Posts Tagged ‘Headlines Links & Lies…’

A nice little video demonstrating how not to impress your coaches with your “never give up“ attitude and relentless tenacity.

Video:  FSU Lineman Fail

Hmmm… I think you missed your assignment…

Not sure what Florida State’s Zebrie Sanders was doing, but it obviously wasn’t blocking…

HT / via:   The Fail Blog

Sure, he’s making fun of the Vols, but when LSUFreek speaks, people listen…

via:  LSUFreek  The Sporting Blog •  HT:  VolNation

I guess if Vols DB Nyshier Oliver didn’t want to get lampooned, then he shouldn’t have tried stealing shirts.

Well, the first step has been taken…

Mike Edwards and Nu’Keese Richardson have been dismissed from the Volunteers football team.

HT / via: Rocky Top Talk

I hate it for those young men, but I applaud Coach Kiffin for doing the right thing.  You cannot embarrass the program, its fans, or the university that way and expect to continue on like nothing happened.

Sad, but necessary…

A little video goodness from the one and only, often imitated but never replicated, the man, the myth, the legend: LSUFreek. This time, it’s all about the Bowdens.

Video: Bobby Bowden’s Swan Song

HT / via: LSUFreek

I’m just glad it’s not Tennessee this time around…

Nice piece by Mike Griffith:

Opposing coach breaks down Kiffin offense.

“It’s obvious they know what they’re doing; one play doesn’t work, and bam, the next play comes right in without any hesitation,” the coach said.  “They are all about getting you in match ups with their motions and shifts, it’s that NFL mentality…

HT / via: Ask Griff • GoVolsXtra.com

Good, glad I’m not the only one who thought the coaching staff knew what they are doing…

Well, I am almost done with the migration of the Gate from its current location on the web to its new home with my new hosting provider: Media Temple.  So far, I have been nothing but impressed with what they have to offer and I hope that there are many great things to come in the future here as a result.   I anticipate the “flipping the switch” for the change over in the next day or so, thus, my prior warning about the possibility that the Gate might “go missing” stands for a little while longer.  Such is life.

At any rate, due to being tied up with all my hosting-reconfiguration activities, I haven’t really had a chance to finish up the post I had planned for today. Thus, at a minimum I wanted to pass on a few links and what-not that seemed worth giving a look.

• The Big Orange Roundtable Returneth: For those of you that remember the Vol-blogosphere’s little foray into collaboration from 2008, the roundtable is back.  Thus, the Big Orange Brethren (myself included) kickoff the 2009 Big Orange Roundtable this week with the first installment hosted by MoonDog.  For those of you who were not around for last year’s roundtable, it is a weekly roundtable discussion where a host poses a series of questions to the collective brain-trust of the Vol-blogosphere who, respond with their BS insightful and thought provoking answers.  At the end of the week, the host provides a round-up of the responses and the comments posted by each of the member Roundtable sites, along with a few parting thoughts.  It is a great series that was a lot of fun last season. Go ahead and check out this week’s questions.   I plan on posting my responses in the next day or so.
• Ray Nettles and the Long Road to Redemption: Ray Nettles was a linebacker for the Big Orange from 1969-1971, winning All-America and All-SEC honors in 1971.  Over the past 38 years since leaving Tennessee he has struggled with his demons and his own brand of inner-conflict.  Now, however, he talks of redemption and finding his way back home from battles with addiction, marital strife, and now cancer.  Throughout his journey he has been supported by his former teammates in ways that even he has a difficult time understanding.

  Video: Ray Nettles Seeks Redemption

  This is a really powerful story of success, collapse, failure, and recovery which I highly recommend. Via: Florida Times-Union • HT: The Vol Historian

• The 2008 Football Season in Seconds: Joel, “the Flashmaster General” offers up a re-cap of the entire 2008 football season in only seconds.   How, you ask? Through the miracles of the Adobe flash player, that’s how.  Check it out, just in case you forgot… Via: Rocky Top Talk

• At least I drive better than this: I am really not sure why this lady was having such a difficult time driving a golf cart. They are fairly simple inventions.  Two pedals.  One steering wheel.  Four tires.  Needless to say, I won’t be riding with her anytime soon.

  Video: How Not to Drive a Golf Cart

  Now I know where personal-injury lawyers get their clients… Via: Fandome

At any rate, I hope to have the Gate migrated to its new home and to finally be set for the upcoming football season soon.

Until then, this will have to do…

– So it goes …

Interesting and well written dissection of the Tennessee vs. Auburn game from last season by the guys over at Joe Cribbs Carwash.  I particularly liked this little gem:

The second-half capitulation against LSU was much, much closer to what we should have expected from the D the rest of the season than what they managed against Tennessee’s howling vortex of Suck…

• via: Joe Cribbs Car Wash: “Review of DEATH: Tennessee”

“Howling vortex of Suck” — I think there’s a double meaning there…