Posted by VolFan_stuck_in_FL on June 2, 2008 at 7:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Gotta get my kid in that Camp next yr

Posted by mempuss on June 2, 2008 at 7:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Was Billy Clyde not there to commit some 5th and 6th graders for his 2021 class?

Posted by WorkinLikeHeck on June 2, 2008 at 7:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Pearl is a God! Book IT!!!!!

Posted by RichRollin on June 2, 2008 at 8:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Had I not already invested so much in my son's B-day he would be there this year, but going next year gives us something to look forward to. Billy Gillespie is so infactuated with young boys, I can't help but wonder if his obsession goes deeper than B-Ball. I guess I was wrong for that, but I can't stand the man!!! GOVOLS.

Posted by ncvol on June 2, 2008 at 8:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Great experience for these young basketball players. Hope they learn and have some fun at it.
Go Vols....

Posted by murrayvol on June 2, 2008 at 9:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Pearl tells the concessionaires to hustle.

Posted by pearlific on June 2, 2008 at 9:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I saw Billy Gillespie hanging out in the parking lot smoozing some third graders before their moms picked them up.

Posted by Hunter on June 3, 2008 at midnight (Suggest removal)

Um, how old is too old to get in a camp with BP? Can some washed-up, never-was ball players like myself get in on this?!? I could TOTALLY school some 8 year-olds. Then BP would be like "Whoa, you got any eligibility left?" I'd of course have at least one year I could dedicate to getting the Vols to the Final Four. Then, Billy Packer says "SEND IT IN BIG FELLA" as I dunk over all 5 Memphis fools in front of me.

Man, I must be dreaming. Memphis ain't making it to the Final Four next year....

Posted by budrhon on June 3, 2008 at 12:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Pearl tells the Campers, gather round while I tell you about Travis Henry.

Posted by dvols on June 3, 2008 at 12:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)

two fingers round. three fingers down! whats ya color. orange mound!

Posted by mparker on June 3, 2008 at 1:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)

hunter, that is actually a clever idea. wonder how many vol fans would fork over a few hundred bukcs for a week of 'real' coaching?? all for charity, of course.

if anyone knows people at UTAD, might be worth a mention...and would get tons of press. another benefit is it would create ambassadors for the team.

just a thought.

Posted by mparker on June 3, 2008 at 1:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)

bte, notice the blurb on Scotty?? Vol fans gotta be aware the kid is not a Derrick Rose or Kevin Love or whatever.

My take after reading this board (brad summey, you out there??) is that Scotty is very athletic, but may needs the polish. I'd look for him to take a couple of years (at least) to develop. Look at Tyler, who is still here working on his game (a very smart kid, IMHO.)

Posted by DenmarkVol on June 3, 2008 at 2:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Whoa -- what's that last line? A little gossip from a pickup game? If there's any truth to that, that Hopson's "defense needs work," he is without question coming to the right program. If there's any truth at all to that, it will get fixed in a hurry.

Defense from the 2 spot important to this team? Bruce will coach him to be a monster on defense or he will sit.

Posted by RichRollin on June 3, 2008 at 5:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Mparker, gotta disagree with ya. Hopson is the man. He went in to the all american games as #9 player in the country. He came out of those games #5 player nationally, enough said!!

Posted by GreerVol22 on June 3, 2008 at 7:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)

$10 says the little kid in the blue shirt has to run wind sprints 'cause he's not wearing orange.

Posted by HotlantaVol on June 3, 2008 at 8:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I love how in all the picture captions, they have misspelled Boling in Thompson-Boling Arena. Classic.

Posted by brokebackvol on June 3, 2008 at 8:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)

C'mon Griff - you should know that there is no such thing as a "Hyper" building on the UT Campus. It is the HPER Building. Accuracy and spelling counts in journalism.

Posted by King53 on June 3, 2008 at 8:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I love how Pearl brings in former Vols and his coaching tree as often as he can. He really reaches out to everyone and wants to build a legacy. People will talk about Coach Pearl years and years after he retires from here because of the number of people he touches and influences. Sometimes I can not believe he is our coach. We are VERY lucky. GO VOLS!!!

Posted by hoskinsfive on June 3, 2008 at 9:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)

wonder if there is a future vol in that bunch? Their a bunch of home grown tennessee kids with ORANGE in their blood.

Posted by b_neas on June 3, 2008 at 10:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)

They need to get Lang Wiseman involved again. He was Dane Bradshaw before Dane was there!!

