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Historic restaurant closes its doors Central Program Council

After 123 years, Patrick Sullivan’s vacates its Old City location offers chance for students

known for and that’s not necessarily a bunch of crazy college bars. That’s not to say no one wants college students down Staff Writer here, I just don’t think we need another Strip downtown. Even One of Knoxville’s oldest restaurants, Patrick Sullivan’s, college kids need a place to enjoy a beer in a place with some history and a more relaxed atmosphere.” closed its doors last week.

Many UT students were disappointed to hear the news of Rumors of Patrick Sullivan’s, located at Central Street and Jackson Avenue, closing had been floating around for some the closing.

Meagan Langford, a UT graduate student originally from time in the Old City and downtown area.

Alabama, was especially disappointed by the news.

The exact reason “I was totally surfor the closing is prised when I found out. unknown, though I loved that place. It was owner Frank Gardner small, eclectic and inticlosed another estabmate,” Langford said. “It l i s h m e n t , was one of the first Manhattan’s, last year places I started going to claiming his health as when I moved to a reason.

Knoxville and I just Patrick Sullivan’s loved it.” has been open for 123 On what should years and is known for become of the space, its history. According Langford too would like to its website, Patrick to see something with Sullivan, originally history and charm in from Ireland, began Patrick Sullivan’s place. construction on the “I just think if anycurrent building in thing we could use a 1888 as a saloon. place to watch good After prohibition the music. I’d love to see a space was then used good, chill bar take its for many different place,” Langford said. purposes, including a Concerning the histoboarding house and a ry of the venue, bordello or brothel.

Langford said, “I loved The current busithat I could literally sit ness reopened in 1988 in an ex-brothel while by Kristopher enjoying a beverage. It Kendrick as a restauwas just really neat rant and bar venue. knowing all of the histoMany are wonderry that went on there.” ing what will replace Patrick Sullivan’s also the space. With a served as a different hefty sale price of music venue in the Old $875,000 and a City and downtown rumored $2 million to area. The third floor of bring the building up the building showcased Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon to code, some are speculating that Knox Patrick Sullivan’s stands with its blinds drawn and a “For Sale” sign many bands, including Heritage, a local his- around the corner after it suddenly closed its doors. The bar had Moon Taxi and Big Country. torical preservation been open for 123 years.

Adam Humphreys, a society, will attempt to recent UT graduate and musician, attended and performed sevrevamp and renovate the space.

With new venues such as Carleo’s, Southbound and Envy, eral shows held at the venue.

“I loved that space,” Humphreys said. “It was great to play other rumors are circulating that it will be transformed into at because I always felt completely comfortable playing there. another night or dance club.

Jamie Ooten, a Crown and Goose employee and UT gradu- All of my friends could come and fit comfortably, but I didn’t ate, is concerned about the direction of the Old City if a night- feel nervous performing in front of all of them there.”

Langford also attended many shows there, including Big club is the historical space’s fate.

“The Old City used to have a lot of different bars with a lot Country.

“I loved seeing Big Country there,” Langford said. “It felt of charm and a variety of crowds,” Ooten said. “Now it’s kind of turning into a lot of the same thing as the Strip. I would just like I could actually witness an old Western shoot-out, which is hate to see downtown and the Old City area lose what it’s really unique.”

Shelby Griffin

to interact, voice opinions Kyle Turner News Editor Today marks the beginning of the Central Program Council’s membership drive.

The seven committees that comprise the CPC are tasked with providing student programming for UT. “We (CPC) do anything a student can imagine, from concerts to cultural events,” Ruth Dike, president of the CPC and senior in anthropology, said. “We are looking to find new members who are passionate about bettering campus and bringing new events to UT.” This year the application process has taken strides to become more of a unified council effort.

“We’re attempting to streamline our application process in order to give students a better feel for what all of Central Program Council has to offer,” Brandi Panter, senior in history and English literature and CPC executive press secretary, said. “We want students to be able to explore their options within the council, as well as help them engage a variety of interests.”

Programming offered from the variety of committees of the CPC reach diverse fields of interest and aim to offer something to both students and the greater Knoxville community, members said.

“The CPC is extremely broad in the various events we host,” Joseph Carpenter, CPC executive secretary and junior in finance, said. “We cover everything from abortion rights talks to Volapalooza.

Our goal is to give a fully cultural experience to students.

This is a goal of the CPC and the university as a whole.”

This year’s membership drive is seeking students from all years and majors with various interests.

“I am very excited that I was able to get involved with CPC,” Dike said. “Becoming a member is a great experience and can broaden various horizons such as leadership, com-

munication and marketing. It can be a great opportunity for a wide range of students.”

The application process is designed for students to apply to individual committees within the CPC. All students are encouraged to apply despite previous experience and have the option to apply to more than one committee.

“When I first joined the Issues Committee, it was for one reason. I came in with one passion but being a member of CPC has turned out to mean a lot more,” Carpenter said. “I was able to catch a glimpse of what the CPC does and liked what I saw.”

The student activity fees collected at the beginning of each year are part of the funds used by the entire CPC to facilitate programming for the whole year. Members from the seven committees are in charge of how best to use their allocated money.

“A reason for students to become a member of CPC lies in the fact that it is our (students’) money being spent,” Carpenter said. “It is up to the students to seize the opportunity to decide how the money is best spent. Students have the chance to get engaged for their individual passions.”

The six committees of the CPC accepting applications are All Campus Events, Campus Entertainment Board, Cultural Attractions, Women’s Coordinating Council, Visual Arts, Film and Issues Committee.

All but one of the committees will be offering applications to interested students.

All Campus Events will hold its membership drive during the spring.

Students can find individual applications for each committee by going to http://activities.utk.edu/cpc/. Each committee has its own deadlines and procedures for membership.

“It has been my goal since entering UT to cast the largest net possible to get involved with anything possible,” Carpenter said. “CPC has provided me that opportunity.”

Senator shares swear-in experience Grace Van Dyke Staff Writer “Let me tell you a story,” Sen. Lamar Alexander said on Wednesday night as he began his speech at the annual Supreme Court Dinner held at the Knoxville Convention Center.

He then began a tale about the questionable constitutionality of his swearing in to the governorship of the state of Tennessee. The moral of this story is the importance of good justices and lawyers to the rights of the people.

Alexander’s inauguration would be a celebration after much turmoil in the state of Tennessee.

There had been much speculation that Gov. Ray Blanton had been accepting cash for clemency. In other words, state prisoners were paying him for pardons.

A state senator, whom Alexander left unnamed, was quoted to have said, “Blanton makes Nixon look like a choir boy.” The FBI claimed that, indeed, Blanton had been accepting money in return for pardons, and he was planning to do it again.

Blanton had already released 52 convicted criminals, including a convicted murderer by the name of Roger Humphreys. It was speculated he was about to release 19 more, one of which may have been James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. These pardons were to be passed on while Blanton was still in office. In response, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee called Alexander while he was having a meal at Shoney’s in Nashville. Alexander was asked to take the office of governor three days early.

Shortly after the conversation, Alexander was informed that if Blanton wanted to empty the jails completely, he could. So, three days before the planned inauguration, surrounded by members of his opposing Democratic party, Alexander was sworn in as the governor of Tennessee.

The Assistant State Attorney General had to go to the hospital to ask Supreme Court Justice Joe

Henry to preside over the swearing in.

“I wasn’t about to do this if the rest of the state leadership wasn’t there,” Alexander said. “I was the only Republican around at the time. They were all Democrats.”

On Monday, Jan. 15, 1979, Tennessee had a new governor by what former Lt. Gov. John S. Wilder has called “impeachment Tennessee style.” The entire process, held in the Supreme Court Building, took about 30 minutes. Five minutes of coverage were aired on local news channels.

Blanton still attempted to pardon the 19 individuals in question, but he was not successful. Due to the vague restrictions in the Tennessee State Constitution on when a new governor must be sworn in, Blanton had already lost his power as governor. The attorneys and justices involved with Alexander’s early swearing in prevented the pardon of these criminals.

Still, there was the issue of those already released and those expecting release. Each was provided a trial. Some were released, and some were not. Alexander called those on trial “the most unpopular defendants in the state.” Each was represented fairly by a lawyer. He gave the credit of their fair, objective trial to the attorneys and the justices of Tennessee.

A current embodiment of the honorable lawyers aforementioned, Supreme Justice Connie Clark, introduced Alexander earlier in the evening. She said the justice system faces two major challenges today. First, the system is not as accessible as it should be to people who need it. Second, there is a population that is undereducated and does not understand the rule of law.

“This is a tragedy we must do something about,” Clark said.

Clark said that law promotes the common good.

“I confess now more than ever that we have to stand firm in our commitment to do what is right Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon and honorable for the people of our state,” he said.

Of the justices of Tennessee, Clark said, “They Students walk by Halsam on Aug. 31 between classes. UTPD encourages students have dispensed justice to those before them, and to take the UC pedestrian bridge to walk to the Hill to decrease foot traffic at Andy that is what we are supposed to do.”

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UT Gardens receives high marks University among short list of gardens featured in national contest

Wade Scofield Staff Writer Students looking for a convenient escape from the daily life of classes and hubbub are invited to make the short walk over the Joe Johnson Bridge to the University Gardens.

Until the end of September, the UT gardens are hosting a section of the American Garden Award (AGA). The UT Gardens are serving as one of 24 display gardens in the third annual holding of the AGA. Other than the University of Tennessee, only three are colleges or universities.

The American Garden Award’s website at americangardenaward.org calls the AGA “a unique opportunity for the gardening public to vote on a specific flower that they think has the most appealing garden characteristics. Some of the world’s most prestigious flower breeders have chosen their best varieties to enter in this competition. Then, in cooperation with over 24 highly respected public gardens throughout the United States, we present the entries so consumers can view the plants in person, then vote on their favorite.”

One reason UT got involved with the American Garden Award was a chance to show off the gardens.

“One of our goals is to get the public interested and engaged in cutting-edge variety and home gardening,” Beth Willis, UT Gardens research associate, said.

The AGA is attempting to connect with younger garden enthusiasts by offering multiple voting methods. Students can vote for one of seven of this year’s entries by either voting in person on-site, texting in the corresponding number or voting online on the AGA’s website.

“We’re trying to get people more interested in the UT gardens,” Willis said.

