Archive for August, 2009

With football season right around the corner, the University of Tennessee has made a second change in as many years to the system of selling and distributing tickets to its students. They just released the information on it today, and I just wanted to share some quick thoughts on the changes, because it’s fairly different from last year’s system.

The highlights and lowlights of the new system and a brief history of my own student tickets experiences after the jump.

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This really requires no explanation…

Video: Yes I Can: SwiperBoy

• HT to:  Rocky Top Talk

Friends, I think we may have new motto in Big Orange Country…

As part of this summer’s renovations here at the Gate, it is my pleasure to introduce a new area of the site which, though small and simple at present, will hopefully become something very special as additional content is added.  Thus, it is my pleasure to introduce:

The Tennesseeum

The Tennesseeum is to be my attempt at a “virtual museum” of Tennessee featuring all manner of information, exhibits, records, images, sounds, stories, and statistics related to the Tennessee Volunteers, the University of Tennessee, and the Volunteer State.

For now, it houses little more than a few basic collections—the primary ones being the roster for the 2009 Tennessee Vols and links to HSH’s 2009 SEC Football Previews—but over the coming weeks and months, I hope to greatly increase the size and scope of the “exhibits” found inside.

Thus, feel free to give it a look, it can always be found via the menu bar at the very top of the page.

As always, I welcome any thoughts and comments from anyone…

– So it goes…

In exactly one month and one day Tennessee will open up the 2009 season here in Knoxville against Western Kentucky. And if you weren’t ready for the season already, you’d better start getting ready, as the Vols open up the preseason camp today.

After spending the last part of last week down in Gulf Shores, Alabama, I’m ready for September 5th to get here. It’s going to be my last season of UT football as a UT student, and I’m ready to get last season out of my mind completely (and to figure out how the new student ticket system is/is not going to work). The last time I walked out of Neyland Stadium? The Wyoming game. You see my point…

But while I was down on vacation, three things stoked my anticipation not only from September through November (and hopefully as close to January as possible), but for this coming four weeks of practices. Those three things and my preseason practice thoughts after the jump.

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