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KNOXVILLE — You figured Tennessee quarterback Matt Simms would have watched his game-winning touchdown pass to Denarius Moore against UAB about 92,000 times by the time Monday’s media luncheon rolled around.

After all, it was a perfect throw at a perfect time to save the Volunteers’ season. With a loss to the Blazers, they would have headed to Baton Rouge this weekend with a 1-3 record. Let the Vols vanish against UAB and the Big Orange Nation might have called it quits, failing to fill up Neyland Stadium for any game the rest of the season save Alabama.

Vols get set to go into great unknown



The Tennessee Volunteers take their first Road trip to LSU this Saturday.



                                   

                                    Vols get set to go into great unknown

                                                       By Chris Low

Tennessee coach Derek Dooley won’t take the maximum 70 players to LSU this weekend.

The Vols were already well under the scholarship limit in terms of players, and they’ve incurred several injuries in their first four games. Dooley said there would probably be approximately 66 players on the trip, and he joked that 30 of those had never been on a road trip at Tennessee before.

“You don’t know what’s going to happen,” Dooley said.

“Just think about when you got in the car with your four buddies and you’ve never been on a road trip before and you hit the highway. Man, you don’t know what’s going to happen because you don’t know these guys. That’s what we got.”

Here We Go ! Spring Ball right around the corner

A brand new year means a fresh new start. Spring signifies new life and new beginnings, a start of a new season. Hopefully, with New Coach Derek Dooley, this spring can get off to a good start and prove to be productive. Spring ball is set to start March 18 with the annual Orange and White game right around the corner on April 17.