“The AGA is going young this year with their online connections for voting.”

The UT Gardens are a group of trial gardens. Trial gardens grow out varieties from plant and seed companies that they would like to promote and evaluate on whether they should be brought to market and tested. Additionally, trial gardens test out properties of seeds and plants, such as their resistance to pesticides and heat and their longevity.

“I really enjoy spending time in the UT Gardens,” Sean Wright, sophomore in history, said. “I find it a relaxing place to hang out with friends. A lot of students don’t really take advantage of this great resource we have on campus.”

The Gardens are also hosting a local farmer’s market throughout October, putting up tents for the sale of fresh vegetables and produce every Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. Additionally, free noon and twilight tours are held the third Tuesday of each month.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Law students face tough reality The Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. — Tenia Phillips has heard the horror stories about life after law school, circa 2011, from crushing student loan debt to recent graduates serving coffee at Starbucks.

The reality check didn’t deter the 27year-old Texan from pursuing her childhood dream, though it took four years of working as an apartment leasing agent before she could start fall classes last week at the University of Missouri law school.

“I had gotten to the point in my life where it was either now or never,” she said. “Nothing in life is guaranteed. The job market can go back up again or back down.”

The days of top law school graduates having their pick of six-figure jobs at boutique firms — or at least being assured of putting their degrees to use — are over.

Post-graduate employment rates are at their lowest levels in 15 years. The typical student leaves school nearly $100,000 in debt. And after several years of recession-driven enrollment gains, applications to law schools nationwide are down nearly 10 percent this year.

The sobering statistics have prompted plenty of soul-searching in the legal academy, with calls for schools to provide more accurate job-placement data as well as efforts by some law schools to admit fewer students to avoid dumping a glut of newly minted J.D.s onto an unforgiving job market.

“The sense that one can go to law school and get rich quick, that it is the lottery ticket— those days are well past,” said law dean Larry Dessem at the University of Missouri, where firstyear fall enrollment is down 11 percent and applications declined nearly 17 percent.

The lessening interest in law school can be seen at flagship public universities in Missouri and elite private schools such as Washington University in St. Louis, which reports a 12 percent enrollment decline.

New student enrollment at the University of California-Los Angeles is

down 16 percent, while the University of Michigan reports a 14 percent decrease.

WashU, UCLA and Michigan are top 25 schools in the influential U.S. News & World Report rankings.

“This year, people realize that this is not a one-year economic decline,” said Sarah Zearfoss, assistant law dean and admissions director at Michigan. “It seems to be a much longer-term problem.”

That’s not necessarily bad, she said.

Long considered a refuge for the hyperambitious, law schools may now be attracting more committed students, said Zearfoss.

“Now that people are aware it’s not a cakewalk to get a big salary, they’re thinking more carefully and a little more rationally about making this choice,” she said.

Or, as Dessem put it, “That’s going to lead to a lot more satisfied lawyers down the road.”

That satisfaction could come without a fatter paycheck. According to the National Association for Law Placement, only slightly more than twothirds of spring 2010 graduates had jobs requiring law licenses nine months later — the lowest mark since the industry group starting keeping count.

Overall, 87.4 percent of the class of 2010 had any sort of job nine months after graduation, a 15-year low.

Those figures include 11 percent working part-time and others holding temporary jobs. And the national median salary for new law school graduates declined from $72,000 to $63,000 over the past year.

Several colleges have recently scrapped plans to build new law schools, including the University of Delaware and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Stung by criticism that prospective students aren’t aware of those unflattering statistics, law schools accredited by the American Bar Association will now be required to report the types of jobs their graduates obtained, not just overall employment rates. The ABA approved the change this summer at its annual meeting.

“The problem of a lack of transparency, a disingenuousness, is very real,”

said University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos. “The law school degree as a guarantee for job as a lawyer is just not anywhere close to being true.”

The changing industry has more students questioning both the value and costs of a law degree. Disenchanted students — and at least one anonymous professor at a top school — are taking their complaints public on what have become known as law school “scam” blogs.

Others are taking their complaints to court, appropriately enough.

Earlier this month, former students at New York Law School and Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., filed a class action lawsuit over what they called inflated employment rates. A similar suit was filed in May against Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego.

James Leopold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, said such criticism “adds to that culture of doubt surrounding legal education.”

“The whole economy of delivering legal services, and the structure of these services, is changing,” he said, describing changes that include a move to “offshore” legal jobs as well as a growing reliance by corporations on contract attorneys rather than in-house counsel.

“Are we producing too many lawyers?

It’s a question I can’t answer,” Leopold said.

Larry Lambert, a 28-year-old veteran from St. Louis, struggled with that very question before deciding to enroll at Missouri this semester. A candid conversation with a burned-out lawyer had “stopped me cold in my tracks,” Lambert said.

In the end, a strong public service ethic honed during his time in the Navy prevailed. Lambert hopes to work as a federal prosecutor or in another position where he can “be a part of something bigger.”

“That’s one of the best things to happen to the profession in a long time,” he said, referring to the declining interest.

“People don’t go into social work thinking they want to get rich. They want to help people. The law should be like that.”

Jake Wheeler • The Daily Beacon

Students stand around the Art and Architecture Building as they listen to Chuck Draper kick off the semester with an intense weekend group project on Aug. 19. This charrette started the 2011 Max_Min Design Competitioin that gives students, alumni and professionals a chance to design a space around the Art and Architecture Building. For more information visit http://maxmincomp.utk.edu.

Friday, September 2, 2011

ARTS&CULTURE

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Knoxville lawyer to throw party for followers Michael Lindley Staff Writer What started off as viral has become epidemic.

Only three weeks since its inception, the Stephen A. Burroughs meme page on Facebook has garnered over 11,000 likes and shows no signs of slowing down. In a gesture of appreciation to his expanding fan base, Burroughs announced yesterday to throw what he is calling the “biggest party in the history of this whole town,” Swagfest.

Swagfest began as a lofty goal of Burroughs, who promised to reward his fans if the “likes” on his meme page reached 10,000.

“When the page was around 1,000 likes, Stephen A. Burroughs challenged that if the page reached 10,000 likes by the end of the month, he would throw a huge party for all of his fans,” Ryan Clark, the meme’s creator said. “Swagfest is Stephen A. Burroughs’ way of keeping his word and doing it phenomenally.”

Doing things phenomenally is what is expected from a man who has been likened to a law-practicing Superman. Originally constrained to the limited space of the Sunsphere, Burroughs decided to expand Swagfest into a full-blown extravaganza, reasoning that he needed to “go Burroughs style with it.” Swagfest will rent out both the Sunsphere and Knoxville Convention Center, with each venue offering something a little different. The Sunsphere will act as the VIP lounge of Swagfest, with spots limited to 300 people, including the man himself, Stephen A Burroughs. Inside the

Sunsphere will be food, drinks, music and flat screen TVs displaying fan-created memes from the Facebook page.

“I’m going,” Jeremy Williams, sophomore in political science, said in response to whether or not he is attending. “... I’ve been asking about that and who he is. I would love to see this guy.”

The real party, however, will take place at the Convention Center, where bands Brewster’s Millions, Johnny Astro and The Big Bang, and headliners the Black Cadillacs, are scheduled to play. Photo booths that will upload pictures straight to Facebook will be scattered around the Center, and over 4,000 Swagfest t-shirts will be given away. In addition to the free shirts, Burroughs will give out $15,000 in vacation prizes as a way of giving back to the community that has embraced him.

Asked whether or not Swagfest could become an annual event, Clark replied, “I really think it has a chance. However, I personally believe changes would have to be made in order for it to be sustainable.”

As for whether the page reached its new goal of 20,000 “likes,” “The event would be so spectacular that if I revealed the surprise too early, my brain would explode.”

Swagfest, which will be held Sept. 9, is open to all ages. Attendance is free, but RSVPs are required. The deadline for RSVPs is Sept. 5 at midnight. To RSVP and find out more information about Swagfest, check out www.swagfestknoxville.com.

Adventure key to college experience Claire Dodson Staff Writer I’ve never been to an art gallery. I practically failed middle school art class. I’ve never been considered a good artist at all. Yet, when I went to Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago, I felt the canvases and acrylic paints calling to me.

It’s like they were saying, “Claire, come spend your money on me, you know you want to…” So of course I gave in (I’m not usually one to avoid wasting money on things). Forty bucks, a pack of paint and six canvases later, I became an artist.

It was surprisingly easy. On my first canvas, I took a pencil and drew a rough sketch (emphasis on the “rough”); all I really wanted to paint was a sunset. And as I put brush to canvas and began making broad strokes, all painter clichés I’ve ever heard in my life came to mind. “The picture came to life!” “The color was so real!” “Ah, the power of creation!”

But as I was painting, I was grinning the whole time. All the frustrations and

joys of my first few days of college were making it into my picture; everything I felt was flowing through my cheap WalMart paintbrush and into the wonderful act of creating something. And when I finished it, the painting was brilliant; I practically wanted to sell it.

Except not. Even now, I’m looking at my painting and shaking my head. The colors weren’t mixed very well, my strokes were kind of sloppy, and it bore only the slightest resemblance to a sunset. (My roommate asked if my little sister had done it.)

But despite the fact that my artwork was far from Van Gogh or Michelangelo, I felt joy at what I had created. I had done something not because anyone expected me to, not because I wanted to be the best, but simply because it struck me as fun.

There was no pressure for my artwork to be anything it wasn’t, and no pressure to make it acceptable to someone else’s view of art. That picture was just for me to enjoy trying out something new, purely on a whim. It was awesome.

Since then I have painted two more canvases, both very colorful and very,

uh, open to interpretation. And every time I paint, I have to remind myself not to stress too much about trying to make my art any good, but instead take joy in what I am producing just the way it is.

So, I guess the lesson I have learned (the first of many I will learn in college), is to try new hobbies just because they appear interesting to you.

Take classes that seem fun even if they aren’t a Gen. Ed. or major requirement.

Meet people you never thought you’d hang out with. Don’t get so caught up in trying to do something perfectly that you lose the joy that made you interested in it in the first place. Buy cheap paint at Wal-Mart and paint a sunset.

In the meantime, I think I will have an art s h o w.

My mom w i l l probably come.

