Who Exactly Does Tennessee Think They Are?

 Frankly, what the Tennessee Volunteers are doing is Chasing their Losses after Nico Iamaleava. They have not even gotten as far as saying they messed up, and I'm keeping it family.

The reality is Tennessee does not have the Money to go Chase the Bag. Where Tennessee Lands and Who Tennessee Lands will cause more questions than answers to the departing program.

I am checking and rechecking my Poll Board and I am not afraid to go Outside the Top 50 if I had to.

I also am not crazy that Josh Heupel has not been given a Power Transparency Bill of Health of the Program. 

There'd be a difference between a Million Dollar Program and a Billion Dollar Program as if they didn't already know it.

What Kind of Program Would Have Tennessee Been Had they Buckled to Nico's Demands?

 This is a period that veers painfully between Happy Talk and Hostage Crisis, and if Nico Iamaleava was only really there to be there like Bristol Tickets, we would have a Bigger, More Fervent NCAA Problem.

Even now, I'd feel Peyton Manning's Leadership, even though he hasn't put on a Professional Football Uniform in a Decade. 

Had Tennessee buckled to Nico's Demands, it would have been a problem. Tennessee would have looked worse, and only West Virginia, who has even less Conference Prestige, is more Hardscrabble of a Public Base.

Tennessee is about Character, and Character would have been a Problem if you ONLY Played for the Cameras. I doubt there'd be Pilot Monies or Equal anywhere else.

What Tennessee opened up is the Unknown and it is not good. 

Nico Badman!

 What I still don't get about the Nico Iamaleava Ordeal is that How Bad it Got. Frankly, you'd never play people who don't have a lot. I feel mad that all of this was a Play for the Camera.

Instead, Nico Played With the Cameras. There are people left, right and uppercut saying they want no parts of Nico.

Nico is not a Popular Name among Sports Fans especially with Nico Harris thinking he was Slick with the Saturday Night Special. I don't like this Humpty Dumpty Methodology.

I'd have no problem grabbing the bag and changing history if your Inside 21. I'd feel happier if Tennessee got to Pasadena and exposed Oregon as the Frauds they Are!

I feel that Nico is A Badman and not entertaining or harmless. 

I'm Concerned The Power T won't find their Way Back!

 Sadly, I look at Tennessee as a Worse Off Iowa except, irrational behavior is well known to Space. Since Nico took their Cheese like Goodfellas, I'm concerned the Power T won't find their way back.

What the Power T should stand for is Power Transparency. I hate that Tennessee and being a Bad Joke would go hand in hand.

Even if we still had the SEC East, Tennessee would be in for a Rude Awakening asking for Rachel Green Numbers and getting in Huge Trouble.

Regrettably, the Power T should have known better overtrusting the Next Peyton Manning. If you say that around the East Tennessee and their Fords, that would be fighting words.

This is something George Strait or Alcohol won't fix. Tennessee would risk being a Kansas State or Minnesota, and that is not flattery.

No Way Nico Iamaleava Is Hogging Up the NIL Space!

 I am upset with Nico Iamaleava because he is hogging the NIL Space! And, worse, he'll free up Tennessee from its Maiden Heisman! 

I'd feel the Power T has doubled down on their Legacy Class Year, when they chased away Better Recruits and Names from the Power T. The truth is that Tennessee has not won an SEC Title in 3 Going on 4 Pots of Coffee.

I'd think the NFL Market for Nico is Not For Long as he is Unmanagable and Unaccountable and this would open the Dallas Carter Box Over the Power T.

The trouble is, even though Tennessee has not been my Team, but, they've been respected. If they where competitive at Ohio Stadium last year, I would feel different. But, no, the Axis of Evil of Ohio State having to go from Buyout to Tempest does not sit right.

All Josh Heupel did was Ruin UCF and that is held over his head like they went from Nebraska to Oklahoma in a Fell Swoop.

I Do Not Condone Tennessee Losing It Against Lane Kiffin

 It is not Tennessee losing it against Lane Kiffin, but, it is how Tennessee lost it to Lane Kiffin that makes me mad. I would feel Tennessee is tipping between Prove It and Just Lose It Time.

