The secondary got stronger Sunday night, when Derek Dooley got a commit from four star-cornerback Kenneth Crawley, from Washington, DC. Last night it got even stronger when four star safety LeDarrell McNeil of Dallas picked UT over Texas A&M, Oklahoma State and Southern Cal. According to the sites McNeil is one of the five best [...]
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Four star cornerback Kenneth Crawley of Washington, DC publicly chose the University of Tennessee today. Crawley had twenty-five offers on the table. Among them: Arkansas, Clemson, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, South Carolina and Virginia Tech. Crawley is a big corner, and we all know Derek Dooley’s continued goal of getting bigger across the field. It’s also [...]
As ugly as it was, may the Music City Bowl have been a blessing in disguise? Think about where UT may have been had it won the Music City Bowl. Tyler Bray would be 5-0 as a starter, and the throat slashing gestures, and brashness may have gotten worse. Janzen Jackson may have stayed in [...]
May 2003. Mike Shula becomes the head football coach of his Alma Mater, the University of Alabama. A place that needed stability. A tank of a program who’s national championships and dominating teams of the past were now just tiny specks in the rearview mirror of tradition. Alabama Football was now just football. Just another [...]
There were some rumblings in the past week about SEC expansion. Specifically, Texas A&M and Oklahoma are interested in joining the greatest conference in the world, and get away from the Texas 12. A fourteen team SEC would make a strong conference even stronger. However, Oklahoma isn’t coming without Oklahoma State, and a fifteen team [...]
I never knew how big of an Alabama football fan I was until I moved to Tennessee. I had always pulled for Alabama as a child, but it wasn’t until I moved from the safe confines of God’s state to the place of Volunteers and shirts and hats that resemble an orange with the stomach [...]
The Tennessee Vols got a big commitment at a major position of need on Thursday when 6-foot-4, 300-pound East Mississippi Community College defensive tackle Damien Jacobs pledged to coach Derek Dooley and staff. Jacobs — who was a three-star Florida State commitment last year before failing to qualify — visited Knoxville this past weekend with [...]
Editor’s note: Before we dive into this diatribe, I want to point out one positive: While we were away on our, er, hiatus, the Tennessee football program secured eight — EIGHT!!! — verbal commitments for next year’s recruiting class. Of course we’re not around for the positive news, but I want to point that out [...]
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