• Photo courtesy of Stephen A. Burroughs

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Friday, September 2, 2011

OPINIONS

Better than Reality TV ‘Lost’ best enjoyed without hype Robbie O’Daniel Recruitment Editor Over time, “Lost” became one of those shows, like “The Sopranos” or “The Wire,” that built up six seasons and began to look like a burden to even attempt. Plus these shows had hit that phase of over-recommendation where friends suggest the show so many times that you begin to resent it and the series in general.

But this past year, through DVD loans from girlfriend and friend alike, I ended up resolving to watch two of those bulky, yet beloved shows: “The Sopranos” and “Lost.” And “The Wire” will happen at a later date. They are just too beloved and critically acclaimed for a TV junkie to ignore.

So as TV fans wait anxiously for the start of the muchanticipated fall TV season, the next two weeks will have a better-late-than-never slant.

My endeavor to watch all of “Lost” in less than a calendar year did not begin on purpose. I borrowed season one of “Lost” mostly just to have something to do at my Internet-less home in Chattanooga over Winter Break last year.

It was rough going early on. Unlike other fans, the first episodes of the first season of “Lost” did not hook me. Sure, the two-hour “Pilot” was intriguing, and the episodes introducing the wheelchair-bound adventurer John Locke and the Southern outlaw Sawyer, “Walkabout” and “Confidence Man,” kept me going.

But throughout the first season, Locke and Sawyer are the only highlights. All of the other characters are either dull or annoying. In particular, the beginning of Kate’s run from the law that does not quite altogether make sense, as well as her constant vacillating between which beau on the island she wants, made her the most reviled part of the show.

After watching the first 13 or so episodes during break, I put it on hold until around March or April, as an example of how much the first season was not the hook.

The acting talent of Terry O’Quinn and Josh Holloway as Locke and Sawyer powered me through episodes of the latter half of the first season that were terrible.

“Numbers,” just the 18th episode of the first season, is one of those stop-watching-the-show bad episodes.

Hurley as comedy relief is always groan-worthy at best, and to give him, of all characters, the most ridiculous and meaningless mystery of the island was a grave misstep. Hurley’s crazed tirades about 4-8-15-16-23-42, which popped up frequently after this episode, just got in the way of other action and served as an extremely loose plot device to get Hurley to mess things up from time to time to avoid the dreaded numbers.

It was not until the season one finale and season two premiere that I began watching the episodes in marathons. “Lost” developed a knack for building up plot threads and having them pay off in a big way, while starting a new one at the same time, in the finales and premieres. The twist of what happens to the crew on the raft, while the gang opened the hatch, made me want to watch more. Jack looking around wide-eyed as he strangely heard “Make Your Own Kind of Music” in the hatch in the season two premiere is still one of my favorite moments.

From there, I resolved to finish the show. Sure, there are down points. Much of season four and season five are mediocre. The beginning of season six is probably the weakest point of the entire series.

But the series’ second and third seasons are some of the best television I’ve ever seen. “Lost” began to get an idea of who good characters and actors were, as more good ones were introduced to join Locke and Sawyer. In particular, the creepy manipulator Ben (Michael Emerson) and the seemingly unpredictable, tragic Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) bolstered the cast.

And despite what anyone says, “Lost” ends with a flurry of excellent episodes in its final, sixth season. It could even be argued that “Ab Aeterno,” the secret origin of Richard Alpert, and “Across the Sea,” which finally explains Jacob and the island, should have come earlier.

They make the show so much deeper and more interesting. In particular, “Across the Sea” is one of the best episodes of television ever made.

While I disagree with many episode rankings that mark the Desmond-Penny romantic episode “The Constant” as the best one ever, as I was never really a Desmond fan, I agree with one thing: Despite all its flaws, “Lost” is a show worth watching, if only to get to the best parts.

In a way, I am glad I watched it a year removed from its ending. “Lost” fans are kind of obnoxious, and endlessly theorizing over a television show each week never sounded appealing.

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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Hail storm highlights hypocrisy T he Bur den o f I n fa l l i b i l i t y by

Wiley Robinson You’re likely familiar with the fact that earlier this year, Knoxville and the surrounding area was mildly destroyed by a series of severe hailstorms.

The damage was mostly superficial. Interestingly, superficiality is kind of a huge driving force in our economy. Do you think the daily stock market reading says anything really deep or meaningful about the American economy? Does Obama’s low approval rating evidence him ceasing being a cheerleader for nearly every moral issue he campaigned against as a senator?

Abstract, vague simplifications keep people feeling included. And judging by how much these public gauges have evolved over time, they’re not getting any less useless any time soon.

What’s a lot more obvious than the stock market, but no less superficial, is the visible damage on everyone’s house in Knoxville from getting carpet bombed by high-velocity balls of ice from the sky.

Needless to say, the economic impact was overwhelming. FEMA got involved with supplementing insurance claims. The threat of plummeting property values was very real — thankfully something the insurance companies didn’t want either (who would pay the premiums?).

Thousands of jobs were created instantly to make everything pretty again.

I was one of those jobs, gainfully employed as a direct result of destruction and human suffering. I had about as much roofing industry knowledge as you do.

The emphasis of my job was on “the numbers game” of driving out to as many of Knoxville’s damagesaturated neighborhoods as possible and getting people to sign contracts with us — the “financial” side.

The industry knowledge required to actually hustle roofs to homeowners is a lot to acquire in the little over a month I had before school started again.

I was barely trained and was sent out to assertively talk to people about investments usually worth a better part of a million dollars. Most of the time I was a sales

representative, a title that didn’t quite represent the fact that I was tasked with distilling industrial, corporate and financial knowledge to complete strangers, constructing detailed estimates based off my own manual measurements, and being in direct contact with people, signed and unsigned, at all times.

I never saw myself as much of a salesman. O.K., I find marketing as whole to be abhorrent, immoral and based primarily on deception, but the sheer demand for this service I was peddling — roofs, siding and gutters — made it actually rather fun after a week or so of cluelessness. My presence was always in context to the doors I knocked on, and the several times I’ve gone out solo looking for untapped neighborhoods nobody has ever been extremely rude to me. A wonder.

In fact, based on what the insurance companies paid out to some people, I felt like I was actually helping people. After all, insurance companies are known for supplementing claims when their estimates come up short as long as they have evidence that you’re not going to Vegas with their check.

After interacting with so many homeowners from all over conservative Knoxville and Farragut, the most interesting trend I found was people’s attitudes towards the private sector when it actually came down to business. It seemed like 50 percent of my clients expressed concern with doing business with an “outside” company, feeling more comfortable with “local” business. Anybody who wasn’t local was a “storm chaser.” Honestly, you’re all communists.

Insurance is like extra taxes that you pay ... to the private sector, heck yes! And large, successful industry comes swooping in to both meet demand and save your investment from losing precious value, working closely with the insurance companies to get it done right, and what do you do? You complain about it. “Oh, they’re out of town — what if they leave before my warranty expires?” Well, maybe you shouldn’t hire someone who’s so off-the-grid to build your roof, you profit-hating liberal.

The moral here, if there is one, is to live your politics.

Knoxville had the most property damage of anywhere in the nation for a while there, and the private sector took care of it all by efficiently meeting catastrophic demand. So feel a little kinship with the people trying desperately to get at your insurance money, won’t you?

— Wiley Robinson is a junior in ecology and evolutionary biology. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

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Congratulations, reader — you have survived your first few weeks of the semester. You have navigated your way from the Ag Campus to the Hill and only gotten lost a few times. You have already missed one homework assignment but have bought yourself a fancy UT planner to ease your guilt. You have established your seat in each of your classrooms that you will not move from all semester. You have lost at least one syllabus and cursed the Blackboard app for not working on your iPhone. And you are already counting down the days until Winter Break.

Every college student suffers from apathy at one point or another during his or her fourth (or fifth, or sixth) year in the university system. Trying to write your English 101 paper can sometimes be like trying to swim through Jell-O, especially when reruns of “Jersey Shore” are on. Or when you really need to clean your room. In fact, writing those papers on a short story about dead dogs or reading those 30page articles on world economics can sound less appealing than scrubbing toilets.

Sometimes this academic apathy can border on sheer, unadulterated boredom. We have all (admit it) almost fallen asleep in at least one class, or zoned out during our big lecture classes while playing solitaire on our laptops. It’s no wonder teachers are starting to forbid laptops in classrooms — it has become increasingly hard for them to compete with Facebook or Netflix.

It is easy to sit around and blame technology for the increasingly smaller attention span of the average student. It is obviously true that cell phones and computers have made it easier to access mindless entertainment and are becoming increasingly harder for teachers to spot. But blaming technology for our goldfish-like concentration is only one piece of a larger issue: Students today have become a much harder group to get excited about academics.

It is drilled into our heads that our chances of being employed will increase with a bachelor’s degree and will become even greater with a master’s or a

Ph.D. But this message does not tell the whole truth about the employment line in today’s world: It is not enough to merely have a college degree anymore.

Academic performance is becoming a much greater factor than it was 10 or 20 years ago. With fewer jobs available to graduating students, employers are no longer satisfied with a piece of paper stating you fulfilled the requirements of your major and your institution. Your resumé and your grade point average are going to play a significant role in your employment offerings — no longer can you fly through college with a 1.8 GPA and “keg-standing” on your resumé. The only way to guarantee a topnotch performance during our time in college is to engage ourselves with the material we are studying, because we all know how difficult it is to write an Aquality paper on a topic that we would rather die than research.

The question then becomes one of reconciling our dependence on technology and our need to engage ourselves in our academics. I stumbled across an article on Wednesday morning that extols the Internet as the best way to spark creativity and engage learners. The author, Cathy N. Davidson, argues in her article, “Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age,” in The Chronicle Review that our distraction when looking things up online actually can get us thinking about things that would have never crossed our minds otherwise. I often harp on the interconnectivity of disciplines, and this is never more obvious as when we perform a simple Google search. The Internet, through its endless parade of ads and links, creates connections between subjects and ideas that can often inspire a new way of viewing something; and this originality and creativity will ultimately be the savior of our low grades and our apathy.

Give it a try: When your next paper on child education rolls around, try a simple Google search.

My search led me to a site where you can purchase Mozart CDs for your baby. When I started thinking about the ridiculousness of the concept that Mozart makes babies smarter, I realized I had fodder for a potential paper (albeit a fairly childish one, if you’ll pardon my pun). Do not hesitate to allow your love of technology to inspire your next creative paper topic — just don’t look it up on your laptop in class.

