KNOXVILLE – Tennessee may need a bigger bulletin board.  In recent days, Florida players have said they don’t respect Tennessee.
 They don’t consider the Volunteers as a rival, and one Gator said UT gave up during last season’s 59-20 thrashing.
Phillip Fulmer’s response?

“I don’t think our players quit,” the UT coach said. “If they don’t respect us, why are they practicing?”
Welcome to Tennessee-Florida week.
Verbal shots flew on Tuesday as Tennessee prepared to host No. 4 Florida this weekend in Neyland Stadium. The Gators started with a few zingers on Monday, followed by …

The University of Tennessee Athletics Department (UTAD) announced Monday season ticket prices for the 2008 football season will be $315 for seven home games. The price represents a $19 increase for the season or $2.71 per game. Chairback seat season tickets are $3 more per game. A total of 14.25 percent of the $315
season ticket price, or approximately $39.29, is sales tax.
“We spent countless hours looking at alternatives to the ticket price increase,” UT Athletics Director Mike Hamilton said. “Unfortunately we have to make a modest adjustment to our ticket …

The Volunteers` new West Coast offense will fittingly be unveiled on the West Coast.
 The Tennessee football team will open the 2008 season at UCLA on Monday, Sept. 1, in a nationally televised Labor Day game on ESPN. It will be played in the legendary Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., and will take place at 7 p.m.
“The opportunity to play unopposed on national television against such a quality opponent as UCLA was something we couldn`t pass up,” UT Athletics Director Mike Hamilton said. “It`s a great time slot for a national …

Making the SEC championship game could mean another December trip to Atlanta for Tennessee.
Win out and UT’s bowl destination is simple. The Vols would be the SEC champion representative in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Jan. 1.
Lose the SEC championship game to LSU, which has secured the SEC West title, and the Vols likely would be headed back to Atlanta for the Chik-fil-A Bowl on Dec. 31.
The Chik-Fil-A Bowl would prefer to land Alabama from the SEC, a source close to the bowl told the News Sentinel. That …

Nearly 200 former Tennessee players pledged their support in coach Phillip Fulmer and the Volunteers in advance of Saturday`s game against Arkansas.
Fulmer and the No. 22 Vols thanked them by quieting the Southeastern Conference`s best rusher and getting a 34-13 win, keeping their drive for an SEC Eastern Division title alive for another week.
“Never doubt the heart of a Volunteer,” said Fulmer, who has heard fans calling for him to be fired all season.
The former players took out a full-page advertisement in The Knoxville News Sentinel on Friday, printing a …

Tennessee put on quite a homecoming show for the fans at Neyland Stadium — just not as many fans as usually pack the place.
The Volunteers` 59-7 victory against Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday was their most lopsided in seven years, but it came in front of the smallest home crowd for a Tennessee game in more than a decade.
The Vols drew 96,197, the fewest since Neyland Stadium, the fourth largest in the country, expanded from a capacity of 91,902 after the 1995 season. The stadium`s capacity is now 102,038. Tennessee was averaging …

Both UT and UK fans are planning a combined party to watch the last game of the season. Come join the Cincy Vols and root on your team of Orange with the fans of UK next Saturday.
We will have the local news covering this party and will have the best time ever by beating the Kentucky Wildcats and going to the SEC Championship.
This party will be hosted at Arnies on the Newport Levee. It`s on the Northern Kentucky side of the river, and they have adequate space and parking. They`ll …