by Mark Nagi | Oct 31, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman So a few months back some of my old college friends and I scheduled a get together in the great state of Tennessee. The plan was to spend a couple of nights in Nashville and see an NFL game. We settled on the middle of October and the huge...
by Mark Nagi | Sep 6, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Well, that didn’t go as expected. The ninth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers were supposed to open the 2016 season at Neyland Stadium with a convincing win over an Appalachian State team that, on paper, doesn’t have nearly the talent level as the Vols....
by Mark Nagi | Aug 22, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman 4th and 14… It was the down and distance that many Vols fans have forever burned into their psyche. Making a stop on 4th and 14 against the Florida Gators last September not only would have snapped Tennessee’s 10 game losing streak to their rivals, but...
by Mark Nagi | Aug 15, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Most college football coaches love to talk about the importance of recruiting their home state, the whole “put up a wall around the borders” thing… Tennessee head coach Butch Jones has made recruiting the Volunteer state a priority since he arrived in...
by Mark Nagi | Jul 18, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Tennessee head coach Butch Jones, and seniors Josh Dobbs, Jalen Reeves-Maybin and Cameron Sutton are in a much different situation today than the one they faced in 2013. Back then they were getting started on the rebuilding process in Knoxville…...
by Mark Nagi | Jul 11, 2016 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman The ticket sales are up. The anticipation is growing. The car flags are back. The biggest football season in at least a decade is less than 7 weeks away. So the last thing Tennessee wanted to do is answer question after question in the preseason...
