Most dominating games by a Vol

[utvolpj]

Travis Stephens had a several great games as did Peyton and Al Wilson but I think in 1997, Jamal Leiws' freshman year, over 200 rushing yards verse Georgia Bulldogs, averaged about 9 yards per carry.Being a freshman was awesome, a force to to dealt with in the future.Often overlooked are his pass receptions and I think he had 275 that same year.

Had he played against UF we might have gone back-to-back.

 

[hatvol96]

Had he played against UF we might have gone back-to-back.

How dare you question TCHFCATUTK's decision to start the great Mark Levine at Florida in '97. Heretic.

 

[utvolpj]

How dare you question TCHFCATUTK's decision to start the great Mark Levine at Florida in '97. Heretic.

I questioned it before the game even started so there's no reason to change now. However, was it CPF that made the decision or was it Cut? I have my opinion...

 

[hatvol96]

I questioned it before the game even started so there's no reason to change now. However, was it CPF that made the decision or was it Cut? I have my opinion...

More blasphemy. Do you now question the great and all knowing mini-Fulmer? You are nothing but an Alabama fan in disguise. All "true" Tennessee fans know that TCHFCATUTK and mini-Fulmer are infallable.

 

[utvolpj]

More blasphemy. Do you now question the great and all knowing mini-Fulmer? You are nothing but an Alabama fan in disguise. All "true" Tennessee fans know that TCHFCATUTK and mini-Fulmer are infallable.

The truth finally comes out, sorry everyone. :banghead: Please change my name to bammerpj

 

[orangetd88]

Can you really count a game against a Hal Mumme team's defense?

Since he dominated them and this thread was originally about most dominant performances, yes.

 

[tarvol23]

how about T Rob against Awbun in 85. running, throwing lasers, he was electric that day.stole bo's show.

 

[volfan2024]

Had he played against UF we might have gone back-to-back.

Would it be fair to suggest that quiet possibly when it comes to the beginning of the Herschel Walker Era coached by Vince Dooley, compared to Coach Fulmer and the Jamal Lewis Era , since Herschel began playing in the first game, although he didn't start, and became a starter Dooley was quicker to the draw than Coach Fulmer?

 

[GAVol]

Would it be fair to suggest that quiet possibly when it comes to the beginning of the Herschel Walker Era coached by Vince Dooley, compared to Coach Fulmer and the Jamal Lewis Era , since Herschel began playing in the first game, although he didn't start, and became a starter Dooley was quicker to the draw than Coach Fulmer?

:no1:

 

[utvolpj]

Would it be fair to suggest that quiet possibly when it comes to the beginning of the Herschel Walker Era coached by Vince Dooley, compared to Coach Fulmer and the Jamal Lewis Era , since Herschel began playing in the first game, although he didn't start, and became a starter Dooley was quicker to the draw than Coach Fulmer?

As I asked earlier, are you sure it was CPF making the call?

 

[jakez4ut]

TCHFCATUTK's

now that's an acronym!!!!

 

[molsen81]

Kelly Washington vs LSU. The night he became the Truth or the Answer or whatever he nicknamed himself. Arrogant %$^&&*

 

[7IlikeOrange7]

Kelly Washington vs LSU. The night he became the Truth or the Answer or whatever he nicknamed himself. Arrogant %$^&&*

lol the "future"

 

[OrangeSquare]

lol the "future"

That whole situation is still completely blown out of proportion. It's so hard for me to believe so many people could follow so blindly what ESPN created. Kelley said that his play was going to change the future of the WR possition, and suddenly everyone blasts him. Kelley had another great game against LSU in the SECCG, if the Vols win that game, and go on to a National Title, I think he would have been a hero, instead, he got the blame for bad happenings.

Eh well. Sometimes the "good ole boy" system gets it in for someone, and its all over, no matter what they do.

 

[7IlikeOrange7]

That whole situation is still completely blown out of proportion. It's so hard for me to believe so many people could follow so blindly what ESPN created. Kelley said that his play was going to change the future of the WR possition, and suddenly everyone blasts him. Kelley had another great game against LSU in the SECCG, if the Vols win that game, and go on to a National Title, I think he would have been a hero, instead, he got the blame for bad happenings.

Eh well. Sometimes the "good ole boy" system gets it in for someone, and its all over, no matter what they do.

i dont remember him saying it just hearing about it so your probably right... he was a cocky thing thought

 

[GAVol]

i dont remember him saying it just hearing about it so your probably right... he was a cocky thing thought

Definitely cocky. He probably talked too much, but the way he gets blamed for the 2002 season is ridiculous.

