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SWEET VICTORY Palardy’s 19-yard FG snaps UT’s 19-game losing streak against ranked teams Steven StStev even e CCook en ookk oo Coopy Copy py Edito Editor ttoor Standing Stan St andi din di ng across ng acr cros oss the the salad th salad sala sa d bar bar from f om fr eea ach oother ther th err oon n Fr F idaays be id bbefore f re gam fo mes es,, each Fridays games, B Bu ttcch Jo one ness asks aassks h is kicker is kiccke kerr th the same me Butch Jones his qu uessti tion tion n eve eryy w eeeek. question every week. “Y You ggot o tthe ot he ggame-winner, am mee-winner, rright?” igh g t? gh t?”” “You JJo oness as sks M icha ic h ell P ha alardy. Jones asks Michael Palardy. “I ggot ott yyou, oou u, co coac acch,” P alardyy rrespondespon spon sp onddcoach,” Palardy ed F ed riida d y. Friday. Fo or th thee fi firs rstt time time aalllll sseason— e so ea son— n— — For first aan nd in in P alaar al ardy dy’s ttumultuous umul um ulltu ultu tuou ouss ou and Palardy’s ca areeer e —tthat haat sc sscenario en nar ario io ccame ame ame am career—that to fruit itio ion n on on S aturda at urday. y fruition Saturday. Hiss 19 Hi 119-yard 9-yarrd fi ield eld go goal goal al field aass ttime imee eex xpire piireed expired pr rop pelled d th tthee propelled Tenn Te n ess essse see Tennessee V Vo lunt nttee n teerrs Volunteers tto o a 223-21 3 21 3vict vi cttory cto or victory ov ver No. o. over 111 1 Sou uth South Caro Ca r lilina, un ncork rkk Carolina, uncorkin ng ye yyears ars of pen ar en ntt-up up p ing pent-up em mottio ion n from from mp laayemotion playerss aan er nd fans ffans. ans n. and Tw Two wo weeks weeekks w removed from fr o a sskinom kinki in of-his -t tee eeth th h -teeth

loss lo ss tto ss o then-No. 6 Georgia, Jones nabb na bb bed tthe signature win that his two nabbed pr red dec eces predecessors failed to secure—a victory to ryy oover v a Top 15 opponent. ve “G Gre reaa day to be a Vol,” Jones said, “Great hi idi ding ng bbehind a contagious smile. hiding Wi W ith h tears flowing on the faces of With p pl ayyers aand a jubilant fan base sent players into in to a a llong-awaited frenzy, the scene insi side N inside Neyland Stadium looked as if th he Vo ols had just won a championship. the Vols F Fo Forr a program that has faced as m mu ch aadversity and mediocrity as much U has UT as over the years, it may as well h ha vee bbeen. ee have “I aam m still in disbelief,” senior de efe fens nsiv iv lineman Marlon Walls said. defensive “W We ha av been in a lot of situations “We have liike like ke tthis hiss when we should have won. hi O ur lo llove ove v for Coach Jones and each ve Our oot the her er pu p other pushed us through the day.” The sight of Jones, in Peyton The M Ma ann nning fashion, directing the Pride Manning o tthe of he S he Southland band’s “Rocky Top” wass a sstorybook wa t ending for a turbulent lent le nt pas astt few weeks between the unipast ver ve rsity’ y’s relationship with the band. versity’s “ san “I n it with the band and then sang I sa ssang ng iitt in the locker room,” Jones said sa d. “T Th is the greatest song in the said. “That wo worl orl rld. d. IItt is a pride of who we are.” world. As vvalidating a as the win was for JJones Jo onees an aand n the fans, nobody felt it mo oree th h four fifth-year seniors — more than W Wa alll s, s, JJoseph o Walls, Ayres, Greg King and D aniel Hood. Lane Kiffin signed Daniel tthe th he gr ggroup ou in 2009, and they stuck tog to geth ge her through more turmoil than together so ome me p o some powerhouse programs face in a half ha lf-ccent lf-c half-century. “F r u “For “F us four to have been through eeverything ver erythi hin n that we have, it’s nice to gget ge et that one win that we’ll be able to talk abou about forever,” Hood said. Senio o running back Rajion Neal, Senior w wh o ru us who rushed 24 times for 77 yards aand nd a touchdown, to to struggled to make sens se of of the team’s emotions after sense thee ggame. ame me “M Man an I guess you can say you do “Man, dre eam ooff (the celebration),” Neal said. ea dream “T To d o tthat h with the fans and the band “To do and ha and an h havi avii all our guys around us and having we w we ere all celebrating. It was fun.” er ere were JJones’ Jon Jo ones nes concerted effort to bring bback ba ack ck aalumni lu u in his “Vol for Life” proggram gr a n am e never made itself more evident th haan nS at at than Saturday, when more than 200 VF V VFL FL Lss rran a through the ‘T.’ It made a VFLs di d iffe ffer ff erenc en nc to the players. difference “We ssaw all those VFLs that were “We h he re ffor or the game,” junior offensive here tack ta ckle lee A tackle Antonio Richardson said. “I wass sha wa sh ha shaking all those guys’ hands earl ea rlier rl ier an earlier and I told them, “We have your back ck.. It It’s ’ss time to get Tennessee back back. to wha hat ha at it needs to be.’” what See Se ee FO FOOTBALL OOTBA OT on Page 6

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