by Mark Nagi | Dec 21, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi This season has not been an ideal one for the Tennessee Volunteers. They started strong, then didn’t win a game for over two months. They lost six straight games for the first time since 1988. 2020 was worse as each of those defeats were by double digits....
by Mark Nagi | Dec 14, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi I’m writing this article at 2:24 a.m. on Wednesday, December 9, a few hours after the final NFL game of the week. Baltimore beat an awful Dallas team tonight 34-17, but that’s not the big news. I’m here to type a rambling, hopefully, coherent piece on why...
by Mark Nagi | Dec 7, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Well, here we are again. Another football season for the Tennessee Volunteers, and another coach that is on the proverbial hot seat. Yes, we have certainly been down this road before. Pruitt is the fifth head coach at UT since 2008. That much...
by Mark Nagi | Nov 30, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Boy oh boy was November 23 a lousy day for Tennessee athletics. First came the news that men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes was one of multiple members of the program that had tested positive for COVID-19. Tennessee immediately postponed all team...
by Mark Nagi | Nov 16, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi Let me tell you… no one does a coaching search like Tennessee. Lane Kiffin’s midnight run led to a wild search by athletics director Mike Hamilton that finished with the inept Derek Dooley installed as the Vols new head coach in 2010. When Dooley’s...
