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VIF said:
Chicken wings and draught beer tonight with RV. Then Chiminea by the pool later. Firepit tomorrow night.
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Expecting more rain?

Sounds like a good time. I'm expecting to see some DD fake tata's tonight from a neighbors sister visiting from North Florida (somewhere near Ocala). Nothing special, she just gottem and wants to show them off.
 
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Behr1213 said:
Expecting more rain?
All my fire wood is wet so Chiminea is easier tonight.
Sounds like a good time. I'm expecting to see some DD fake tata's tonight from a neighbors sister visiting from North Florida (somewhere near Ocala). Nothing special, she just gottem and wants to show them off.
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I expect pics!!!:thumbsup:
 
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VolFan32 said:
This. Even in the youth leagues now people don't care. Quality of basketball is going down bad here.
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well they need to get their poocie ass **** together. I didn't spend 4 years in the student section at every basketball game just so the current students could give up on one mediocre season. I went to almost every game under Jerry Green when I was in college and we sucked back then/were mediocre. Those games were the best. We used to be able to sit under the basketball goal on the court. I mean we were yelling at other players 15 feet from their face. I had Jumaine Jones of UGA talk shyt to us during one of the games because we told him to brush his teeth. our student section was the shyt back then. That whole thing where the student section used to hold the newspapers up and yell sucks when they were annoucing the other team was started during those years.

Jumaine Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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theFallGuy said:
well they need to get their poocie ass **** together. I didn't spend 4 years in the student section at every basketball game just so the current students could give up on one mediocre season. I went to almost every game under Jerry Green when I was in college and we sucked back then/were mediocre. Those games were the best. We used to be able to sit under the basketball goal on the court. I mean we were yelling at other players 15 feet from their face. I had Jumaine Jones of UGA talk shyt to us during one of the games because we told him to brush his teeth. our student section was the shyt back then. That whole thing where the student section used to hold the newspapers up and yell sucks when they were annoucing the other team was started during those years.

Jumaine Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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**** Jimmy Cheek
 
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VolFan32 said:
**** Jimmy Cheek
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fyi, here is what a good buddy of mine told me about the situation

"I went to the "basketball game viewing party" at Cabana last night (invitation is below for reference as to what it was to be)......

I talked to Hubbs individually for about 10 minutes at the end of halftime and beginning of 2nd half. He and the others went to the front and were introduced with about 13 min to go in the game. They stayed up there until an hour after the game was over. I'd estimate that by 9:30 there were still 60 people there and by 9:50 there were 45. Joey Kent, Buck Fitzgerald, DeRon Jenkins, Jason Wilhoit, and one or two other guys who probably played for UT were there. I talked to Jenkins for a while.

Most of what Hubbs told me and what he told the room conforms to what I've heard from several other people. None of the following is particularly surprising, just depressing:

The academic side's commitment to be a Top 25 Research Institution is making it impossible to recruit the players needed to compete. The war between academics and athletics has been heavily one-sided in favor of academics since Linda Bensel-Myers. Cheek wants
UT to be a much smaller school in order to lower the student/teacher ratio. Cheek was ecstatic when MTSU's enrollment surpassed UT.
Hubbs confirmed that it is harder to get athletes into UT and keep them eligible than it is at Vandy or any rival. One major reason is the following scenario:

Player X has a 2.5 at some other school and wants to transfer to UT. At UT, his gpa does not carry over. So if he transfers and makes a 1.9 in his first grading period, he is ineligible the next semester. At Vandy, Alabama, Georgia, etc., he would start
with a 2.5 and his 1.9 would not knock him down below 2.0. Even a 1.0 might not. Player X is on the field for our rivals on Saturday. At Tennessee he is wherever Izauea Lanier was on gameday.

There hasn't been a leader of the Thornton Center in 10 months. If a player is struggling with a class, a tutor is not allowed to contact the professor to find out what it is the player needs to work on. At other SEC schools, tutors can contact professors.

He thinks Cheek is so far from understanding how things work in Knoxville that losing $6mil/yr isn't going to bring him around.

Hubbs said almost exactly what Griffith said before heading to East Lansing and had many of the same conclusions I got from Basilio. UT is not going to be competitive until Cheek is gone."
 
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theFallGuy said:
fyi, here is what a good buddy of mine told me about the situation

"I went to the "basketball game viewing party" at Cabana last night (invitation is below for reference as to what it was to be)......

I talked to Hubbs individually for about 10 minutes at the end of halftime and beginning of 2nd half. He and the others went to the front and were introduced with about 13 min to go in the game. They stayed up there until an hour after the game was over. I'd estimate that by 9:30 there were still 60 people there and by 9:50 there were 45. Joey Kent, Buck Fitzgerald, DeRon Jenkins, Jason Wilhoit, and one or two other guys who probably played for UT were there. I talked to Jenkins for a while.

Most of what Hubbs told me and what he told the room conforms to what I've heard from several other people. None of the following is particularly surprising, just depressing:

The academic side's commitment to be a Top 25 Research Institution is making it impossible to recruit the players needed to compete. The war between academics and athletics has been heavily one-sided in favor of academics since Linda Bensel-Myers. Cheek wants
UT to be a much smaller school in order to lower the student/teacher ratio. Cheek was ecstatic when MTSU's enrollment surpassed UT.
Hubbs confirmed that it is harder to get athletes into UT and keep them eligible than it is at Vandy or any rival. One major reason is the following scenario:

Player X has a 2.5 at some other school and wants to transfer to UT. At UT, his gpa does not carry over. So if he transfers and makes a 1.9 in his first grading period, he is ineligible the next semester. At Vandy, Alabama, Georgia, etc., he would start
with a 2.5 and his 1.9 would not knock him down below 2.0. Even a 1.0 might not. Player X is on the field for our rivals on Saturday. At Tennessee he is wherever Izauea Lanier was on gameday.

There hasn't been a leader of the Thornton Center in 10 months. If a player is struggling with a class, a tutor is not allowed to contact the professor to find out what it is the player needs to work on. At other SEC schools, tutors can contact professors.

He thinks Cheek is so far from understanding how things work in Knoxville that losing $6mil/yr isn't going to bring him around.

Hubbs said almost exactly what Griffith said before heading to East Lansing and had many of the same conclusions I got from Basilio. UT is not going to be competitive until Cheek is gone."
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That put me in a great mood. Cheek needs to get his head out of his azz.
 
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