Knocksville

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Buy a few linemen and safeties in the portal instead

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This. We need them. Kid didn’t want to be in Knoxville. Best of luck to him.

3,5,1,2,4

Yep. Jones closed down. There was a really good Glen Campbell one there too, but not sure if it exists either. The Cash and Patsy Cline ones were side by side.

The Opry also has a pretty neat little museum experience too with their Tour. Really neat to go stand on the stage and see all of the dressing rooms and such.

Haven’t had anything worth a damn to post about in a few weeks honestly. Hoops hasn’t played anyone worth a damn yet, aside from a scrimmage. Can’t get excited until we see action against a real team with a pulse. Florida is about to swamp the hell out of us on the gridiron. It’s just bleh. Not terrible. Just bleh all around.

Some of these pledges need to have balls and fight back and learn to say no. Most organizations have a no-tolerance policy and all it takes is one phone call to shut the whole chapter down.

When I was a pledge some 22 years ago (at a bigger Fraternity at a state university) our “hazing” consisted of:

- cleaning the Fraternity house five days a week (taught us to respect the house)

- provide sober rides to older brothers and their dates from the bars (three times over a semester)

- carry a pledge book and get the signatures of every active brother (around 70) plus 20 alumni (made us get to know everyone plus make connections for our future)

- stand in a circle and get asked to recite important literature from our organization’s history, yelled at if we messed up

- pitcher of beer race on big brother night

- decorating the house for three semester parties and clean up after (again, taking care of the house)

- workshop to learn how to properly work your way around eating utensils at a fancy dinner, tie your ties, proper dress, etc. (stuff that paid off in the post-college business world)

I didn’t join a Fraternity to “pay for friends” because I was lame. I came from a rural household and was poor growing up, and a first generation college student who knew very few people on campus. I had to work three jobs to pay for school and Fraternity, but I saw an opportunity to make connections, meet some people (particularly the sororities), and elevate my campus experience. I learned the importance of philanthropy and community service. Made lifelong friends in Fraternity and out of Frat who I’d otherwise have never met. And (edit) found my career through connections made in said Fraternity.

Pay cut plus California taxes. Shew.

There's a lot of behind the scenes drama going on in Knoxville with NIL and revenue sharing. Vitello and Danny White were butting heads.

If Danny doesn't do the right thing and hire Elander, who all the players and fans want, oh boy...

From someone who has seen it up close, not all of Appalachia has the crazy issues that are often seen. Only the counties and small towns with corrupt politicians, commissioners, mayors and lawmen who have lined their own pockets, and local physicians and nurse practitioners who have fed these folks pills for 30-40 years. Also those whose employment has been pretty well ravaged.

I went to one of the smallest high schools in the whole state of Tennessee and grew up in one of the most remote hollers in the northeastern end of the state. There were elder folks without electricity, running water and still using outhouses up until I was in high school in the 90s. That all being said, most of the kids at my school, myself included, have gone on to great things - because most parents and folks could still live at home and get to decent work within an hour or so, and we had resources at home even when our local education systems may have not.

I can take a two hour drive through some of the hollers and rural mountain communities from Western North Carolina through Northeast Tennessee into Southwest Virginia and southeast Kentucky and it’s night and day difference. In North Carolina, you can live somewhere remote and be in Asheville or Boone or Morganton or Hendersonville to work in a pretty decent amount of time. In Northeast Tennessee, same with the Tri-Cities or Greeneville, the Smokies or Knoxville.

In Kentucky, it’s a damn haul to get from a holler to somewhere with decent work that isn’t educational or medical related. Same with Southwest Virginia or WVa.

Crazy to think that those seniors, when he gave that epic rant and beat down of that reporter, are now... *checks notes* ... 40.

:dude:

I imagine the other games on the league schedule will be firmly balanced out.

This first set of years, I’ll be stunned if Florida and Georgia aren’t on there. We haven’t gotten Texas yet. We’re due Ole Miss, LSU, South Carolina, Auburn.

He’ll slip up replying with one of his other alter handles by the morning.