Marvin West’s excellent piece from August 22, Which Vol Freshmen Will Play, reminded me of all the criticism Coach Fulmer endured during the 1994 season when he rotated two freshmen, …
Pruitt gone, Fulmer going, Tennessee starting over again
Jeremy Pruitt is gone. Phillip Fulmer is going. The Tennessee athletics department will again be retooled. It seemed inevitable. Losing is very expensive.
Coach Pruitt, assistant coaches Brian Niedermeyer and Shelton …
‘Beat Vanderbilt’ is first step toward success for football Vols
In the spring of 1925, Capt. Robert Reese Neyland, 33, finished with immediate military obligations, sat behind his desk near the commandant’s office at the U.S. Military Academy and plotted …
Tennessee football: 50 years later
Note to Phillip: Please consider inviting the 1969 Tennessee football team back to campus for a 50th-anniversary celebration.
Oh, so this has been on the planning board for weeks. Yes, I …
Vol football: Back where we started
Good news: Jeremy Pruitt sounds as if he understands the fans’ point of view. He says he has to give us a team that will make us proud.
Perhaps you have …
If money will buy happiness …
So, what do you get for $3 million and change in today’s college football coaching market?
Tennessee got Jim Chaney, Derrick Ansley and Tee Martin. We can hope that makes a …
Barnes wins home game
Readers who become editorial supervisors when the pot gets hot are telling me what to tell Rick Barnes.
“You burned the bridge, old buddy.”
“Let him go. I’ll help him pack.”
“It’s all …
Bring Kara home: Lawson should be next Tennessee coach
If ever there was a case of mass love at first sight, it happened when Tennessee fans met Kara Lawson.
It was Nov. 7, 1999, the first exhibition game of the …