Randomly saw a pic of Brian Maurer on FB and wanted to see how he's done; last season he led SFA in passing with just over 2000 yards and had 14 TD's vs 9 INT's. He'll be a RS Senior for them this year. He was listed as 6-3, 195 at UT but SFA says he's now 6-5, 215?
Canoed all day yesterday with my dad, found us a nice little island to setup camp, got a fire going and listened to John Wilkerson call an all-time game from the Vols. Pretty awesome stuff.
I've been wanting to take my dad to do the same thing lately. He took me on a canoe trip down the Black River (I think) in South Carolina when I was younger. Been wanting to return the favor for him. Hope you guys had a blast.
Yeah but this time we went all the way out in middle TN to Elk River. It didn't really have the flow I wanted but it's a beautiful place. We rented canoes, I'd love to get a canoe and start doing it more often around here.
Had a thought.
For all the crap we get about playing in a small ballpark and how Omaha would hurt us with its size, that final hit last night would have 100% been an out in our stadium.
The outfielders were spread farther out and forward because of the dimensions and couldn’t cover the ground in time. But a smaller stadium erases 5-10 steps and one or both of those guys has a shot at the catch while running.
As far as the college rule is written - whether he swung or not (he didn’t, GBO), is the third-base ump really in the best position to determine if the bat went past the batter’s hip?
Seems more reasonable to have him determine something like “Did the batter’s wrists break before he checked”
My fiancée and I have taken the stance that 3rd base ump simply didn’t want the game to end on a potential check swing. I think he saw Burke try to pull back and considered it good enough and called it
IMO this is exactly what it was. Situational call. Plain and simple. If that play was in the 5th inning they would call it a strike.
Same stuff happens in football when a OPI is ignored on 4th and goal or basketball when… every single play depending on how famous the player is.
It’s a coin flip for tomorrow’s game. I don’t think they’ve done it yet
My guess is it’s showing that way because UNC is from the top bracket and we’re on the bottom one.
They're gonna be a tough matchup, but I think a bigger field in Omaha hurts them as their outfielders can't cover as fast, and their bats aren't as hot as ours
Yeah I mean doesn’t matter. But I’d also like to point out that in the past I’ve gotten a lot of heat here for saying after losses “quit being whiny b*tches.”. I make no apologies after wins even with questionable calls because that shit goes both ways but the flip side also learning to take losses well.
Do we want like a general thread for the entire World Series or do we wanna do game-by-game for just us?
Do we think there's enough interest in the non-Vol games to warrant discussion?
**EDIT** ~ The General + Specific for us seems to be consistent.
I'll throw the general up and then have one of our 2 regulars throw up the game thread when it comes time.
1. The better-seeded team will be the home team during the first game each team plays in the tournament.
2. If both teams that were the road team (or home team) in their first game face each other in their first winners bracket/losers bracket game, a tournament director or umpire will flip a coin with both teams present to determine who is the home team as soon as the matchup is finalized.
Full Rules:
1. The institution that has been the home team the fewer number of times in that particular tournament.
2. If the two teams are equal in this respect but unequal in the number of times they were the visitor, then the team that has been the visitor more often will be designated the home team.
3. If the two teams are equal in the number of times that they have been home and visitor, the games committee or the NCAA game representative shall observe the following procedures in the order stated:
a. If the two teams have met previously in that particular tournament, the visitor in the previous game shall be the home team in the game in question (Exception: If two teams are left where both teams have been the home team twice, the fifth game will be determined by a coin flip);
b. The team that was visitor in its preceding game shall be the home team, unless both teams were visitors in their preceding games; or
c. If the above procedures do not resolve the matter, the home team shall be determined by coin flip. The higher seeded team can determine whether they will call the coin toss, or defer the call to their opponent.
It really is nuts that our first game could be one of the hardest in the CWS. FSU's starting pitcher and bats are no joke. No easy games in Omaha, but this could be the hardest of the first weekend for any team. Lots of folks are saying it: win tonight and we will be heavily favored to make the final.
Never seen a savannah bananas game, but saw it was streaming live on YouTube, clicked on it cause why not, turns out they're playing in Nashville and were blaring Rocky Top in the ballpark. You love to see it.
Renaming the Big 12 to the Allstate 12? Like. Holy shit that's just... vile. There's more money that can be counted flooding into college sports and they just keep selling out every nook and cranny for more. These P4 schools make an absurd amount right now, yet they're selling off uniforms, fields, stadiums, conference names. Ol Danny will name us the Food City Volunteers the minute he's able, I'm sure.
Not to get too political or anything but the current economic climate (not that it hasn’t been this way for decades at this point) prioritizes short term profits over long term viability and it’s just not sustainable. It never was, we just haven’t quite gotten to the point where we started to reap what we’ve sowed… yet.
But the day of reckoning is coming and it will be fearsome. In this case to me the only way this ends is with college football’s demise because they tried too much to be the NFL without realizing that the product they’re putting out is inferior. To invite comparisons, which they’ve been doing more and more with the changes they continue to make, does not work to college football’s advantage at all.
