Homer Smith, Innovative College Football Coach, Dies at 79 - NYTimes.com

Homer Smith, Innovative College Football Coach, Dies at 79 - NYTimes.com

Trooper Taylor reaches mountaintop at Auburn | NOLA.com

Trooper Taylor reaches mountaintop at Auburn | NOLA.com

GetBack Diary

Getbackcoach:  Get back.

Player: But I just saw you in front of the coaches' box, why don't YOU get back?

Getbackcoach: The officials let me go wherever I want as long as I'm helping them keep you knuckleheads in line.  

Player: So you help the officials? Kinda like the Knoxville Police Department gets help from the "mall cops"?

The Man Who Coached Neyland: Ernest Graves

 The game of football long ago passed out of the rough and tumble stage. It has become a science. --Ernest Graves,  line coach of  Bob Neyland at the US Military Academy

Sometimes Perfect Isn't Good Enough

In 1966, the last great all-white Alabama football team went untied and undefeated and untied, yet was denied the National Championship Yet Paul Bryant forever insisted that this undersized overachieving team, led by Snake Stabler and Ray Perkins, was the best he ever had. Outstanding book.

The Missing Ring by Keith Dunnavant  (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press New York, 2006) 

Pat Dye Postgame Speech

Pat Dye addressing his Auburn Tigers after a narrow loss at Tennessee in his first year as head coach. The perfect speech for a team just beginning to play well.

Revenge of The Umpires, Part The Second

Former Florida Gator Wally Hough assists a struggling Tennessee defense against Wyoming in 2008. Tennessee fans have insinuated that Hough's loyalty to his alma mater--he has been a local fan UF fan club president--represents a conflicts of interest...one that never seemed to afflict the impartial judgment of Vol alums like Bert Ackermann and Mack Gentry.