Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

[Orange.]

The LVs’ colonialism needs to go home. They live off football money? OK. They get to be in control of football colors? No.

 

[rikberry31]

We can honor Pat without all the powder blue. A patch or patches, or a Pat Summit signature logo. There is no reason to go looking like Florida or anybody else. GBO

We can honor Pat by not playing like girls, just like her teams.

 

[maduggin]

This sounds like a great addition to game day coverage, especially for those of us in West TN who don't get as much Vol TV content

 

[CagleMtnVol]

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Had a vivid dream last night I was watching the game against Syracuse. First play of the 2nd quarter we go up 21-3 after a 75 yard run by Peyton Lewis. I’ll take it. End of August can’t come soon enough!

probably pretty accurate

 

[volinbama256]

Per our usual recruiting flubs at the end, for whatever reason, we won't get either Keys or Hiter... will believe it when I see it for us to even get 1 of the two... everyone knows at this point, NIL is the ultimate driver, and we won't pay... Ya'll keep going back and forth though, if it gets you through the day.

 

[Orange.]

BasketVols non-conference schedule is out. Headline games are hosting Illinois, Houston and Rutgers in Las Vegas, and at Syracuse in the SEC/ACC challenge.

Vols Reveal 2025-26 Non-Conference Schedule - University of Tennessee Athletics

Tennessee head men's basketball coach Rick Barnes announced Friday the team's non-conference slate for the upcoming 2025-26 season.

utsports.com

Preseason scrimmages are at Michigan and hosting Dook.

 

[Govolsman98]

Per our usual recruiting flubs at the end, for whatever reason, we won't get either Keys or Hiter... will believe it when I see it for us to even get 1 of the two... everyone knows at this point, NIL is the ultimate driver, and we won't pay... Ya'll keep going back and forth though, if it gets you through the day.

You understand both of them are vols right?

 

[Orange.]

So now the legacy is an in-state legacy. Not to say that that matters to evaluations.

I’m glad we’ve been making inroads recruiting at Baylor. It’s very important to our recruiting overall. @allvolrecruiting

 

[peaygolf]

July 18, 1969
Edward Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Incident

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s legacy was blighted on the night of July 18, 1969, when he drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island on Martha’s Vineyard. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker with brother Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign, was found dead in the submerged car’s back seat 10 hours later.

In a statement to the police, Kennedy said when the accident occurred he was driving Kopechne to a ferry after a party on Chappaquiddick Island, on the east end of Martha’s Vineyard. He said he was unfamiliar with the road.

What might have been simply a tragic accident became an international furor as holes in Kennedy's story began to emerge. Kennedy was charged the next day, but the next day’s report reflected the rumors that the incident could harm Kennedy’s career.

Kennedy, then 37, ultimately pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence and a year’s probation.

A judge eventually determined there was “probable cause to believe that Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently ... and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”

At the height of the scandal, Kennedy appeared on national television to explain himself in an extraordinary 13-minute address in which he denied driving drunk and rejected rumors of “immoral conduct” with Kopechne. He said he was haunted by “irrational” thoughts immediately after the accident, and wondered “whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.”

He said his failure to report the accident right away was “indefensible.”

After Chappaquiddick especially, Kennedy gained a reputation as a heavy drinker and a womanizer, a tragically flawed figure haunted by the fear that he did not quite measure up to his brothers. As his weight ballooned, he was lampooned by comics and cartoonists in the 1980s and ’90s as the very embodiment of government waste, bloat and decadence.

 

[peaygolf]

So now the legacy is an in-state legacy.

I’m glad we’ve been making inroads recruiting at Baylor. It’s very important to our recruiting overall. @allvolrecruiting

Should have gone to BGA.

 

[Orange.]

July 18, 1969
Edward Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Incident

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s legacy was blighted on the night of July 18, 1969, when he drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island on Martha’s Vineyard. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker with brother Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign, was found dead in the submerged car’s back seat 10 hours later.

In a statement to the police, Kennedy said when the accident occurred he was driving Kopechne to a ferry after a party on Chappaquiddick Island, on the east end of Martha’s Vineyard. He said he was unfamiliar with the road.

What might have been simply a tragic accident became an international furor as holes in Kennedy's story began to emerge. Kennedy was charged the next day, but the next day’s report reflected the rumors that the incident could harm Kennedy’s career.

Kennedy, then 37, ultimately pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence and a year’s probation.

A judge eventually determined there was “probable cause to believe that Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently ... and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”

At the height of the scandal, Kennedy appeared on national television to explain himself in an extraordinary 13-minute address in which he denied driving drunk and rejected rumors of “immoral conduct” with Kopechne. He said he was haunted by “irrational” thoughts immediately after the accident, and wondered “whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.”

He said his failure to report the accident right away was “indefensible.”

After Chappaquiddick especially, Kennedy gained a reputation as a heavy drinker and a womanizer, a tragically flawed figure haunted by the fear that he did not quite measure up to his brothers. As his weight ballooned, he was lampooned by comics and cartoonists in the 1980s and ’90s as the very embodiment of government waste, bloat and decadence.


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Sad.

Do you remember or know of the 1991 SNL opening skit about Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden giving Clarence Thomas advice about how to sexually harass women? SNL appears to have deleted this, but I found it in an archive:

 

[Vfl2407]

Jesus, what part of the Outback do they live in?
That certainly isn’t a big city like Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane .

 

[Vfl2407]

This is one of the few things that gives me goosebumps anymore. I'm not sure I could even explain whey Tennesee Football has tht impact me. It certainly doesn't happen with any pro sports.

I know why it does for me.
I grew up in the shadow of Neyland Stafium and the first time I went into that cathedral, I fell in love. Then the first time I saw the Vols play there, Condredge vs UCLA, I was hooked and a Vol For Life. It has brought me so much joy even during the lean years and has provided a much needed distraction from “real life” troubles.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

This sounds like a great addition to game day coverage, especially for those of us in West TN who don't get as much Vol TV content

I still think ESPN needs to offer alt broadcasts of each game with the announcers for each team.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

Me LIKEY..RIP PAT!!!

It's like the Chargers uniform and the old Broncos uniform had a baby...... an ugly baby.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

Me LIKEY..RIP PAT!!!

I wouldn't mess with the helmet but an orange jersey maybe with blue trim around the numbers and summit blue pants would look sweet. IMO

 

[UTSuave’]

It's like the Chargers uniform and the old Broncos uniform had a baby...... an ugly baby.

Hater!! How would you alter them as they are in the picture to see them on the field?

 

[UTSuave’]

I wouldn't mess with the helmet but an orange jersey maybe with blue trim around the numbers and summit blue pants would look sweet. IMO

I dig it! @CagleMtnVol

@TN-POSSUM

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Me LIKEY..RIP PAT!!!

we shouldn't allow anymore alternates

 

[CagleMtnVol]

This sounds like a great addition to game day coverage, especially for those of us in West TN who don't get as much Vol TV content

Chattanooga?

 

[Orange.]

Chattanooga?

As it says,

with plans to expand into Chattanooga and Jackson

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Personally I think summit blue for some accent is best, storm troopers and then do a number outline and replace some of the patches with summit blue versions.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Personally I think summit blue for some accent is best, storm troopers and then do a number outline and replace some of the patches with summit blue versions.

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the reverse would look better iyam

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Personally I think summit blue for some accent is best, storm troopers and then do a number outline and replace some of the patches with summit blue versions.

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That's what I was thinking. Use the LVs white uniforms design. That would be an away uniform in football. Make a deal with an OOC cupcake to wear their home uniforms in Neyland and the Vols wear the white Summit uniforms.