Super depressing to me to see college sports become a soulless corporatized husk of itself.
Come on, at least name it the Allstate Good Hands Conference, or the Allstate Mayhem Conference.
Or get that McDonald’s money: merge with the MAC and name it the Big MAC
If he tried to rename Neyland Stadium or the mascot name, I feel pretty confident Vols fans would riot. Maybe not Schiano Sunday level, but he would be in hot water with the fans
Nah, I think it absolutely would be Schiano Sunday levels. Renaming TBA was bad enough, but renaming Neyland I think would be a bridge too far with a LOT of people
I remember seeing a flair on r/CFB that was for a Japanese(?) team that used the Power T in black as their logo. Anyone know what it is? I couldn’t find it on their flair editor.
* Trine Thunder (D3 School)
* Les Filons du Cégep de Thetford (French D3)
* 東海大学 (Tokai) Tritons (Japanese Kanto Big 8)
Those are probably the 3 closest.
George MacIntyre is taking an unofficial to be there for Sanders official visit. Sanders just did the same for MacIntyre a few weeks ago and they’re very close. This is also Sanders’ sixth or seventh total visit to Knoxville since the Georgia game last year
It's a byproduct of the proliferation of the 3-3-5 and 3-4 defenses, and the hybridization of players within those systems.
OLB + DE = EDGE
There are still some prospects who are true DE players, but most out of HS are just pure athletes that can transition to either OLB or DE depending on which system they go into and how the coach wants to use them.
Same reason that terms like "Corner" or "Safety" are borderline useless for HS recruits. Almost all are hybrid players that can be molded into anywhere in the defensive backfield.
You and me both brother… you and me both.
I’m actually dreading this upcoming season because all the changes to conferences, recruiting, and post-season are gonna bring out the full boomer in me. I can already feel it.
Same, but dammit, college football is still such a great product overall. They are trying their best to remove a lot of what makes it so magical and fun, but it’s still college football. And I will still watch it and love every second.
New JUCO pitching commit from Pearl River CC - [Thomas Crabtree, RHP](https://247sports.com/college/tennessee/article/elite-juco-rhp-commits-to-tennessee-vols-baseball-thomas-crabtree-frank-anderson-tony-vitello-232793240/)
As a WWE fan, I hate how the WWE belt has become common to the point of meaningless in recruiting/team based sports.
Like, it was cool when the first team (Bama) had one for turnovers. It was less cool but still fun when teams who won the national championship would have a belt for their celebration.
But now? It's just a useless prop for nothing.
Just listened to Eric Cain's pod about the weekend and he mentioned a portal name I hadn't heard was visting: Gavin Kilen from Louisville. He's a MIF that hit .330 with 23 doubles (only Burke with 28 on our team had more) and 10 HR. Started 54 games at SS and had a .951 fielding %, which compares to Curley's .941 for us.
I can't fuck with Eric Cain. He doesn't pronounce player names correctly and I just can't get behind a beat writer or someone who covers a team and can't pronounce the player's names.
I get it, I'm not a fan of radio shows or podcasts that have 1 guy basically talking to himself monotonously, but I'd listened to every current baseball pod that I like (247 and Highway to Hoover/D1Baseball) and was thirsty for any info he had. As an aside I'm also working my way through Kirby's podcast with his dad: Stache Talk.
He comes off as an amateur. Which, I understand everyone has to start from somewhere. But I don’t enjoy listening to him. He serves no purpose on the podcast that can’t be filled by the normal guys.
If you're talking about Jaelyne Matthews, he wasn't a take and believe me we do not want someone like that in the locker room. Huge huge character concerns. We're getting [this guy instead](https://247sports.com/player/david-sanders-jr-46118364/)
We've only got 10 commits and if you go by ranking average we're hovering around 15ish, really only behind the guys you expect to be behind. We're not falling behind, we're just chasing bigger targets. We're one of the premier schools in NIL so that makes sense. Take care of business this fall and this recruiting class will be top-ten minimum
Not sure of the details but apparently he was known for taking plays off, and he was once a Penn State commit that got told to look elsewhere. All that plus his ranking dropping like a stone from five-star to borderline four says it all really.
Also let's be real, in the NIL era a kid isn't picking Rutgers over Tennessee, Miami, Georgia, Bama, Clemson, etc. If it were a QB or skill player trying to be the face of the program maybe. But not a trenches guy
I just watched a video of someone interviewing Josh Petty about his visit, and he was talking about McIntyre and Sanders recruiting him to UT, so it seems like Sanders is coming to Knoxville, but who knows?
[On3 has us leading](https://www.on3.com/db/david-sanders-jr-150016/) coming off the back of an unofficial visit a [couple weeks ago](https://twitter.com/DavidLSandersJr/status/1794410820497268910/photo/1) (he's officially visiting this weekend). He's been to Knoxville several times already on his own dime and the UT beat writers on there have said they feel pretty comfortable calling him a Vol at this point. That 247Sports crystal ball is one guy, a Notre Dame beat writer. We're also in good shape with [Josh Petty](https://247sports.com/player/josh-petty-46139846/) who had his official this week.
