Nick Saban announces defensive back Tony Mitchell has been suspended following the freshman’s recent arrest.
Mitchell was a 5-star prospect in the 2023 class.
“There’s no such thing as the wrong place at the wrong time.” 👀
Love this response from Sam Pittman on his positive reinforcing coaching style:
“I don’t think you can reach your full potential out of fear. I think you can out of want to.”
Tennessee beat an 11-win Clemson by three scores without these players even suiting up
QB Hendon Hooker (5th-place Heisman voting)
WR Jalin Hyatt (Biletnikoff Award winner)
WR Cedric Tillman (likely NFL draft pick)
LB Jeremy Banks (3rd leading tackler)
S Trevon Flowers (starter)
Lane Kiffin says he called Jaxson Dart’s mom to apologize for her son’s treatment vs Bama:
“She mentioned it’s a shame her son gets treated different based on what SEC program that he’s at on game day and protected different.”
“You can’t fine me for what someone else says.”
😂
This BS “new era” of college football has become completely laughable. Players should be able to gain from their NIL, but not like this. Until there are some sort or rules that will actually be enforced, college football as we know it is dead.
#RollTide
#NILandPortalKilledCFB
Based on what I just witnessed against
#1
Auburn, I’d say Arkansas has the best combined homefield advantage in the SEC for football and basketball.
No more 11am kickoffs next season, Razorback fans deserve that after last season
Great answer from Eli Drinkwitz when asked about transfer portal.
"We are such a instant gratification era, myself included -- I'm not putting this on anybody, it's the entire world we live in.
"We are trying to skip the step of adversity -- you can never skip that in life."
Texas State Senator Lois Kolkhorst with savage comments for Texas President Jay Hartzell after he said the school’s “been winning but not like we like to win.”
“3-7 versus the Horned Frogs. Maybe your fan base would rather lose to Alabama than TCU.”
💀
Tim Tebow calling out the officials after Tennessee’s loss in Music City Bowl, notes officiating has been so inconsistent this season.
Called it “the most frustrating year covering college football” due to poor officiating.
Mark Stoops asked if the Florida game being a Noon kickoff will affect Kentucky's crowd from being a factor on Saturday:
“I have great confidence in the people of Kentucky that can get up very early and pound some beers.
"Why would you disrespect this great state & people?" 😂
Been some dark days for Tennessee football in recent years but that hasn't stopped Jauan Jennings from leading Vols to wins over Florida, Georgia and South Carolina during his career.
Remember, if not for Jeremy Pruitt and Philip Fulmer, Jennings would not even be on the roster.
Great answer from Eli Drinkwitz when asked about current direction of college sports following realignment:
"Did we count the cost for the student-athletes involved in this decision?"
"What cost is it to those student-athletes?"
"Did we consider the people we are entrusted?"
BREAKING: 5-star Kennedy Chandler, the nation's
#1
point guard prospect just announced his commitment to Tennessee over Kentucky, Duke, UNC and Memphis.
Paul Finebaum on Heupel’s debut:
“Congratulations to Josh Heupel for winning 8 games (this season), even though I know (Tennessee’s official record) says 7.
“This was a remarkable season, that blown officiating call does not take away from what he’s done from start to finish.”
Jeremy Pruitt on Jauan Jennings when he first came to Tennessee:
"I asked a lot of people in the building what they thought, most of them that said I wouldn't let him back don't work here anymore. The people that said let him back all work here."
Nick Saban gave KJ Jefferson the ultimate compliment
“When a QB can make a major college football player and sling him off like a gnat on a cow’s ass.
“That’s one of the most impressive plays I’ve seen.”
Lane Kiffin says Ole Miss noted 8 occurrences of questionable injuries from Texas A&M's defense last weekend.
"7 of 8 returned, many after one play."
That's still short of Ole Miss' record last season against Tennessee
😂
Greg McElroy comments on Tennessee being
#10
in Playoff poll, thinks they should be rated higher for bowl selection's sake.