Posted by THE_VOL on June 3, 2008 at 10:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)

A slow day for sure when NITWIT has the truest post on the board! Couple things:

It's amazing that so many supposedly grown adults get all jacked up over a KIDS camp! As for facts, the "assistants" do VERY little at these things. The GA's do most of the work before and during camp. As for BP "bringing" "coaches" in - well, most of the "names" you see in this article are "working" the camp in return for their kids participating in it. I promise you BP does NOT sit around calling people asking them to come work his camp. I love BP to death but some of you hero-worshipers need to get a grip.

Now, on to Hopson. Forget all that ratings crap cause come October it won't mean squat. I'm sure most of you will get all hyped when he lights up that street ball league a few times but the plain fact is he is NOT a savior. DENMARKVOL - name the last player BP sat down because of weak defense?????? This is an OFFENSIVE oriented system and if a guy can put it in the hole he ain't sittin' cause he's not a great defender. (see Chris Lofton).

Next, there are a couple of those incoming freshman that you better wait til the ink is dry on their enrollment papers before you get your panties in a wad. Two of 'em may never participate here if they don't get their academics cleared up in a hurry.

Finally - ASHLEY - 91 days til football in TN??? WHO CARES???? IT'S BEEN 3,465 DAYS SINCE THEY WON A TITLE!!!!!

Posted by brownsvillevol on June 3, 2008 at 12:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

THE_VOL i know some say you are very negative but you hit the nail on the head except for ashley's countdown. we should all get excited for football time in tennessee no matter how many days it's been since we've won a title. you can say that stuff all you want but you know you will watch and root for the vols.

Posted by ncvol on June 3, 2008 at 12:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Well Ashley, as you know the mighty Lady Vols basketball program has won the national Championship the last 2 years and have 8 in all total. Hope the guys go pass the sweet 16 next season.
By the way, I love the football count down.Go Vols.

Posted by brownsvillevol on June 3, 2008 at 2:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)

the point i think ashley is trying to make is we have some fans here that want everyone to not get excited about football because fulmer is still coaching,when it wouldn't matter who was coaching or playing. a true fan of the vols is like being married "for better or for worse til' death do us part".

Posted by thesavageorange on June 3, 2008 at 2:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I hope Bruce stays long enough to become the AD someday.A person that demands the best gets the best.

Posted by THE_VOL on June 3, 2008 at 3:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Hey Ashley - change that chant to:

91 DAYS TIL THE PERFECT STORM - PART II!!!

When November rolls around and the tickets are once again FREE on Neyland Drive, don't say I didn't warn you! Just for the record though I DO support the VOLS PLAYERS and would be ecstatic if I was dead wrong on my prediction as it would once again prove that determined youngsters can achieve greatness DESPITE pi$$ poor leadership!

Posted by mjohnsonvols on June 3, 2008 at 4:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Amen Ashley Fulmer is the best.
Forever since the MENS basketball team has made it to the elite 8, final four, or National Champion.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 3, 2008 at 5:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ashley I hope you were joking about the best coaches in the country. According to rivals our staff doesn't rate in the top 25 in the country. I love coach Fulmer but he is not the best coach in the country and to believe that is just ignorant.

Posted by brownsvillevol on June 3, 2008 at 5:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)

rusty4 can you name all of the coaches that have won a national championship in the last ten years? if you can then you will see that phillip fulmers name is right there and some of the coaches that rivals has ahead of him haven't even won a divisional championship much less a national one. plus rivals only gives an opinion that is up to you wether you accept it or not. i don't think they have ever predicted the national champion correctly.

Posted by ncvol on June 3, 2008 at 7:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Back to the article. These future players are there to be with UT men's basketball players and coaches to learn in the process. They are precious children that love the game. Hope they have a successful camp.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 3, 2008 at 10:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ashley you are ignorant and i expect you wouldn't no a zone blitz from a 1211 full court press. you bleed orange and i think that is great, but the simple fact is you are a sheep. you just follow coach without question and that is simple minded. if we don't hold our coaches accountable then there is no reason for them to excel. coach fulmer has had the blessing of great recruits over his time as head coach. now we can say he is a great recruiter but lets be honest, when you are at UT, UGA, UF, USC, Texas, OU and the other big boy programs its not that hard to get great recruits. the bottom line is pearl has more sec championships the last 3 years than fulmer does the last 10. i hope coach gets us back to the promise land but i doubt he will. just like bowden and paterno the game has past him by. bowden and paterno are football coaches im sure you've never heard of. anyway they're old and not very good anymore. what pearl has done with the mediocre talent he has had is more impressive than anything fulmer has done in 16 years. if fulmer had won it all with mediocre players it would be different but the '98 team had 14 guys who played on sundays(thats when the nfl plays). look pearl is about to finally have great talent and if he starts finishing middle of the SEC every year with it then i will question him. but so far pearl is prospering with lemons and fulmer is treading water with super stars. having said all this i hope that they both go undefeated next year. i see a better chance of it happening in basketball for us and no NCAA team has went undefeated since 1979. i guess that tells you about my faith in the football staff. i love fulmer but at some point we have to demand excellence again and stop being satisfied with the outback, cotton, peach, or citrus bowl. and hey im getting tired of sweet 16's also but pearl has a few more years to assemble the kind of talent we have in football. go vols and lets demand the best.