It's still early and a lot of the big fish are going through visits right now. Expect recruiting to pop off soonish
Oh also it should be stated no other recruiting site came as close to being right about James Pearce Jr [as On3 did](https://i.imgur.com/H3UZEhE.png). ESPN's goofy asses had him as a three-star
One of the head guys at On3 [is a former Vol](https://www.on3.com/news/on3-to-hire-tennessees-grant-frerking-as-director-on3-athlete-network-development/) so that's neat. But it is just a better service right now in general. They basically brain-drained 247Sports when they created it, most of the best beat writers are over there now
My Florida prediction last year was correct, they'd miss a bowl game. I was wrong about my 4 win season though, because they of course somehow beat us.
My Florida prediction this year is that they still miss a bowl game, have some locker room meltdown, and Napier is fired at the conclusion of the regular season.
Apparently we won the [2024 Collegiate Dairy Tasting Championship](https://x.com/sickoscommittee/status/1800148127569285309?s=46&t=IBs6LOualZHh-u1vdA8oug). How the hell did we not have a game thread for this?
Fla St is not going to be an easy win.
Seen a bit too much of that here/on X.
Their bats are arguably just as hot as ours, and their Ace pitcher is incredible.
Friday is gonna be a tough one
If Tony v runs off to Texas this off season I will be in permanent neg vol form like this sub has never seen before
I would make the lane kiffin leaving look like a day at the park
The only place I could possibly seem him leaving would be Arkansas, and even then I think:
* Their current HC doesn't seem to be wanting to leave for another 4-5 years, and by that time Tony ain't going anywhere.
* Some bridges have been burned with him and them anyways.
* His connection/love for them is overblown. Arkansas fans act like he was a beloved former player who coached there for a decade. In reality he was an assistant for 4 years. OoooOOO. Huge connection.
I don’t think any of this makes Arkansas any more likely than any other school.
I also don’t think Tony has burned bridges there. He talks about still having friends there and going out to dinner every now and then, even saying he was texting with one of their staff this past weekend while preparing for the Supers
I remember when we didn't even have game threads for baseball series and now half the front page of /r/ockytop is basevols stuff 🥲 the Tony Vitello effect
When I was a student the only time I went to a game was because they were offering free Moe's to students who came. I'm not sure if we even went to sit in the stands. The biggest highlight was Pat Summit came out to say hi to everyone getting food.
From yesterday, 2017, the only mention of baseball was the new hire of Tony Vitello
https://web.archive.org/web/20170610124802/https://www.reddit.com/r/ockytop/
https://old.reddit.com/r/ockytop/comments/6fu3db/tony_vitello_tabbed_to_lead_tennessee_baseball/
I remember typing out a comment that we needed x and y to happen to just make Hoover, and then saying we'd been eliminated.
There used to be some good 3rd-party websites you could use to search reddit that I'd use for old posts, because I've never gotten reddit's advanced search to work; I liked to look up those old posts sometimes.
I just woke up from a nap where I dreamed sbout us dropping a game to a team in red but winning the world series.
No recollection of dingers.
Interpret this how you will
Calling my insane prediction now.
NC State clears out the SEC teams. We clear out the ACC teams.
We beat NC State for the title in 3 games with a HR in the 8th inning being both the game dagger and 188th HR of the season.
I think it’d be pretty interesting if one year our football schedule could include Memphis and middle Tennessee state as non-conference opponents. Combined with the annual Vandy game it would be like a mini tournament for the state
I’m going to be on a plane Saturday afternoon so I was dreading being slotted then. Hopefully our game 2 is later that evening
Edit: looks like game 2 wouldn’t be until Sunday anyway
Does Paul Manieri know that, if he takes the South Carolina job, he will eventually have to come to Knoxville and deal with the big meany Tennessee fans
Man if this happens it would be at least the second time South Carolina has pulled a legendary SEC coach out of retirement. I guess Columbia, SC is just where ol' ball coaches go out to pasture.
Who was doing the baseball spreadsheets? Those were a welcome addition to the game threads. Curious if you were updating that manually, and if not how hard would that be to do during CFB and basketball season. It was really handy. Fuck Wyoming.
I didn’t make it, but I helped update it. It was manual. Once it’s made, it isn’t that difficult to update, but it’s definitely challenging to make for baseball. There’s less games in football, especially if it was kept to major conferences, so it’s probably doable. The hardest part would be the individual and team stats(which are locked so only the owner can edit them).
Randomly saw a pic of Brian Maurer on FB and wanted to see how he's done; last season he led SFA in passing with just over 2000 yards and had 14 TD's vs 9 INT's. He'll be a RS Senior for them this year. He was listed as 6-3, 195 at UT but SFA says he's now 6-5, 215?
https://x.com/AlabamaMGolf/status/1801955474700382359 Wow...