— Sarah Russell is a junior in history. She can be reached at srusse22@utk.edu.

ARTS&CULTURE

Friday, September 2, 2011

The Daily Beacon • 5A

First Friday gets Internet treatment

Longbranch features diverse music Jamie Greig Staff Writer This week, Longbranch Saloon on Cumberland hosted an eclectic mix of punk, hardcore and acoustic indie in the form of Reverse the Curse (on tour from Ohio), Your Favorite Hero, Waves Like Weapons and Bones in the Museum.

Arriving at Longbranch it feels like one is stepping onto the set of an Old Western, complete with aged wood porch and token longhaired veteran locals.

The only things missing are the swinging saloon doors and the inevitable silence and long stares that accompany the entrance of “that guy who’s not from ’round here.”

The barman, however, brings a refreshing change to that age-old stereotype, greeting entrants with a warm smile and polite service.

A $5 charge is all it takes to gain entrance to this event, as with all Longbranch gigs, which is reasonable given that Longbranch regularly hosts touring bands.

There was a bit of a late start owing to some confusion as to who was going to use what equipment, during which time I was subjected to the conversation of a local crazy man who enlightened me with such “facts” as the “coming of the floods from the East” in 2012 and the president’s need to “come down hard on the country, for too long we have dwelled in the shadows of sin.”

The barman then asked him to leave with the timeless phrase, “I told you to get out earlier buddy, if you don’t leave now I’m going to call the cops.” And off into the night went this lost soul.

To start the night off was solo artist Joe Bones, who performs under the name of Bones in the Museum.

He opened the set with the line, “I apologize for my bandmates not being here. They died in a plane crash last night.” And then his set crashed, like that plane and joke, almost immediately as he attempted to start his set with an out of tune guitar.

After a 10-minute break where he hid in a dark corner he re-emerged not like a butterfly but more like a slightly intimidated moth that can’t sing or play a guitar very well.

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rounded, yet rough to the core, melodic punk band in the vein of Hot Water Music, while also managing to combine the edgy modern indie tones of bands such as Biffy Clyro.

They pull off stage presence remarkably well without having to resort to such cheap tricks as throwing themselves into the crowd or even trying to “gee up” the audience with cheesy banter or standard punk phrases.

They flow through their set like a hot knife through butter. These guys know what their sound is and they’re not embarrassed to let the music speak for itself.

Reverse the Curse is supporting its album entitled “From Hither to Yon,” released by record label Paper and Plastik and recorded by label creator Vinnie Fiorello, best known as the drummer for ska punk band Less Than Jake.

To close off the night, and to keep the momentum going, was local skate-punk act Your Favorite Hero.

I, like many punk fans who aren’t ashamed to admit their secret blink 182 love affair, love a good old fashioned bounce.

This band has that infectious quality that comes with all good punk acts, that makes you want to pull on your converse, put your cap on backwards and act like a 15-year-old kid who hates school and loves hearing fart jokes.

They play the punk act very well, combining the relaxed cool jokey • Photo courtesy of Reverse the Curse vibe of the static lead singer with a Red Bull-fueled jumping jack secondary vocalhooks.

They seem to know perfectly when to be ist who seems to want to be in the crowd more hard and fast or static and riff heavy, then they than in the band, and not in a bad way.

Yet, in the background, there is technicality drop the pace to a slow rhythmic melody only to crash right back into some doom-laden and proficient instrumentality that is needed to pull of the perfect skate sound. thunderous chugging progressive hardcore.

It reminds me of a combination of the early One should really keep an eye out for this band. They are Longbranch regulars so it fast, technical, yet rough and ready Rufio comshouldn’t be hard. If you are into bands in the bined with the more melodic hardcore edge of vein of Thrice, He Is Legend, Norma Jean, Belvedere.

Currently on an extensive tour, check out The Dillinger Escape Plan, Cancerbats or At The Drive-In, and appreciate a great live show, their album, “Killer on the Lower East Side,” for fans of skate punk through to melodic hardthen Waves Like Weapons will be your thing.

Riding on the crest of the wave created by core.

A special mention goes to Steven May of the previous act, Reverse the Curse, on tour from Hiram, Ohio, came to show Knoxville the Stay True Music who put on the night’s show benefit of a band perfecting its sound and stage after the original venue cancelled. Steven is working hard to create a viable alternative performance.

Having played for 10 years and progressing music scene in Knoxville, so please look out for through the inevitable teen “poppy skate his gigs and show support if you want great punk” sound, the band has emerged as a well- bands like those above to keep on coming. been to drunken open mic nights that end in bar brawls at three in the morning after the slaughter of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

His songs sound like they have some structure, in a kind of off-beat indie way, and he may have been suffering from nerves due to being the only solo acoustic act on the bill. But still, don’t ruin your band’s reputation for the sake of a one-off gig. I will reserve full judgement until I have seen the full band.

Next up was local hardcore/screamo outfit Waves Like Weapons. Now these guys are good, really good in fact, like a seasoned touring band.

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The Arts and Culture Alliance has always been a part of First Friday, and many new venues and artists participate each month. With the help of one multitalented artist, it is easier than ever to do so.

Suzanne Cada, deputy director of the Arts and Culture Alliance, says they have been participating in First Friday for decades. Now, at least 1,000 to 1,500 people come through their Emporium Center during a typical First Friday.

“Always, without exception, at 9 p.m. on First Friday when we’re closing, we literally have to kick people out,” Cada said.

“We would stay open, but you know, we can’t stay open forever!”

The Emporium houses two galleries and each features art from a different artist. This month, the Arts and Culture Alliance’s artist in residence, Brandon Woods, is featured in the gallery.

“It was a competitive process for him to be selected as our artist in residence and for that he was given a free studio space for six months,” Cada said.

“He’s been working out of that space creating artwork and it’s culminating in this show.”

The other gallery has art from HoLa Hora Latina. “(The show) is in conjunction with Hispanic heritage month,” Cada said. “It features 14 different Hispanic artists.”

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Until 2009, it was difficult to find up-to-date and correct information about First Friday.

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to-date information.

“I’m the kind of guy that when I see something that needs to be done, and if I can do it, I just do it,” Lareau said. “So I launched the website and started heading downtown to see what was going on.”

Since then, a comprehensive website with information about artists, galleries and even a map for free parking downtown has kept Knoxville informed about First Friday.

Lareau says he spends a number of hours gathering information from other websites and Facebook pages as well as calling up galleries to find out what’s going on for First Friday.

He could use a little help, he said.

“Please, take a minute out of your day and use the contact form on the website and send me the info on the artist on display that month,” he said.

“Once an artist is locked in, send it to me, it’ll give the venue and the artist as much exposure as possible.”

It is no surprise Lareau was able to build this website as he is a digital artist, which means he uses computer programs to create his work. His own need for information combined with his passion for the arts inspired knoxvillefirstfriday.com.

“You’ll find the information you need on the website,” Lareau said. “Head out, meet the artists and support the arts.

It makes for a better world.”

First Friday is a free event that spans Knoxville’s entire downtown area. If one is new to the event, Cada said, the Emporium Center is a great starting point.

First Friday officially begins at 5 p.m. and lasts until the galleries, restaurants and shops close. Information about artists, venues, parking and a map are available at knoxvillefirstfriday.com.

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SPORTS

Friday, September 2, 2011

Bray, Vols look for improvement in 2011 Jason Hall Staff Writer Derek Dooley enters his second season as Tennessee’s coach. And after going 6-7 last season, including a disappointing Music City Bowl loss to North Carolina, UT fans continue to raise expectations for a team that has been in the rebuilding stages for the past few years.

Much of the expectations will be created by the hype surrounding sophomore quaterback Tyler Bray.

As a true freshman, Bray started in UT’s final five games, throwing for 1,849 yards and 18 touchdowns.

“I just needed to relax and go back to the way we were playing last year,” Bray said. “I was just rushing myself and trying to make things happen too fast instead of just relaxing and trusting my line. I’ve got all the trust in the world but I just try to over-think and rush through.

“Last year the expectations weren’t that high and this year they are, so I’ve kind of forced myself to do things I normally wouldn’t do.”

Wide receivers Da’Rick Rogers and Justin Hunter are also entering their sophomore seasons with high expectations. Against Montana, they are both likely to face FCS All-American and twotime All-Big Sky cornerback Trumaine Johnson.

UT offensive coordinator Jim Chaney praised Johnson and spoke on what his young wideouts will need to do on Saturday.

“He’s a heck of a player, no question

about it,” Chaney said. “He shows up on tape making plays all the time. Our wideouts are going to have to come to play if they end up matched on him because he is going to compete and see how good he can be. Our guys are going to do that every week. They are going to play against a (lot of) good football players, so I hope they rise to the occasion and compete at the level we expect them to.”

Tauren Poole is projected to get the majority of carries out of UT’s backfield following an impressive junior season in which he rushed for 1,085 yards and 11 touchdowns. The Vols tailbacks will run behind a young offensive line that gained some much needed experience last season.

“I believe the choreography in the front is very, very important,” Chaney said. “The quicker you get those pieces in place, the better you are. We’re hoping we reap those benefits.”

Defensively, the Vols are facing a new challenge after Junior safety Janzen Jackson was officially dismissed from the team. Defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox has made many adjustments this fall, including moving Prentiss Waggner back to free safety from cornerback.

“Prentiss played safety for us last year,” Wilcox said. “He’s a guy that knows what we are doing and understands the concepts of it. He’s a calming effect on the other guys and he’s really comfortable playing back there. There isn’t any high anxiety for him, because he knows what he is doing. It’s been fairly easy for him to move back there and feel comfortable.”

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Tyler Bray throws a long ball against the University of Alabama on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Bray finished the season with 18 touchdowns and 1,849 yards as a freshman.

Friday, September 2, 2011

SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • 7A

Montana looks to start rebound against Vols Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer Just imagine the time it would take someone to count from one to 2,100. That is the number of miles that separate Missoula, Mont. and Knoxville.

When the Montana Grizzlies and Tennessee Volunteers meet for the first time to kick off the college football season Saturday inside Neyland Stadium, each team will be led out onto the field by their secondyear head coaches, Robin Pflugrad and Derek Dooley.

