Oh Yeah, Basketball

With lawvol swamped, I have been given the steering wheel here at Gate 21. How do I respond?? With a basketball-related post – in the second week of October. That’s what 2-3 and little hope does, but I’ll have more on that plus the newly-revived Big Orange Roundtable AND the usual “On Remote” college football preview.

The joys of Fall Break and some extra time…

Anyways, the inspiration for this post, you ask? On my way back to my apartment just now, I of course see freshman Renaldo Woolridge walking down by Pratt/TBA. Not thirty seconds later, who do I see? Emmanuel Negedu. My first Negedu sighting.

Now Woolridge just had a story about his rap talent in this morning’s Knoxville News-Sentinel, where I currently work. I got a chance to listen to it for a moment this morning and I gotta say if his basketball skills are near his rap skills, Tennessee got a great player – I think they already did anyways…

Now compare this to this summer’s hit, Bobby “Big-Money” Maze’s “I Put on for Tennessee,” which was on YouTube…

These of course have little to do with Tennessee basketball, other than the incredible rise in the program’s street cred. Honestly, you could assume and guess that stuff like this helps recruiting, especially if Bruce Pearl has nothing to really say about it (I’m not sure I’ve seen his comments on any of it either…). It certainly can’t hurt, right?

I guess I just had basketball on my mind (and not Georgia…get it?!) this afternoon. Weird and all since it’s Georgia week, but you’ll get my thoughts and understand why a little later this week…

Reason #15,653 to love Bruce Pearl: the Vols now have two rappers...

About the Author:  I'm from Memphis but I'm now entering my third year at the University of Tennessee here in Knoxville. I am majoring in Journalism/Electronic Media and hope to go into sports broadcasting/writing/something like that. I'm a huge Vol fan and have been going to games for as long as I can remember. I started my on blog called "The View From The Hill" but moved here to Gate 21 for bigger and better things. In addition to my passion for Tennessee football and basketball, I enjoy watching the NFL and the NBA as well. Basically, sports are a big part of my life. >> Read more from this author

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