I find that it is a program littered in dysfunction and anger. If Lane Kiffin stayed, either Tennessee or the NCAA would have Fired Him. Instead of Championship Football, it is Championship Goons that are ruining the Great State of Tennessee.

I'd know people are going to have Opinions, but, this is The Capital of Academics in the Southland your dragging! Speaking of dragging, I can't take having the Batman Beyond Energy that is eating East Tennessee up.

Tennessee is Missing Out on Fundraisers Being Less Disciplined than Kansas

 I would feel mad that Tennessee Volunteers Football is missing out on Fundraisers being less disciplined than Kansas. Kansas still has their Losing Streak, and they have not won the Discipline Problem Board since Lance Leopold came to town.

In the Heat Waves, Tennessee Football's Undisciplined Behavior is rubbing off and wearing thin on the rest of the school. If the only way that Josh Heupel and Danny White was to run around Knoxville like it was Orlando and UCF, they would be fooled and mistaken.

The schools that seem to dominate the Fulmer Cup Board is Tennessee and Michigan this Off Season and the Alabama Hex is 14 and Growing. The Undisciplined Behavior is costing the School the Ability to Fundraise and we'd have major schools either having problems with the NCAA or getting there.

If the only way to keep Heupel and/or White around is Financial and that would be a problem if Tennessee is blown out in the Last Days of Saban and that would not help causes.

If I Where to Give My All to Tennessee, I Would At Least Have Stronger Football Depth

 I feel for as much as Tennessee is wooing people with a Capital Campaign, I feel the major loss is Football Depth, which has to be only better than Kansas. Mind you, these are Regional and National Flagship Universities and that is a real problem.

The Football Depth is a Real Problem because you'd have a Minnesota Hockey Focus in the Twin Cities in your market, and instead, the outrage machine eats, and eats, and eats and eats. The fact is there is not enough depth would have meant they wouldn't have survived with Phillip Fulmer or Jeremy Pruitt.

I would donate if I had the Money to put things up that would not already be up like Field Hockey or Varsity Ice Hockey. If Tennessee had Women's Varsity Ice Hockey, it would be a Political Coup in the Southeast and Michigan does not have Women's Varsity Ice Hockey, either.

The pattern is having Overexposed Public Universities and they are hard to breathe. If it was not Social Media, it would be hard to ask people for their Hard Earned Money.

The Gus Duggerton Series is Making Actual Tennessee Volunteers Football Look Worse

I feel like where Actual Tennessee Volunteers Football Look Worse is fans believe the made up Coach, via NCAA 14, Gus Duggerton, is getting more attention and news feed than the actual coach, Jeremy Pruitt.

This is a problem especially if Jeremy Pruitt is recruiting like a madman and someone, from Barstool Sports, is trying to nose their way in with a National Joke. What saves Jeremy Pruitt from actually being on the Hot Seat is the frantic finish he had last season.

This is a disorderly time and I don't like people who'd take advantage of disorder. That is what makes me upset and I am more upset nearly every year except 3 has had Florida, Tennessee and Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. I am mad that Tennessee in the 2 and a Half Years in this Fulmer Run has had that Georgia State has been a crater and they'd still catch short term memory loss.

I would feel like the words when Mr. Fulmer took the office again was "Let's Win Some Championships!" The reality is, this is a program that has not won an SEC Championship since the same day Texas A and M snookered a Big XII Championship to make Kansas State eternally mad, and Miami (FL) broke Arizona's Road to the Super Bowl.

I feel like we would need an NCAA Football or NCAA Basketball to make money for these schools and I don't mean just to make money for making money's sake, but, I feel that we'd need better contributions.

Texas and Tennessee are in a Twilight Zone in College Football

I feel like I don't necessarily recall Texas and Tennessee tee towards being bad at the same time. Not only it is concerning, but it is worrying that both schools are slipping further away from Valuable and Profitable Capital One Points.

I feel there have been Texas and Tennessee High School Talent been called and will keep being called this NFL Draft, but, the state of the Longhorns and the Volunteers as a Program and a Department is both worrying and concerning.

What I think in no uncertain terms, is both have lived high on the hog and needed Miracle Bowl Victories to bounce their way. What would make up the 5 Million Hole in the Cyclone Budget is to Upset Oklahoma and it is not clickbait. There is not a good thump that Texas will get it and that is disappointing.

