a high school english paper.
 
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I liked it. I had just finished it as the Vols were looking for another new head coach, which made that process interesting. I think any college football fan would enjoy the up-close look at coaches and players - they might just need to skim some of the sections that are heavily orange.
 
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There were parts of the book where he was talking about UT tradition that made me beam with pride being a Vol fan and all the tradition and history that we have in our football program and as a school as well
 
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Both books were very entertaining! I would purchase and read book(s) by Travis based upon these two.
 
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Orange Alert said:
As a UT homer I eagerly read On Rocky Top and enjoyed it; however I thought that Bruce Feldman's Meat Market made it look like a high school english paper.
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Book was just OK telling us alot of what we already know. It also seemed he wanted to tell us he attended Vandy Law school every other paragraph. If you want a better insight into college football read Meat Market.
 
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