Tennessee’s Trevon Flowers, Jerome Carvin, Maurese Smith and Smokey didn’t want to leave the field following their final game inside of Neyland Stadium.
Jeremy Pruitt has..
- shown up unannounced, walked with his players, and spoke at a prostest
- created a committee led by Tee Martin to promote and create change
- UT will wear black jerseys this season to raise money for BLM
- made sure his players are registered to vote
Several college football coaches have been in the news for negative reasons of late pertaining to the racial issues in our country.
Jeremy Pruitt on the other hand has handled it flawlessly and is leading the change with ACTIONS, and not by statements.
SEC basketball scores from today:
Bama beat Kentucky by 2
South Carolina beat Florida by 2
Arkansas beat A&M by 2
Ole Miss beat Vandy by 10
Tennessee beat Georgia by 46
One is not like the others.
This year’s Third Saturday in October between Tennessee and Alabama drew 11.557 million, per
@SportsTVRatings
.
It’s the most-watched college game of the year by nearly a million.
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QB Hendon Hooker on his prayer before each game: It's the same prayer every time. I pray over my family and their travels, my brother and his game/safety, and then that God touches my mind, hands, feet to allow me to go out there and do what he's blessed me to do.
Tony Vitello: "A casual Tennessee fan does not exist. It’s bleed orange entirely throughout your body, or don’t bleed at all. And that’s been fantastic, and it’s helped us win games."
Jauan Jennings on what Tennessee fans have meant to him over the past five years: "Everything. Without them, it could be the complete opposite. I could not be here right now if the fans did not have my back. That's why, every down, I give my all. It means more than just me."
Tulane transfer WR Chris Brazzell and Notre Dame TE transfer Holden Staes are in the building today.
Along with Oregon State transfer CB Jermod McCoy, MTSU transfer DB Jakobe Thomas and most of the
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signees.
Here's the thing about Drew Gilbert's bat flip... When you CRUSH a walk-off grand slam with your team down by three at home in the postseason, you can do whatever the heck you want to do.
Pretty incredible Tennessee went undefeated at home this season and it included wins over No. 6 Arizona, No. 13 LSU, No. 4 Kentucky, No. 3 Auburn and No. 14 Arkansas.
Rick Barnes spent the first half of this media timeout asking the refs why Tennessee isn't getting the same calls on its end of the floor that Zach Edey is.
The offense will get all of the talk, but Chase Dollander saved Tennessee's season.
7.0 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 0 BB, 5 K, 112 pitches (!!!!!) (77 strikes), W
Masterful performance.
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QB. Hendon Hooker: As soon as we get back, Ced (Tillman) and I are already planning to get out there with the young guys and get going towards next year.
Sounds like Florida making fun of Zakai Ziegler’s height sparked the postgame shenanigans.
Funny thing is that the 5-foot-9 Ziegler had as many rebounds (6) as Florida’s 6-foot-7 leading-rebounder Anthony Duruji.
I know this has gone viral, again, in light of Malachi Wideman signing with Tennessee, but this is such an absurd highlight tape that it should be shared every single day until twitter no longer exists.
Josh Heupel was asked on Vol Calls if he plans on retiring at Tennessee: I came here because this is a destination job. The power of the 'T.' The power of the fanbase. My wife and kids have fallen in love with the place and we plan on making this place our home for a long time.
NEW: Tennessee infielder Zane Denton just announced on Instagram that he is returning for a second season with the
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.
Denton went undrafted, but was considering signing an undrafted deal.
Significant development for Tennessee.
NEW: Clemson transfer infielder Billy Amick has committed to Tennessee over Florida, South Carolina, Texas A&M and UNC.
Amick hit .413 with 13 homers and 63 RBIs in only 43 games this year.
Another significant win for the
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in the portal.
NEW: Tennessee RHP signee Chase Burns (
@ChaseBurns20
) tells me that he will NOT sign with a team and that he will head to school to play for the
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Massive development for Tony Vitello and
@Vol_Baseball
.
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guard Josiah-Jordan James: We heard everything that people said around the country and even here. It fueled us and let it drive us.
"Don't try to switch up now. Don't try to come rejoice with us now... you guys can stay on that side."
Notre Dame had only lost three home games in its last 114 games — all to Connecticut.
The Lady Vols just handed the Irish their fourth loss in 115 games.
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QB Joe Milton: This is all for Hendon. Blood wouldn’t make us closer. He’s a warrior. There’s nights he hasn’t slept because of the way he was preparing to get us to this point. So this is all for him.
From one of Tennessee's parents sitting down there, a Southern Miss fans were throwing cups at Tony Vitello's dad and Christian Scott’s dad went to talk to them about it and got ejected.
After security talked to everyone, they threw the USM fan out and let the Scott’s back in.
Lane Kiffin just threw out the “first pitch” with a golf ball.
In case you forgot, a Tennessee fan launched a golf ball at him back in October inside of Neyland Stadium.
Rick Barnes on Keon Johnson's dunk: I've spent a lot of time working on him with that. How to take off. Reason it took him so long to do it is because I had to get back in shape in order to show him how to do it.
Josh Heupel: If someone wants to play an exciting brand of football and have more fun than they can imagine, man, this is a great place to come compete on Rocky Top.
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outfielder Kyle Booker was asked what he knows about Kentucky: "I don't know anything, nor do I care. See ball, hit ball. See ball, catch ball. Play baseball."
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assistant Kim English shared a great story today about a moment he witnessed in practice between Davonte Gaines and Jaden Springer in practice one day:
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QB Hendon Hooker said his pregame routine consists of listening to gospel music and reading a page or two out of a devotional book with Joe Milton that they are reading together.
Theo Jackson: When Coach Heupel first got here, it was all about positivity. They like to slow things down and teach it. Nobody wants to be cussed out all the time.
Pretty clear to me that Tennessee is better than TCU and Michigan, but it won't matter to the selection committee as long as both of those teams are undefeated.
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forward Uros Plavsic: I told myself before the game that I wasn't going to let two freshman end my college career. And I think Olivier took that personally as well.
Cade Mays shared on Tennessee Prime last night that Josh Heupel has players get up and share their 'why' in front of the team.
Heupel said he does that so players understand the background in which their teammates come from. Important for a group of 125 from all over.
Tennessee was predicted to finish fourth this season ... in the SEC East.
behind Vanderbilt, Florida and Georgia ... who it went a combined 10-1 against.
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didn't receive a single vote to win the league and no Vol was on the Preseason All-SEC First Team.
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WR Ramel Keyton on why he didn't transfer when he wasn't playing much: I wasn't working as hard as I could have been working, so I couldn't have been mad about my situation. I had to reevaluate what I was doing and get to work.
Tennessee has had three moments this season — Evan Russell's grand slam, Max Ferguson's walk-off, Drew Gilbert's walk-off grand slam — that some teams don't see in a decade or two.
Teams like this don't come around often.
Rick Barnes says that the players want to wear purple laces in honor of Kobe Bryant tomorrow night against Texas A&M.
Said that his assistants told him that when they informed the team of his passing, players started crying.
Duke: barely beats a bad Wake Forest team because a layup rims out; loses by nine to UNC = dropping one spot
Tennessee: Dominates a good Miss. St. team; loses to a good Auburn team by four on the road = dropping three spots
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Josh Heupel: "We're building an unbelievable foundation of Tennessee football... we're building it the right way and our kids are having fun. You can have fun and build it the right way."