Kirk Herbstreit:
"After Vandy beats Tennessee this weekend, you won't have to worry about that."
👀
Kirby Smart speaking the truth about the depth of the SEC:
"I personally think every SEC team should be ranked.
"I can guarantee you there are some teams that don't want to play them that are ranked.
He also added, "every team we play in the SEC is good enough to beat us."
The passion of the Tennessee fan base never ceases to amaze.
The sports world has mocked them all week long but all it took was an AD hire to rally them.
Fan support is what’s keeping the program relevant and if Danny White lands the right guy, Tennessee will be back very soon
Tennessee was averaging 46.8 points per game heading into the Alabama game.
The Tide had the
#2
scoring defense in the SEC.
Tennessee is now averaging 47.7 points per game after beating Alabama.
BREAKING: Four-star All-American Bowl lineman Omari Thomas commits to Tennessee. The 6’5” 300-pound Thomas now the second-highest rated commit in UT’s 2020 class,
#8
DT in the nation.
Tennessee’s 2020 class jumps up to
#18
nationally with this news.
BREAKING: 5-star QB Nicholaus Iamaleava commits to Tennessee.
Iamaleava is the
#7
overall prospect in the country,
#4
QB in the 2023 class.
Tennessee now has the
#10
recruiting class in the country, up from
#18
, following this commitment
Lane Kiffin calls out SEC policy, credit the Ole Miss coach for sticking up for his team.
“I really wish for our players, for our fans, that they could hear what I was just told. I think they deserve to.”
BREAKING: 4-star athlete Dee Beckwith announces he has signed with Tennessee over Florida. He's the
#18
athlete prospect in the nation.
The 6'4" 215-pound Alabama native projects as a hybrid tight end/receiver in college.
Will Levis has now thrown 3 interceptions tonight against Tennessee.
That's the same number Hendon Hooker has since he took over the starting job at Tennessee back on Sept. 18, 2021
With Philadelphia winning Super Bowl LII, a former Tennessee player has now won the Super Bowl for 9 consecutive seasons. That’s the longest streak of any school in the nation
10 SEC programs are averaging at least 96% stadium capacity after the first month of the season.
Ole Miss (93%), Miss State (85%), Mizzou (81%) & Vandy (55%) are the outliers
Florida, Georgia & South Carolina are the only three programs with 100% attendance so far this season
Clemson loses again (as Dabo Swinney wanted to lighten the bandwagon), which led to this quote from NC State’s coach:
“Tell Steve Smith in the studio this ain’t a basketball school.
“He can kiss my ass.”
On rewatch, it appears Texas A&M may have been robbed 3 seconds at the very end of the game.
Alabama penalty in the end zone occurred with 6 seconds left.
On the final play, there was only 3 seconds on the clock for some reason.
According to
@BruceFeldmanCFB
, Mike Leach filmed this “Friday Night Lights” scene the day before a Texas Tech vs. Texas game
The fact a sitting head coach did this the day before a big game makes this clip even better
LSU announces return to 100 percent capacity effective immediately.
Masks will no longer be required at LSU sporting events held outdoors.
Normal tailgating activities can resume with no COVID-related restrictions.
Sam Pittman just became more popular in Arkansas.
“This statement is probably going to cost me some money one of these days, but this is it for me. I’m not interested in any other program, Arkansas is truly the greatest program in America to me... This will be my last job.”
If Steve Sarkisian was still at Alabama, he would have kept Tua Tagovailoa on the bench. Georgia would have won the title, Falcons would have won this game. Sark is Atlanta’s biggest nightmare since Sherman
Trey Smith announces he will return to Tennessee.
Vols could now potentially start this offensive line in 2020:
Smith (
#14
recruit in 2017)
Cade Mays (
#22
recruit in 2018)
Darnell Wright (
#10
recruit in 2019)
Wanya Morris (
#28
recruit in 2019)
Brandon Kennedy (6-year player)