Tennessee
Orange Pride: It’s a Killer
Feb 10th
From GoVolsXtra
Former Tennessee football player Brent Vinson is in the Lauderdale County, Ala., jail awaiting extradition to Knoxville after being arrested Tuesday by U.S. Marshals in connection with a May 2009 shooting, the Florence (Ala.) Times Daily.
The warrants on Vincent are for tampering with evidence and accessory to murder after the fact.
Charles Austin Corn, a 23-year-old Tennessee student, died May 24 in a hospital five days after being shot repeatedly during a robbery at his apartment on Spruce Ridge Way. He never recovered enough to talk with police.
Vinson, then a defensive back at UT, was considered a witness to the shooting at the time.
Chuck Reynolds of the U.S. Marshals office in Huntsville said Vinson had reportedly moved to Florence in hopes of enrolling at the University of North Alabama, located there. The marshals said Vinson had arrived in the area after the semester began and was too late to enroll.
Vinson was dismissed from the football team prior to the Chick-fil-A Bowl in December after a discussion with then coach Lane Kiffin.
The Night Kiffin Fell Off Rocky Top
Jan 17th
Gregg “Gator” Doyel, whose parents must have loved Georgia so much they placed three “g”s in his one syllable name, provides an eye opening look at what went on the night Lane left East Tennessee for Southern California. It is hard to argue with anything he says. From my own viewing of some YouTube video, I was taken aback by just how much fun the students appeared to be having.
On considerable list of losers in Kiffin saga, Vols ‘fans’ No. 1 – CBSSports.com
Losers to the left of me. Losers to the right. But the biggest loser is the Tennessee fan base which — before this whole mess — had been a winner. Biggest home crowds in college football? At Tennessee. Biggest home crowds in women’s basketball? Also at Tennessee. Men’s basketball hasn’t gone without attention, either. Tennessee was fifth in the country last season in attendance, one of a handful of schools to increase attendance admit the country’s economic spiral. Very impressive, this Tennessee fan base.Until now.
Now? Losers. Sorry, Tennessee fans, but you are what you are. And if you’ve calmed down yet, you know I’m right. Because what you did — what Tennessee’s fans did — after Kiffin resigned went way beyond “disgraceful” and ventured deep into the heart of “frightening.”
Chris Low Provides Comprehensive List of Tennessee's Rejectors
Jan 16th
I might as well get this over with. I have had this browser window up all day and I am ready to close it.
Yesterday I predicted Chris Low would somehow fail to mention the difficulties Tennessee faced in finding their head coach. I was wrong, he mentioned it.
I still contend the tone of his writing is far more sympathetic towards Tennessee than his “assaults” on Georgia’s search. He appeared to take glee furthering every rumored rejection of Georgia.
Anyway, if you saw the video of the Lane’s departure “press conference” you have to feel for Mr. Low.
Tennessee Volunteers’ difficult coaching search ends with Derek Dooley – ESPN
What we all can agree on is that Dooley clearly wasn’t the first guy Tennessee pursued. Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp was the primary target, and he turned down a lucrative opportunity to be the Vols’ coach.
Soon after Muschamp passed, Air Force coach Troy Calhoun pulled his name out of consideration.
There were serious talks with Cutcliffe, so much so that former Tennessee star quarterback Peyton Manning (and close Cutcliffe confidant) thought — and at one point was led to believe — that Cutcliffe was going to get the job.
Something tells me Hamilton won’t be on Manning’s Christmas card list this year.
Tennessee officials flew out to Salt Lake City on Thursday night to meet with Utah’s Kyle Whittingham. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Whittingham turned down the Tennessee job Friday morning.
The Vols also talked to Temple’s Al Golden and Houston’s Kevin Sumlin.
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