Despite posting a winning record of 7-4 (5-3 Big Sky) in his first year at the helm after taking over for the program’s secondwinningest coach Bobby Hauk, Pflugrad and the Grizzlies saw the team’s streak of 17-consecutive playoff appearances come to an end.

“Last year I think we were picked to win it (national championship),” Pflugrad said.

“We are not preparing any different than we did last year or particularly any year before.”

Expectations are high for the Grizzlies this season, who were ranked No. 12 in the FCS preseason poll.

Taking the snaps at quarterback for Montana will be sophomore Jordan Johnson, while junior Gerald Kemp, an option-type quarterback, may see some action as well.

The two inexperienced signal callers will have to replace graduated senior quarterback Justin Roper, who threw for over 1,800 yards and 19 touchdowns a year ago.

In six appearances last season, Johnson was 15-of-20 passing with 44 yards and one touchdown. Kemp finished second on the team in rushing with 45 carries for 224 yards.

“It is going to be an awesome experience,” Johnson said. “We don’t have anything to lose, we just need to go down there

and play our game and see what happens.”

As far as the running back situation goes, it will be a three-man backfield with juniors Peter Nguyen and Dan Moore, and freshman Jordan Canada.

Nguyen and Moore combined last season for 79 rushing yards, as they played behind the programs all-time leading rusher Chase Reynolds, who led the team last year in rushing yards (982) and receptions (40).

“It might take us multiple running backs for us to achieve our goals,” Pflugrad said.

Offensively, the Grizzlies averaged 31.7 points per game last season, which was fourth in the Big Sky. They also averaged 139.9 rushing yards a game to go along with 233.5 passing yards.

The Griz will be running a hurry-up, spread-option attack on offense.

Defensively, the Grizzlies gave up 22.1 points per game, which was second in the league, as well as giving up 149.8 rushing yards a game and 140 passing yards.

One defensive player that the Vols will have to keep on their radar Saturday will be senior cornerback Trumaine Johnson.

The 6-foot-2 FCS All-American recorded 44 tackles last season and was second on the team with four interceptions, two of which he returned for touchdowns. He will also return kickoffs this year alongside Nguyen, who averaged 24.8 yards per return last season.

The Grizzlies are also very strong at linebacker. The team’s two leading tacklers, Jordan Tripp and Caleb McSurdy, combined last year for 211 tackles (16.5 TFL) and four sacks.

Senior kicker Brody McKnight, who ranks seventh in career scoring at UM with 271 points, connected on 14 of 18 field goals last season, including a career-long of 53 yards.

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“It was a good year, definitely could’ve used some improvement,” Berry said. “Made it to the Pro Bowl, but not how I Sports Editor wanted to, you know. I made it kind of off default. (Baltimore Ravens’ safety) Ed Reed had a family situation he had to tend Soon after being named coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, to and (Pittsburgh Steelers’ safety) Troy Polamalu was playing Derek Dooley created the multi-faceted “Vol for Life” program, in the Super Bowl.” led by former UT defensive back Andre Lott, that focuses on Even with the individual and team success — the Chiefs four areas of personal growth for players: character education, made the playoffs — Berry’s rookie campaign had a learning life skills, career development and spiritual growth. curve.

“When we put in that tag-phrase ‘Vol for Life,’ it’s something “In college, I didn’t get beat too much, especially not for any that’s not a creation, it’s real,” Dooley told The Daily Beacon. touchdowns,” he said. “Somebody might have a catch on me or “These guys, when they leave here, they consider themselves something like that, but I can probably count on one hand how Vols. It’s the whole ‘Once a Vol, many touchdowns. Coming into always a Vol.’” the league (NFL), I got beat for a So what does the term “Vol for few touchdowns, (one) ended up Life” truly mean? winning one game.

“I think it’s one: recognizing “If you’re not built for that, you and appreciating the three-to-four can do two things, you can fold up year experience (players) had at and get discouraged about it or Tennessee, and all that Tennessee you can try to find ways to fix that gave to them,” Dooley said. problem and bounce back. It can “Then, when they leave, there’s a be a lot on a young guy coming in. continual bond that the player has That’s something totally different with the program and that the profor me. I just kept fighting, kept gram has with the player. It’s so watching film, kept working on important not to ever feel a disconmy technique, and I’m still doing nect between program and former that. Just fought throughout the players because they are the ones whole season and had a pretty that made this program the special good year.” program that it is and I’ll always During the NFL lockout this remember that.” summer, Berry hosted numerous youth camps in Atlanta, Ga. near There is no longer a Heisman his hometown of Fairburn and in Trophy campaign.

Knoxville. He also has established Even the large photo on the the “Eric Berry Foundation,” back of Neyland Stadium’s jumwhich restores community parks botron has been replaced. for kids.

But Eric Berry is still very much Yet, despite moving on in his a part of Tennessee football.

File Photo • The Daily Beacon football career, Berry still keeps in “He’s represented this program Eric Berry gets pumped up in a game during the contact with current Vols like Art just tremendously on and off the 2009 season. Berry has done several things Evans, C.J. Fleming, Daryl Vereen field,” coach Derek Dooley said. since leaving UT, inlcuding being a first-round and Prentiss Waggner.

“In fact, he was here this summer “Eric is a guy that was my and I told him how much I appre- pick to the Kansas City Chiefs. recruiting host when I came on a ciated the way he represented this visit to Tennessee,” Waggner place because he’s looked up to by so many young people. It said. “Ever since then, we’ve just had that bond because I’m a helps us in recruiting because when guys are having that kind guy that hangs out with Art Evans and he’s like my big brother, of success on the field and representing that success the right and that’s Eric Berry’s best friend, so we always keep that comway off the field.” munication and stay in touch.”

Berry’s three-year career as a Volunteer from 2007-09 includFor Evans, Berry and he are more than just best friends. ed consensus All-American honors as a sophomore and junior, “That’s my brother,” he said. “I don’t call him my friend, I as well as being named SEC Player of the Year in 2008. He also call him my brother ’cause that’s how close we are since day provided UT fans with a lifetime of memories before beginning one. He’s a very humble guy and at the same time, pretty big a pro career with the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. brother towards demanding and wanting to see you do good ...

“The biggest thing I remember about Tennessee is the fans, It’s a blessing I got to experience and be a part of his life and definitely the fans,” Berry told The Daily Beacon during the watch him do good things and great things at the same time.” summer. “I’m thankful to have fans in Kansas City like the ones And it’s that family-like relationship that extends beyond the in Knoxville. You know, a lot of NFL teams don’t have fans like gridiron that makes Berry a “Vol for Life.” here so I was really hoping I was going somewhere that could “It’s like we’re brothers now, you know,” Berry said. “We at least match up with Tennessee.” spent the time here at the University of Tennessee. It’s like we The Chiefs selected Berry with the fifth overall pick in the built this bond that could never be broken.”

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Fans, Volunteers hopeful despite uncertainty Matt Dixon Sports Editor Derek Dooley has often said throughout the off-season that this football season is built on hope.

Tennessee’s second-year coach knows the team will be counting on many underclassmen this year, but he also knows the freshmen and sophomores who figure prominently on the roster have the ability to compete in the SEC. “I’m a little nervous because of our youth and inexperience, but I feel like we have a competitive talent level,” Dooley said. “It’s not where it needs to be to be a championship football team. Doesn’t mean we can’t win one, but we’ve got some holes. But I think we’re a lot better than we were a year ago. I think it’s fair to say that.

“It doesn’t mean we’re going to win more games, because the other teams might be all better, too.”

The questions surrounding the 2011 Volunteers are plentiful.

Can quarterback Tyler Bray take the steps needed to be among the league’s best signal-callers or will he suffer a sophomore slump? Can the running game be more productive and consistent than it was a year ago? Can the defense get more pressure on opposing quarterbacks, which in turn, leads to a better passing defense? Does UT have a player on its roster who can catch punts?

These are all questions that won’t be answered until the Vols finally take the field in front of 102,000 orangeclad fans.

While there is optimism and excitement throughout Big Orange Country, there is very little comfort.

“I wouldn’t use the word comfortable because there’s so much unknown and unexpected with every first game,” Dooley said. “In many ways, there’s even more unknown going into this game than we had last year because we had more guys that had played last year. We

don’t have very many guys that played so there’s a lot of concern about how we’re going to handle the first time running through the ‘T.’” Even for veteran players, taking part in UT’s pre-game festivities is special leading up to kick-off.

“It’s a different feeling when you strap on these pads, put the jersey on, put the T on your helmet and run through the ‘T.’ The roar of the crowd is something I’ve never experienced before and I was so lucky to come here and experience my first time,” junior receiver Zach Rogers said. “I still get chills every time I run out of the ‘T’ no matter what game it is. It could be home or away.

Even that little bit of faint roar from the crowd on away games, it still gives me chills. We’ve got so many supporters of this program and it’s a very good feeling to be a part of.

“There’s nothing like it. It’s indescribable. It’s definitely a feeling you won’t forget the rest of your life, that first running out of the ‘T.’”

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As the buzz of busy students begins to settle in on campus, the Tennessee football team prepares for a new and better season.

After facing a difficult transition last year, the Volunteers are fired up for the fall and a fresh start. Quarterbacks coach Darin Hinshaw said sophomore starting quarterback Tyler Bray has already made progress this year, and that is what the team needs to succeed.

“We’ve got to continue to get better in the game,” Hinshaw said. “I’m talking about tomorrow get better, the next day get better, don’t worry about too far into the future and all that. Let’s just get better one day at a time.”

Hinshaw said that Bray seemed to understand the offense much better now than in the spring, but that the 6-foot-6, 210-pounder still needed to be ready to go in and make a throw, make a play and not be afraid.

Hinshaw said Bray is in a learning process, and the mistakes and decisions he makes during practice are helping him prepare for the decisions he will make on the field.

“There’s certain situations in games where that decision is going to be points put on the board versus no points on the board, and you got to be smart,” Hinshaw said.

The team is also aware of the importance of Bray’s decisions. Senior tailback Tauren Poole said that although Bray is still a young quarterback, the team needs him to step it up.

“He knows where we have to be as an offense,” Poole said. “He knows that we need him to be on top of his game to be a good offense. We’re definitely making strides and him being a great leader like he is definitely has to come along.”

