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[jakez4ut]

so good...lol.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

McCollough is sitting out a 3rd week, isn’t he, while Burton doesn’t miss a down after hitting a lady. SMH

And there is actual video evidence Burton did it! All we have to go on in McCollough's case is an incident report by the drunk "victim"

 

[SoilVol]

Back in the day, he was a writer for ESPN, of course...

In 1999, he began an all-out assault on UT athletics, especially football, writing several relentless articles about our athletics and academics. It was a massive battle between UT and ESPN over it. It was truly were the Heisman and trailer park anger went to a whole other level, especially for the university.

He was writing like an article a day about it on espn.com. Now, I'm not saying what he was writing wasn't true; of course the star players at a major college football program are going to get that special treatment...at every single major college football program across the land, not just at UT. Why wasn't he up Florida's ass, or FSU's...Nebraska's or Miami's? Keep in mind, this is just two years removed from ESPN leading the charge in the stealing of Manning's Heisman, and "trailer park frenzy".

Then, in 2004, after all of the academics mess had quieted, the same a**hole, the same fcks (ESPN) were the ones that outed Fulmer as being the informant to the NCAA against Bama...."Deepthroat Has A Southern Twang" was his headline, I'll never forget it.

I'm done with it. I like beast, he's a good poster; but, anyone who can't see what's right in front of their face, well...this world is filled with em.

I actually stumbled upon this story yesterday. Fowler made the trailer trash comment, and ESPN refused to shoot Gameday at UTK for a few years after due to the response Fowler got. I think it wasn't until Rece Davis replaced him that they came back.

Then the ESPN dude digging into Fulmer's recruiting relentlessly and the university fighting ESPN over it. Dude had a personal vendetta against UT and wanted to see us burn, and ESPN was allowing him to do it.. nay, paying him... and giving him the platform. The NCAA started an investigation because of it, and the rumor is that Fulmer released all Bama's dirty laundry to stay out of trouble. Thus the deepthroat comment.

 

[B EaZy40]

Welllllll sh*t…..RIP Leslie Jordan

 

[tnhunter 10]

McCollough is sitting out a 3rd week, isn’t he, while Burton doesn’t miss a down after hitting a lady. SMH

Rumor is he has a broken hand.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Mississippi State is the only game of the season where Kentucky has rushed for more than 125 yards (partly because of how many sacks they give up). They also had 48 carries in that game (previous high was 38 against Florida). Rodriguez is their best player though, so we'll for sure have to contain him.

Still we're a higher rated rushing defense than any they've faced. And we've done that against 3 of the top 7 running games in the SEC (Florida: 3rd, Alabama: 4th, LSU: 7th)

Gonna be interesting dynamics for sure. I think the recipe for success vs our D is pass, pass and more pass. Their OL is utter trash so their OL either steps up in a YUGE way and Levis beats us (worst possible outcome) OR our DL gets pressure all night and Levis trips over his bottom lip again as the clock hits 00:00. There’s always 1 letdown game and with the call for 50%+ rain Sat evening I’m hoping that doesn’t cause problems for our WRs. Conversely, that could be UK’s issue as well and a benefit for our secondary (weakest link).

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Yeah I just don’t see it with Iowa State. Texas is the big game left for them IMO but I think TCU has the team to win it. Would love to be wrong tho. I don’t think they win a rematch vs Oklahoma State though if that’s the championship. I’d prefer a 2 loss big 12 champ though so bring on some upsets.

TCU has barely gotten out of a couple games this year. Iowa state barely lost a couple too. If KSU’s QB doesn’t get hurt, they likely win. Game changed when he went out. I think Texas, Texas Tech, and Iowa stare could all beat them.

 

[Orange_Crush]

The part where they put him in the secondary, tell him it's his GF's apartment, and point out the "drunk Wildcats" that keep trying to break in?

BTW, I'm turning that into a script for a movie. Thinking about calling it "The towel boy" or something like that. I'll spice it up by making him an underdog team support staff that moves into the secondary and dominates by imagining he's protecting the people he loves. Has a few setbacks that look to derail him and the team. Add a love interest and a championship... Maybe an overbearing mother as crazy as that chick from "Misery"... Instant classic!

I wanted to post the concept here real quick, with a VN timestamp, so no one steals the idea. Thx!!!

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Tank would be a huge add to stop Rodriguez. He can hit.

Slaughter hits harder than Tank. Lol. He about killed that UTM player ha

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Gonna be interesting dynamics for sure. I think the recipe for success vs our D is pass, pass and more pass. Their OL is utter trash so their OL either steps up in a YUGE way and Levis beats us (worst possible outcome) OR our DL gets pressure all night and Levis trips over his bottom lip again as the clock hits 00:00. There’s always 1 letdown game and with the call for 50%+ rain Sat evening I’m hoping that doesn’t cause problems for our WRs. Conversely, that could be UK’s issue as well and a benefit for our secondary (weakest link).

For what it's worth, traditionally rain is more challenging for DBs than WRs. Mostly because the WRs know where they are going and the DBs are trying to keep up/react.
I like our chance mostly because I think UK's rushing ratings are fluffed to hell because of 2 games. If you look at actual game logs.

