For those of you who don’t know, we blogged for SB Nation at Rocky Top Talk the past ten years before securing our own piece of internet real estate over here at Gameday on Rocky Top earlier this year. The bones and the skin have changed, but the soul remains the same, and with Game Week finally here, we wanted to let you know that you can expect pretty much the same thing here at GRT this season that you came to expect at RTT over the past decade. There will also be some extras that we didn’t have before, because now that we don’t have a landlord, we can nail stuff to the walls and paint the lawn into a giant checkerboard if we want to.
So here’s roughly what our plans are for the upcoming season:
Most Mondays, we’ll have a regular feature adjusting our thoughts about the rest of the season based on what happened the prior weekend. Whether we keep the 5-30 scale joke going we don’t know yet; we might move to straight percentages now that we have a way to collect that data from the community.
We’ll also watch Butch Jones’ press conference and pull out the meaty pieces for you on Mondays.
On Tuesdays, we’ll review the team’s statistical rankings, watching for trends and issue-spotting the team’s various units, and Brad will have an early morning feature based on whatever issue the team is facing at that time.
Wednesdays will generally focus on features based on whatever is happening at the time. We’ll also have a What to Watch and Rooting Guide post, and we’ll be recording our weekly Gameday on Rocky Top podcast that night. Will Shelton will host when he can, and I’ll host when he can’t. We’re not sure yet whether it will be live.
The podcast will go live on Thursdays, and I’ll be doing a statsy game preview with predictions for the week’s upcoming game that morning as well. We’ll also remind you to get your picks in for the Gameday on Rocky Top Pick ‘Em.
Fridays are busy. The day kicks off with Will’s always-awesome narrative game preview, and Brad will have a Staff Picks post go up shortly after that. I’ll post the week’s Guessing Game questions sometime that day as well, probably around noon, so y’all have a chance to answer the questions before you get in the car and head to the game Saturday.
Will is also on WNML’s Sports 180 radio show with Josh Ward and Will West every Friday at 1:30, which you can listen to live online here. You can find the show’s podcasts after the fact here.
And if Tennessee’s playing a big game that weekend (such as a season-opener, a home-opener, or a big rival), I’m often on WXSM with Bobby Rader for three hours as he broadcasts live from our store in Kingsport. You can listen to that live here.
On Gamedays, we’ll all be watching, and we’ll have posts about the game after it is over, along with an image gallery if we had a photographer at the game.
And then on Sundays, we’ll have more post-game stuff, along with the results of the Pick ‘Em and the Guessing Game, and probably a post on the Top 25 as long as it matters to Vols fans.
On top of all of that, we’ll have daily-ish link roundups and video roundups, posts reacting to breaking news, recruiting features, and quick hits of cool videos and interesting tweets and quotes.
We’re really looking forward to the season, and we hope you’ll join us. If you haven’t done so already, take two seconds to register for a free account so you can enjoy all of the features.
Go Vols!
