{"id":3644,"date":"2017-08-18T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2017-08-18T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:14:14","slug":"freaknotes-links-aug-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2017\/08\/18\/freaknotes-links-aug-18\/","title":{"rendered":"FreakNotes and Links: Aug 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"notes\">\n<p><strong>August 18, Friday<\/strong> (updating throughout the day)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t want to believe it, but it sure does sound like all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/276311-bad-news-incoming.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspension rumors<\/a> just might be true.\u00a0<em>&#8220;I know there&#8217;s a lot of rumors out there and I don&#8217;t comment on rumors,&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Butch Jones<\/strong> said today after practice. <em>&#8220;If there is a suspension, I think we&#8217;ve been pretty consistent. We&#8217;ll make an announcement and we&#8217;ll talk about that.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Practice number 15 is in the books and freshman cornerback <strong>Shawn Shamburger\u00a0<\/strong>was the fourth Vol to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/276450-shawn-shamburger-lost-black-stripe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lose his black stripe<\/a> during camp. The youngster from Moultrie, GA is pushing for playing time. Check out all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/276454-practice-15-a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">videos and highlight&#8217;s <\/a>from today&#8217;s action. And here are a few photos from UT: <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DHi08ujWAAAUHtH.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DHi0-UcXgAAe9FV.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DHi1AG9XYAAlk4c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo3<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DHi1DDUXYAEhENK.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Todd Helton<\/strong> will return to Tennessee&#8217;s baseball staff as volunteer director of player development, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-baseball\/276456-todd-helton-returning-tennessee-baseball-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Jimmy Hyams<\/a>. Helton said recently that he was unsure why he wasn&#8217;t relied on more by the previous staff. Regardless, it&#8217;s great to see him involved.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/276417-dg-tl-dr-position-overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">position group overview<\/a> is worth your time. Read it.<\/li>\n<li>Did you know <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradPowers7\/status\/898195845966737410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only one SEC coach has a major bowl win <\/a>(Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, Orange, NY6) in his career? Wow.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Connely released his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-football\/2017\/8\/18\/16143312\/sec-football-power-rankings-predictions-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEC power rankings<\/a>. I love breaking down numbers, such as those in this article. Read through it and let me know your take in the comments below.<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee sent out quite a few offers of note yesterday. I&#8217;ll run through them quickly.\n<ol>\n<li><b>George Karlaftis \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/b>. A four-star defensive end from West Lafayette, IN, who is considered to be one of the top-five players in the state, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGK88\/status\/898312415619710980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volnation.com%2Ffreaknotes%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D3644%26action%3Dedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> &#8220;<em>Blessed to receive an offer from the University of Tennessee!<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; He appears to be a pretty strong Michigan lean at this point.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jarrian Jones \u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong>. A three-star safety from Flowood, MS. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7reasons1k\/status\/898300371034046464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volnation.com%2Ffreaknotes%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D3644%26action%3Dedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He wrote<\/a>, &#8220;<em>Blessed and HONORED to say I have received and offer from The University of Tennessee<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Steele \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong>. A four-star cornerback from California. He&#8217;s ranked the No. 2 cornerback in the nation, according to the 247Sports composite. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KinggChris7\/status\/898294367227494400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volnation.com%2Ffreaknotes%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D3644%26action%3Dedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steele tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;<em>ALL GLORY TO GOD&#8230;PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT I&#8217;VE RECEIVED AN OFFER FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE!!!<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Omar Speights \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong>. A four-star outside linebacker from Philadelphia, PA, who is rated the number one player in the state, according the 247. &#8220;<em>Blessed to receive my 9th offer from The University of Tennessee<\/em>,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omarspeights\/status\/898290554202722304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wrote<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Howard Cross III \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong>. A four-star strongside defensive end from Montvale, New Jersey, rated the No. 6 player in the state. &#8220;<em>Extremely honored to receive an offer to Tennessee<\/em>,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HowardCrossIII\/status\/898283506987671558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wrote<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Savion Jackson \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong>. A four-star strongside defensive end from Clayton, NC <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/savionjac11\/status\/898318918082678784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, &#8220;<em>Blessed to receive my 14th offer from the University of Tennessee<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>I know most people aren&#8217;t going to get excited about a punter, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2017\/08\/18\/tenneesse-lands-commitment-one-nations-top-punters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee picked up a good one yesterday <\/a>in <strong>Paxton Brooks<\/strong>. Rated the No. 2 punter in the country, &#8220;he repeatedly hit 50-60 yard blasts,&#8221; wrote Kohl&#8217;s kicking camp in their evaluation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Josh Dobbs<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/forum\/tennessee-vols-football\/276441-official-josh-dobbs-start-steelers-week.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slated to get his second NFL preseason start<\/a> for the Steelers on Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons.<\/li>\n<li>If you missed <strong>Derek Barnett<\/strong> in action last night, I&#8217;ve got you covered with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2017\/08\/18\/watch-derek-barnett-highlights-week-2-gets-third-sack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all the highlights<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Happy Friday, everyone. What better way to celebrate the weekend than to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2017\/08\/17\/freaknotes-links-aug-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday&#8217;s Freaknotes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>If you enjoy reading these summaries and would like to see them continue, be sure to leave a comment below and\/or share with friends\/social media. That gives me the motivation to continue writing them. I&#8217;m still not quite sure about the format, so if they aren&#8217;t all that interesting to folks, my time may be best spent elsewhere. Regardless, thank you for taking the time to read today&#8217;s edition. Go Vols!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, Friday (updating throughout the day) I don&#8217;t want to believe it, but it sure does sound like all of the suspension rumors just might be true.\u00a0&#8220;I know there&#8217;s a lot of rumors out there and I don&#8217;t comment on rumors,&#8221; Butch Jones said today after practice. &#8220;If there is a suspension, I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freaknotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/files\/2017\/08\/DHcKYEMWsAE6JrQ.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}