Hosted this week by 3rd Saturday in Blogtober » 2009 Big Orange Roundtable – Volume 2
1. We will start with an easy one. Last week, our beloved Rock was relocated across the street to make room for a new building on campus. What are your thoughts on the Rock’s relocation?
Who cares? It’s not like they removed the hymnals out of the Trinity Tabernacle Church of God in Christ sanctuary.
In retrospect, I think of it as the spot where Jonathan Crompton’s Heisman campaign started!!
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2(a). Wednesday is the beginning of SEC Media Days in Birmingham, which usually signifies that the season is just around the corner. What would you prefer that Coach Lane Kiffin do this week: Speak up or shut up?
Speak up of course. But I must say I am a bit torn on whether Coach Kiffin should continue his valiant crusade against cheating programs like Florida, Alabama and UGA. I am also concerned that the bald-headed devil Paul Finebaum will try to use Kiffin’s comments to dishonor the greatest coach since Johnny Majors. If you feel that “any publicity is good publicity”, then this will strengthen the movement torestore my beloved Vols back atop of the SEC, and then by all means, go on the shout it from the mountaintop Coach!!!asap. In the name of all that is holy, we need to ensure that the Lane Kiffin stays put for years and years and years and years and years to come!
2(b). If you could take back one thing that Coach Kiffin has done or said to this point, what would it be? This would be the one alleged quote that I would take back:
South Carolina recruit saying Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin told him that if he signed with the Gamecocks he would be pumping gas for the rest of his life.
Kiffin must have been watching the Andy Griffith Show or he is an elitist west coast asshole making fun of southerners. Somebody please tell him that there are no more Gomer Pyles in this world (even in Pahokee). Gas Stations are automated nowadays. So that comment really makes Kiffin look like he is out of touch with the 21st century or even more sinister, did he mean that the recruit would simply be obsolete in life?
3. The biggest news of last week on the football front was that seemingly our entire receiving corps is in the infirmary. Austin Rogers is lost for the year, Denarius Moore is going to miss several games at a minimum, and Gerald Jones has an injured wing that may cause him to miss some games. Although it seems like it is time to hit the panic button, is there a way out of this for the Vols?
No. The Battle Captain did not leave the cupboard void of talent. Coach Lane Kiffin, over this next season will show the college football world that the key to winning national championships is simple:
Finishing Strong
4. Basketball recruit Josh Selby decommitted from the Vols over the weekend, and many suspect it is because he wants to play for a Nike school. Tennessee is an Adidas school, and there is speculation that future sponsorship money with Nike may be at stake if Selby doesn’t go to a Nike school like Kentucky. This obviously has ramifications in all sports, so what do you make of all this? (NOTE: The NFL is a Reebok league, which is owned by Adidas.)
Who gives a shit about Basketball? If the kid doesn’t want to wear orange in Nike, Adidas or Under Armour…FUCK HIM.
Actually, in some western states, there are people that still pump gas. For instance, in Oregon, it is actually illegal to pump your own gas. Seriously. I guess this keeps people employed?
Also, it is illegal to be a conservative in Oregon.