If you’ve got an appetite, dig in.
- Jim Chaney returns to Knoxville.
- Counting defensive recruiting stars: “Georgia’s starting lineup (counting its nickelback as a 12th starter) had an average recruiting ranking of 3.5 stars by 247Sports. Tennessee’s starting lineup, counting its nickelback, had an average ranking of 3.67 stars.”
- It’s nice to have goals.
- Derrius Guice tells an LSU fan he’s a human before he’s a football player. That ought to go over well.
- I don’t know whether you’d call the Georgia-Tennessee series a full-blown rivalry, but it’s sure had its share of entertaining moments.
- The Georgia Way has its challenges, so why shouldn’t you have them, too? (h/t Aladawg)
- It’s great that Jake Fromm can cash in on his name like this… oh, wait.
Get The Picture 
Stop that goddam rivalry tape at the 2:20 mark.
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Not bad, but they should have subbed Sean Jones scoop and score for a 1968 tie (?). Reggie Davis’ drop is stil…..wow.
And I haven’t seen Andre Hastings’ fumble since 1992. I think if we had replay he would have been called down and we could have kicked a game winning fg.
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I had the same thought about Sean Jones too. how’s that get left off?
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Thank you for the warning. I can’t watch that, like I can’t watch a number of plays, it makes me sick to my stomach every time.
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UT has the second best all time winning percentage in the SEC behind only Bama and also has the lead in the series with Georgia. This is always a tough game and this year will be no exception particularly since the game is in Knoxville. IMHO this will be the toughest game the Dawgs will play this year in the regular season. GATA!!!!
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I really have no concern about this team staying focused and playing all out on Saturday. Others may have trouble keeping their feet on the ground after the big win last Saturday but not this one. Great Senior leadership on both sides of the ball, and a staff that won’t let them forget their goals have not been been achieved. Not saying this won’t be a fight because TN is desperate, and the crowd will be behind them, at least in the beginning. I think our guys have adequate motivation to match their intensity, and we have better talent. Dawgs will win this game.
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Baseball challenge, increase by 10%? You have got to be kidding me. Stricklin should have been fired 2 years ago, he hasn’t scratched .500 in his tenure here, ridiculous
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Yes, but that’s mainly because you scumbags aren’t doing your part.
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Damn straight; we can put that in the reserve fund………………Stricklin thinks his win percentage is actually his team’s batting average!
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Can I get 10% back for every team failing to get an SEC Championship?
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Geography dictates the rivalry intensity. Dalton, Cartersville, Calhoun, Rome, NW Georgia, has a large infestation of vawls because of I-75 giving easy access to Knoxville. That consistency includes, Columbus, Albany, SOWEGA to Auburn and Valdosta Brunswick Savannah, SE Georgia, etc…Living up here “on the top” in the mountains, most Dawgs love 10-r-c like as much about as getting a root canal at Walmart.
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Can confirm. Leave in Cartersville (aka CVegas) and there is a ton of Vols fans and I can’t stand it. It is impossible to score too much in this game.
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Those poor W/SW Ga folks. Nobody should have to endure living around an abundance of Auburn fans.
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The star rating article from Knoxnews is a little misleading because to get the 2.6 secondary rating for Georgia they gave Aaron Davis a star rating of 0. Even though he was a walk on that is not a fair assessment of his ability leaving high school. If you assumed he was a 2 that brings the unit rank up to 3 which in turn brings the total defense average up to 3.75.
I look forward to a Vol beat down no matter the star rating on the field.
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Yes and Davis, Reed and Bellamy – and going back Pollack and Thomas Davis – are proof that a program’s eye for talent and ability to convert that to production – is as important if not more so than how the recruitniks rank your class in Feb. not far behind is a low attrition rate on such signees – as several SEC programs are reknowned for big signing day hauls that soon lose numerous players to academic or character issues.
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I’m pretty sure Aaron Davis was a high 3 star prior to his injury. Agreed, that article is bunk
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I don’t mind the article at all. It reinforces what a crappy coach Booch is.
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Watching those clips from the 5th bullet point sure makes me glad our tackling has improved this year. They must have greased their backs every game with us. Pitiful. And please never show the hail Mary again ever. I’m pissed off for another 2 weeks now.
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man, people can argue all they want about the NFL and taking a knee. I think they ought not, as the anthem and this nation is supposed to be about the idealized possibility, but I understand and support their right to do it.
Now, if a PUBLIC high is suggesting consequences meted out to students who participate in a protest, there are some SEVERE 1st Amendment implications here. I’m no lawyer, don’t pretend to be one, but I absolutely, utterly, support those high school students’ ability to speak without government censorship of their actions. The pundits of the right whose opinions I respect would all say to let them young men speak; i.e. Ken White, David French, Charles CW Cooke, Guy Benson, Ben Shapiro.
Senator, there any case law about this sort of thing or is this new ground?
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Every Con Law 101 class teaches about this Supreme Court decision.
The ACLU won’t break a sweat getting the rule overturned.
If the desire is to avoid controversy, the better decision by the school system would simply be to keep teams off the field until after the anthem’s played.
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lol. seems pretty cut and dry. I’d laugh at the Louisiana school being dumb, but I’m sure one of our Georgia High Schools will do something similar next week.
Also glad the case law is already there.
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It’s not just there. It’s so there, you wonder what the school’s lawyer had to say when told about the new policy.
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Those high school kids can kneel all they want. The coach still has the discretion to not play them.
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Not if it’s because of them kneeling during the anthem. He’s a public employee.
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I’m too lazy to go find your post, but I recall you forecasting this public HS kneeling and the 1A firestorm that would come as a result.
and to the comment at the school lawyer’s response, I’m an idiot in sales, and even I can see the 1A implications. That lawyer likely has a softball sized knot on his forehead from slamming his head into his desk.
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No, the coach will just say, “28 didn’t practice very well this week.”
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So much for example setting. Better hope 28 ain’t the best player on the team.
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At first I thought the “Russian political ad botnet” stuff was nonsense. Now I’m starting to believe they’re inserting bullet points here at GTP and it’s real.
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A 10% increase of my $0 giving to baseball is still $0, right?!
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Evil Richt meets Convict U = Duke headache. I always knew he had it in him, lol.
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