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[JohnWardForever]

westwords Tennessee’s game plan for the rematch at Kentucky should be the exact opposite of the late January loss to the Wildcats in Knoxville – inside out instead of outside in.

Guard Jahmai Mashack #15 duels with Koby Brea #4 of Kentucky during the game between the Wildcats and the Volunteers at Food City Center on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Ferguson/ Tennessee Athletics)

 

[JohnWardForever]

So many stories …

Rupp often complained about poor lighting in UT’s old Alumni Gym. He arrived one Friday for a pregame practice wearing a coal miner’s cap with carbide lantern burning brightly.
Rupp contributed the best quote in my newspaper career. We were talking basketball on the phone on the day Doug Dickey confirmed he was leaving Tennessee to coach football at Florida.

Rupp asked if the story was true. He paused to digest the news.

“Why would a man leave the Garden of Eden to see if he can make it on his own?” Marvin West goes back to 1951 as the UT Newspaper Editor. He has done/seen it all.

Read the entire story! Marvin walked among Giants while honing his craft in the newspaper business. Neyland, Bryant, Rupp, Majors, Joe B. Hall, Dickey, Fulmer, Summit and so many other Coaches, and star players--all the greats from Cafego, Doug Atkins, Bob Suffridge/Johnson, Dewey Warren, Reggie, Shuler, Manning, Wilson. What an amazing career and amazing Man.. A true Giant in his own right and a Tennessee treasure. Marvin West. READ the article. Brush with greatness.

 

[Anti-shunshinepumper]

We played their game to a Tee and they barely beat us. We play our game tmmrw night, and we leaving with a win.