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Ellie Williamson Sep 19, 2024 It’s not you, it’s me, Gator Nation. We have to break away from the records of the past this week. Coming into a checkered Neyland at night will not be the same as the lopsided record of the last 20 Florida-Tennessee rivalry games.  This one is just about us.  It’s not as bad as it seems, losing by points to an almost undefeated Arkansas team. If we are playing penalty-free football, then the loss in Fayetteville isn’t all over Vol Twitter this

Ellie Williamson February 6, 2025 The Vols showed they can learn from mistakes in the second half of the rematch with the visiting Vanderbilt Commodores. This time it would be #5 Tennessee that would finish the game in the win column. No buzzer beater needed.  The first half was exactly as the Tennessee coaches had prepared for with this team. However, execution of the game plan was once again an issue. Coach Barnes says at half he challenged the locker room and more import

Ellie Williamson June 13, 2024 Sitting on the panel to discuss a host of issues facing the sport in 2024 were Anthony Holman,NCAA vice president of championships, Matt Hogue, vice president for intercollegiate athletics and university recreation and chair of the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee and Craig Keilitz, executive director of American Baseball Coaches Association Jack Diesing, Jr., chairman and president of College World Series of Omaha, Inc.  The Players Lounge j

Ellie Williamson Aug 25, 2024 Largely, students don’t have tickets! Thankfully, Danny White and administrators are working overtime to fill supply and demand before the early kickoff on Saturday. That (minor) hassle aside there is an in-state opponent waiting for the Vols and their new ‘state branded smokey uniforms’ in Neyland.  With the questions of fall practice behind us, it’s all coming together.  The coaches have taken the media availability and made it clear that there

Ellie Williamson Aug 27, 2024 Tennessee basketball announces today that the men's basketball program has sold its complete allotment of 14,500 season tickets for the 2024-25 campaign at the Food City Center. Athletic Director, Danny White took to social media:  Tennessee is coming off arguably its best season ever. The Volunteers went 27-9 (14-4 SEC) in 2023-24, claimed the outright SEC regular season title and earned their second Elite Eight appearance. Head coach Rick Barne

Ellie Williamson Jan 15, 2025 It was the tale of two halves. The first half was controlled by a UGA defense that slowed the roll on shot percentages for Tennessee. They did so by holding  Tennessee to just 27 percent shooting while claiming 11 defensive rebounds.  To start the second half Georgia was ahead by 1. However, fueled by a gritty performance that pushed Senior guard  Zakai Zeigler to hold the new program record for steals (213) followed up with a team-high 19 point

Ellie Williamson January, 7 2025 Tennessee was aggressively defeated by a #8 Florida team that was coming off a loss to Kentucky at home. They didn’t want to lose at home again and it showed.  From tip off to the final buzzer, Florida physically showed their strengths against the best defensive team in the SEC. Coach Rick Barnes said post game, “we lost our poise”. Shots were open to start the matchup. However, nothing was following through. At the half, the Gators doubled wh

Ellie Williamson Dec 10, 2024 While ‘the game’ may have changed–like the top college basketball recruit in the nation committing to BYU over several bluebloods–some things never do.  Two of those things are Tennessee’s men’s basketball coach, Rick Barnes, and the legacy of Jimmy Valvano. The two gentlemen were thrust into the spotlight this week during ESPN’s Jimmy V Classic. Since 1995 the Jimmy V Classic has served a purpose: bring in the best teams in the country to Madiso

Ellie Williamson Oct 22, 2024 I said early on in my coverage this season–dating back to the spring and summer camps–this Tennessee coaching staff was primed to be the ‘main character’ in a year where we will all remember the Vols.  I noticed it almost instantly, from the first presser of the season. I’ve watched it in Anderson and at practice availability. I’ve now seen it live on Gameday.  Not much has changed  as we now approach a historical moment for not just college foot

Ellie Williamson Oct 4, 2024 I Fall Ball is in the air. College baseball is coming.  But in the midst of building a new stadium and a new season for the National Champions, the off-season is being built off the backs of the team, as they offer support to the victims of Hurricane Helene.  Location: Greeneville, Tennessee. In the parking lot of First Baptist Church in Greeneville, you will find the team not delivering purchase options off their Name, Image and Likeness, but y

Ellie Williamson There is always a catchphrase or a slogan involved in sports. Think through the marketing of any sports team that you follow. At some point, you associate a phrase with that team. An example can be seen from the National Champions of the NBA. The Boston Celtics finished the 2023-2024 season as the National Champions for the league. They are known for more than the 18 national titles they have won as franchises. They are known for the reflection of the clover

. Week 4 of Fall Camp will have no further highlights on film. All the hype and the looks are under wraps, except for what I have seen with my own eyes. So what’s on paper?  What do the Vols have cooking as fans of the game head into the longest FBS college football season to date. It will run 149 days from August 24th to January 20th.  Here are 3 things, as we close out fall training camp, that you need to know from my eyes and ears only: The coaches are establishing themsel

Ellie Williamson July 2, 2024 Even in our instant gratification existence, it has become a factual trope that ‘the book was better than the movie.’ For those of us who followed along with the BaseVols this season … we can say for certain… that what happened in this story would certainly be better told in hardback than on the big screen; what had to happen to bring a National Champion to Rocky Top could not believably play out in a theatre. If it were a love story, forget the

Ellie Williamson June 20, 2024 Tennessee Volunteer faithful are living in a moment of time where football, baseball, legendary coaches, and national championships intersect. Again.  Let’s go back to 1951. It was a truly different era. (I guess it was anyways. My dad wasn’t even born yet. It was also the last time the Vols were a serious threat for the College World Series title. Now on the doorstep of a title, it is time to create some destiny. The location is the same: Omaha