Chase Daniel has made $24.3 million over his career and thrown 78 passes in eight seasons. Judging solely by quality of life, this is one of the greatest NFL careers in history.
Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnikโs parentsโ flight out of Austin was canceled.
They picked up a rental car at 10 p.m., drove overnight and are currently in the middle of a 20-hour drive across the country to Miami for the Orange Bowl, their sonโs first college start.
Deion Sanders: "People around the country will say this is what they needed to humble themselves. We werenโt arrogant. Weโre confident people. Our confidence offends their insecurity."
Peyton Manning on refusing to wear red and black to match Tiger Woods at
#TheMatch
: "I'm not gonna let Kirby Smart get a picture of me in red and black for their social media accounts."
If youโre a semi-weird foodstuff and youโre not sponsoring a bowl game at this point you need to fire your marketing guy. Lockheed Martin sponsors a bowl and itโs only trying to sell to like 3 midlevel managers with security clearance at the pentagon.
Shoutout to oversaturating a player until an entire conference's fans hate him, then capitalizing on that by tweeting out an 18-year-old's bad decision to 34 million people. ๐๐ฝ
The Pop-Tarts Bowl between Kansas State and NC State drew the largest audience of ANY bowl game so far โ averaging 4.3 million viewers on ESPN.
(h/t
@paulsen_smw
)
Tennessee in its termination letter to Jeremy Pruitt: โYour failures are likely to lead to significant penalties to the University and has jeopardized the eligibility of our student athletes.โ
Seeing a lot of reports surfacing tonight of undrafted players deciding where to go based on a combination of compensation and on-field fit and it's absolutely disgusting.
What has football become?
Said this for many years, but America needs to institute media literacy classes in high schools.
The growing inability to sort between fact, opinion and fiction by so many people who should know better is troubling on so many levels.
Pruitt: "When you walk into a home and our basketball team is on the TV kicking somebody's ass, it makes it a little easier to sell the university of Tennessee."
Oregon State embracing chainsaws doesn't make sense.
You are the beavers, and you celebrate machinery that performs the function of your mascot far more effectively and efficiently?
Texas A&M has now lost six consecutive games.
The Aggies are No. 4 in 247 Talent Composite.
The rest of the top five has three combined losses in 2022.
I don't even know how to process that.
If I'm keeping it ๐ฏ I am going to miss this Iowa team next year.
The nation's No. 1 defense in YPP and last-ranked offense in YPP on the same team. It was a special three months.
We may never see something like this again.
Jeremy Pruitt: โEverybodyโs excited about us going 8-5. We need to raise our expectations. ... people have been kicking us around for awhile. Itโs time for us to do some kicking.โ
Source: Houston senior guard Rob Gray has been suspended one game by the NCAA for participating in a church rec league game this offseason. He will not play in
@UHCougarMBK
season opener tonight against McNeese State.
For the record, I think Tennessee should be above Bama based on resume but the committee's reasoning may be as simple as "Alabama would not lose to South Carolina by four touchdowns in any universe."
Tony Bennett working Jim Nantz during a national title trophy presentation to get a free round at Augusta is such a calculated flex. You have no choice but to respect it.
At the end of his presser today, Pruitt shook the hand of a new student radio reporter who is from Brazil. The student apologized for his English.
"Nah, it's OK. Have you heard my English?" Pruitt said.
Bill Walton: "You ever been to Iowa?"
Jason Benetti: "Same answer as yesterday. No."
... awkward silence
Walton: "You ever been to Eichelberger Farms in Iowa? They've got 50,000 female hogs there."
I will always remember watching Miami lose to Rutgers in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl with
@MichaelRyanRuiz
and
@bykevinclark
b/c where else can you see a DJ solemnly stand atop a lawn mower during the national anthem
Tennessee baseball is the exact team
#Vols
fans have been waiting literal decades to root for.
Dominant most nights, clutch almost all the others and oozing swagger and fun every time they take the field.
