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bignewt said:
Draft is way too late in the year. Ive never understood it. Should be late March. So far away from the combine...
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The NFL spreads its events out so it can always be the topic of conversation in sports. Eventually, it’s going to find a way to capture the deep summer months, as well.
 
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jpope9 said:
eek at at the qb talent in the afc south that the titans have to deal with on a yearly basis if this happens. I would rather the colts draft Levis.
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Scary thought..........which could happen.
Do the Titans pull the trigger on Levis if he falls to #11?
 
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Rishvol said:
That's the second fight that I've heard of this season where Fulton parents started a fight with the opposing teams players
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If so, the HS should accept accountability and permanently ban the members of said families from attending any campus affiliated activities. Period.

Next time this could turn ugly. You have to take zero tolerance with stupidity these days. Shouldnt be too hard to enforce this.
 
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peaygolf said:
You don't like carpet outlets everywhere??:oops:
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Not really. Although those are partially offset by 60-70 year old shells of buildings that have been rotting for the the past 20 years...love looking at those every day. And, not to brag, but I'm pretty sure we have more title pawn stores per capita than anyone else, so we've got that going for us. And we've got a great mall that was recently reduced in size by roughly 40% when they tore down the JC Penney and Sears portions. We've got a Give Me $5 in there now, too. And the outlet "mall" that is about 35% occupied, even though 1/4 of it was also torn down.

Inexplicably, we have a new hotel built about every 4 months...not sure what all those people are doing here, but we apparently have something that requires overnight stays. But we are getting an Olive Garden, so it looks like we might be back on the upswing.

(I'll let you all decipher what of this, in whole or in part, is blue font satire)
 
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Here’s a look at the stats from some of the former Tennessee players in the first week of the XFL:
Orlando Guardians (vs Houston)
  • QB Quinten Dormady (2015-2017)
    • 12/18, 142 yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs
  • DB Shaquille Wiggins (2017)
    • 6 solo tackles, 1 TFL
  • DB Baylen Buchanan (2016-2018)
    • 2 solo tackles, 2 assisted tackles, 0.5 TFL
D.C. Defenders (vs Seattle)
  • WR Josh Malone (2014-2016)
    • 1 reception, 18 yards
  • TE Ethan Wolf (2014-2017)
    • 1 reception, 12 yards
Seattle Sea Dragons (vs D.C.)
  • DB Bryce Thompson (2018-2020)
    • 1 INT
 
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Chuckie said:
Not really. Although those are partially offset by 60-70 year old shells of buildings that have been rotting for the the past 20 years...love looking at those every day. And, not to brag, but I'm pretty sure we have more title pawn stores per capital than anyone else, so we've got that going for us. And we've got a great mall that was recently reduced in size by roughly 40% when they tore down the JC Penney and Sears portions. We've got a Give Me $5 in there now, too. And the outlet "mall" that is about 35% occupied, even though 1/4 of it was also torn down.

Inexplicably, we have a new hotel built about every 4 months...not sure what all those people are doing here, but we apparently have something that requires overnight stays. But we are getting an Olive Garden, so it looks like we might be back on the upswing.

(I'll let you all decipher what of this, in whole or in part, is blue font satire)
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I drive through Dalton when going from Atlanta to Knoxville. We often stop there for food as there are fast options near I75. I also come up about once per year to the coin show at the convention center on top of that big hill. There are often 7 or 8 well known ancient coin dealers so it’s fun for me to drop in. Those hotels must get a lot of business from the convention bookings right?
 
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scores4fun said:
Here’s a look at the stats from some of the former Tennessee players in the first week of the XFL:
Orlando Guardians (vs Houston)
  • QB Quinten Dormady (2015-2017)
    • 12/18, 142 yards, 1 TD, 2 INTs
  • DB Shaquille Wiggins (2017)
    • 6 solo tackles, 1 TFL
  • DB Baylen Buchanan (2016-2018)
    • 2 solo tackles, 2 assisted tackles, 0.5 TFL
D.C. Defenders (vs Seattle)
  • WR Josh Malone (2014-2016)
    • 1 reception, 18 yards
  • TE Ethan Wolf (2014-2017)
    • 1 reception, 12 yards
Seattle Sea Dragons (vs D.C.)
  • DB Bryce Thompson (2018-2020)
    • 1 INT
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I have no recollection of Shaq Wiggins being a Vol. Did he ever actually play here?
 
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Jack Burton said:
I drive through Dalton when going from Atlanta to Knoxville. We often stop there for food as there are fast options near I75. I also come up about once per year to the coin show at the convention center on top of that big hill. There are often 7 or 8 well known ancient coin dealers so it’s fun for me to drop in. Those hotels must get a lot of business from the convention bookings right?
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That's my guess. I think we have a lot of youth sports tournaments and events (baseball, softball and soccer) so that's probably part of it, too. They had considered building a hotel onto the convention center at one time, but decided not too. But they've added at least 5 hotels in the past couple years "down the hill".

Just FYI, the convention center is really closer to the bottom of that hill. It's Dug Gap Battle mountain, and if you keep following that road, when you get near the top you have good views to the east, and then to the west if you go a little farther. I used to live a couple miles down the road on the west side of that hill.

And so I don't seem like a complete ingrate, my wife and I both have really good jobs here (neither of us is in the carpet industry!), and I'm just 1.5-2 hours away from Knoxville! It's the closest SEC school to me, so even though I live in Georgia, I'm closest to Good Ole' Tennessee.
 
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