Just last week SFN highlighted the difference between local recruiting budgets in this well-received entry. Almost simultaneously, the University of Tennessee’s football program came under scrutiny for the use of its Hostess Program to ‘lure’ recruits to the University. We started talking about the news in real time in this thread on our message boards. […]
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Future NC State Football Out of Conference Schedule
This recent article out of Richmond sparked us to update our perpetual following of NC State’s Out of Conference football scheduling. A few quick bullets: * The question marks beside Tennessee 2013 is a function of our not knowing if the scheduling of the 2012 game in Atlanta serves to consolidate and replace the two […]
Book your room now: Wolfpack to play Tennessee in Atlanta
… in 2012. From the N&O: N.C. State is set to open the 2012 football season against Tennessee in Atlanta. UNC is trying to work out a deal to open the 2010 season in the Georgia Dome against an SEC team. The Atlanta Sports Council and ESPN teamed up to organize the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff […]
Andrew Jones: Butch ‘Davis part II(updated)
Just ask any Tarheel fan and they will be sure to tell you that there is nothing to the story. And, of course, why would anyone ever leave Chapel Hill by their own choosing. (Shhhh…don’t mention Mack Brown). Link to story Tennessee has tabbed North Carolina coach Butch Davis as the leading candidate to replace […]
Tell me again why UT didn’t want to hire Lee Fowler in 2003?
A few months ago we ran the following comments in this entry comparing Lee Fowler to Joe Alleva in light of the LSU Athletics Directorship: Lee Fowler’s interest in other Athletics Director jobs have not been a secret since his arrival in Raleigh in September of 2000. In the seven-plus years of Fowler’s tenure, the […]
ESPN: Tennessee’s Fulmer Stepping Down At End of The Season
The Rumor Mill just got officially interesting for Butch Davis and David Cutcliffe: Â ESPN.com: Sources: Fulmer To Step Down Phillip Fulmer, who a decade ago brought Tennessee its first national championship in 47 years, will not return as the Volunteers’ coach next year, multiple sources told ESPN.com. Questions immediately come to mind: Will Butch Davis […]
Vols fans applying heat through their newfound apathy
Link to Sports Illustrated article. I share this link and this topic for multiple reasons, including the broad fact that it is generally interesting news. First, note how the STUDENTS have to PAY FOR TICKETS. I highlight this because we have not yet blogged about the current issue of the potential increase of student fees […]
Fowler’s Failures Manifests into a Pearl of a Jewel
Sit back and get dedicated for a moment. You can’t skim this entry. You can’t loaf through this one. This is one of those to which your mind must be committed to absorbing and investing the time to read the links and the text. In the early part of this decade our blog followed some […]
Excuse My Rant – NC State/UT Series “Shelved”
In an article containing the hopeful nugget that NC State and USC may resume their storied rivalry, The State reports this oft-rumored terrible news: If the two-year deal is finalized, the Wolfpack would visit Williams-Brice Stadium in 2008, with USC traveling to Raleigh in ‘09. Vaughn said N.C. State is looking to fill a couple […]
SEC Welcomes a Pearl
Just wanted to quickly archive that the University of Tennessee has hired (now, former) Wisconsin-Milwaukee Head Coach, Bruce Pearl. Pearl created a Division II National Championship program at Southern Indiana in the mid-1990s before heading to UWM. His biography (written prior to this season) on the UWM website has an interesting paragraph in it that […]
