I got tired of wishing somebody else would set this up, so I went ahead and did it myself. I've set up a publicly accessible web calendar for UT sports that includes football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball schedules. It includes future schedules as far out as we have them; it will be updated with game times and TV networks as they become available. It will include things like signing day, the start of spring practice, and the O&W game, as well as other things of interest that might pop up -- for example, if it had been set up last year, I probably would have added the women's softball championships once it became obvious that our girls would be playing for a championship on ESPN. That sort of thing. My aim for it is to include everything that you, the UT fan, might care to know about.
The point of this kind of a calendar is that you can "subscribe" to it in your calendar application of choice -- Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, etc. -- and then from then on, everything in it automatically shows up in your own calendar. Even better, you then sync your Blaker-style smartphone or PDA with that application, and presto, now you're carrying around the schedules for all our teams with you all the time. Including not only this year's football schedule, but next year's. And future dates all the way out, like that September 9, 2017 game we've got scheduled in Neyland against Nebraska. I'll update game times and TV information as it becomes available, since I tend to be obsessive about that sort of thing, so when you're sitting there in September wondering whether the Alabama game in late October is going to be at night, you can pull out your cell phone, see that it still says "All Day" for that game, and be confident that it hasn't been determined yet.
Clearly, some drone in UT's sports information department ought to be doing this, but nobody is. So now I am. And I figure that this is something that might interest other UT fans as well. I hope somebody else finds it useful too. Suggestions are more than welcome; if you find this useful, please let me know what else I should include in it.
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The address for the calendar is:
webcal://icalx.com/public/apc878/Tennessee%20Volunteers%20sports.ics
That's what you paste into your calendar application. It's trivially easy in Google Calendar or Mac OS X's iCal; I'm no longer an Outlook user, but
apparently it's just as easy to do in the latest version of Outlook. If you use Outlook 2003, you can install
a free Outlook plug-in and do the same thing. (I tested it on my wife's laptop; takes about 10 minutes, and you have to install a couple of Microsoft Office updates as well, but it's pretty easy and it works fine.) If you'd like to try this out and need some guidance setting it up, by all means let me know.