It riles up Indiana they where denied a National Billboard for Tennessee enabling Indiana things. I feel that other than buying time, the Fundamentals of the Tennessee team have been checked and when they have been checked, they have been called out on National Television.

I find the identity politics of both programs are they are very discontent with what is going on and I doubt that will change with a Fulmer Cup Surge. I would rather have physical, slated, Full Fuel Run Sports instead of a Placeholder upsetting and uprooting an already upset apple cart.

I would feel madder there is no Texas Hats any National Signing Day and there would be someone who would overtake the territory that would change it for better or for worse. I don't necessarily want to post the State or the Welfare Check of the Barn, but, I feel my post don't seem to have a sense of humor or even a Say Cheese! Smile like the Wisconsin Man and His Family's Happy Days.

Tennessee Losing 4 Straight to Vanderbilt Should Be an Arresting Matter

I feel in real time, Tennessee Volunteers Football has kept doing itself no favors. From being "Champions of Week 2" when a Post-Beamerball Virginia Tech honestly made a mess of a Winnable Battle at Bristol, to leaving a scarring SEC Championship Preview that underwhelmed vs. Texas A and M and scarred both Schools, to letting a not so blip worthy Vanderbilt Upset when they knew they where shut out of Rocky Top Holds in Memphis and Nashville and where gifted a Home Bowl to briefly appease the Public.

Even saying the Power T has been the Circled T has been forthright and going too hard with no Replacement Strategy after Butch Jones has shown. Tennessee losing 4 Straight to Vanderbilt in College Football should be an Arresting Matter. I really do believe the Coach In Waiting would be brought out in Tee Martin sometime this year.

It is not a Rocky Top playing to the best of their abilities. I don't think Gary Patterson would move on up to Tennessee, where instead, he'd be the Head Rancher of the Dallas Cowboys like Pat Fitzgerald would likelier keep the Chicago Bears orderly.

And, a Tee Martin helmed Tennessee Volunteers would need strength, self ownership and preservation. I'm thinking if it is 5-6, I'd sense the circular matters would be enough to cow over Tee Martin's Full Time Helm because they'd be a longer way to any Postseason.

Mr. Fulmer's Insistence is a Gift and a Curse...

I don't think Jeremy Pruitt's Tennessee Volunteers will make the Rose Bowl Game and the Good People of Maryville and Nashville would turn on the Rose Parade like it was Earlville and Eddyville in Iowa. But, Mr. Fulmer's Insistence is BOTH a Gift and a Curse.

He insists he would not fire Holly Warlick and not leave expensive decisions to Beaver like his Office Precedessors. He will not hire Rush Propst, even though he is swimming in legal problems and the unhealthy fixation toward his muse (Alabama) pisses off Nick Saban worse.

And, I feel this non move would prove that this is his lone full Mid September to Mother's Day Year in Desk. Before precedessor is at Wake Forest, albeit terribly (Currie). And, I don't see enough book focus where they'd turn to Track and Field or even Olympic Wrestling the first instant the Rose Bowl is History.

This is an office decision the public can't win. And, USC's People Insisted Tee Martin had to be Back at Tennessee and that was even before all this nonsense that drowns Tokyo in South Central Los Angeles.

I don't think I wanted to be The Bag Report, but, all of it is true and even though it identity politics where there is none, but, having something to say came too easy.