Behind Bray are senior Matt Simms, freshman Justin Worley and redshirt freshman Nash Nance. Worley was recognized as the Gatorade National High School Player of the Year in 2010 and Simms continues his role as a leader on the team,

despite having lost the starting job to Bray last season.

“Matt understands the game of football really well,” Hinshaw said. “He’s got a lot of family that’s been in football for a long time and he wants to coach afterwards and he understands the game really well. So it’s good to have that kind of guy in the room.”

Simms said he is looking forward to his senior season and possibly scoring wins against some old rivals. Simms also said that although there are a few specific ways he would like to improve, all in all it is just about being a better player every day and improving on the little things.

“I can’t wait to run through the ‘T’ again this season and see those 100,000 fans,” Simms said. “This being my senior year, I’m just looking forward to enjoying it one more time.”

Simms said he and his teammates have been able to work as both a family and a team on and off the field. LSU is on his top list of teams to beat, but Simms said he is really just looking forward to SEC football.

“I definitely want to play LSU after everything that happened (in last year’s game),” Simms said. “I wouldn’t mind seeing North Carolina again in a bowl game, but I can’t wait to play Florida, LSU, Arkansas and Alabama.

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They’re what the SEC is all about.”

Bray is excited about the upcoming year and is confident enough in his team’s ability that he is not afraid to mention the possibility of an SEC Championship or even a national championship. He said the goal is to always improve from last year and get the team and the offense where they need to be.

“Just keeping the team going at a fast tempo,” Bray said. “We seem to play well when we move fast.”

Bray said the team is a big family and that being a family is what keeps the team fired up. He said he is full of confidence in his receivers and in the team as a whole.

“I got all the confidence in the world in them,” Bray said. “I’d trust them with my dog if I had to.”

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Poole, UT run with more expectations Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee coaches made it no secret last season they wanted more production from the running game.

Whether it was a first-year starter at tailback in Tauren Poole or an inexperienced, young offensive line that featured only one returning player with starting experience, the Volunteers’ ground attack finished last in the SEC in rushing offense a year ago, averaging only 109 rushing yards per game.

Still, Poole, now a senior, rushed for over 1,000 yards and returns along with four of the five starting offensive linemen.

“I’m never where I need to be,” Poole said. “I always have room for improvement and that’s every single day.

Our motto for this football team is R.P.C.I: ‘Relentless Pursuit of Continuous Improvement.’ The idea behind that is every day you want to be better, you don’t stay the same, you either get better or you get worse. We, as a football team, and me, as a football player, always try to get better every day.”

With another year of experience, as well as more depth at both running back and on the offensive line, coaches and players are expecting better numbers from the running game to better complement the passing game.

Poole and the offensive line have a goal in mind for this season: get Poole 2,000 rushing yards.

Coach Derek Dooley views it a different way.

“I’ve never been one to put these number goals. That’s great if they have that, but I think it’s a dangerous way to go,” Dooley said.

“I do think you have to be realistic but you always should be shooting for things. We have our goals, in that we know we want to win an SEC and a national championship. It’s good to have that, but your focus can’t be on getting 2,000 yards. Your focus has to be on what we have to do to get that goal. And as long as your focus is on the right stuff, I don’t think it matters what goal you have.”

If Poole doesn’t reach 2,000 yards, it will not necessarily mean he had a disappointing year. Last year, Poole shouldered much of the load at tailback. No other Vol had more than 46 carries or reached 200 rushing yards.

“I’ve always felt like that you need three really good

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runners,” Dooley said. “Everybody wants a Heisman back but you’d prefer to have two. I call them two ones and you roll them. Those two backs carry the load.

That’s what we did when we won the national championship at LSU (in 2003). That’s what I look at a lot of teams now and a lot of teams in the NFL (do). It’s hard because here’s what you have to think about. There are a lot of plays in a game. In the fourth quarter, if you have to run the ball, you want your running back at his best. You can’t have him over there getting oxygen.”

Sophomore Rajion Neal was the team’s second leading rusher last season with 197 yards on the ground.

Early in fall camp, Neal began working some at wide receiver in the slot, a move coaches made to utilize his speed in space more.

The impact freshman running backs Marlin Lane and Tom Smith made during fall camp helped allow coaches to experiment some with Neal.

“Marlin is a little more elusive kind of guy, change of direction,” Dooley said. “Tom is a little more of a ‘hammer-knocker.’ He’s a physical guy. He came from a Wing-T offense. They just teach you in the Wing-T to run straight and you don’t even look up. You just run.

Whoever hits you, you just go. We have to teach him that if there’s a defender there, you’re allowed to do a little (juke) and get on the edge. He hasn’t learned that yet, but he hits and he pushes forward.

“I think they’re going to complement each other very well.

I’m going to tell you what they both have: They’re tough. And that’s a starting point at running back.”

Heading into the season, the starting point for Poole is 2,000 rushing yards, but the senior looking to become just the second tailback in school history with back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons, is looking beyond just the stats.

“I’m trying to be the best leader I can be for this football team ’cause I’m the only senior (starter) on offense,” he said.

“Definitely trying to lead those guys and just get ready to win some football games. Just let them know that I believe in them and that we can win together.”

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JUCO trio making impact with Vols Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee coach Derek Dooley said he likes bringing in “two or three” junior college players in each recruiting class.

This year, he did just that, bringing in defensive tackle Maurice Couch and defensive backs Byron Moore and Izauea Lanier. But unlike most JUCOs, who have only two years of eligibility remaining when they enroll in a division-one school, these three each have three years of eligibility left.

Most JUCOs are expected to contribute, if not start, immediately when they arrive. Though none of UT’s three this year are listed as starters for the season-opener against Montana, all three are expected play big roles for UT’s defense.

Couch was a Junior College AllAmerican last year at Garden City Community College in Kansas. From Orlando, Fla., Couch grew up a Miami fan, and the Hurricanes along with Florida State, South Florida, Ohio State, West Virginia and Kentucky all showed interest in him while in high school, but his sick mom was one of the factors that kept him from qualifying at a division-one school.

“I had a tough high school life,” Couch said. “I was always out of school ’cause my mom was sick and stuff. It was real tough for me to get into school so the next route was junior college.”

Now 6-foot-2, 305 pounds and listed as the back-up at nose tackle, Couch said attending junior college made him a lot more mature as a person.

“I’m very blessed to be here,” Couch said. “From what I came from, I never thought I’d be here. Now that I’m here, it’s awesome and it’s a blessing.”

Like Couch, Lanier was forced to go the junior college route after failing to qualify academically in 2009 when he signed with Auburn. He attended East Mississippi Community College, and again, like Couch, was a Junior College AllAmerican in 2009. He redshirted the 2010 season due to injury before coming to Knoxville this summer. He had played safety for much of his high school and junior college career,

but has been a pleasant surprise for coaches at cornerback.

“He’s making a lot of progress,” coach Derek Dooley said. “He’s not near where we need him to be, but he shows a lot of flashes. He has really good size for a corner. Let’s start with that. He’s instinctive. He has had a great work ethic and attitude.

As long as he stays on that pace, he is going to help us.”

Unlike Couch and Lanier, Moore attended a division-one college out of high school: Southern Cal. After the 2009 season, then-USC coach Pete Carroll left for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. Moore said Carroll was one of the main reasons he wanted to be a Trojan, but he gave new USC and former UT coach Lane Kiffin and his coaching staff a try.

“Once (Carroll) left, it just didn’t feel like I wanted to be there anymore,” Moore said. “I went through the spring, tried the new coaching staff, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I felt like I needed a new situation and a new opportunity somewhere else so I just decided to leave.”

Moore transferred to Los Angeles Harbor Community College and was the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2010. He said his experience at both schools has helped him at UT. “My last two schools I think prepared me real well getting here to this point,” he said. “Seeing the D-I level first off at USC coming out of high school, so already knowing what the expectations was coming to highlevel football like this. Playing at Harbor, our defensive system there was pretty similar to the one I play here now. That was the main reason I came here ’cause I knew I’d play multiple defensive sets and stuff like that.”

Coaches have tried the 6-foot-1, 205-pound Moore at multiple positions in the Vols’ secondary. At the end of fall camp, he was competing for the starting job at nickleback, a position UT will use often this season when it plays five defensive backs.

All three struggled with conditioning early in fall camp, especially Couch, who suffers from asthma, but each worked his way into a playing role in this year’s football team.

Which is exactly why UT signed them.

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Maggitt, Johnson highlight Vols freshmen Many from Class of 2011 expected to contribute early, often for Tennessee this season those guys to grow throughout fall (camp) and through very competitive guy. I see a lot of myself in him and he’s the season.” only a freshman, so he’s going to be great for this program Sports Editor Senior Austin Johnson is the starter at middle linein the years to come.” backer and his veteran presence has helped the two At receiver, early enrollee Vincent Dallas and Every year, incoming freshmen are among the most freshmen ’backers on each side of him DeAnthony talked about players heading into the season. adjust to the college game so quickly.

Arnett have This has been no different this year with Tennessee, “You see these two guys play, they w o rke d especially considering how few upperclassmen UT has don’t act like freshmen and they don’t their way on its roster. play like freshmen,” he said. “They’re into the “I think we’re going to need (freshmen) at just about going to come out here and show people two-deep every position,” coach Derek Dooley said. “If not from a what they have and I’m excited to see for the first starter, from a role guy, from a spell guy and from a guy what they’re going to bring.” g a m e . who can go out there and push the guy ahead of them to Still, the two will make their fair share While the be better. It’s hard to say you’re not going to need them of mistakes as freshmen. two don’t in some capacity.”

“Despite what guys on our staff think, bring the Based on the depth chart for the season opener I’m not ready to anoint them as Lawrence s i z e against Montana, the Volunteers will be using freshmen Taylor,” Dooley said.

Da’Rick early and often. Fourteen true freshmen are listed in the Coleman, who enrolled at UT in Rogers, team’s two-deep, including three starters on defense: January and participated in spring pracJ u s t i n linebackers Curt Maggitt and A. J. Johnson and cornertice, was locked in a battle with junior Hunter and back Justin Coleman.

M a t t Maggitt and Johnson garnered praises throughout fall Marsalis Teague for the second cornerback spot before Janzen Jackson’s disMilton did camp after showing up looking physically ready to play missal last week.

