TheTastyGreek

So... Nobody won the Mean Green Showcase Showdown?

This Harris thing is going to be FUN.

Ahh... Glengoolie. For the best of times.

This is the worst. Back in 2006 when Dickey was on the chopping block, we were just two years removed from a 26 game conference winning streak and 4 straight bowls. A lot of people believed any idiot could come in and achieve that level of success, and we'd be right back on track again in no time. Back in the Dodge years, things seemed more incompetent on the field (to me, at least). But people had something to look forward to... If you enjoyed basketball, a Dodge football season was never more than 8 weeks away from live basketball and a solid to very good source of pride for us in a major sport. If you didn't care about basketball, we had a stadium being built, and a fancy new conference to get excited about. Now, we've built infrastructure. We've moved up to CUSA. But we're losing badly at all the major sports, and I think there's more overall program anger or despair now as opposed to just short-term or limited sport disappointment. A lot of the old excuses are gone, but we still aren't winning. And we've had strong building blocks in both of the major sports within the past 10-11 years, but we've screwed up the hiring that could have sustained or rebuilt that foundation. Right now, anything that people could cling to as a sign of hope? Something in the very recent past makes it seem like a mirage. So, this is the worst. People have always been assholes to each other here, though. If that's what you mean. Even in the middle of the Dickey years or the JJ run of success, people were being absolute dicks to each other. The only thing that changes there is the names and faces.

This guy gets it.

Prophecy is a complicated thing. I heard a different interpretation of what must be done with the wishing cup just last night.

Or, not. We've lost the Goldfields and Mattress Mac, and those are just the two that were so public that they made the news. Al Goldfield wasn't very subtle about saying that the reason he was backing away was largely due to Rick and lack of progress. Mac, maybe you can write off as a bitter guy angry at the firing of his buddy. But the Goldfields were our biggest single donors ever (at one point not too long ago), they were willing to write the check to start baseball, and now (or, at least as of 2012), they're completely out.

Wait... Does this mean RV, Smatresk, and the new football coach are going to slaughter my whole family?

In Cairo, Egypt, there is an ancient artifact. It's in a museum now... They found it in the tomb of Amenhotep. Scholars call it "the wishing cup".

Athletic scholarship hierarchy is funny. If you're a female athlete who loves Volleyball and Field Hockey... Or if you're a male athlete that just loves water, frozen or not, and wants to play hockey and be on the diving team at the same time... They've got an assignment decision tree for who eats the scholarship out of their total count. Interestingly... Baseball is apparently less significant than Water Polo in terms of avoiding scholarship limit fraud.

Early basketball signing runs 11/11 - 11/18. Late signing period opens up on 4/13. Football signing period for high schoolers opens up on 2/3. He can't sign on the same day with his football friends. He either has to sign 77 days before they do, or 69 days after they (probably) do. Unless he's got a lot of good friends that play golf or run cross country, and it means a lot for him to sign an LOI at the same time they do... If Hollis "fully intends to sign with the Mean Green", there's still 5 more days to find a pen with ink in it and actually do it.

If it meant anything else, I'm sure we would have figured it out in the past 130 years. Little known fact: The University of Tennessee was founded on a tract of land that was once President George Washington's Virginia plantation.

It's a dormitory, obviously. Do your homework, for crying out loud.

Colonel Sanders left them so much money... Seems like the least they could do.

Little known fact: Prostitutes in Beijing use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity".

Greetings, Tennessee-eeeeeeians. Welcome to the autumn of our discontent. Come join us for the rage and sadness, stay for the despair and self-destruction. Your school is already sending us a big check to take a beating... If any of you are interested in sending a smaller sum of money to help buy sandwiches or LEGOs for our Athletic Director, please send me a private message. If you came here for passion or smack talk... Well, we beat you guys back before most of the people on this forum were born. So, pre-natal scoreboard on you, bitches! I'm sure that national title you won did nothing to ease the pain of our triumph back in the football Cretaceous period. Also, your orange is dumb and ugly. You should change shades every 5 or 6 years. That's what serious football programs do.

Oh, I'm afraid that the Student Union will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

Our next coach should have a knowledge of history, and an appreciation of significant fun grounded therein.

Circumventing the profanity filter is a suspension-worthy offense. This is your warning, Harry.

Not sure where Marcus is playing now... But, if they need a HC, he's welcome to Coach Chico.

Damn. I thought he'd announced his retirement while I was driving home.

NICE RUN. Field goal time?

Risky return... Should have kneeled at the 10 and kicked the field goal.

Ugly, dumb. Sad.