 

[OrangeSquare]

Here are excerpts from the ESPN The Magazine artcile....

Washington takes a moment for his teammates to assemble by position groups before whispering something to QB Casey Clausen and briskly walking to the 30-yard line. At 6'4", 225, Washington dwarfs the other wideouts. He gets into his stance, fists clenched tight and massive quads bulging. With a sleepy-eyed "whatever" look, he glances at a cluster of Tennessee DBs -- one of his ways of issuing a challenge. Just like that damn green jersey the coaches gave him, the one that screams, "Hands off!" The DBs hate the jersey; that's why he never practices without it.

Willie Miles, a feisty corner from Texas, gets the first crack at covering Washington. Miles lines up nose to nose with Washington before bravado gives way to sanity and a five-yard cushion. Washington blurs past Miles, but the 180-pound corner cuffs him across the chin as the ball hurtles toward them. With his body heading toward the goal and his neck toward midfield, Washington extends his left arm and gathers in the ball before Miles corkscrews him into the turf. The ball pops out and the DBs go wild, jumping on one another like they just beat Florida. Jabari Greer, a starting corner who's nursing a sore right shoulder, sprints downfield in his jeans to yap in Washington's face.

Washington responds, looking Miles in the eye: "Go route." And that's exactly what he runs next. Touchdown. Then post corner. Touchdown. Fade. Touchdown. Washington undresses every DB Tennessee has and, with 10 minutes left in practice, he peels off the green jersey and wanders shirtless over to a metal bench.

"I am so excited, man. This is the year when I'm gonna tear it up and take it all worldwide," he says, transforming a cramped booth at Shoney's into his pulpit. "Last year was just a glimpse of what I'm about. Now, I'm ready to explode. People are gonna look at me and say, 'He's a mix of David Boston and Terrell Owens -- a big, tall, rangy receiver who can change the game.' I feel like I'm what receivers are gonna be like in the future. I am the most complete receiver out there. I'll definitely be the best combination of size and speed when I come out for the draft this year."

He also adds that he might have the country's strongest passing arm, too: "I can throw it about 80 yards." And if the Vols hoops team needs some help? "I could easily play that, too.

"These are the things that God has blessed me with," he says. "I'm just an unbelievable athlete."

The locals love Washington's tale: a failed minor league infielder sending letters to colleges proclaiming himself to be a 21st-century Jerry Rice. They love even more that Tennessee was the only school to believe him. And they eat it up when he plays to the crowd at Neyland Stadium and points to his mama after big catches.

Some teammates, though, aren't so fond of Washington's act. They can't stomach his arrogance, how he baits them in practice, how he spews his gospel of trash-talk. Of course, he also knows they can't touch him while he's wearing the green jersey. But the guy who gave Washington that jersey doesn't mind the rants. "It creates that competitive fire," says coach Phil Fulmer. "He challenges the DBs, and I think that makes them better. He knows exactly what he's doing."

Not so, according to Julian Battle, the DB who matches up with Washington the most during practice. "His antics might help some," Battle says, "but at a certain point it breaks down the team, makes us compete against each other. We're supposed to be a team."

"You learn to either love him or hate him," says Greer. "But either way, you have to respect him."

The Future sobbed like a baby on Aug.21, 2000, his 21st birthday. He was a minor league third baseman playing for the Kane County (Ill.) Cougars with a life stuck in neutral. Washington had already spent four years in the Florida Marlins system and had flashed more tools than Bob Vila. Scouts raved about his speed and power and said he had the organization's strongest throwing arm. The Marlins had taken Washington with the 306th overall pick in the 1997 draft, and had seen him sprout from a 6'1", 170-pounder into a hulking power hitter. But those 55 pounds couldn't help him touch a curveball, and now Washington was hitting .205. The grind of 12-hour bus rides had worn him down, and he couldn't help but envy his former roommate in rookie ball, Javon Walker, who left the minors to star at Florida State as a wideout.

When Washington stared at himself in his bathroom mirror on that August morning, he didn't like what he saw. He hadn't just disappointed himself, he had let down his grandmother. Frances Washington, a home nurse who had taught him the importance of hard work and the power of religion, would not have liked the defeated man staring back from the mirror. Washington has never known his father and never wants to know him. Everything he ever needed, his grandmother took care of. She raised him and Kelley's mother and brother in Stephens City, Va., a town of 1,100, in the tiny house where she grew up, where the Klan burned a cross on her yard when she was 5.

