I haven’t posted a new thread in awhile, hoping VOLNation will enjoy what I’d characterize as some of my CFB offseason musings before the “talking time” associated with SEC media days next week.
First off, I’ve already admitted to following (but not posting on) the SECRant site. That site is sometimes informative but most of the time somewhat entertaining as it lives up to it’s name… a forum for fans of SEC teams to rant.
One of the latest threads had to do with whether or not Steve Spurrier would have been as successful in this era of NIL, transfer portal, etc. as he was as the HBC of the hated Gators. While I still feel the pain associated with the win/loss record between UT and UF while a student and to this date (including the Spurrier-led Blue Devils who beat us at home in 1988), I instead just recognize that this East Tennessee athlete would have been a VOL player (and perhaps a coach) for our team… just like Johnny Majors who decided to return to his Alma Mater after winning a National Championship at Pitt (and even Phil Fulmer taking up the mantle to coach his Alma Mater when offered the opportunity). For below, my musing is simply that while I may wish that history would have made the native son of Tennessee (Spurrier) a VOL vice Gator, I’m guessing he’d find success in the present era as he did in the 80s and 90s.
While not on SEC Rant, I came across an interview with Eli Drinkwitz (below). While I personally don’t have any real beef with Mizzou or their fans (I have a good friend that is a big Mizzou fan which I’ve had a standing bet with… whosever team looses on the gridiron, they have to wear the victors colors/jersey).
As I had the misfortune last fall to wear Mizzou’s colors (think Vandy), I was intrigued a bit about the post-game reporting that their coach’s comment to Josh was “we stand on business” which both didn’t make much sense and/or came across to me the wrong way. I just came across this interview with Eli that I thought was really good (go to the 37:20 mark for the motivation for post-game comment… honestly I was impressed by the whole interview). I certainly can’t readily come to defense of our other conference opponents, especially UTjr fans who seemingly think they own our UT brand and conference supremacy.
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Welcome to Talking Season VOL Nation and Go VOLS!
First off, I’ve already admitted to following (but not posting on) the SECRant site. That site is sometimes informative but most of the time somewhat entertaining as it lives up to it’s name… a forum for fans of SEC teams to rant.
One of the latest threads had to do with whether or not Steve Spurrier would have been as successful in this era of NIL, transfer portal, etc. as he was as the HBC of the hated Gators. While I still feel the pain associated with the win/loss record between UT and UF while a student and to this date (including the Spurrier-led Blue Devils who beat us at home in 1988), I instead just recognize that this East Tennessee athlete would have been a VOL player (and perhaps a coach) for our team… just like Johnny Majors who decided to return to his Alma Mater after winning a National Championship at Pitt (and even Phil Fulmer taking up the mantle to coach his Alma Mater when offered the opportunity). For below, my musing is simply that while I may wish that history would have made the native son of Tennessee (Spurrier) a VOL vice Gator, I’m guessing he’d find success in the present era as he did in the 80s and 90s.
While not on SEC Rant, I came across an interview with Eli Drinkwitz (below). While I personally don’t have any real beef with Mizzou or their fans (I have a good friend that is a big Mizzou fan which I’ve had a standing bet with… whosever team looses on the gridiron, they have to wear the victors colors/jersey).
As I had the misfortune last fall to wear Mizzou’s colors (think Vandy), I was intrigued a bit about the post-game reporting that their coach’s comment to Josh was “we stand on business” which both didn’t make much sense and/or came across to me the wrong way. I just came across this interview with Eli that I thought was really good (go to the 37:20 mark for the motivation for post-game comment… honestly I was impressed by the whole interview). I certainly can’t readily come to defense of our other conference opponents, especially UTjr fans who seemingly think they own our UT brand and conference supremacy.
MSN
Welcome to Talking Season VOL Nation and Go VOLS!
