Tennessee Football: Has The Love Affair Lost Its Flame?

Published on: 30th September, 2009

The Volunteer Navy still sailgates before each home game and orange-blooded, orange-clad, orange-obsessed Tennessee football fanatics still pass through the turnstiles at Neyland Stadium at the same rate they always have. So, outwardly at least, it would appear that the fan's love affair with Tennessee football is alive and well. But, cynicism is ...

Hardesty Picks The Right Time to Step Up

Published on: 29th September, 2009

Monterio Hardesty entered the 2009-10 season at Tennessee with 1046 career rushing yards and a talented, young freshman pushing him for playing time. Sounds like something you might remember from "The Program," a pedestrian 1990's-era college football movie about a team vaguely reminiscent of Florida State. But instead of pulling a Ray Griffen ...

Jonathan Crompton: A Real Straight Shooter

Published on: 7th September, 2009

Who was that masked man? Well, he didn't really have a mask on, but Volunteers quarterback Jonathan Crompton was the ultimate straight shooter on Saturday in Tennessee's season-opening 63-7 stampede over Western Kentucky. Crompton (21-of-28, 233 yards, 5 TDs) immediately went from liability to asset and has everyone in Big Orange Country feeling pretty good ...

Dissecting the “Tennessee 2” Defense: How Monte Kiffin Can Make It Work

Published on: 10th August, 2009

Rome wasn't built in a day, but it eventually ruled the known world. That's kind of how it is with the adaptation of the Tampa 2 defense to the college football world. It'll take a little while to master it, but if new Tennessee defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin gets his players ...

The Lane Kiffin Plan for Tennessee’s Resurgence

Published on: 9th August, 2009

His appearance and mannerisms didn't belie new Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin's outlandish plans to resurrect the Volunteers football program. Now, on the eve of his first season in Knoxville, let's take a look back at what Kiffin has done to raise Tennessee's national profile as well as the ire of ...

Searching For Peyton Manning

Published on: 9th August, 2009

Unlike Jerry Colquitt and Todd Helton's situation back in 1994, there doesn't appear to be a Peyton Manning-type quarterback ensconced on the Volunteers' bench just hoping for a little playing time 15 years later. Injuries that year to both Colquitt and Helton forced Manning onto the big stage, but a repeat of history could ...

Top Five All-Time College Freshman Running Backs

Published on: 1st August, 2009

Maurice Clarett was headed toward a stellar college career after topping off a 1,237-yard, 18-touchdown freshman campaign by playing a key role in Ohio State's national championship win over the Miami Hurricanes. Unfortunately for Clarett, that would be the sum total of his football accomplishments and also leaves him just ...

Five Defining Moments for Tennessee Vols Football in 2009

Published on: 11th July, 2009

Following a BCS National Championship in 1998, the Tennessee Volunteers began to slide down the mountain they had ascended and settled into mediocrity 10 years later. In order to head their way back up the mountain in new coach Lane Kiffin's debut season on Rocky Top, the Volunteers need to ...

Lane Kiffin Era Set To Open in Knoxville

Published on: 23rd June, 2009

Even the most optimistic Volunteer fan had to know that the handwriting was on the wall for former coach Phillip Fulmer immediately following the 2008 opener. As the Vols slogged their way off the field after an overtime loss to a sub-par UCLA squad in Rick Neuheisel’s debut, it was no ...

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