We've ran for 218, 91, 238, 227, 263, 182, 201 and only given up 74, 141, 35, 142, 55, 114, 76
Kentucky has ran for 50, 70, 103, 103, 108, 121, 239 and given up 111, 136, 58, 128, 186, 179, 22

They give up more ypc than they average 3.1 gained vs 3.9 given up. We're sitting at gain 4.6 and only giving up 2.9 so even in a straight up rushing game I like our chances. We've got 4 players (counting Hooker) with at least 30 attempts and 4.5 YPC or better. Kentucky has just 2 guys over 4.5 ypc (Smoke & Rodriguez)

I -really- think we're better on the LOS on both sides and think that's going to allow us to win this one.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Come on people worried about Kentucky. Their strength lines up with our strength. Run offense vs run defense. Plus, their OL is light years worse this year than last and our DL is way better than last years. Thank you Gardner. We dropped 45 on them last year. I think we can do it again. They won’t drop more than 30 on us. It’s gonna be a two touchdown game.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

 

[SoilVol]

How in the world did they go off on Miss St? They doubled up what Bama was able to do to MSU...those numbers don't make sense to me.

Also everybody crapping on UKs rushing avg, but check it since Rodriguez came back...iirc he something like 190 yards on MSU, while Jamyr Gibbs who pretty much everybody agrees is the much better back, did nearly nothing against MSU.

I didn't watch either game, but I do not understand why UK absolutely manhandled MSU, but Bama only managed 290 yards TOTAL against them.

Those numbers don't add up, but one thing they tell me is that us fans are maybe badly underestimating UKs offense now that Rodriguez is back.

What I hope happened was that it was an absolute missed preparation going into the game. That they expected Kentucky to rely heavily on the pass or a certain run design and didn't expect CRod to be that big of a threat. Then against Bama they had the template for how to stop Gibbs from us, and knew Gibbs was the primary man to stop so they sold out on it.

 

[Weezer]

Back in the day, he was a writer for ESPN, of course...

In 1999, he began an all-out assault on UT athletics, especially football, writing several relentless articles about our athletics and academics. It was a massive battle between UT and ESPN over it. It was truly where the Heisman and trailer park anger went to a whole other level, especially for the university.

He was writing like an article a day about it on espn.com. Now, I'm not saying what he was writing wasn't true; of course the star players at a major college football program are going to get that special treatment...at every single major college football program across the land, not just at UT. Why wasn't he up Florida's ass, or FSU's...Nebraska's or Miami's? Keep in mind, this is just two years removed from ESPN leading the charge in the stealing of Manning's Heisman, and "trailer park frenzy".

Then, in 2004, after all of the academics mess had quieted, the same a**hole, the same fcks (ESPN) were the ones that outed Fulmer as being the informant to the NCAA against Bama...."Deepthroat Has A Southern Twang" was his headline, I'll never forget it.

I'm done with it. I like beast, he's a good poster; but, anyone who can't see what's right in front of their face, well...this world is filled with em.

He's a gator alum.

 

[Weezer]

BTW, I'm turning that into a script for a movie. Thinking about calling it "The towel boy" or something like that. I'll spice it up by making him an underdog team support staff that moves into the secondary and dominates by imagining he's protecting the people he loves. Has a few setbacks that look to derail him and the team. Add a love interest and a championship... Maybe an overbearing mother as crazy as that chick from "Misery"... Instant classic!

I wanted to post the concept here real quick, with a VN timestamp, so no one steals the idea. Thx!!!

 

[zhangliao04]

As an usher for the home games I’m hating that I still have to watch a CBS game. Go away, Gary! Your Tide lost it’s time to move on.

 

[BigSteve09]

Look at Will Levis vs SEC opponents:




compared to Hendon Hooker:

 

[nicksjuzunk]

Amazing work!
nothing looked out of place last week

Inside the six-day mad dash to make Tennessee's field playable after an epic party

 

[VOL6479]

Does anybody know a way to watch the game with the volume muted and listen to the radio broadcast were it's not delayed? The radio is either a couple seconds behind or ahead of the channel the game is on. It's not like the old days.

 

[MadWorld]

When would you expect him to throw a deep ball?

HH throws guys open. JM seems to wait until they are open. Squirrel had to wait for the ball, albeit it got there fast. I hope it clicks for Joe when he gets the next chance, don't get me wrong. Good for him and good for us.

 

[TheRain]

 

[loosedog]

It was a good ball for sure, but it looks like he's holding it too long. His processing of the play is not on the same level as HH.

This x100. I sure hope he can speed up his processing of the filed, etc. I always believe guys can make this leap but some maybe just can’t - like JG for example.

 

[MadWorld]

Yeah, HH isn't accurate just because of our scheme. He has a great ability to process the play and know where to go with it. I think his high throws are often because he's mentally ahead of himself at times.

If Joe has time though he can throw into any window on the field. He'll need to improve on processing and timing to really have a killer final season next year and get NFL attention.

Agreed.

Hope that Joe having more and more time in the system will allow him to improve. He has all the tools for sure.

 

[Volsdeep4]

Rumor is he has a broken hand.

Needs to learn to punch correctly

 

[TheRain]

Jan 14, 2005.