Posts Tagged ‘Urban Meyer’
Tennessee Football Notes
Even though Tennessee’s two biggest rivals are playing in today’s SEC Championship game, today is still a big day for the Vols. Lane Kiffin will be on ESPN’s College GameDay and will make picks at 11:30 a.m. Kiffin earlier this week said that Florida has better players but Alabama has better coaches. Expect Kirk Herbstreit [...]
Required Reading: College Football Edition
Tennessee-Va Tech in Chick-fil-a Bowl: Fans of both of these schools have wanted this game played at Bristol Motor Speedway, but they will have to settle for the Georgia Dome on Dec. 31. This will be a great matchup for both schools and hopefully this gives both schools the idea to turn this game into [...]
Three Arrested Vols to Miss Ole Miss Game
Even though some Tennessee fans were hoping this morning that safety Janzen Jackson would play against Ole Miss on Saturday, Tennessee spokeswoman Tiffany Carpenter says the Vols will travel to Oxford without Jackson, freshman wide receiver Nu’Keese Richardson and defensive back Mike Edwards. The three freshmen were charged with attempted armed robbery for demanding money [...]
Slive Keeps Acting More and More Like Selig
The SEC and Major League Baseball both have had many blown calls this season. Some of the missed calls in the ALCS were just plain embarrassing and the SEC is not much better. Instead of expanding instant replay, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig thinks it is a great idea to keep things the way they are. [...]
Golic Rips Spikes a New One
Our guy Will West had a good point today: All Georgia running back Washaun Ealey had to do before Satuday’s loss to Florida was watch an old tape of The Three Stooges and he would have learned how to block somebody when they try to gouge your eyes. If you place your hand vertically over [...]
Tebow Not Cleared by Doctors
Florida coach Urban Meyer says quarterback Tim Tebow hasn’t been cleared by doctors, but does look a lot better and thinks he is symptom free. Tebow suffered a concussion in the win over Kentucky on Sept. 26. The Gators have a tough road game against LSU on Saturday. We will be shocked if Tebow doesn’t [...]
SEC Coaches Back Urban Meyer
Many people are questioning Florida coach Urban Meyer’s decision to play Tim Tebow against Kentucky while the Florida Gators had a big lead against the Wildcats. Meyer’s rivals in the SEC have his back and say they don’t have an issue with how Tebow was used against the Wildcats. The coverage of Tebow can be a [...]
Tebow Could be Back for LSU
Florida qucoach Urban Meyer said that quarterback Tim Tebow is feeling better and could be back to play LSU on Oct. 10. Tebow suffered a concussion in the win over Kentucky after his head hit a teammate’s leg as he was getting sacked. Backup quarterback John Brantley is still a very good quarterback, but the [...]
Did Monte Figure Out the Spread?
We’ve spoken ad nauseum about smartfootball.com this season and we’ll keep doing it as long as they keep dropping fat knowledge like this on us. Monte Kiffin’s recipe for slowing down the dreaded spread option of Florida may be the beginning of defenses catching up to the zone read game and the many variations thereof.
Required Reading
Local:
National media blows Meyer/ Kiffin coverage. [Mr. SEC]
Spurrier v. Nutt tonight. [Commercial Appeal]
Not a smooth start for Chuck Cecil. [Tennessean]
Regional:
How good can Jacory Harris be?