Derek Dooley's latest fashion statement - the hard hat look.
To say that Tennessee is trying to keep up with the rest of the SEC, and college football world in general with it's soon-to-be-completed new practice facility is an understatement. Volunteers head football coach Derek Dooley recently took the Knoxville News Sentinel on a guided tour of the facility, and it's "thunderdome of power" weight room. It includes all the amenities any college football football program needs, and then some. Like it's own MMA cage.
Yes, you heard that correctly. An MMA cage.
"Players will be able to walk straight from the 120-yard practice field
into the new weight room — a 22,000 square foot "multilevel thunderdome
of power," as it's called in UT's promotional video for the facility.
Along with the standard free weights, machines, cardiovascular training
equipment — which will be situated on a deck that overlooks the weight
r...
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