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Yeah, of course WE were. We're talking about all the other guys. Those other teams' fellas.

Any sport that can compel fans to drive five hours, late into the evening ... sneak onto the enemy's campus ... find and subdue a 225-pound billy goat with some pretty scary-looking horns ... figure out a way to lift that goat into the bed of the truck (or back of the van, not kidding it...

I'll tell you what, if you go by our music, we Tennesseans are the most heartbroken SOBs in the world. We can't keep a girl to save our lives. Go Vols!

It's a strange question you ask. If you only care about national titles, then every non-playoff bowl has been "irrelevant" since the BCS was introduced in 1998. Tennessee and Florida State played for the crown that winter, and everyone else was in an "irrelevant" bowl. Right? So how can...

His name only half suits him. He's certainly a loser, but is no vol. Don't know what team he cheers for, but it's not the fellas in orange the rest of us love. He's probably a Vandy fan.

The topic is NFL hall of fame. Not sure the UT AD brass have much to say in the process involved to be inducted there. Were you crossing the streams on two different halls of fame?

It is no paradox at all. It only appears to be one to those who try to find objectivity among fan(atic)s. We're tribal. Read the room. Understand the context. Makes perfect sense then. Go Vols!

Dunno, for most of the teams on the list. And don't trust the reporters to have gotten it all right as an apples-to-apples comparison. Do know this, though: if Texas goes out of its way to count it up, and brags it is going to spend $35M-$40M on its football team in the coming year, it is...

Hold on. Spyre has reportedly been spending about $12M per year on our athletes. And the university recently announced it will revenue share another $18M per year. That totals $30M / year. Now, that is to all athletes, not just football. But we're still gonna be spending the lion's share of...

Your opening premise is wrong, Franklin. The "student athlete" hasn't been killed by NIL. The "college amateur" has, but not the student. The older members of VN.com have spent our entire lives thinking of college athletes as both students and amateurs. That was the mantra. It was the code...

College football players have always -- and I mean always, from the late 1800s to today -- applied to schools based on more than one thing. Academics? Sure, some. Nice facilities? That too. Pretty girls and/or girlfriend goes there? Sometimes. Financial benefits? Of course. Coaching...

We see players enter the portal all the time, and then not transfer to any other school. I'd bet in some of those cases--not all, but some--the player was not accepted at any school he wanted to go to, because of...yep, academics. Now, it's not in the school's interest to rat the kid out to...

Most people don't think of Tebow & Leak when we talk about Spurrier's 2-QB system. They think about Doug Johnson, Danny Wuerffel, Jesse Palmer, Rex Grossman. Those years. Tebow & Leak was really a one-QB system (Leak), with Tebow coming in from time to time almost as a Wildcat. The true...

Not buying this. Or this. The NCAA (which means the universities, collectively) completely lost control of amateurism. But they haven't lost, no one has even mentioned trying to take it from them, the student-athlete requirement. To play for a college, you have to be in college. To be in...