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The latest episode of Quarterback Meetings with Erik Ainge provides a glimpse into what kind of stuff the team is looking for in pre-game film study. This one focuses on how two linebackers play the “interior receivers,” i.e., the tight end and the running back. According to Ainge, what the […]
Gameday on Rocky Top 2017 hits the newsstands all over the state of Tennessee (and select locations in neighboring states) on Friday, June 2, but as a Gameday on Rocky Top reader, you can get it before then, and with free shipping to boot. Pre-order Gameday on Rocky Top 2017 online, and […]
With the Tennessee Vols no longer recruiting quarterbacks this cycle, it goes without saying that landing two blue-chippers in one class when you’re only going to have three scholarship QBs (max) on the roster this coming season is a big deal. Importantly, as QBs are often the face of a […]
Football Breaking News Flash: Butch Jones inherited an “absolute total mess” at Tennessee. Seriously, though, this is VFL Phillip Fulmer speaking truth, but doing so publicly, going on the record with his opinion that he thinks Jones is doing fine. Vols’ defensive tackle Kendal Vickers is not making […]
Happy Mother’s Day, y’all. Do yourself a favor and take a minute to watch this Mother’s Day video from Tennessee Football. Players write cards to their moms, read them, and then are surprised when asked to turn around and see their moms listening on the video screen behind them. And […]
Football It’s all a mind game, man. When defensive back Rashaan Gaulden had to sit out most of the spring due to injury, new position coach Charlton Warren told him that he could look at it one of two ways: Either he wasn’t getting any reps, or he was going […]
When Adrian Martinez committed to Tennessee on Friday afternoon, giving the Vols an elite quarterback prospect a year after they failed to sign a highly rated signal-caller in the 2017 class, the California star mentioned one name over and over and over in his interviews. Mike Canales. All of a […]
The Tennessee Vols just landed another huge commitment for the class of 2018, this one from 4-star quarterback Adrian Martinez, who 247Sports ranks as the nation’s seventh-best dual-threat quarterback in the class. Martinez had been committed to Cal up until a couple of weeks ago, but he started leaning orange […]
Football Tennessee freshman offensive tackle K’Rojhn Calbert is not a fan of the Muschamp culture at South Carolina. Sort of confirms most of what you thought a Muschamp locker room would be like, doesn’t it? Muschamp, though, does outrank Butch Jones in CBS’ list of the best coaches in […]
As we enter the football-less days of summer, we’ve got to fill our minds with visions of orange-and-white grandeur to pass the time, right? Spring practice — like most all the springs before of the Butch Jones era — didn’t tell us much. But after what we saw and read, […]