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I knew the Vols were bad this year, that they have played some of the worst football I’ve ever seen from a major program, that their play calling on offense was horrid (Hey Fulmer - play Madden sometime!) but even I didn’t expect them to lose to a bad Wyoming team.  At home.

Here’s something to think about when pondering just how bad the Vols are this year.  Wyoming ranks 119th (out of 119) in scoring offense, and 94th in scoring defense.  Stats are from the NCAA web site for Wyoming.

Tennessee is ranked a pitiful 114th in offense, and 25th in defense.  I thought Fulmer was a great recruiter?  If he’s got such great talent on the team, he must REALLY suck as a coach!

Good thing there are only 2 games left this year (against Vandy and Kentucky) so he’ll avoid the embarrassment of double-digit losses - but only because the Vols will end up 3 and 9 because there aren’t any more games to lose.

Let’s put it this way - whoever is chosen to replace Fulmer can’t be any worse.   I know squat about coaching football.  I’ve never even played football.  But I could hire an offensive coordinator and let him design an offense to suit the personell on the team.  Evidently Fulmer can’t.

Why wait to replace him?  Get his fat ass out of town (on a very sturdy rail!) and get a head start on next year.  He’s gonna lose the next two games anyway - why wait?

gk

I watched the Vols beat up on Central High - oops, I mean UAB - today 35 - 3.  I also saw the highlights of the UCLA vs BYU game, where UCLA  lost 59 to 0.  That’s not a typo, the total points UCLA scored against BYU was zero.  Zip.  Nadda, Goose-egg.

Considering the fact that BYU is currently ranked 18th (just as the Vols were when they played UCLA) and that UCLA had 4 turnovers today (they also had 4 when they played the Vols) BYU is waaaay better than UT at this time.  And I don’t think BYU is very good

I don’t think that says much for UT Football.  To get beat by a team that loses it’s next game by 59 points is bad.  Really bad.  I thought the SEC was supposed to be the premier football conference?  Looks to me like the PAC 10 and WAC are kicking some SEC butt.

And unless UT finds an offense floating down the river sometime in the next week, the game next week against Florida is gonna be ugly.  Really ugly.  Two bagger ugly.

It’ll be the kind of game that you switch off shortly after halftime when the score is something like 35 - 6.  I hope that’s not the case, but I am not impressed with UT so far this year.  Florida won’t be impressed either.

gk

And then there were two….  Kansas and Memphis will play for the NCAA championship in a few minutes.  I haven’t seen a lot of either of them this year, but I did watch the tourney games. 

Both teams are damn good.  Both play an uptempo game, so I don’t think the game tonight will be a low scoring affair - unless the ref’s are as big a part of the game tonight as they were in the women’s game (Tennessee VS LSU) last night.

Last night I saw things that would be called pass interference in the NFL go by without a call.  Players were getting mugged all over the court.  Not that either team shot well (they didn’t!) but if the ref’s would’ve blown a few whistles and gotten the players to play instead of hacking each other, at least we’d have had a clean game.

Inexplicably, they also called quite a few fouls when no one actually made contact.  I hope the NCAA does something in the future when ref’s miss that many blatant calls.  It’s one thing to let the players play - it’s something else altogether when the game is decided by takedowns.

gk

The Tennessee basketball team is ranked high in all the polls, but how are they gonna celebrate when they win?  Check out this story.

“The arrest is aimed at drying up the sale of untaxed liquor and putting one of the best in the field out of business.”

It all comes down to the fact that the government isn’t getting its’ cut.  There’s really no difference between local thugs and gangs who demand “protection” money and our federal government - except the feds have more guns and can do it legally.

Be sure to read the comments  on the WBIR story I linked to above.  Along with the normal stupidity, there are some good points being made.

gk