WLH Wraps Up Spring Football

The Staff here at WLH will be taking a sabbatical for the remainder of the spring and summer. Please come back and join us for our full expert coverage that only WLH can bring you once two-a-days begin in August.

There is a renewed excitement around Tennessee Football that is great to see. Fat Pa has collected his bull crap award, and now he will hopefully head to the fishing holes full time. Coach Kiffin has a lot of work to do. It will be fun to see how is plays out next season. Go Big Orange!!!!

You Can Go Home Again

The Staff here at WLH was ecstatic when we received word that former UT head coach, All-American and College Football Hall of Fame member Johnny Majors attended a spring practice for the first time since 1992. Coach Majors was on the sidelines for the workout, and he later visited with Coach Lane Kiffin and his assistants.

We do not wish to rehash the bitter divorce between Johnny and the University (i.e. Phil Fulmer, Doug Dickey and Ex-UT President Joe Johnson). What we will say is that we do not hold a grudge with Majors for his bitterness at times towards his ouster. The way we see it, he must feel like a man whose ex-wife ran off with his best friend and millions of dollars. Even though he took it to extremes at times, we can sympathize with him. After all, Coach Majors and his family (Bobby Majors & Bill Majors) are Tennessee Football to the core. He inherited a moribund TN Football program in 1977 that needed a LOT of work. He had some up and down seasons throughout his tenure, but he finished strong in the late 80's and early 90's with three SEC titles to his credit. He had resurrected UT into a top 10 program flush with talent by the time Fulmer pulled the switch-a-roo in 1992.

The bottom line is that Coach Johnny Majors deserves to be a part of UT Football. We hope that everyone involved can let bygones be bygones, and that Johnny can once again bring his enthusiasm and wit to the program.

Attack, attack, attack!!!!!!!

Fill'er Up! And Check the Tires!

This whole Kiffin "Pumping Gas" firestorm is too nonsensical for the Staff here at WLH to even dignify with a comment. Lane has a smart mouth to say the least, but we will take his word over that of an 18 year old kid who holed up in a hotel room on the night of signing day and blew off his year long "commitment" to Southern Cal. All that we will say is that what Lane should have told him is that he will end up serving nasty ass mustard based BBQ at one of those shacks down there in the Palmetto State. Pumping gas is too old school.

**By the way...credit to whoever out there in cyberspace put these fark photographs together. Nice job!

The Tennessee Football Reclamation Project of 2009

It all begins today. March 10, 2009. Today is the official first day of the Tennessee Football Reclamation Project of 2009. Tennessee kicks off Spring Practice under a coaching staff that is not an inbred part of the Volunteer Football family for the first time since the Kennedy Administration under Coach Doug Dickey. The Staff here at WLH feels that Coach Kiffin and Company have a rebuilding job similar to the one after the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. The foundation of this program is still intact, but the bricks and mortar are currently in shambles. It will be very interesting to follow the progress of this bunch heading into the Fall. Here are a few things to keep an eye on this Spring:

- Quarterback - No position on this team will be under as much scrutiny, and rightfully so, during this Spring practice. The QB play under the Clawfense last season was downright putrid and resulted in numerous domestic violence arrests, DUI offenses, gambling debts and the drowning of kittens. Those guys could not have hit Rihanna. Coach Kiffin and Offensive Coordinator Cheney have the unenviable task of trying to mold a serviceable signal caller out of the Waynesville Worm Burner, Nick "Moxon" Stephens and BJ JD McCoy Coleman. We were discouraged when we read the news that Stephens will be sidelined for the majority of the Spring with a fractured wrist. I guess he was not "master of his domain".

- Offensive Line - Our illustrious former coaching staff managed to turn a once strength of the UT program into a pile of dump. Last season, with the line flip flopping under the Clawfense, could not have pushed around a group of Brownie Scouts. The tackle position is of particular concern, and the coaches have already moved former TE Aaron Douglas there this Spring for added depth. It is CRUCIAL that this group improve drastically by August for UT to have any hope of success.

- The Rocky Top 2 Defense - There is no question that new UT Defensive Coordinator Monte Kiffin is a defensive mastermind. His "Tampa 2" system is renowned and widely copied all over the NFL and the college level. It will be interesting to see how this new system takes hold on The Hill. Although we are very thin on the DL and inexperienced at LB, the secondary should be a position of strength and is a perfect fit for what Monte likes to do at the position. We believe that the defense might once again be a solid group heading into the 2009 season. At least it might be able to stop a 3rd and Long for once!

- Special Teams - Even the most ardent of Fulmersexuals would have to admit that special teams play for the past decade at UT has been doo doo. Sometimes, the loudest cheers in Neyland Stadium came when a kickoff went into the end zone for a touch back so that the opposing team could not return it. New special teams coordinator, Eddie Gran, has a great pedigree from his days at Auburn, and we pray that he can shore up this group and once again follow the Neyland Game Maxim of "Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made."

So tune in, Big Orange Sheep! It's a new day in Knoxville. Let's get behind this group and hope that they can turn things around. And speak your mind, Lane! All of these fat, bloated, free hot dog in the press box eating pundits from around the South that have been piling on can all go stick their laptops where the Sun doesn't shine!