Frances had died a year earlier, but there, in that bathroom, Kelley believes she spoke to him. She told him it was time to go, time to start over. With two weeks left in the season, Washington threw his belongings in his Geo Tracker and left Geneva, Ill., without telling a soul.

Washington and Walter Barr, his coach at Sherando High, dug up his highlight tape from when he was an option QB and sent letters to Miami, North Carolina, LSU and Tennessee. He wrote that during his baseball career, he'd had a huge growth spurt and become even faster. Of the four schools, only Tennessee responded, and only because one of Barr's former players, Larry Slade, was a UT coach.

Washington finally met with Vols coaches on an unofficial visit to Tennessee, where they watched him run, throw, catch and run some more. When Fulmer and his staff looked at each other like they had just won the lottery, Washington knew he had just won a scholarship.

The Future sits quietly in his room in a duplex he shares with a reserve kicker and a student trainer. He has a three-foot stack of game tapes in a corner and a pile of clothes in another. Half of the room is covered with pictures of Iverson, Kobe, Vick and Jordan; photos of himself -- in uniform and shirtless poolside -- cover most of the rest. Inspirational quotes fill in the little wall space that remains. Some from the Bible, some from Muhammad Ali, some from himself.

And on his TV sits a 5"x7" frame holding his grandmother's driver's license. He spends hours in here alone, watching game tape, pondering life in the NFL and thinking about Frances. On some off weekends, he drives home to Virginia to read letters to his grandmother and great-grandmother, and place them on their graves.

He hasn't gotten close to anyone at UT. "It's just myself and my family," he says, "because in life, those are the only people you can really trust. I'm not an outcast, but I am somebody who's about business. My only agenda is to take care of my mother. Until I can look up to the sky and say to my great-grandmother and my grandmother, 'You didn't die for nothing,' I don't need any friends."

He seldom goes out. While his peers are partying, he prefers to power out 200 push-ups in his room. He even took the radio out of his Tracker because he thought it would mess with his focus. "A lot of my teammates don't understand," he says. "And I don't look down at them for that. I gotta be the financial supporter. No time for games. I gotta handle business. I've got records to set here."

The Future brags that he's finally got that "receiver's mentality," and that's where the most startling transformation has taken place. Friends back home say Kelley was always a polite, humble kid. "Actually, he was always low-key," says his brother John. "He really didn't talk much."

Washington knows he has a rep, good and bad. But after spending the first two weeks of the season in the tub with a sprained right knee -- and with a belated season debut against Florida on Sept.21 -- The Future's not about to let up. "I never listen to anyone who complains that I am cocky or brash," he says. "They don't know what it takes to get the edge, to be fully confident in your ability to where the only person who can stop you is yourself."

Stop himself? Kelley Washington can't even contain himself.

 

[Jasongivm6]

What got me, was when Kelly Washington (The Future) was filmed running in slow motion with his shirt off and his muscles flim flammin about before the 02 season opener.


And when he told Dante Stallworth, "Dante, I'm going pro, you should join me." And Dante said, "OK, I can do that." And then Washington said, "SIKE!!!!, I'm coming back!!"


just kiddin, but it could have happened that way.

 

[utvolpj]

While I agree he was cocky, I like that. How many receivers stepped on the field last season and thought they could take anybody in front of them? The guy was an amazing talent and I wish he could have been around longer. Many forget he was also playing injured.

 

[Jasongivm6]

While I agree he was cocky, I like that. How many receivers stepped on the field last season and thought they could take anybody in front of them? The guy was an amazing talent and I wish he could have been around longer. Many forget he was also playing injured.

Your avatar is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. :fworks:

 

[Freak]

Didn't he refer to himself in the third person during an interview one time?

 

[OrangeSquare]

Didn't he refer to himself in the third person during an interview one time?

Yeah, and I think he punched an old lady and spit on a kid too.

LOL

I don't recall if he spoke in third person or not. I would guess that at one time or another, he probably did, but what's so bad about that?

 

[vols kick balls]

I talk about myself in third person all the time.

 

[WA_Vol]

A lot of that reminds of Brian Bosworth and Deion Sanders during their college days.

 

[Tigerfan23]

I would have to say the most dominating performance was Bobby Humphrey vs. UT in 1986 en route to a 56-28 Bama victory.