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Shortly after Coach Derek Dooley was hired someone over in the UT Athletic/Sports Information Department secured a Twitter account for the new coach. Since that time, TwitterVols everywhere have anxiously waited for Coach Dooley to join the Vol Nation online.

Given that our wait went from days to weeks to months, I for one wondered if Coach simply wouldn’t have time to send us any 140 character shout-outs. Fortunately, as of today, TwitterVols your wait has ended:

Coach Dooley's First Tweet

Furthermore, not only did Coach Dooley send out his first tweet today, he’s also shared a couple of Twitpics from his phone:

Coach Dooley's Grilling Project

We approve of his summer reading:

Coach Dooley's Summer Reading

Coach Dooley, as one of the TwitterVols, I’d like to thank you on behalf of the Vol Nation for joining us on Twitter. As you have time, we look forward to reading and re-tweeting your tweets and getting fired up about the Vols.

Last night’s exciting win over San Diego State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament was enough to pull me off Twitter long enough to write this blog post. In particular, the post-game Twitter smack talk by Vols Coach Tony Jones inspired me to chronicle some of the action:

Welcome to GoVolsTweets @TJonesLive
Since I’ve been pretty busy with my day job the past couple of months, I’ve been lax in adding UT Sports personalities to the GoVolsTweets feed.  However, thanks to a hot tip from Danny Bowen of Memphis, I started following Vols Associate Head Coach Tony Jones (@TJonesLive) along with a slew of other persons I’d missed.

This morning, I saw that I couldn’t have picked a better time to start following Coach Jones as he laid down some post-game smack to all the media who we calling out the Vols as the first round “upset special”:

Bobby Maze Apologizes to Seth Davis of CBS
Speaking of Seth Davis I appreciated this exchange between point guard Bobby Maze and Seth Davis of CBS Sports:

Happy “Birthdays” Coach Pearl
Finally, I thought Clay Travis (author of Dixeland Delight and On Rock Top) summed up Coach Pearl’s 50th birthday experience nicely with this tweet:

Ugly Game, Beautiful Win
As I mentioned last night, it was an ugly game, but any win in March is a beautiful thing.  If the Vols hadn’t survived against SDSU last night, the “what ifs” would have stuck with us as SDSU played Ohio in the second round. Now, there’s no wondering. It’s “survive and advance” baby!

We’ll see you guys on Twitter. Go Vols!

Old Skool Tweet for UT vs South Carolina

This week’s old skool “tweet” for UT vs. South Carolina courtesy of the Witt HomeCenter on Weisgarber Road.

Neyland's First Tweet

Earlier this month when I wrote my Fan’s Guide to the First UT Football Season on Twitter, little did I know that General Robert R. Neyland himself would be joining our world of 140 character updates. Well, as of the wee hours of yesterday morning, General Neyland is now on Twitter.

In honor of this occasion, I’m adding him to our feed at GoVolsTweets and sharing some of our favorite Neyland tweets in the gallery below. Click on any of the thumbnails to enlarge the screenshot:

The outcome of today’s game between the number one ranked Florida Gators and the unranked Tennessee Volunteers was much different than my greatest fears. I saw a Tennessee team which maximized their strengths and minimized their weaknesses. The players never gave up, and the coaches had them prepared to play in what many on today’s sports radio were calling the most hostile environment they had ever seen. Read the rest of this entry »