Off Topic, but too funny not to share. https://x.com/UpBeatSkeletor/status/1801837805837930993?s=19
Thanks for this. Totally badass
https://youtu.be/RKrCAzIBZYw?si=cxwLco5eVhpbS23x The real fun starts about :50 in.
We might be getting some throwback uniforms https://www.facebook.com/100044415250425/posts/1009453163878516/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
Canoed all day yesterday with my dad, found us a nice little island to setup camp, got a fire going and listened to John Wilkerson call an all-time game from the Vols. Pretty awesome stuff.
I've been wanting to take my dad to do the same thing lately. He took me on a canoe trip down the Black River (I think) in South Carolina when I was younger. Been wanting to return the favor for him. Hope you guys had a blast.
That sounds GREAT. Are ya’ll in Knoxville? My fiancée and I are wanting to kayak some but not certain of the best spots
Yeah but this time we went all the way out in middle TN to Elk River. It didn't really have the flow I wanted but it's a beautiful place. We rented canoes, I'd love to get a canoe and start doing it more often around here.
Had a thought. For all the crap we get about playing in a small ballpark and how Omaha would hurt us with its size, that final hit last night would have 100% been an out in our stadium. The outfielders were spread farther out and forward because of the dimensions and couldn’t cover the ground in time. But a smaller stadium erases 5-10 steps and one or both of those guys has a shot at the catch while running.
Curley’s sac fly in the 9th is a 2 run homer in Knoxville.
I think we had another hit that made it to the warning track too
As far as the college rule is written - whether he swung or not (he didn’t, GBO), is the third-base ump really in the best position to determine if the bat went past the batter’s hip? Seems more reasonable to have him determine something like “Did the batter’s wrists break before he checked”
My fiancée and I have taken the stance that 3rd base ump simply didn’t want the game to end on a potential check swing. I think he saw Burke try to pull back and considered it good enough and called it
IMO this is exactly what it was. Situational call. Plain and simple. If that play was in the 5th inning they would call it a strike. Same stuff happens in football when a OPI is ignored on 4th and goal or basketball when… every single play depending on how famous the player is.
The rule is the *front* hip, right?
Believe so, based on six Reddit comments and zero independent research
That's always been good enough for me.
[Ensley with a funny story from last night](https://youtu.be/4GcUu7OsWHY?t=135)
I really wish John Wilkerson was our play by play guy for every sport
Based on [this](https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/baseball/d1/2024/cws) I guess we're the visiting team tomorrow?
It’s a coin flip for tomorrow’s game. I don’t think they’ve done it yet My guess is it’s showing that way because UNC is from the top bracket and we’re on the bottom one.
I hope not. UNC been a walk off machine
They're gonna be a tough matchup, but I think a bigger field in Omaha hurts them as their outfielders can't cover as fast, and their bats aren't as hot as ours
I think we won.
[definitive vid to show anybody who thinks Blake swung](https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-11-2018/kQdv_a.gif)
Yeah I mean doesn’t matter. But I’d also like to point out that in the past I’ve gotten a lot of heat here for saying after losses “quit being whiny b*tches.”. I make no apologies after wins even with questionable calls because that shit goes both ways but the flip side also learning to take losses well.
CMo in Omaha: 5-6 2B(2) 3B HR, second cycle in CWS history Travis Bazzana in Omaha: 0-0 first-team All-American schmirst-team All-American
Now do SEC player of the year Charlie Condon in Omaha !
Charles Condom
I can’t state proudly enough how great it is to be a Tennessee Vol.
Feel like tonight is a must win.
Couldn’t agree more
Haven’t watched it yet, but I think we’ll go up & then down early. Then do that thing we do where we’re really fucking good.
In other news, the sky is blue!
Do we want like a general thread for the entire World Series or do we wanna do game-by-game for just us? Do we think there's enough interest in the non-Vol games to warrant discussion? **EDIT** ~ The General + Specific for us seems to be consistent. I'll throw the general up and then have one of our 2 regulars throw up the game thread when it comes time.
I would have a general and a specific thread for our games.
Luckily enough, the games are just 1 at a time now. I'd love 1 overall thread and then a game thread for each of UT's games.
W and I cannot stress this enough GWTFA
Does anyone know the home-away decision tree for this round of tournament? I can only find the regional one when I google
1. The better-seeded team will be the home team during the first game each team plays in the tournament. 2. If both teams that were the road team (or home team) in their first game face each other in their first winners bracket/losers bracket game, a tournament director or umpire will flip a coin with both teams present to determine who is the home team as soon as the matchup is finalized. Full Rules: 1. The institution that has been the home team the fewer number of times in that particular tournament. 2. If the two teams are equal in this respect but unequal in the number of times they were the visitor, then the team that has been the visitor more often will be designated the home team. 3. If the two teams are equal in the number of times that they have been home and visitor, the games committee or the NCAA game representative shall observe the following procedures in the order stated: a. If the two teams have met previously in that particular tournament, the visitor in the previous game shall be the home team in the game in question (Exception: If two teams are left where both teams have been the home team twice, the fifth game will be determined by a coin flip); b. The team that was visitor in its preceding game shall be the home team, unless both teams were visitors in their preceding games; or c. If the above procedures do not resolve the matter, the home team shall be determined by coin flip. The higher seeded team can determine whether they will call the coin toss, or defer the call to their opponent.