Posted by KingsportVol on June 3, 2008 at 10:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Good stuff Rusty.

Posted by KingsportVol on June 3, 2008 at 10:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Good stuff Rusty.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 3, 2008 at 11:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

by the way quoting rivals isn't ignorant. it might be stupid in your opinion but it is not uninformed. actually rivals informs people defeating the idea if ignorance. you dont have to like it but the only people that think fulmer is best coach in the ncaa are the UT fans who are just sheep and don't question anything. its not just rivals, its every magazine or analist assosiated with college football. but i guess they are all wrong and you the UT fan that has orange tinted glasses and can't see objectivly is the one with the balanced perspective.

Posted by KingsportVol on June 3, 2008 at 11:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Rusty ever spend anytime in Johnson City?

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 12:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)

i live in kingsport. yes i spend plenty of time in johnson city. cooks valley off of memorial blvd.

Posted by VolsRyourmaster on June 4, 2008 at 10:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Why the hate? We have a Great Sports program at UT. Makes me think there are closet/stealth Hokie fans running amuck on this board(Whining)Give Fulmer a chance this year, right now the record is 0-0 for 08. Bruce is a B-Ball God and Pat takes care of business year after year...its a Great time to be a Vol!!

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 11:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)

you KNOW you are right. i should KNOW better than to make a mistake typing because that shows how uninformed i am. once again me calling someone ignorant doesn't mean i think they are stupid it means they aren't informed of all the issues. they put their head in the sand and don't hold their hero's accountable.

i am the biggest UT fan you will find. i can name every starters number on the last 5 football teams and tell you what hometown they're from. i'm not a hokie. pearl is fantastic and i love him. pat is great and i love her. i love coach fulmer and i think he is a great human being but i feel like he is no linger the answer for the football program. honestly i think that 14 or 15 years of one coach will make a program stagnant. its not fulmers fault. we are 0-0 this year and that as probably the best attitude but unfortunatley we will most likely have 2 L's before september is over. i'm not being negetive i am just looking at the schedule and being objective. god i hope i am wrong and he kill UF and win at Auburn because the game in athens would feature two top 5 teams and that would be sweet.

Posted by THE_VOL on June 4, 2008 at 12:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ashley (or Mrs. Fulmer) perhaps you should stick to what you know - knitting and cleaning - and not worry about Mr. Pearl. If you actually knew your FACTS you would know that the national title count between BP and FOOLmore stands at ONE EACH! And I do believe that Mr. Pearl's career winning percentage is also higher than your bubby FOOLmore. Mr. Pearl also won a SEC TITLE in his third year - did Mr. FOOLmore??? Get your crap together or get the HEL_ off the board!

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 12:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ashley my goodness are you comparing what happened in the 40's to todays game. there was no internet. our stadium only sat about 25,000 people. times have changed. coaches get stagnant after time now days. neyland took over a bad program like pearl did. fulmer stepped in to a program on the rise. he had built in success. pearl hasn't sustained the success of fulemr yet but what pearl has done at a none bball school this fast is more impressive than fulmer winning at a school that is made to have football success. as ignorant as you are you could have coached the '98 team to a title.

im a little curious about something you said. you said 91 days until the best coaches in the country lead us to another great season. what do you consider a great season? 5-6 like '05, 9-4 like '05 or 9-5 like '07. cuz to me none of those are great seasons. anything over 2 losses is a failure. i want to be the best. not the 5th best in my conference. i guess you're just satisfied with mediocrity.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 5:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

we were 9-5 in 07. if you like mediocrity then you are part of the problem. we wont win a national chamionship again as long as fans are satisfied with mediocrity. if you don't want to be the best team in the country then why be fan at all. just quit watching sports and find a hobby that doesn't have a winner or loser. because being mediocre is the same thing as being a loser. i guess you're just a loser.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 5:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

5-6 in '05, 9-4 in '06, and 9-5 in 07. that is mediocre at best.

Posted by brownsvillevol on June 4, 2008 at 5:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

try again rusty4 10-4 07 what ever it is you're smoking put it down. i swear on espn that we finished 12 or 13 and 10-4.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 5:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

kingsportvol yes i worked at applebee's in college.

