Post-Spring BlogPoll Roundtable
Hearty thanks to Burnt Orange Nation, who hosts the Post-Spring BlogPoll Roundtable. VFRT’s response, taking the questions out of order:
Your head coach comes down with a mystery illness and has to step aside. You get to hand pick the replacement for the 2006 season. Who gets your vote?
I’m behind Fulmer, but in the event Fulmer comes down with a case of Cotard’s (and starts believing that he has lost his internal organs or that he’s dead), a case of Alice-in-Wonderland Syndrome (and starts believing . . . uh . . . certain parts of his body have been reshaped or rescaled), or a case of the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (the sudden flailing of the arms followed by the repeated crying out of words when startled by an unexpected noise or sight) (lots of room for jokes here, guys), I’d have to go with Weiss. Added benefit: save bundles on wardrobe.
Lastly, we’ll mix the football and the blogging together here. If you could have anyone switch allegiances and start covering your team, who you gonna pick?
Defense wins championships, and I’m going with EDSBS just so we can avoid things like this. Oh, and let’s rename this. Second pick in the draft is Michigan Zone so we can avoid any more posts like the Tennessee Tail Gate.
Which offseason story are you most tired of, and, on the flip side, interested in? (e.g. Reggie Bush’s house, Jimmy Claussen, etc.)
Stories? What stories? A veritable paucity of stories during the off-season is the thing I’m tiring of the most, but if I had to pick one, I guess it would be BushGate, although I’m really more aloof about it than anything.
On the flip side, I was most pleased that former Tennessee defensive back Jason Allen was picked 16th overall by the Miami Dolphins in the NFL draft. Allen was the heart and soul of our team, a teammate in every sense of the word who decided to postpone a lucrative NFL career and return for his senior season as a Volunteer. He anchored the secondary, essentially playing two positions at once by somehow racking up safety-like tackle stats while shutting down every opponent’s best receiver.
And then, against Georgia, the unthinkable happened when he was basically split in half while tackling monstrous UGA tight end Leonard Pope. See my pictures from the game for a feel for how serious it was. Allen lay crumpled into a heap on the field for a full fifteen minutes before being carted off, and it looked like not only his college football career was over, but that his decision to return as a Volunteer may have cost him a professional career as well.
Well, Allen said he would be back stronger than ever, and he proved it by running a 4.39 at the NFL Combine. He may have gone higher in the draft had he not suffered the injury, but being the 16th overall selection was satisfying closure to the troubling thought that he might have sacrified his future to play one more year as a Vol. Vol fans everywhere were ecstatic, and not even EBSBS posting this video would dampen our spirits.
And by the way, both Georgia fans and players, and even some Alabama fans, responded to the injury with the utmost class.
May 13th, 2006 at 8:48 am
I just re-read that post, and just so everyone knows, I love EDSBS. All in fun.