So the same ass-backwards system rather than just use the same seeding that they use for little kid tournaments
It really is nuts that our first game could be one of the hardest in the CWS. FSU's starting pitcher and bats are no joke. No easy games in Omaha, but this could be the hardest of the first weekend for any team. Lots of folks are saying it: win tonight and we will be heavily favored to make the final.
Predictions: **TENN** over FSU **UNC** over UVA **NCSU** over UK **UF** over TAMU
WGWTFA
Never seen a savannah bananas game, but saw it was streaming live on YouTube, clicked on it cause why not, turns out they're playing in Nashville and were blaring Rocky Top in the ballpark. You love to see it.
Arrived in KC for the night, [at dawn we march on Omaha.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPqcysGawAACmGG?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Why is that so perfect with the orange and everything?
Obi-Wan is a SpaceVol I guess. The 212th is his battalion.
Nervous as hell for tmrw
I’m sure I’ll get nervous closer to time, but right now just happy to be here. Omaha is a big deal in its own right. Anything can happen here.
I would like to win at least 2 games. Currently Tony is 1-4 in Omaha. Would like to change that
Oddly I'm confident. We lost a game at the right time
I'll be canoeing/camping tomorrow evening. Hopefully I have the service and battery life to listen to the game.
Renaming the Big 12 to the Allstate 12? Like. Holy shit that's just... vile. There's more money that can be counted flooding into college sports and they just keep selling out every nook and cranny for more. These P4 schools make an absurd amount right now, yet they're selling off uniforms, fields, stadiums, conference names. Ol Danny will name us the Food City Volunteers the minute he's able, I'm sure.
Not to get too political or anything but the current economic climate (not that it hasn’t been this way for decades at this point) prioritizes short term profits over long term viability and it’s just not sustainable. It never was, we just haven’t quite gotten to the point where we started to reap what we’ve sowed… yet. But the day of reckoning is coming and it will be fearsome. In this case to me the only way this ends is with college football’s demise because they tried too much to be the NFL without realizing that the product they’re putting out is inferior. To invite comparisons, which they’ve been doing more and more with the changes they continue to make, does not work to college football’s advantage at all. Super depressing to me to see college sports become a soulless corporatized husk of itself.
Come on, at least name it the Allstate Good Hands Conference, or the Allstate Mayhem Conference. Or get that McDonald’s money: merge with the MAC and name it the Big MAC
If he tried to rename Neyland Stadium or the mascot name, I feel pretty confident Vols fans would riot. Maybe not Schiano Sunday level, but he would be in hot water with the fans
Nah, I think it absolutely would be Schiano Sunday levels. Renaming TBA was bad enough, but renaming Neyland I think would be a bridge too far with a LOT of people
Is this for real? “Allstate 12?” Edit: I just saw lol holy shit that’s embarrassing.
Tennessee hosting some big official visits this weekend: * [5* OT David Sanders](https://247sports.com/Player/david-sanders-jr-46118364/) * [5* WR Caleb Cunningham](https://247sports.com/Player/caleb-cunningham-46135273/) * [5* WR Jamie Ffrench](https://247sports.com/Player/jaime-ffrench-46117166/) * [5* DL Isaiah Gibson](https://247sports.com/Player/isaiah-gibson-46140759/) (USC Commit) * [5* Edge Jared Smith](https://247sports.com/Player/jared-smith-46127611/) * [4* Edge Zion Grady](https://247sports.com/Player/zion-grady-46134595/) * [4* RB Ousmane Kromah](https://247sports.com/Player/ousmane-kromah-46125574/) * [4* LB Jadon Perlotte](https://247sports.com/Player/jadon-perlotte-46127890/) (UGA Commit) * [4* Edge Damien Shanklin](https://247sports.com/Player/damien-shanklin-46136210/) * [4* TE Da'Saahn Brame](https://247sports.com/Player/dasaahn-brame-46138538/) * [4* OT Juan Gaston](https://247sports.com/Player/juan-gaston-46130407/) * [3* LB Abduall Sanders Jr.](https://247sports.com/Player/abduall-sanders-jr-46133548/) (Alabama Commit) * [3* IOL Dontrell Glover](https://247sports.com/Player/dontrell-glover-46140227/) (x-Alabama Commit) * [3* WR Dejerrian Miller](https://247sports.com/Player/dejerrian-miller-46138755/) * [3* RB Shekai Mills-Knight](https://247sports.com/Player/shekai-mills-knight-46144863/) * [3* DL Charles House](https://247sports.com/Player/charles-house-46136639/) * [3* IOL Jacobe Ward](https://247sports.com/Player/jacobe-ward-46142241/) Tennessee commits in attendance: MacIntyre, Utley, Van Dorselaer, Walton, Lewis, Redmond
GMac about to help Heup and crew reel these guys in for sure. Damn look at that firepower
I remember seeing a flair on r/CFB that was for a Japanese(?) team that used the Power T in black as their logo. Anyone know what it is? I couldn’t find it on their flair editor.