Week 8 College Football Poll 09232018

1 IA SEC Georgia  1-0 5-0 9-29 Tennessee       25

2 D2 GSC Valdosta State 2-0 5-0 9-29 9-29 @Mississippi College  24

3 IA ACC Syracuse 1-0 5-0 9-29 @ Clemson 23

4 NAIA Mid South Cumberlands (KY) 0-0 5-0 9-29 Reinhardt (GA) 22

5 CFB Independent Lawrence Tech        4-0 10-6 @Trinity Bible College 21 +1 IDLE

6 NAIA Frontier S. Oregon           4-0   4-0 10-3 Montana State-Northern 20 +1 IDLE

7 NAIA KCAC Avila (MO)               4-0  4-0 9-29@Southwestern (KS) 19    NR

8 D2 Mid America Pittsburg State 4-0 4-0 9-29@ Lindenwood    18    NR

9 D2 Mountain East Notre Dame College 4-0 4-0 9-29 W. Liberty St. 17  +1

10 D2 NSIC Minnesota-Duluth 4-0 4-0 9-29 Concordia St. Paul 16 NR

11 D2 RMAC Colorado Mines 4-0 4-0 9-29 Colorado Mesa 15 +1

12 NAIA GPAC Northwestern(IA) 3-0 4-0 9-29 Doane (NE) 14

13 D3 CC Franklin and Marshall 3-0 4-0 9-29@Muhlenberg 13 +1

14 D2 SIAC Morehouse 3-0 4-0 9-29@ Kentucky State 12 +7

15 NAIA Sooner Arizona Christian 2-0 4-0 9-29 @ Texas College 11 NR

16 D3 Minnesota St. Olaf    2-0 4-0 9-29@Hamline  10 NR

17 D3 Am. River Central (IA) 2-0 4-0 9-29 Buena Vista 9 NR

18 IAA Patriot Colgate 2-0 4-0 9-29 @Wm and Mary 8 NR

19 IAA SoCon Chattanooga 2-0 4-0 9-29 @ETSU 7 NR

20 IA Buffalo 2-0 4-0 9-29 PBPT Army 6 +3

21 NAIA MSFB Siena Heights (MI) 1-0 4-0 10-6 Taylor (IN) 5 NR IDLE

22 D3 Am. SW Hardin Simmons 2-0 3-0 9-29 ETBU 4 NR

23 D3 CCIW N. Central (IL) 2-0 3-0 9-29 Wheaton (IL) 3 NR

24 D3 NCAC Wabash 2-0 3-0 9-29 Wooster 2 -9

25 D3 NJAC Frostburg St. 2-0 3-0 9-24 Dislocation vs. Christopher Newport @ Dallas AND 10-6 @ Wesley 1 NR

Dropped Out:

5 Evangel MO
8  Ouachita Baptist
9 NW Missouri State
11 Bemidji State
16 Rowan
17 Marietta
18 Azusa Pacific
19 Texas A and M Commerce
20 Edinboro
22 McNeese State
24 Davenport U.
25 Berry

Week 6 National Game of the Week

Tennessee @ 1 Georgia

Tennessee

Dislocations and Fill In Games 09242018
Cotton Bowl Stadium Dallas,TX

Maryville (TN) 0-2 vs. Washington and Lee 2-0

Christopher Newport 1-1 2-1 vs. 25 Frostburg State 2-0 3-0
Frostburg State has the rare chance in real time to slide into the Top 10, even though this is not a Real Time Poll

UNC Pembroke 1-1 vs. Tusculum 2-1

And, my personal favorite, the Texas Equal to Notre Dame and USC, even in rendition form... Texas 1-0 3-3 vs. SMU 1-0 2-3 for the 1st Time Since 1995, in Write In Form, and hopefully, it would spur enough interest to actually start the conference

Extra Fill Ins..Hopefully,No Atlantic Hurricanes will be in our future..
10-29 Baylor vs. Arkansas in Little Rock (Baylor's Lone Traditional Over .500 Historical Record)

11-13 "The Return of the Telephone Trophy" Missouri @ Iowa State
As an interest generator to restart the conference
Baylor @ Nebraska I just want to see Baylor have the chance to round the Record Book against Nebraska 8 Years Late

11-20 Nebraska @ Iowa State II A Rare Chance for an Iowa State 2 In A Row over Nebraska in spite of never playing on Earth in 8 Years

S. Dakota St. 0 Iowa State 7 10:00 1st Q Pick Up 11-27

Akron@ Nebraska 11-27

And, having some key 2-0's and 0-2's this Week, which rarely happen in Sport Lore, too.

Tennessee Timing: Why Timing is the Only Thing

Granted, I am still leafing my way into a Future Past Tutorial like everyone learned IBM and Microsoft the way around Twitter and Facebook presently. But, I feel the big problem in Tennessee's Head Football Coaching Search was Timing. Timing like it was my High School Classmate's Birthday, where she didn't need to be stuck with a Carson Year or Worse again.

