Capitalizing on Lane Kiffin’s abrupt departure from UT one week ago today, everyone’s favorite UT B-Baller/Rapper, Renaldo Woolridge/Swiperboy, has turned lemonade into YouTube gold. Only four days old, Never Leave You Like Kiffin has already received 56,966 views.
According to Swiperboy, that’s enough views for the song to currently rank #4 in views on YouTube. I can’t confirm that, but I can say that we certainly enjoy his rhymes. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, enjoy:
Now that we’re midway into the 2009 SEC Football Season, it is time to do a round-up and analysis of the SEC Head Football Coaches on Twitter. As others have mentioned before, this 2009 football season is the first UT Football season on Twitter. The micro-blogging service has gotten enough mainstream adoption by sports fans and coaches to merit “sports + Twitter” as an emerging phenomena.
With regards to SEC Football, the head coaches are no different than many other celebrities who have taken to “tweeting.” Twitter allows coaches (and perhaps any ghost writers who tweet for them) to energize their fanbase and take control of this easy-to-use online presence. A look at the Twitter stats of the head coaches will give us some insight into the Who’s Who of SEC Head Football Coaches on Twitter: Read the rest of this entry »
Ask the Coach
Last month I visited the offices of Voices Heard Media to gain insight on the company’s fan-enabling technology behind the new Ask the Coach feature at UTSports.com.
If you haven’t seen or used Ask the Coach, it is a widget that allows you, the fan, to interact with Coach Kiffin on The Coach Lane Kiffin Show. The widget lets you ask questions which are then voted on by other fans with the most popular questions getting answered by Coach Kiffin on the show. Adding to the widget’s interactivity, Coach Kiffin’s individual answers are then made available for easy sharing on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »
Tennessee goes into tomorrow’s game against Florida as a 28 point underdog. Given these odds, I can’t imagine anyone in the media picking the Vols. What about you, the fans? What is your gut feeling for tomorrow’s outcome:
Underdogs
This weekend we’ll find out if we’ll be “singing Rocky Top all night long” after the UT/FL game. We’ll also find out if Coach Lane Kiffin’s off-season barbs directed at the Florida Gators will make matters any worse than they usually are when the Vols visit The Swamp as 28 point underdogs.
I for one don’t think things can get much worse than they have been in recent years. Fan apathy reached the highest levels I’ve ever seen last season, and UT Football was fading away from the national college football scene.
On the other hand, Coach Kiffin’s initial barbs as head coach served to re-energize the fanbase, and love it or leave it, they have put the Vols back in the national spotlight. As the Vols head to Gainesville to take on the Florida Gators, here’s a roundup of recent UT Football national media attention: Read the rest of this entry »