With Prentiss Waggner last year, in the SEC. moving back to free safety to fill Jackson’s Dallas and “They’re doing really well, picking it up real well as void, Coleman now moves into a starter’s Arnett are quick as they have has been impressive,” defensive coorrole. more shifty dinator Justin Wilcox said. “(Linebackers coach) Peter “Justin has done well,” Dooley said. and elusive Sirmon has done an awesome job working with those “He’s made progress. He’s not near where receivers guys. When they step onto the field, they don’t act like he needs to be to be a good, dependable who are freshmen. It’s a good thing because when you play the starter in this league, but the only thing expected to teams we’re going to play, they could care less if you’re a that is going to get him there is time and play in the freshman or a senior. Getting them acclimated quickly experience.

We have confidence in him, slot this has been a huge thing for us and we’ll continue to expect but he’s year. going to “Vincent have some a n d growing George Richardson • The Daily Beacon pains out DeAnthony, True freshman running back Marlin Lane signs a hat at there. He’s they were UT’s media day on Aug. 14. Lane was impressive during been there all fall camp and is listed as the No. 2 running back on the doing s u m m e r Vols’ depth chart for the Montana game. good.” and they On the look real other side of the ball, a good,” Da’Rick Rogers said. “They are showing a lot of handful of freshmen have promise for us.” turned some heads, startTwo other potential freshmen pass-catchers are tight ing with Marlin Lane. ends Brendan Downs and Cameron Clear.

The tailback has worked Like Coleman and Dallas, Downs arrived at UT in his way up to No. 2 on the January and was the team’s No. 2 tight end coming out of depth chart and is also in spring practice. Both he and Clear are listed in the team’s the mix to return punts. two-deep, which isn’t surprising given how much two and “I think Marlin has a three tight end sets Dooley and offensive coordinator Jim calm about him that most Chaney prefer to use. freshmen don’t have,” “They’re either going to help us or hurt us. They’re Dooley said. going to do something,” Dooley said. “They’re going to George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Senior tailback Tauren have to play because we don’t have anybody else.”

A.J. Johnson and Curt Maggitt talk at media day during team photos on Sunday, Poole said Lane has shown Fortunately for the Vols, they have depth at other posiAug. 14. Johnson and Maggitt are believed to be the first true freshmen to start at “a lot of maturity” for a tions, allowing some freshmen to develop more and not be linebacker in the history of UT football. freshmen and the hype sur- counted on as much as Downs and Clear. rounding him is Other true freshmen listed in UT’s two-deep or who “deserved.” could see significant snaps this year include running “He’s a very humble backs Tom Smith and Devrin Young, offensive linemen guy,” Poole said. “He just Antonio Richardson and Marcus Jackson and safety Brian wants to compete. He’s a Randolph.

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Talented, young wideouts now more dedicated the slot, and is looking to play a bigger role for Tennessee that.”

Tennessee welcomes freshmen DeAnthony Arnett and this year, no matter what that means.

Assistant Sports Editor “Me, I just try to come out here every day with the Vincent Dallas as well. Arnett was a four-star prospect, Tennessee has some work to do in rebuilding its receiv- mindset to get better, try to improve as a player and make according to Rivals.com. He was rated as the No. 12 this wide receiver corps the best corps on the team and receiver in the nation for the class of 2011. Dallas, an ing corps, but it has the tools to do it.

The Vols’ top receivers from last year, Denarius Moore improve the team the best I can,” he said. “If they want Ellenwood, Ga. native, was rated as a three-star prospect Da’Rick in the slot or Justin in the slot, I’ll slide out and by most major recruiting organizations. and Gerald Jones, as well as tight “They’ve got all the stuff you can’t coach: speed, hands play outside. It’s whatever they need, whatever this end Luke Stocker, all departed and stuff like that,” Milton said. “They’re going to be offense needs.” for the NFL, taking nearly Sophomore receiver Matt Milton praised Rogers for his pretty good.”

2,000 yards, 141 catches With importance to the and 15 touchdowns from Tyler Bray team as a player and last year with them. now seen as a mentor.

Important returnone of the “Zach knows ers, which better quareverything, so include Allterbacks in when we’re S E C the SEC, stuck we go Fre s h m a n the receivto him,” t e a m ing corps is Milton said. selechoping to “He’s helped me tions help the with everything Justin offense be and just learning Hu n t e r the bright how to get out a n d spot for the there and putDa’Rick Vols. ting it on the Ro ge rs , “As a field.” and junwhole, as Da’Rick ior Zach an offense, Rogers, a 6-footRogers, are we’re click3, 215-pound committed to ing right s o p h o m o re , not having a drop-off, n o w , ” had more though.

R o g e r s r u s h e s “This year, we all buckled said. “Bray t h a n down and learned the playknows all recepbook,” Rogers said. “We really Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon t h e tions learned the offense and how the l a s t Zach Rogers and Justin Hunter celebrate during a game against Florida on r e c e i v e r s , defenses play in the SEC.” s e a - Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. The two receivers look to step up from last year and even down George Richardson • The Daily Beacon Hunter and Zach Rogers are to the backson, as help lead the offense.

UT’s top returning receivers, ups with the Vols were lookwith 415 and 207 yards, respectively.

Simms and Worley.

They’re all good, we feel like.

We’re ing for ways to use him, but now is one of the main wideHunter had his breakout performance with a 110-yard gelling together right now.” game against Georgia. He proved to be a touchdown outs for UT. According to offensive coordinator Jim Chaney, the “Da’Rick has his moments that he’s very good and machine, scoring five touchdowns in the last five games recipe for success is simple for his receivers. sometimes, he’s not around very often,” coach Derek of the season on just six catches, and producing a UT “Run good routes, catch balls and go score touchDooley said. “We’re looking for Da’Rick to become a more freshman record of seven for the season.

Zach Rogers did most of his damage last season in the consistent performer. He flashes his physical abilities downs,” Chaney said. “It’s a simple deal for them.” first four games, while filling in for an injured Jones in quite often, but we need him to be consistently doing

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Neyland Stadium hosts last year’s season opener against UT-Martin. This year the stadium will greet Montana fans for the home opener Saturday, with kickoff time of 6 p.m.

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1. Alabama

6. LSU

The Coaches’ and Associated Press polls are ready to doubt the power of Alabama and the SEC, by picking Oklahoma at No. 1, but here at The Daily Beacon, we’re not so easily swayed. Alabama lost quarterback Greg McElroy, former Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and talented wideout Julio Jones to the NFL, but the Crimson Tide will survive and thrive.

Trent Richardson is poised to have a breakout year, finally being the No. 1 guy in the Tide’s backfield, and the third best defense in the nation last year returns 10 starters. Until a team outside the SEC wins a BCS National Championship, there’s no reason the best team in the conference shouldn’t be ranked No. 1 in the country.

One of the most talented football teams, year in and year out, LSU and coach Les Miles are no strangers to crazy finishes. Just look back at the Tennessee game last year. Despite losing some key players, especially on defense, the Bayou Bengals simply reload with more talented players. A late-night brawl earlier this month has LSU starting quarterback Jordan Jefferson suspended indefinitely, and his status for the season-opener against Oregon and the rest of the season is up in the air.

2. Oklahoma Seriously, when was the last time the Sooners weren’t considered a preseason top-five team and national title contenders? Bob Stoops once again has a talented squad that’s projected by many to win the Big 12. Led by quarterback Landry Jones and an explosive passing game, OU has won four of the last five Big 12 titles. The Sooners do have to face Florida State, Texas and Oklahoma State all on the road, but Stoops has his team poised for another conference title and potential national championship.

3. Boise State Boise State nearly broke the non-BCS barrier and earned a national title spot last year, and looks to finally get the job done. Kellen Moore, who finished with the best passer rating in the nation last season (182.6) leads one of the country’s most prolific offenses into new territory as the Broncos make their debut in the Mountain West Conference with the likes of TCU. Boise opens the season against Georgia in Atlanta.

4. Oregon The Ducks fell three points shy in last year’s national title game to Auburn. This year, the fast-tempo offense of Chip Kelly is back, led by quarterback Darron Thomas and running back LaMichael James. Oregon plays one of the biggest games of the college football season against LSU in Dallas to kick off the season. Games in back-to-back weeks in November against Stanford and USC also pose a challenge if the Ducks want to make it back to a BCS bowl game.

5. Wisconsin It may not be the most exciting football to watch, but Wisconsin gets it done. The odds-makers are giving the nod to the Badgers to repeat as Big Ten champions and return to the BCS to avenge a 21-19 loss to TCU in the Rose Bowl. Wisconsin’s three-headed rushing monster loses one of its key components in John Clay, but James White and Montee Ball look to keep the Badgers’ bread-and-butter running offense going. The addition of former North Carolina State quarterback Russell Wilson makes the Badgers a national title contender, if they weren’t already.

7. Stanford Finishing last season on an eight-game win streak, including a dominating 40-12 Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech, and keeping what would have been the top pick of the NFL Draft in quarterback Andrew Luck, the Cardinals are riding high heading into this season. Stanford has to beat out Oregon, its only loss last year, to win the new Pac 12 North division if they hope to return to the BCS. The Cardinals host Notre Dame to end the season.

8. Oklahoma State The Cowboys’ 11-2 record last year was one of their best in recent memory. A tough loss to Oklahoma in the regular-season finale kept them out of the Big 12 championship game, and Oklahoma could once again keep them from their BCS hopes in the single-division format this year. Senior quarterback Brandon Weeden returns to lead an offense that averaged 346 passing yards per game last season — good for second best in the country — and over 44 points a game.

9. Florida State Florida State finds its way into the Top 25 seemingly every year and hasn’t lived up to expectations in the past few seasons. A 9-4 record last year showed improvement, but the Seminoles have a tough schedule to deal with, including out-of-conference foes in Oklahoma and Florida. Even if they can win the ACC Atlantic division, they’ll have to conquer Virginia Tech, who’s had a stranglehold on the league’s BCS spot as of late.

10. South Carolina Last year, Steve Spurrier finally broke through in Columbia as the Gamecocks won the SEC East. This year, Carolina is expected to be even more improved. The Ole Ball Coach has arguably the best running back/wide receiver combo in the country with Marcus Lattimore in the backfield and Alshon Jeffery on the outside. Quarterback Stephen Garcia has had a rocky career, but now a fifth-year senior, Garcia is the most experienced returning signal-caller in the SEC. The Gamecocks also will field an underrated defense under defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson. Can Spurrier work his magic again and win back-to-back Eastern division crowns?