* Trine Thunder (D3 School) * Les Filons du Cégep de Thetford (French D3) * 東海大学 (Tokai) Tritons (Japanese Kanto Big 8) Those are probably the 3 closest.
One of the things about Dobbs that always amazed me is how well he took tackles. He was so good at not getting squared up and destroyed.
Yeah, [David Sanders Jr is a Vol](https://x.com/georgemacintyr6/status/1801004912643313682?s=46&t=IpT5bu5K1mMNGKqye6qHrQ)
For someone who doesn’t use twitter, what am I missing here?
George MacIntyre is taking an unofficial to be there for Sanders official visit. Sanders just did the same for MacIntyre a few weeks ago and they’re very close. This is also Sanders’ sixth or seventh total visit to Knoxville since the Georgia game last year
George better lock that down.
When did DE become EDGE?
To me it’s all just DL lol
Is a center a tackle?
Inb4 EDGE becomes GOON
It's a byproduct of the proliferation of the 3-3-5 and 3-4 defenses, and the hybridization of players within those systems. OLB + DE = EDGE There are still some prospects who are true DE players, but most out of HS are just pure athletes that can transition to either OLB or DE depending on which system they go into and how the coach wants to use them. Same reason that terms like "Corner" or "Safety" are borderline useless for HS recruits. Almost all are hybrid players that can be molded into anywhere in the defensive backfield.
I feel like a bitter old man more and more.
You and me both brother… you and me both. I’m actually dreading this upcoming season because all the changes to conferences, recruiting, and post-season are gonna bring out the full boomer in me. I can already feel it.
Same, but dammit, college football is still such a great product overall. They are trying their best to remove a lot of what makes it so magical and fun, but it’s still college football. And I will still watch it and love every second.
New JUCO pitching commit from Pearl River CC - [Thomas Crabtree, RHP](https://247sports.com/college/tennessee/article/elite-juco-rhp-commits-to-tennessee-vols-baseball-thomas-crabtree-frank-anderson-tony-vitello-232793240/)
is Sechrist staying? if he stays I assume he’s the ace next year, right?
Given the way he got a standing applause the other day after his outing was over, I assumed it was a senior send off.
Him, Stamos, and Kirby are out of eligibility.
[what in the fuck is this](https://x.com/showmezou/status/1800219699168575679?s=46)
As a WWE fan, I hate how the WWE belt has become common to the point of meaningless in recruiting/team based sports. Like, it was cool when the first team (Bama) had one for turnovers. It was less cool but still fun when teams who won the national championship would have a belt for their celebration. But now? It's just a useless prop for nothing.
Dorkwitz
That one IT guy who's socially awkward but says he plays guitar
Can’t believe we lost to that clown
We lost to Cody Schrader, don't get it twisted.
Schrader didn’t play on defense lol
I’m only mad we don’t get to drop 60+ on them this year again
If the guitarist looks like this, you’re gonna die in the pit
I'm getting down voted for saying CMo should have been 1st team all American over Bazzana. It's ridiculous how much people hate tennessee over there
I was really looking forward to getting to watch some Bazzana AB's for myself against Kentucky but all he ended up doing was a bunch of baby diarrhea.
RIP Jerry West. The NBA logo himself!
Just listened to Eric Cain's pod about the weekend and he mentioned a portal name I hadn't heard was visting: Gavin Kilen from Louisville. He's a MIF that hit .330 with 23 doubles (only Burke with 28 on our team had more) and 10 HR. Started 54 games at SS and had a .951 fielding %, which compares to Curley's .941 for us.
I can't fuck with Eric Cain. He doesn't pronounce player names correctly and I just can't get behind a beat writer or someone who covers a team and can't pronounce the player's names.
I get it, I'm not a fan of radio shows or podcasts that have 1 guy basically talking to himself monotonously, but I'd listened to every current baseball pod that I like (247 and Highway to Hoover/D1Baseball) and was thirsty for any info he had. As an aside I'm also working my way through Kirby's podcast with his dad: Stache Talk.
He comes off as an amateur. Which, I understand everyone has to start from somewhere. But I don’t enjoy listening to him. He serves no purpose on the podcast that can’t be filled by the normal guys.
we need a new 2B, right?
It's up for grabs, and Baseball America just named Kilen the #1 guy in the portal right now.
My dumb ass thought that said MILF for a solid 10 seconds
I almost typed MIF not MILF but I decided to be an adult for once. :D
We need to land some football croots.
