South Carolina running back Brandon Wilds is tackled by Tennessee’s Prentiss Waggner and Rod Wilks. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)Happy Halloween everyone. We had a lot of stuff brewing (in a cauldron) so we skipped a formal question today. But feel free to reply to any number of the questions posed throughout. And remember, it’s better to treat than trick, at least that’s what Kojak always said. Who loves you baby?
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Monday morning college football quarterback – Knoxville edition
We normally start Monday’s show off with the five things we learned from college football Saturday. Well, after the Tennessee Vols closed an ugly, Ugly, UGLY O-for-October in SEC games, well, we need to go to our satellite office and see what we can see.
Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley reacts during the third quarter of an NCAA college football game against South Carolina on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, in Knoxville, Tenn. South Carolina won 14-3. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)1) Inept is too euphemistic a term for this UT offense. The Vols managed a field goal in a 14-3 loss to visiting South Carolina on Saturday, and that was early in the first quarter after the Vols were given a short field after South Carolina fumbled a punt. In its four-game losing streak UT has scored 28 points. Total. The Vols can’t run. They have a hard time throwing the ball to open receivers and when they do, the receivers are having a hard time catching it. It’s difficult to watch (Not unlike the two tipsy dorky folks dancing at about 1 a.m. at the Halloween party – you don’t want to watch but you can’t take your eyes off them either). Yes, UT’s starting quarterback Tyler Bray is injured, but if the entire football program is pegged to one player (especially when that player is a 6-foot-6, 195-pound quarterback who is going to take shots in a man-sized SEC because the Vols’ line is below average), well, that’s not a recipe for success. Short- or long-term