Timing would have gotten an off-brand coach with actual character. These are kids who are actually supposed to win the SEC Every Year, if not the National Championship. Timing would have been appropriate or proper if it was the Collar in Division III and bashing Mount Union around like it was Peter Griffin vs. Ernie the Giant Chicken.

Actually supposed to win the SEC Every Year doesn't mean looking for drugs and dope. Actually supposed to win the SEC Every Year does mean winning the National Championship Every Year. And Tennessee Tough doesn't mean pounding or brawling a more favored worst-rival or fellow statesman.

And, what drives me crazier is Tennessee Transparent. Since Dallas Carter, Tennessee has been actively tempting the man to report to Tennessee's Barn. And, timing wouldn't have been the biggest gamble in recruiting history that busted. Even if you tried to quiz every Sorority Sister's Brother on whether'd he'd get the number of Mr. Majors or Mr. Fulmer, he'd be salty and not willing to play for something he'd feel was forced on him, other than Mom and Dad needing to carve tuition success.

I feel Tennessee need to backchannel better, like Varsity Wrestling and Ice Hockey, to make them the Southern Mariucci Arena.

How Close Where We Really to Mike Leach or Tee Marin leading the Vols out the Tunnel?

I feel like having to admit how close where we to really having Tee Martin or Mike Leach leading the Vols out the Tunnel at Neyland Stadium? And, what is scarier, is The University of Tennessee or its students are no closer to progress.

And, it burns my Winter Skies later that we almost got Tee Martin to enter Neyland again as the favored Big Orange for the 1st Time since the 1998 National Championship. And, what is torching, is having SEC Championship Worthy Athletes and not doing ANYTHING with them.

And, the fires in the skies aren't any better. And, if Phillip Fulmer has to cross paths with Mr. Nehlen in Athletic Competition this Summer, that would be icing on the cake. And, Tennessee has only taken collapse to childish heights and that hurt.

And, if they said yes to a Childish Giant in Mike Leach or a Multitime Hyprocrite in Bobby Petrino, the not so childish collapse would still have arteured. And, their towns hurt like nothing and they need role models for kids.

And, focusing on the Drake Relays and the Championships is easy on the Gravy Boat, but, your kids can't just allow themselves to be forgotten. And that includes having a Brazilworthy Home Upset in the NCAA Tournament. Whiskey Wars hurt Public Opinion and even though they might not be one in the same, I'd feel like what is lost is the Tennessee Tough, Tennessee Trust, and the Tennessee Transparency like Reynolds Wrap.

Tennessee Can't Just Cave to the Robin Miller of the Southland

I feel Tennessee can't just cave to Albert Haynesworth, The Robin Miller of the Southland just to pay a ransom to ESPN to pry John Gruden from Howard Cossell's Monday Night Football beat. Dayton or Notre Dame is not sticking their neck open for Chucky Gruden, even though Notre Dame has stuck their necks out before for him.

If we had to buy Hamilton Tickets or Bet on who's the Tennessee Volunteers Coach like Powerball through our state lottery, it would be fun-un. But, I feel what is not funny is making 1 to 1 favorites when they have no business being one.

But, I feel the names will willy away and I am sure we'd get Tee Martin and T4T2 in the process.  And, Albert Haynesworth is the reason why you got a GM out of hiding and be the cause of Kirk Cousins getting traded and the whole  reason everyone knew RGIII's salary and dwarved him and his ex-wife Wedding Gifts.

Generation Gaps are everywhere, even though we would not be promised our real leaders in the Fall of 2025. But, I feel is Tennessee going about being Careless and the titles I'd want to hear are SEC Champions and National Champions.

What if Tennessee Found the Next General Neyland or Tee Martin for their Head Coach?

I feel like I have to be frank and responsive, what if Tennessee found their Next General Neyland in East Tennessee or revived the T4T2 of Tee Martin to mecca-meowthinate over the Southeast. But, I feel like I am more interested in seeing 1 to 1 Matchups with anyone and everyone like Iowa City High smacking down Wild Waterloo East like it was a pack of ill-begotten samurais on the other side.

But, I feel like the cowboy in me wants action and not just let South Carolina jack the vibes. In the Eastern Time Zone in driving range, Kentucky is going to elevate, West Virginia is Press Virginia, Virginia is itching for American History, Wake Forest already has their autograph, Clemson is trying to elevate and Georgia has Championships on their mind (amid other things) and Georgia Tech is safe in coaching.

