by design | Dec 18, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Fascinating Interviews By Tom Mattingly Who might be among the most fascinating people you have interviewed or written about during your professional writing career? That question has been raised more than once in a number of forums. Col. Tom Elam, the self-described...
by design | Dec 11, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
A question for the ages By Tom Mattingly If you’re a college football fan enamored with collecting all kinds of memorabilia, you never know when you’ll find something special about your favorite team that catches your attention almost immediately. Collectors are...
by design | Dec 4, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘After an extensive nationwide search…’ By Tom Mattingly Sometimes, the best coaching search is no search. Case in point. Go back to Dec. 3, 1976, a day Big Orange Country had anxiously awaited. A Tennessee legend was coming home as head football...
by design | Nov 27, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘I’m not changing my offense for anyone’ By Tom Mattingly The single-wing offense, a staple of Tennessee football since the ascension of Bob Neyland as head coach in 1926, took its last breath on Nov. 30, 1963, as the Vols took a 14-0 decision over...
by design | Nov 20, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘Because he wouldn’t have made it’ By Tom Mattingly Looking at the November football schedule begs an important question for us old-time Vol fans. Where the heck is the “Rambling Wreck,” AKA Georgia Tech? It’s been 36 years since the Vols and Tech last...
by design | Nov 13, 2023 | Columnist, Mattingly
Known then as now as the ‘Swamp Rat’ By Tom Mattingly The immediate future might not have looked bright for the Vol program in the fall of 1963. The last bowl game was in 1957, and the Vols had compiled records of 4-6, 5-4-1, 6-2-2, 6-4, and 4-6 since that...
