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I joined around this time last year. Bumped my donation up to the next level after the Fuente hire - Whit has to pay for it somehow!

Yeah, we beat Ohio State.

I asked about him the other day, kinda thought this thread was just bumped because of that. Pretty shocked to be reading an obituary.

RIP, Eric.

Really hoping we announce Scott soon, seems like he would be a good recruiter

Ugh i hate u[sic]ga, hope they don't get better.

With fuente Oklahoma would be the only school im really worried about but stoops doesn't seem to be going anywhere soon. Hopefully as his daughters age it should make it harder and harder for him to leave

He's constantly tweeting/abusing coaches and acts as if he's all important. Flashing his hokie club email while also bashing Whit for months.

In no particular order....
Hip Hop:
- Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
(The message, the instrumentation, the lyrics, the skills, the creativity, the honesty, the passion, the individualism, the leadership.. another classic from Kdot)

- Travis Scott - Rodeo
(Amazing album from start to finish bolstered by amazing production by Mike Dean. Travis Scott's not the best rapper in the game but he's the most melodic rapper and one of the best song constructors in the game.)

- B.o.B - Pycadelik Thoughtz
(Very diverse album. A little rap, a little R&B, a little rock. This album embodies B.o.B's "No Genre" mantra)

- Chance the Rapper, Donnie Trumpet, and Social Experiment Band - Surf
(Great collaborative album with beautiful instrumentation, and only 4 songs on the whole thing with cuss words; that's unheard of in today's rap)

- Jay Rock - 90059
(Very strong sophomore album from Kendrick Lamar's labelmate. Jay Rock matured with this one big time. The instrumentation is more mature and so are the themes he raps about. Jay Rock's one of the best lyricists in the game)

- Mac Miller - Good AM
(A more mature Mac Miller coming off his battle with drugs made for a more complete album)

- Big Grams - Big Grams EP
(Big Boi of Outkast and electronic rock duo Phantogram came together for a unique electronic soul rap project. I hope this isn't their last project together.)

- Raury - All We Need
(One of the most diverse artists in hip hop, Raury fuses rap with folk rock with R&B with alternative rock with soul music in a most enjoyable way. Remember the name, Raury will be a star)

- Pell - LIMBO
(Similar to B.o.B's album above, Pell gave us one of the most sonically diverse albums of the year. With production from the guitarist of rock band TV On The Radio, the sounds on this album reach beyond hip hop and give Pell that ambient sound he loves to create with.)

- Big KRIT - It's Better This Way
(This is a mixtape [not an album] but the line between mixtape and album is becoming more and more blurred these days. KRIT gives us that down south, original soul rap he's known for on this while calling out the rap game for a lot of the hypocrisies and nonsense perpetuated [again, something he's also known for].)

- J.Cole/Dreamville - Revenge of the Dreamers 2
(Another mixtape.... You can't name too many other rappers [or artists in general] that had a bigger year than J.Cole. Following the success of his 2014 Forest Hills Drive album last year, his starpower skyrocketed this year and sees him as one of the undisputed champs of hip hop. Revenge of the Dreamers 2 features verses/songs from all of his Dreamville signees and Cole let's us know he's not slowing down anytime soon with his amazing verses on the tape.)

Check out my site www.hiphopintellekts.com for more good rap with a message.

Not Hip Hop:
- Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
- 21 Pilots - Blurryface
- Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin
- Florence + Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- Mumford and Sons - Wilder Mind
- Adele - 25
- Gary Clark Jr. - The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (EDITED: Don't know how I forgot about my man Gary.)

I guess it's because I'm a little bit different. Maybe the reason I feel the way I feel is because I'm really excited about our brand shiny and spank-dat-azz new coaching staff & am really hoping they come out and make a big statement to the world by stick-it-in to the Vols, which in turn makes me nervous they won't, which in turn was fueled by the only scoring of 10 pts against Aub (which I agree with previous statements regarding some players checking out and whathaveyou), which in turn makes me nervous because of the coaching staff transition in general. See, it's a sequence for me. Hope that clears it up some.

Black Messiah technically came out last year but I'm a fan of the choice regardless

Not sure what you're getting at.

I'm just pointing out that (in line with what is posted elsewhere), there seems to be a lot of worry about one day's performance, by a team whose assistants were basically all gone and with a QB that was more focused on his future than winning a game. The development of Lynch from an absolute unknown to possible #1 drafted QB by Fuente and Cornelsen is outstanding. And yet people are worried about the outcome of one game? When Memphis was statistically better than VT this year in basically every opponent-adjusted category? I just don't understand the hand-wringing.

RIP indeed.
That was a moving obituary by his brother.