Tonight was 20 minutes of everything you hate about Rupp Arena, then eight minutes of a really good basketball game, then 12 minutes of absolute joy. If you watched, you don’t need much analysis on the foul situation early. Six Tennessee players had two fouls in the first half, including […]
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Looking for Consistency in Lexington
What we’re seeing from Tennessee right now is something we might’ve predicted at the start of the season, but a 10-1 flurry with the lone loss to hot-shooting Alabama made us believers in something more. Our program has little experience playing multiple freshmen heavy minutes, and mostly zero when two […]
Tennessee-Ole Miss Four Factors Forecast: Imposed futility and dueling pickpockets
Vols-Rebels Four Factors Forecast: Scattered turnover showers with a chance of shooting futility for the Rebs.
How common was this kind of beat down?
When the Vols put it on Kansas Saturday evening, one of my first thoughts was, “Man, when’s the last time we blew out a good team like this?” When the name of the front of the jersey says KANSAS, it feels like it’s worth a little more. But the answer […]
Tennessee 80 Kansas 61 Yep
Well, that was satisfying. Whatever your experience of the last week or six weeks of uncertainty with Tennessee football, and the smidge of uncertainty that crept into this basketball team in losses to Florida and Missouri…this, tonight, was (Fulmerized) certain. Josiah-Jordan James hit a three at the 12:53 mark of […]
Tennessee’s biggest questions meet the toughest part of the schedule
The Cuonzo Maritn school of, “We didn’t make shots,” is still in session in Knoxville. The Vols continue to have the second-best defense in the nation via KenPom, but the offense has plummeted in the last three games, two of them losses, one of them to Cuonzo’s current employer. In […]
Tennessee-Kansas Four Factors Forecast: Hey, it’s the weather. Who knows?
Vols-Jayhawks Four Factors Forecast: I don’t know. It could rain turnovers. Or maybe snow free throws. Or it could be a good day for a picnic. You have a window; use it.
Gameday on Rocky Top Podcast – Episode 175 – the Hiring of Heupel
All things Josh Heupel: Offense! Defense? Did they rush the hire? Plus a longing look at the 2021 football schedule and a wary eye on Twitter rage.
Josh Heupel and The Embrace
We all want to win. And we’d like to win as fast as possible, please. The most important word in that sentence is win. You don’t do that, nothing else will matter. But I do believe the healthiest word in that sentence is possible. The depths of last Monday’s press […]
Tennessee-Mississippi State Four Factors Forecast: Vols in search of traction
Four Factors Forecast for the Vols calls for continued slippery conditions as Tennessee attempts to turn into the slide and find some much-needed traction.