Recent content by knox73

Totally agree that Majors' best chances to win a national championship were in the early 1970s if he had succeeded Dickey rather than Battle. That is the tragedy of Vol football history. One of the top young coaches in the nation - a famous alumnus - and up and comer was passed over for a 28...

Lane is very fortunate to have the Ole Miss job. None of the SEC elite teams would touch him with a 10-foot pole. It will be interesting to see how he and his former OC Jeff Lebby match up. Florida should have kept Dan Mullen but they have the quickest hook in the power 5.

Can they re-create John Ward via A.I. to call the Vols?

Tennessee has gone into the football head coaching market and swung big one time - when they hired John Terrell Majors in 1977. Majors had just taken Pitt from a winless season to a national championship in 4 years. Majors was the hottest coaching hire in the market at that time and he was...

Wright improved dramatically through hard work as did Jalin Hyatt - hope he gets paid well and becomes a star. I think some NFL team will be pleased to land this man and turn him loose.

Come on Tobe - we need you at UT and you can count on Coach Barnes to max out your potential.

Does Uros have any aggressive massive siblings or cousins? I love seeing the player development under Barnes and seeing guys that are essentially projects become contributors with hard work and perseverance.

The problem with Battle’s smaller linemen was they were slow and unfortunately not athletic or strong. Alabama, Nebraska and Oklahoma knew what they were trying to do and recruited major talent to their systems, Battle tried the Houston veer a year or 2 and ended up with a poor man’s version...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Coker Good points on the resurgence of Alabama in the 1970s. Majors could have kept Tennessee afloat following Dickey due to his work ethic, personality and being a Tennessee hero. Neither Dickey nor Majors would have matched Bear’s record definitely...

Reposted from another thread. Majors walked into the worst program in the SEC - Battle never coached another day after leaving UT and "retired" as a coach at age 34. It was the extreme "reach hire" that had no chance of long term success. Battle took a program that was at the top of the SEC...

Could Jonas be odd man out? I have seen him linked to UNC, Baylor and Kentucky. Each school seems to be landing transfers and Baylor may be out of NIL money. Maybe the guy should have remained in Knoxville with a secure starting position. If he guesses wrong - his playing time may not be...

Tobe is another Oscar Tscheibe and a rebounding machine. Don’t rule him out improving on offense. I hope he stays for sure.

Lane Kiffin is a joke. He is stuck at Ole Miss and he is waiting for the UF job to open which is his last chance for a major SEC job after being passed over by Auburn, Bama, Tennessee and LSU. He whines and cries out of envy for the SEC Big Boy programs and is beyond lucky to be at Ole Miss...

Vols run a ”gimmick“ offense using wide splits and tempo and it will not translate from UCF to the SEC.

I was fully prepared to welcome this guy to the program 2 pages ago now I am off him like a dirty shirt.