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OnTheBrink
Snippets from the Music City Sports Festival
I wanted so bad to go but my boy had a little league game during Kirby's time slot... Any other snippets from Kirby or Chance?

Kirby said, when asked, that we had two or three incoming freshmen who were not yet qualified, but they were expected to. Chance was interviewed by former Titan and now Nashville radio personality Brad Hopkins, himself a former first round pick when the Titans were ion Houston. Hopkins is very articulate and very funny, so it was a pretty entertaining interview.

Here's how good it was...I went to hear Sexton, Smart, Chipper Jones, and Warmack. The one I was least looking forward to hearing was Chipper, and I've been a huge Chipper fan his whole career. Except for the Chipper interview, the entire four hours was basically an infomercial for Alabama football. Not completely...Sexton talked about getting started in the business through a relationship with Reggie White and his first coaching client, Tommy Tuberville.

Smart talked about how he used to dog Chance during stretches in practice...'We're coming after you today, Warmack!" Never even a smile from Warmack. Totally serious. Since we run the 3-4, the guards are always uncovered. Kirby said that at some point a huge manchild like Dont'a would finally say something like, "get him off of me Coach, I don't want no more of that." No doubt Warmack and Hightower did as much to help each other get to the NFL as anyone else did.

I was amazed at how few people were there. You could have sat on the front row each session and asked any question you wanted. I don't live in Nashville but had by chance seen a billboard with the Chipper Jones promo the day before in the Hickory Hollow area. I didn't even know Sexton, Smart, and Warmack would be there until I checked the website.

James Franklin was the speaker after Warmack, but I didn't stay. No doubt he would have been good also. And I caught the tail end of Derek Anderon's interview before Sexton...he was also good and has a great story.

This post was edited on 6/6/13 at 4:55 pm