Spoke with 3 past UT football players yesterday

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Eddie Vol Halen said:
Highly underrated post. ^ Surely one of your best. It got a Like from me.

As for NEOCON, I often disagree with him, but I have no reason not to believe this thread. What happened in the past?
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Only thing that comes to mind is his lawyer source who was working on the contrsct of our next coach told him who it was going to be but he was wrong. Something to that effect. I think he said it was gundy :question:
 
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Dood... you could get published. Seriously good stuff.


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Arian Foster is and always was a talented RB. That being said, I believe that guy was all about him and his money. I think he had side bets on games and fumbled (essentially throwing games) for the money. It almost back fired when he went undrafted and turned his life around. I give him credit for maturing but I'll always believe he threw games because he was selfish immature little child.
 
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neocon said:
i got into a conversation yesterday with 3 past ut football who were seniors under kiffin. Two of the players were starters and very well respected on here, the other was not in the rotation very often but seems like a hell of a guy. I wanted to give the cliff notes version of our conversation because i found it interesting.


1) foster was a very weird dude. All 3 stated that multiple times. Went into detail how he would talk only to reporters in a pterodactyl voice because he was pissed over being questioned regarding his fumbles. I had never heard of this so they told me to goodle it. Here it is tennessee's arian foster will only talk to people who speak in pterodactyl | ncaaf | tennessee volunteers

2) said that fulmer was not driven at all by the time he was fired. Said he was done wrong though and that karma is a *****.

3) said they loved playing for kiffin. Said kiffin brought an energy that fulmer hadn't. They would run from meeting to meeting and the coaches would all be waiting in the room giving them high fives as they came in. Said it was awesome listening to rap music instead of the opposing teams song.

4) none were there under dooley but had friends on the team. Said dooley was a total jackass to players who weren't starters or the main guys but would give certain players anything they wanted and the whole team could see it. Said that no one liked him or respected him. Said even other coaches disliked him. Never lost control of the team because he never really had it. Had nothing on his resume to make any player believe in him when times got hard.

5) said this team has no skill players right now. North and a few others will develop but this team is bare of field ready skill positions.

6) all 3 stated this oline is extremely over rated. Great pass protectors but suck ass at running blocking. Said losing them will not affect the team nearly as much as people think because their run blocking is just not all there.


7) said the players respect cbj and that it is clear by watching the games he will get it turned around. Said people have no idea how far tn has fallen and how much he has to turn around. Said the players he has now are not mentally fit for his program and he will need his own style players to succeed.

8) stated they have read volnation but not that often. Said some players (and recruits) take volnation more serious than others and yes it has been used as a told to both gain and lose recruits.

9) never asked them about the qbs.

10)this conversation was started because i was wearing my orange windbreaker into the gym and they walked up to me. Said it was nice to see orange.
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I'm going to need to see pics of this orange windbreaker before I decide if this is true or not. :shades:
 
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volfanbill said:
sounds like a cliffs note version of everything but qbs and UT uniforms for the past 16,982 threads here in the main football forum of this place.
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NOT taking up for the DBag, but he is the last coach to beat Georgia AND South Carolina and missed beating BAMA by a blocked field goal.
 
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golfballs said:
Only thing that comes to mind is his lawyer source who was working on the contrsct of our next coach told him who it was going to be but he was wrong. Something to that effect. I think he said it was gundy :question:
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It was steele and it was bs. I started it because people back then would believe a certaib group no matter what. Half way through the thread I then stated see how easy it is to start lies. And admitted it was all crap. I did the thread for a reason.
 
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keckjm said:
I disagree. His arrogance is what killed him, but he would have been at least somewhat successful here had he stayed. He was so confident in himself that he thought he could just run up to USC, who lost 30 scholarships in three years, and have success. He was so arrogant that he refused to give the play calling abilities to anyone else, and this lead to him, as you stated, being a terrible game manager. He also wouldn't fire his dad when everyone knew by year 3 that Monta couldn't stop the option and screen passes while running his pro style tampa 2 defense. All these bad decisions lead to his firing, but he's a heck of an offensive mind and one of the best QB developers in college football. He's just not a good leader or a good game manager when he refuses to not call the shots, which wasn't a problem here since we had Chaney.
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Kiffin still called the plays at UT.
 
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NEOCON said:
It was steele and it was bs. I started it because people back then would believe a certaib group no matter what. Half way through the thread I then stated see how easy it is to start lies. And admitted it was all crap. I did the thread for a reason.
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It was educational for our benefit?
 
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That is one of the most generalized summaries we've had so far....Try a little harder or go make this same post with a vague prediction at the end in the "Cruitin forum".
 
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USMCgng said:
That wasn't very nice of him. I must have missed that comment and glad I did.
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Off topic, but thanks for your service and to anyone else on these pages that have served this great nation.:peace2:
It takes an a-hole to make a comment like that.
 
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UTFanForLife said:
Who didn't know #1? Pretty sure that was well documented.
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This is why I don't believe this account happened. Unless you just became a Vol fan since 2009 or something, I fail to see how he can't know that. It was all over here and other Vol message boards, not to mention in the papers.

The rest of the stuff are things I've heard numerous times from here and other places since 2008.

This is clearly a "hey look at me" thread.
 
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I was sitting in my office when two Vol football players broke through the building security to talk with me because I have an mini-T helmet and Neyland stadium picture in my office. It's like catnip to those guys. Would love to tell you what they said but I'm sworn to secrecy.
 
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