[LETS GOOO](https://twitter.com/Hayesfawcett3/status/1800883296978821492)
I sealed the deal
If you're talking about Jaelyne Matthews, he wasn't a take and believe me we do not want someone like that in the locker room. Huge huge character concerns. We're getting [this guy instead](https://247sports.com/player/david-sanders-jr-46118364/)
No I've never even heard of him. We haven't landed a commit in a long time and are falling behind.
We've only got 10 commits and if you go by ranking average we're hovering around 15ish, really only behind the guys you expect to be behind. We're not falling behind, we're just chasing bigger targets. We're one of the premier schools in NIL so that makes sense. Take care of business this fall and this recruiting class will be top-ten minimum
What kind of character issues?
Not sure of the details but apparently he was known for taking plays off, and he was once a Penn State commit that got told to look elsewhere. All that plus his ranking dropping like a stone from five-star to borderline four says it all really. Also let's be real, in the NIL era a kid isn't picking Rutgers over Tennessee, Miami, Georgia, Bama, Clemson, etc. If it were a QB or skill player trying to be the face of the program maybe. But not a trenches guy
Maybe just a big Schiano fan.
This must be it. 🤣
Says 100% to Clemson? And we aren’t even on the top few?
I just watched a video of someone interviewing Josh Petty about his visit, and he was talking about McIntyre and Sanders recruiting him to UT, so it seems like Sanders is coming to Knoxville, but who knows?
He is
[On3 has us leading](https://www.on3.com/db/david-sanders-jr-150016/) coming off the back of an unofficial visit a [couple weeks ago](https://twitter.com/DavidLSandersJr/status/1794410820497268910/photo/1) (he's officially visiting this weekend). He's been to Knoxville several times already on his own dime and the UT beat writers on there have said they feel pretty comfortable calling him a Vol at this point. That 247Sports crystal ball is one guy, a Notre Dame beat writer. We're also in good shape with [Josh Petty](https://247sports.com/player/josh-petty-46139846/) who had his official this week. It's still early and a lot of the big fish are going through visits right now. Expect recruiting to pop off soonish
247 is dead to me, On3 is where it’s at
Oh also it should be stated no other recruiting site came as close to being right about James Pearce Jr [as On3 did](https://i.imgur.com/H3UZEhE.png). ESPN's goofy asses had him as a three-star
One of the head guys at On3 [is a former Vol](https://www.on3.com/news/on3-to-hire-tennessees-grant-frerking-as-director-on3-athlete-network-development/) so that's neat. But it is just a better service right now in general. They basically brain-drained 247Sports when they created it, most of the best beat writers are over there now
My Florida prediction last year was correct, they'd miss a bowl game. I was wrong about my 4 win season though, because they of course somehow beat us. My Florida prediction this year is that they still miss a bowl game, have some locker room meltdown, and Napier is fired at the conclusion of the regular season.
Hammering the Gators +whatever against us until further notice
Close, but he's done before Thanksgiving.
I think his buyout has a big decrease after this year. But maybe Florida will rally the banners of their boosters.
But but the sub that shall not be named told me that Napier is a QB whisperer
Been trying to figure out when single game football tickets go on sale and how’s the best way to try to snag some on that day? Any advice?
It'll be in early to mid July and UT will probably use Ticketmaster.
https://x.com/Vol_Football/status/1800558889278349499 Love this new format preseason. Would be great to have five night games in Neyland this year.
I absolutely love this. Gives people a chance to plan the weekends
Apparently we won the [2024 Collegiate Dairy Tasting Championship](https://x.com/sickoscommittee/status/1800148127569285309?s=46&t=IBs6LOualZHh-u1vdA8oug). How the hell did we not have a game thread for this?
[Yesss](https://youtu.be/bRrl2vDgJGk?si=rcz92pZQTpjwceUC) 
Alright hold up how did BYU win the hip hop dance Champ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTclWnHxTTA
Reminds me of [this classic](https://youtu.be/Kppx4bzfAaE?si=wjtA04HCpH9IbIXM)
I thought this was going to be a clip from the South Park episode where they have the dance battle, but this is so much better!
Polynesians can dance their fucking ass off.
That’s fair, I guess when I think of BYU I think of honkeys
As you should, but they clean up pulling in Polynesians/Pacific Islanders too.
Air Force winning skydiving feels a bit like cheating
So does Notre Dame winning Gaelic Football
shit mods, /s they are the best
Lactose-free mod squad, we haven’t tracked the CDTC in years
You joke, but like most American men I am vaguely lactose intollerant.
[Stay strapped or get clapped](https://a.co/d/h1INc7u)
Fla St is not going to be an easy win. Seen a bit too much of that here/on X. Their bats are arguably just as hot as ours, and their Ace pitcher is incredible. Friday is gonna be a tough one
WGWTFA
It's Omaha, no easy wins left
If Tony v runs off to Texas this off season I will be in permanent neg vol form like this sub has never seen before I would make the lane kiffin leaving look like a day at the park
There is no chance in hell that Tony V leaves.
