Vols coverage by Randy Moore (May 13 to May 21, 2011)

Randy Moore is a sportswriter and editor-in-chief for Inside Tennessee.com providing football and basketball coverage of the Tennessee Vols.

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The free articles in this set include:

• Bama's still loaded: Shed no tears for Alabama head coach Nick Saban, even though his program lost four players - three of them underclassmen - in the first round of the recent NFL Draft.
• Ravaged roster: Bruce Pearl inherited a Tennessee basketball program in 2005 that was coming off a 14-17 season and no NCAA bids in the previous four years. Cuonzo Martin inherited a program in 2011 that is coming off a 19-15 season and six consecutive NCAA bids.
• Passing attack: The fact Tennessee's offensive coordinator feels better about the quarterback position than he did a year ago, even with his No. 1 QB coming off an awful passing performance in the Orange & White game, tells you two things:
• Vols get Dwight Miller: Tennessee's fifth basketball signee of the spring signing period may not be a star but he's a load.

The articles requiring a Premium subscription in this set include:

• Life goes on: The departures of Tobias Harris and Scotty Hopson for the NBA Draft represents the first time in program history that two Tennessee underclassmen bolted in the same year. This has elicited three distinct reactions:
  
• 'Headhunter' likes UT: You can often recognize a linebacker by the way his face lights up when he talks about belting ball-carriers.
  
• Chaney on frosh: Tennessee offensive coordinator Jim Chaney has a word of warning for the senior running back who rushed for 1,000 yards last fall and the two sophomore receivers who exhibited NFL potential: Watch your backs.
• Not content to 'wing it': Tennessee basketball fans can only hope that Tennessee's second basketball signee from Nassau, Bahamas turns out as well as the first.
• Another Lockhart?: Tennessee basketball fans can only hope that Tennessee's second basketball signee from Nassau, Bahamas turns out as well as the first.