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Waggner leads versatile secondary Defensive backs ready to move on, showcase talents without Jackson lot of different things, and he makes us hard to figure out as a defense because you don’t really know what he’s going to play.”

Managing Editor Waggner was penciled in as one of the team’s two starting corIt seems defensive backs can be easily forgotten. When asked nerbacks, but with Jackson’s dismissal, Waggner will fill the void to name the greatest defensive players in football history, names at free safety.

Along with his versatility, Waggner is blessed with an extraorthat come to mind for fans are often linemen or linebackers like Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White or Mike Singletary, which can dinary work ethic, stemming from his enjoyment of the game.

“I just take pride in learning football, man,” Waggner said. “I cause some players like “Night Train” Lane or Darrell Green to just love the game of football. I love the schemes. One thing I fall to the wayside. But for the Tennessee Volunteers this year, enjoy learning is the scheme of football.” their defensive backs will be far from a secondary thought.

Holding down the other safety position will be sophomore With the advent of the spread offense in today’s college football landscape, the importance of a strong core of cornerbacks Brent Brewer, who brings a sense of toughness and physicality.

“Brewer being a physical knocker is really going to help us and safeties is more important than ever to a team’s success.

While pressuring the quarterback and stopping the run will out,” Joseph said. “You can blitz him, and you know what, he’s not bad in coverage, either.” always be a vital part of any The third returning team’s winning chances, starter for the Vols is with NFL-type receivers Marsalis Teague, a convertlike Alshon Jeffery at South ed wide receiver, who startCarolina, Greg Childs at ed eight games last year.

Arkansas and Rueben A fresh face in the secondRandle at LSU present on ary will be freshman Justin UT’s schedule, the secondColeman, an early enrollee, ary becomes one of the who will be the first true most important units on freshman to start in the UT the team. secondary since Eric Berry With the exception of in 2007. While as a freshman one player, the core Coleman lacks game experistarters from last season’s ence, he has a skill that has unit return. That one playdefensive coordinator Justin er, however, was not just Wilcox raving about his the secondary’s best player, potential. but the overall team’s best “He is very competitive, as well: Janzen Jackson. which that is the No. 1 thing Jackson’s departure came I like about the guy,” Wilcox on the heels of a turbulent said. “He’s continued to off-season for the All-SEC show he’s a willing tackler, a performer, who was away physical guy, he can run, and from the team for “personI expect Justin to get better al reasons” for nearly five really fast.” months and was ultimately Providing depth for the dismissed last week. But Vols are returning players, hope is not lost for the such as senior Art Evans at Vols, who will rely on their File Photo • The Daily Beacon returning leadership and Brent Brewer breaks up a pass to a Kentucky wide receiver cornerback and junior Rod new talent to keep the sec- on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Brewer looks to step up for the Wilks at strong safety. In addition, junior college ondary going strong.

Vols’ secondary this season. transfers Izauea Lanier and One such leader is Byron Moore are expected Prentiss Waggner. to see significant playing time this fall.

Waggner shares many similarities with the departed Jackson: In the end, coach Derek Dooley wants consistency and abiliBoth are from Louisiana, both are juniors and both are ballhawks. For Waggner, last season was a coming out party of sorts. ty from his defensive backs.

“If the ball is in the air and you’re there, you have to make the His five interceptions, three returned for touchdowns, and nine play,” Dooley said. “There are a lot of good corners out there who pass deflections led to him being named to the All-SEC team. His best trait, though, might be his versatility, which allows him to everything looks good but the guy makes the catch. At the end of play multiple positions in the secondary as the team needs him. the day, you have to make the play. You’re going to get beat some.

“Prentiss is a ‘Joe-Do-It-All,’” defensive backs coach Terry They’re going to catch some balls. But you have to have some Joseph said. “… He just gives us the ability to mix and match a playmaking ability.”

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Martin, Poole fight through adversity story with Ben. He almost gave it up with the two Achilles’ (injuries). I told The last time Ben Martin him my situation was nothplayed a football game was ing like his ’cause he the 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl could’ve let it go.”

Martin said standing on against Virginia Tech.

In that game, Tauren the sidelines a season ago in Poole, then UT’s fourth- what would’ve been his senstring running back, gained ior season and watching his teammates was difficult.

15 yards on three carries.

“It was tough to be part Now, 20 months later, Martin and Poole are both of the team, but you can’t listed as starters for the help them in the way that Volunteers’ season-opener you want to help them by against Montana — Martin being out there and competat defensive end and Poole ing,” Martin said. “You kind of lose at taily o u r back. identity But and lose there was who you a time a r e neither of because t h e m you’ve thought been a they’d be football playing player football for so at UT long and their sento be a ior searegular sons. guy, it’s For differMartin, it ent.”

– Tauren Poole, UT running was two t o r n back, on dealing with adversity Another Achilles’ thing tendons, different one during fall camp last year and the other in for Martin is the type of February during off-season player he is. After coming to workouts. For Poole, it was UT as a highly ranked passthe thought of transferring rusher listed at 230 pounds, after sitting on the bench the 6-foot-4 Martin now behind younger players weighs 265 pounds and is when he believed he much better in run support.

Still, Martin’s biggest deserved the opportunity impact on the team has been during the 2009 season.

“Exact same thing,” his perseverance through his Poole said of the two’s jour- adversity.

“Ben’s a leader. He just neys. “Me and Ben talk a lot. wants to be out there,” (We’re) kind of the same person: been through a lot of Poole said. “He’s an inspiradversity, faced a lot, never ing guy. Guys want to follow gave up and we just keep his lead and he wants to lead fighting. It’s an incredible as best as he can.”

Matt Dixon

Sports Editor

“

(We’re) kind

of the same person:

been through a lot of

adversity, faced a lot,

never gave up and we just keep fighting.

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Friday, September 2, 2011

Expect Vols to improve despite tough schedule Matt Dixon Sports Editor Tennessee is more talented and has more quality depth than a year ago.

But the Volunteers will also be less experienced and face a more difficult schedule. While out of conference UT trades Oregon for Cincinnati, in the SEC, the Vols face the three best teams from the Western division: LSU, Alabama and Arkansas, with only LSU at home.

Clay Seal Asst. Sports Editor Tennessee comes into this season with way more experience on the offensive side, but way less on the defensive side.

Still, all signs point to this year being better than the last.

In what coach Derek Dooley is calling “Year One,” he faces a much tougher route to make some headway in the SEC and return to a bowl game.

The two biggest determining factors in UT’s season will be the running game on offense and the front seven on defense.

Quarterback Tyler Bray and the passing game will be explosive, but depending on mostly underclassmen, the air attack will have its ups and downs throughout the year, and will need its counterpart to pick up the slack, something it failed to do last year.

The ground attack should be improved, but by how much? Senior Tauren Poole returns, as do four of the five starters along the offensive line. The talented, but young offensive line should become one of the team’s best units if it gels as many expect.

Finding a number two tailback to complement Poole is crucial. Freshman Marlin Lane is expected to get the first shot and could provide a spark miss-

ing from last year’s team.

Defensively, the Vols return just one of their front seven from last year: All-SEC senior defensive tackle Malik Jackson. Sophomore defensive end Jacques Smith will have a breakout year — if healthy — and should be considered for all-conference recognition at season’s end. The injury that will sideline outside linebacker Herman Lathers for at least the first month of the season is a big loss to a unit that was arguably the team’s biggest question mark at the beginning of fall camp. The emergence of freshmen ’backers Curt Maggitt and A. J. Johnson have softened that blow some, but it’s hard to replace a junior, All-SEC linebacker, regardless of how talented the two freshmen are.

Before the dismissal of free safety Janzen Jackson, the team’s best player by a wide margin, I

When South Carolina is projected to win the SEC East, I interpret that as the East being wide open. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the Vols play the top three teams from the SEC West: They host LSU and travel to Alabama and Arkansas.

A youthful but now experienced offense, led by sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray and senior tailback Tauren Poole, looks to knock a few teams off their feet and put up a lot of points with a balanced attack.

Poole is one of four returning SEC 1,000-yard rushers from last season. For a still-young offense, Poole must put up the same numbers, but in a more consistent fashion. He had six 100-yard games in 2010, but he also had four games with under 60 yards.

The Tennessee defense is where the questions lie.

The side’s best player Janzen Jackson got booted from the team. Curt Maggit and A. J. Johnson are believed to be the first true freshmen to ever start the season-opener at linebacker for UT. First Team All-SEC tackle Malik Jackson is the only returner in the front seven.

The Vols’ most important game of the first four comes against Cincinnati. Yes, bigger than the road trip to Florida. And if I weren’t scared of being called a homer, I’d say Cincinnati may hold the key to the whole season. Remember, just two years ago the Bearcats were in the Big 12 title game and were a few ticks of the clock away from playing for a national title. They’re definitely not the same team, nor do they have now-Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, but there are still some guys with that big-time experi-

was predicting eight wins for the Vols, with a victory in the Swamp over Florida. Still, UT is clearly on the upswing in Derek Dooley’s second year, but the Vols are still a year away from truly competing for an SEC title. However, the SEC East is as wide open as it’s ever been, and an upset (or two) could really help propel UT into the 2012 season, when it should be a legitimate title contender.

Record: 7-5 (3-5 SEC) Wins: Montana, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Georgia, Middle Tennessee State, Vanderbilt and Kentucky Losses: Florida, LSU, Alabama, South Carolina and Arkansas Bowl game: Gator Bowl

ence who make Cincinnati dangerous.

Long story short, the Vols could definitely lose this game. But they also could win it. A loss would be disastrous, in terms of momentum and confidence. The first two weeks of the season represent the only favorable two-week stretch for the Vols until they finish off with Vanderbilt and Kentucky. They have to take care of business then if they’re going to do anything above themselves this season.

Record: 8-4 (4-4 SEC) Wins: Montana, Cincinnati, Florida, Buffalo, South Carolina, MTSU, Vanderbilt and Kentucky Losses: Georgia, LSU, Alabama and Arkansas Bowl game: Liberty Bowl

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The Vols take the field before facing off against UT-Martin on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2010.