WLH Friday's Quick Hitters - You're Fired Edition

Our boy is back in the news. In this week's edition of Sports Illustrated, there is an article on Coach Kiffin and his brief tenure so far on Rocky Top. It is a very fair and insightful article, and it gives the readers an idea of the type of man that is now the head honcho up on The Hill. To put it bluntly, this man is all about business...period. Cocky? Sure. Abrasive? Sometimes. Green? Maybe, but in the Staff's opinion, Coach Kiff is nobody's fool. He realizes that the Tennessee fan base was in disarray after Fat Pa's final season of wrecking the football program. This is an alumni and fan base that is BEGGING for some life in Tennessee Football. So other schools should not be surprised that the overwhelming majority of Vol fans are happy to see someone that is confident and not afraid to say it as their new head coach. We will see come Fall, but we like the fire thus far. And to those that are worried about Kiffin's comments...get over it.

So here we go with a few nuggets heading into the weekend:


- In the SI article mentioned earlier, Lane said that he fired a staffer that was responsible for his ride picking up 25 minutes late from the airport recently. He says that many of the former Fulmer regime cannot keep up with the new pace in the Football office. We now learn that said offender has been allowed to stay employed but reassigned...to Fulmer's new digs. Hhmmm...Fulmer's assistant being a little slow? Sounds about right.

- The Pickle gave a recent interview to the dolts at the Sports Animal. He gives some good analysis on Joe Montana's son...who Tennessee is recruiting. We always liked Casey and thought that the inbred UT fans gave him a bad rap. All the guy did was win. How does two wins in The Swamp look these days?

- Look for UT go to balls to the wall recruiting a QB in 2010. However, we are stuck with what is on campus for this year. Let's hope that one of these guys can rise to the occasion. Our money is on Stephens. Tall, big arm and pretty mobile. We thought that he looked alright in the action he received in the Clawfense last year, and he seems to have the most upside of the three. It should be an interesting spring practice!

That's all for this week, Sheep. Go Vols and beat Peabody!

WLH Says the KNS Geek's are Piling On

If any of you sheep out there have a subscription to the Knoxville News-Senseless, then the Staff here at WLH suggests that you put that money to better use. Maybe purchase some cartons of cigarettes for distribution to minors? Or donate the money to your local Islamic Terrorist organization. All of those would be better than keeping the lights on over at that worthless excuse for a media publication.

The Lane Kiffin comments from last week's Tennessee booster event have already received MORE than enough commentary. Every two bit columnist from Gainesville to Sacramento have taken their shot at Kiffin and the University. In case you don't know by now, WLH still has our Big Orange middle finger extended towards those nerds who feed on free hot dogs in the press boxes and have not played a down of an organized sport in their lives. (And no...ultimate frisbee does not count you bunch of tool boxes!)

Now in an effort to pile on even more, the crack reporters at the KNS have used their time and effort to get access to University records through an open records request so that they could publish an article commenting on two secondary violations committed by Tennessee's staff during the recruiting process. However, they fail to mention that these secondary violations are common place among every single NCAA institution out there that recruits athletes. You can get a secondary violation for saying "Hello!" to a recruit on the street. In other words, it's really not news. Fulmer's staff committed multiple secondary violations, just like every other staff in the SEC. Smoke machines and mock news conferences! Oh...the humanity!

What really chaps the Staff's asses about this situation is that the KNS has made a deliberate attempt to keep an already stale story at the forefront. They proactively searched out the documentation about these SELF-REPORTED incidents and through them on the front page for all of the other hack job journalists out there to pick up. Now, when the casual sports fan sees this headline running across the ESPN ticker, they will automatically assume in their ignorance that Tennessee and Lane Kiffin are now the bastion for underhanded dealings and are a renegade program, which could not be further from the truth. Perception is reality, and one would expect a little more fair and balanced reporting from the hometown rag.

So we say a big "Booooooooo!!!!!!" to the KNS. You and your geek writers can take your worthless rag and stick it up your free hot dog fed arses! As the great Leroy Mercer once said, "You'ins run a mighty damn sh**ty business anway I always thought!"

WLH Friday's Quick Hitters - We're Not Gonna Take It Edition

The Staff here at WLH would like to extend our Big Orange middle finger to all of those out there whose feathers were ruffled by Coach Lane Kiffin's remarks yesterday at a Tennessee booster event. After a decade of appeasement by Fat Pa towards our rivals, the Tennessee fans are fed up and will not take it anymore.

Kiffin insulting the other SEC coaches, particularly Urban Meyer, is akin to a prisoner finding the biggest, baddest honcho out in the yard on the first day and then sucker punching him to show his strength. Did Kiff take it a bit too far? Possibly. In retrospect, he should not have used the word "cheat", but this is SEC Football for crying out loud? This isn't intramurals, brother!

In other news:

- Congrats to Coach Pat Summitt for her 1000th victory at Tennessee. Women's basketball is a fake sport, but she is a class act and is a great ambassador for the University.

- The Lane Train is off an running in 2010 with a commitment from the probable number one prospect in the state of Tennessee. Let's build that fence!

That's about it, sheep. Let's hope Bruce and the Boys continue their winning streek down on The Plains tomorrow. They are still in the mix and in hunt for a repeat as SEC Champs in roundball.

And to all you Gay-Turds out there....we're not gonna take it anymore!