And, in Central Time, it ain't no better as Vanderbilt is a handful of time from planting their 1st SEC Champions Flagpole and every Quarterback would be 85 until proven otherwise, Alabama is a lazer, Ole Miss is picked apart, Mississippi State always wants the Last Mountains, and Auburn looks like they'll always rise or fall.

The best answer on "Rocky Top!" is promote College Wrestling and Ice Hockey. I feel as if there needs to be larger than life discipline for a larger than life program. I feel if your a Tennessee, you need to be made to win and win big.

Tennessee Athletics is being run like a Division III Program and that's not good

I feel like in the moral ambiguity that comes out all wrong is Tennessee Athletics is being run like a Division III Program and that is not a good image. I feel like the route for Tee Martin is a set up route that is necessary and needed to at least rebuild or rediscover coaching relations all over East Tennessee.

I feel the only good way Baylor would escape a 222 (2 Years No Program, 2 Years No Non Conference and 2 Years Full Postseason and Nonconference Scheduling) is because it is not just the NCAA involved. I feel, that the NCAA should have more a role stating what should and shouldn't happen with problem programs because the worst insult is yanking the Tech Shed from its job.

Back to the main story, and I don't like digressing into a freeform when I see no real reason to, is winning a rare Jackson,TN recruit for the biggest the profanely alcoholic future Head Tenneesee Volunteer Coach Mr. Johnny Majors in the 1950s and that was to make the team. But, I feel upset that false righteousness is no good image and going into the St.Louis-SE Missouri-Southern Illinois-Western Kentucky and Tennessee and Arkansas Ohio-Mississippi-Tennessee River Delta is their starting to get better individual players that weren't East St. Louis and I don't want to pin the tail of blame completely, but, I think until the Baby Boomlet actually hits the field and plays under the lights in 2021, I think its State Titles or Everyone will be upset.

I don't want to evolve this into an editorialathon, but, even if its a program that's got Valley Ranches or barely a green for Football or Track, let alone Soccer, they want Championships and Model Citizens. I feel with everything opened up, good and bad, like a supernova, even though you'd not get as many Real Life Free Enterprise 1999 Birthdays without being a Whizkid or having to keep their relatives good, but I think 2003 would be a different story. I feel like I'm struggling to wire 2 Words it seems, but, the other bad extreme of an Early 1970s "White Room" would be running Wild and Free like Summer Vacation and people would know who'd be the problem instead of the pros.

Tee 4 Tennessee II: Why Fulmer for Athletic Director would Open Tee Martin's Tennessee Return

I am code titling the road back to Tee Martin to Tennessee T4T2, and I think that is the only reason why Tennessee wants Phillip Fulmer again just to set the road back to Tee Martin again.

1. Just being above your South Atlantic ACC Rivals in Recruiting is not enough. That is the only good reason Tennessee whips National Championship Caliber Recruiting is we might not have an ACC in the near future. I really, really unsecretly wanted Tennessee vs. Michigan in the Wallet (Citrus) Bowl for every profanity peppered Press Conference about Eastern Michigan does this because Western Michigan didn't do that and vice versa for 4 Weeks.

2. Playing the right games, not winning them. Even though the schlock in the Tennessee Football in trying to play the right games, but not win them is infuriating to East Tennesseans. Getting hyper for Week 2 involved the first Gators Win in years. Beyond breaking through Alabama, or why Vanderbilt has a better home field advantage in Nashville is not a good image, and if Kentucky broke out their Neyland hex like they blew out their Florida hex, I think that is why Tennessee's Recruiting Grip is loosening.

3. The softening of expectation. It also involves disclipine issues and academic ineligibilty and thunderstorms that never leave the Smokies, it feels like. And, to add to this wild mess, "Home" Bowl Games do only confuse matters and later makes them worse.

4.Tennessee has to play to or above the hype. Being bought into anyone and everyone, including the merchandise, is an expensive and agonizing process that has been fruitless. And, going through the motions when everyone knew a bad year couldn't keep together is infuriating. And, being a few wins up when that is not the case is not a good image.