Tennessee is a 22-point favorite against Vanderbilt on Saturday.
This is the first time Tennessee has ever been favored in an SEC game under Jeremy Pruitt.
Tennessee QB Kaidon Salter plans on enrolling early, so because of the COVID-19 delays in
#txhsfb
, he'll play for a state title next Saturday and be in his first college class four days later.
What a year.
Clemson DE K.J. Henry on UT QB Joe Miltonโs orange throw: โJoe need to be in the outfield, bro. QB is cool and all but we saw what Aaron Judge just got paid. You hit a baseball 2 out of 10 times and you throw somebody out from left field? I might be Joeโs manager. We gotta talk.โ
The โpeople doubted usโ narrative is actually very fair re: Georgia.
Consensus before the season was Alabama was going to rule the SEC again. And that Georgia was rebuilding.
Alabama got 158 votes to win the SEC in preseason. Georgia got 18.
Iโm just saying.
Pretty massive win for Josh Heupel and Tennessee. Inherited a 3-7 team that lost a dozen-plus players who would have started or contributed this year.
Now in position to go 7-5. Amazing Year 1.
Sam Pittman said Dave Van Horn canceled practice to attend today's game on the sideline. Eric Musselman was already coming when Pittman called him in the middle of the week.
"It was really special for me to have them down there."
In a little more than two hours, almost 10,000 Tennessee fans have watched a 15-second video of Harrison Bailey throwing a ball about 15 yards to an uncovered receiver in a half-speed position drill.
Quite a place, Tennessee.
If you ever wanted to hear a run of
@finebaum
callers accidentally advocating for socialism and overbearing, bureaucratic intervention, today is your lucky day.
What my Heisman ballot looked like:
1. Joe Burrow
2. Justin Fields
3. Lynn Bowden Jr.
Third place was wide open in my mind. I went with the guy who meant as much to his teamโs success as anyone and did as much as anyone in such a difficult situation.
Retired LB Darrin Kirkland Jr. will return to campus this weekend and be honored with the senior class to run through the T one last time before the Vanderbilt game.
Tennessee went on the road in the SEC, defended 71 plays and ran 45, tied the turnover battle, got outgained, committed more penalties than Kentucky and still won.
In the long history of absurd college football things, the ACC keeping its grant of rights locked up, banning making copies and and requiring a conference employee to be in the room while it's viewed is near the top of the list.
Pruitt on the spring game. "Can we just fill this place up? You talk about having an impact on a 17, 18-year-old in recruiting? Fill up Neyland Stadium. Let's make a goal to do that."
@davidubben
Sad. Back in my day a little weather didnโt prevent the game from being played. Liberals have ruined the game. Made it soft. Too bad. These spoiled athletes wonโt even play in some rain. So disappointing.
What if I told you Jeremy Pruitt won as an underdog as many times in the last month as Butch Jones did in five years?
On researching a quarter century of a trend that tells us plenty about a coach, and what it says about Pruitt and his future at UT.
It's crazy this game was postponed because national CFB reporters RT'd too many articles about issues with COVID-19 not enough positive pieces about how everything will be fine
I know a lot of people questioned it, but it looks like Alabama's strategy of simply signing better players than every team in America is finally paying off.
I remember when Dez Bryantโs entire CFB career ended for lying to the NCAA about hanging out with Deion Sanders, something that wasnโt even an NCAA violation.
Mizzou was 2-4, struggling and fought back to make a bowl game.
Arkansas was 3-0 and ranked in the top 10 before it lost five of seven.
Not all 6-6 seasons are created equal.
Reporter asked Jauan Jennings how to attack Indiana's secondary.
Pruitt stepped in.
"We don't want to give too many secrets away now, Jauan."
Jennings: "We're gonna go out there and play football."
Jeremy Pruitt said after he had an opening for a RB coach, he came home, turned off the lights and started to go to sleep when he heard a voice.
โAre you gonna hire Jay?โ
โSo you know whoโs the boss around my house,โ Pruitt said.