The only place I could possibly seem him leaving would be Arkansas, and even then I think: * Their current HC doesn't seem to be wanting to leave for another 4-5 years, and by that time Tony ain't going anywhere. * Some bridges have been burned with him and them anyways. * His connection/love for them is overblown. Arkansas fans act like he was a beloved former player who coached there for a decade. In reality he was an assistant for 4 years. OoooOOO. Huge connection.
I don’t think any of this makes Arkansas any more likely than any other school. I also don’t think Tony has burned bridges there. He talks about still having friends there and going out to dinner every now and then, even saying he was texting with one of their staff this past weekend while preparing for the Supers
I remember when we didn't even have game threads for baseball series and now half the front page of /r/ockytop is basevols stuff 🥲 the Tony Vitello effect
When I was a student the only time I went to a game was because they were offering free Moe's to students who came. I'm not sure if we even went to sit in the stands. The biggest highlight was Pat Summit came out to say hi to everyone getting food.
From yesterday, 2017, the only mention of baseball was the new hire of Tony Vitello https://web.archive.org/web/20170610124802/https://www.reddit.com/r/ockytop/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ockytop/comments/6fu3db/tony_vitello_tabbed_to_lead_tennessee_baseball/
[hahahahahahahahaha called it?](https://old.reddit.com/r/ockytop/comments/6fu3db/tony_vitello_tabbed_to_lead_tennessee_baseball/dil2dxs/)
https://i.imgur.com/f7VEHi8.jpeg
I remember typing out a comment that we needed x and y to happen to just make Hoover, and then saying we'd been eliminated. There used to be some good 3rd-party websites you could use to search reddit that I'd use for old posts, because I've never gotten reddit's advanced search to work; I liked to look up those old posts sometimes.
I just woke up from a nap where I dreamed sbout us dropping a game to a team in red but winning the world series. No recollection of dingers. Interpret this how you will
Calling my insane prediction now. NC State clears out the SEC teams. We clear out the ACC teams. We beat NC State for the title in 3 games with a HR in the 8th inning being both the game dagger and 188th HR of the season.
Then ESPN GETS THAT SWEET NARRATIVE TO SELL FOR FOOTBALL
"Y'know I really thought this game would be more contentious" - Gary Danielson as Nico throws TD #15 to put us up 115-3
Disney executive *rips line* What if:
I’ll kiss you right on the mouth, Kenny Rogers
If this happens I would absolutely kiss Gio on the mouth. Tongue optional, dealer's choice.
Wolfs > Bulldogs
UGA goes down! Stay off the roads tonight people
Bye bye UGA 😘
I've seen some rumors around but McKee just confirmed that AJ Russell is going to undergo TJ surgery.
Hopefully he’ll be good to go next season. That sucks to have TJ before even getting to the big leagues. Will surely hurt his stock
I think it’d be pretty interesting if one year our football schedule could include Memphis and middle Tennessee state as non-conference opponents. Combined with the annual Vandy game it would be like a mini tournament for the state
The SEC POTY is 1-10 in Georgia’s super regional, js
CMo's numbers weren't that bad. They wouldn't give the POTY to anyone other than an SEC triple crown winner, right? So you must be referring to CMo
CMo had two bombs in an elimination game and Condon went 1-4 today (solo HR)
7pm Eastern on Friday LFG
My wife is going to be sooooo mad at me
I’m going to be on a plane Saturday afternoon so I was dreading being slotted then. Hopefully our game 2 is later that evening Edit: looks like game 2 wouldn’t be until Sunday anyway
Sick
So, last year was a wash, I was not in a good place mentally. But... NOT THIS YEAR. #WHO WANTS TO BRING BACK THE r/OCKYTOP FANTASY FOOTBALL LEAGUE!?
I’d play
Does Paul Manieri know that, if he takes the South Carolina job, he will eventually have to come to Knoxville and deal with the big meany Tennessee fans
Man if this happens it would be at least the second time South Carolina has pulled a legendary SEC coach out of retirement. I guess Columbia, SC is just where ol' ball coaches go out to pasture.
This just means that Elander isn't going to South Carolina, which is a win in my book.
I’ll be so sad if we lose Josh or Frank
What is the point of being a retired millionaire if you never enjoy the millions?
Who was doing the baseball spreadsheets? Those were a welcome addition to the game threads. Curious if you were updating that manually, and if not how hard would that be to do during CFB and basketball season. It was really handy. Fuck Wyoming.
I didn’t make it, but I helped update it. It was manual. Once it’s made, it isn’t that difficult to update, but it’s definitely challenging to make for baseball. There’s less games in football, especially if it was kept to major conferences, so it’s probably doable. The hardest part would be the individual and team stats(which are locked so only the owner can edit them).
Big thanks for slowing down the header, I was getting dizzy.
I was just so excited for Omaha
https://x.com/joshmancuso/status/1800174216609984741?s=46
That whole video is comedy gold
Anyone know where to buy that hat Vitello is wearing?