Team 120 - 2016 Tennessee Volunteers Football Thread

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Warrior is Vols' lone Freshman All-SEC pick

 

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Tennessee-Nebraska Among Most Expensive Bowl Tickets | Rocky Top Insider

Tennessee sold out its allotment within a couple of weeks after the announced pairing against Nebraska (9-3), and Scott Ramsey of the Music City Bowl recently confirmed that there are less than 500 available total tickets remaining for the game.

That interest has made this a tougher ticket than some expected. According to the website Ticket IQ, the Music City Bowl is the fourth-most expensive selling ticket ($178 average) this college football postseason among non-playoff matchups. Only the Sugar, Orange and Rose Bowls – all New Year’s Six bowls – currently have tickets being offered for a higher average price.

 

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--It's been a really productive couple of weeks. We've gotten numerous reps for guys who didn't get reps throughout the year. It's important to let them go home for a few days and be around their families. Our game plan is in place so if we had to play the game tomorrow we'd be able to do that.

--Venzell Boulware will not be available for the bowl game due to academics. Venzell is a great young man. He'll be better for it. He can still practice and he's had one of the best bowl practices, but due to academics, he will not be available. This should not affect him in spring practice. Boulware was the only academic casualty.

--On conversations about transfers: It's that time of the year and that's becoming the norm for college football but I've not had any of those conversations with any of our players and my door is always open. There are always individuals sometimes looking around because they want time to play more, but I've not had any of those conversations to date with any of our players.

--Derek Barnett has had one of the best bowl preparations he's had. Cam Sutton has not been 100% but he's out here every day grinding through it. The team is very, very important to him. Alvin Kamara -- you look at all these individuals, they've had good bowl preparations and I'm very proud of them.

--This is still about team 120 but it's also a great opportunity for individuals like Marcus Tatum who didn't get a lot of reps throughout the course of the season -- Brandon Johnson at wide receiver. Some true freshmen like Tyler Byrd and Jeff George, who have played, it's an opportunity to go back to fundamentals and fine details of what it takes to play winning football.

--We did some live tackling and things we've never done in bowl preparation before but I felt our entire football team needed it.

--We're playing a very good football team [Nebraska] that has been a top-10 team most of the year. They're very physical and they don't beat themselves. They don't turn the football over. We have to play a game comprised of discipline and fundamentals and details. We've gone back to ground one teaching, and our players are responding.

--Nothing has changed with Dave Hart. He was at practice today. He's in my office just like normal, so there's been no change.

--Alexis Johnson and Daniel Bituli, and we talked about Marcus Tatum, are getting an inordinate amount of reps. With Bituli, the more he plays the more he's gonna become more comfortable with the scheme. With Alexis, he's getting into game condition. I've been very pleased with those individuals.

--There was an individual here waiting to speak with Derek Barnett the other day and he didn't want to speak with him because he didn't want to miss his workout. He's very driven. Derek approaches this bowl preparation as another opportunity to get better, another opportunity to perfect his craft, and another opportunity to get stronger in the weight room. Those elements speak volumes for what Derek Barnett stands for.

--Jack Jones has had a very good two weeks of preparation. And getting Dylan Wiesman back has helped us.

- Butch Jones

 

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