Posted by brownsvillevol on June 4, 2008 at 5:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

06 we finished 9-4 so there you are correct but 07 we finished 10-4 and ranked 12.

Posted by brownsvillevol on June 4, 2008 at 5:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

i don't know what the problem is for some you fulmer has had one losing season in his tenure. now i don't like it when we lose but you can't always blame the coach.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 5:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)

you are correct i miscounted in my head. but 10-4 is still mediocre. anything more than 2 losses is bad. we haven't made a bcs bowl in 10 years. if fulmer gets the praise then he also gets the blame. read my past posts. any coach will have trouble at one place after so long. it becomes stagnant. i love coach fulmer. i wish he would take a front office job. the best thing he has done was get clawson because he is outside the UT family and we needed new blood. if that corrects the problem then great. i think a entire new staff would ultimatley be better.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 6:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ashley yes pearl has better winning percentage.

pearl career-784
fulmer career-766

pearl last 3 years(at UT)- 762
fulmer last3 year-631

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 7:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ashley make insults if you must. the bottom line is i KNOW more about sports than you do. i've forgotten more than you KNOW. by the way, are you a guy or girl. i KNOW that you don't understand the in's and out's of x's and o's in any sport. that's not your fault, you're just ignorant to those things. but considering that please keep to topics such as music, movie's, fashion etc. i KNOW this because you never responded to KNOWING the difference between a zone blitz and a 1211 press. i bet you don't know which sports these go with. i would love to challenge you in a sports knowledge contest. the bet could be whoever gets defeated has to find another school to support.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 8:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ashley, i don't work at applebee's anymore. graduated etsu and masters at UT.

Posted by KingsportVol on June 4, 2008 at 9:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)

TDTN ole rusty is a pretty cool guy.I worked with him back in my bartending days.Rusty to answer your question about Ashley- Male/Female.This video might help explain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PO-9...

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 4, 2008 at 11:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

whats up kingsportvol(aka g). send me your e-mail address. i couldn't tell which one was ashley but by the way she takes it around here i assume she is the receiver in the video. how many more ways could i own that fool ashley. she is in my pocket.

ashley i don't need to prove myself to you about my education. you think what you want. we could have that sports knowledge contest anytime though. ill chug 10 beers before we start so you can have a chance. good luck to you and nice job avoiding any of my points with stupid insults. you never made one point about why pearl was bad and fulmer was great. have you figured out the difference between a zone blitz and a 1211 press? don't worry ill wait.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 5, 2008 at 2:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

when a person starts correcting another persons grammer and spelling that means they have no leg to stand on in the argument. it means youve lost the argument so my only chance now is to attack your grammer. this is a message board not a term paper. i said you were ignorant but i think i was wrong you are just a fool. you have no basis for your argument you just say random things and continue to look pathetic. i'll grant you this. you have better typing and grammer skills and i know more about sports. my wife wrote all my papers and got me through school. however she will admit openly i am smarter than her. you and her would kick my butt in a spelling bee but that doesn't make you smarter. it just means you wasted time learning i before e instead of getting someone else to do it for you.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 5, 2008 at 2:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

by the way i think you were saying theatened not threaten. i may be wrong but i never claimed to be an english teacher.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 5, 2008 at 3:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

i am so sorry i left the r out by accident. there you go correcting grammer or spelling when you have no argument. i said i wasn't an english teacher. we have two little girls already. i think everyone can understand what i am saying and it is pretty much that you know nothing about sports but you do a great job of proof reading on a message board. i wonder if you could get a job doing that. i bet it pays better than the corner you work at now. ill look on moster for jobs proof reading on message boards and let you know. if not my cousin knows a pimp for fat chicks and he could probably get you a job.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 5, 2008 at 3:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

by the way ashley what town do you live in? my season tickets are in q row 53 seat 1-4. if you would like we could hang out at one of the games and you can teach me how to spell and use words properly in a sentence. ill explain to you which team is offense and which is defense and complicated stuff like that.

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 5, 2008 at 4:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)

its under the overhang

Posted by rustyfourqbtn on June 5, 2008 at 4:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ashley what town do you live in?

Posted by pdhuff on June 6, 2008 at 4:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

rusty 6:22 -.631 is a great percentage for the koolade business. Piping sunshine is showing promise, also.

My buddy Fletch said we need to step up the W's as he is slightly overstocked on the white lemming sweaters with the raised orange "T".

LOL

Posted by VOLS85 on June 6, 2008 at 10:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

rusty,

when you cannot tell us the record of UT LAST SEASON, then you hold zero credibility whatsoever...you obviously do not know much about this program...go back to your hole, no one knows where you came from, and know that your insight is superseded by your lack of knowledge.