TENNESSEE TITANS BEHIND THE WHEEL Nowhere to A challenger go but up for Camry It’s been 20 years since the Free! e top-seller from Toyota last 2-14 season. Can current might have met its match in Please leadership right this ship? the Volkswagen Passat. P16 P15 take one. January 2 – 8, 2015 Vol. 41 | Issue 1 KNOXVILLE EDITION www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville The power of information. LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • SUMNER • CHEATHAM • RUTHERFORD WILSON ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY • KNOX • ANDERSON •BLOUNT •SEVIER | FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 UT’s Tyndall winning fans despite NCAA investigation Quick success helps change the subject – for the moment Dave Link’s analysis begins on page 2 AP Photo/Wade Payne Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall directs the Vols during their 67-55 win against Butler, which at the time was ranked No. 15 in the nation. More inside: Newsmakers ............................................7 Find Public Notices Guerrilla Marketing ...............................3 Public Notices ....................................10–14 inside & online: News Briefs ..............................................4 Behind the Wheel .................................15 Community Calendar .................................6 Tennessee Titans football ......................16 www.TNLedger.com Crossword.................................................6 Cooking Corner ........................................16 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville JANUARY 2 – 8, 2015 NCAA probe looms over rebuild e ort Will Tyndall solve UT’s problems or create more? Donnie Tyndall has hardly slowed down since the former Southern Miss head coach took over Link Tennessee’s basketball on UT program in April. By DAVE LINK Of course, Tyndall had little choice. Only four scholarship players from UT’s 2013-14 roster remained after former coach Cuonzo Martin left for California in April. Martin’s former UT recruits defected, Jordan McRae and Jarnell Stokes declared for the NBA draft, and underclassmen A.J. Davis and Darius ompson decided to leave UT. So Tyndall and his sta were forced to assemble a team, and they did so in a little more than a month. ey signed eight players – two fth-year senior transfers, two junior-college signees, a prep-school graduate and three freshmen – and built the team around senior guard Josh Richardson, the Vols’ top returning player. When the Vols opened the season with a Nov. 14 loss against then-No. 15 Virginia Commonwealth, they quickly showed what Tyndall’s coaching style was all about. Tyndall frantically subs players in and out of the game, and starting lineups are Icon Sportswire via AP Images Tennessee Coach Donnie Tyndall has gained fans with his emotional approach on the sidelines, his team’s tenacious defense on the court, and an early subject to change with each game. season upset of Butler. But all that goodwill could disappear quickly if an NCAA investigation of his time at Southern Mississippi uncovers serious infractions. And Tyndall plays a matchup zone defense the entire game, the full 40 Chris Dortch Bio run at Tennessee in recent years.’’ minutes. Has the SEC ever seen that? How did Tyndall put together Tyndall is nothing but high octane Chris Dortch has edit- Q: a team so fast (only four on the court. He paces the sidelines. He ed what many consider scholarship players back), and have you the “bible” of college screams at players and o cials. He turns ever seen anything like that done? to the fans, waives his arms upward. Time basketball, Blue Ribbon to get o your feet, Vol fans. College Basketball “Tyndall did the same thing at en he enters the media room, Yearbook, for the last A: Southern Miss when he took the 20 years. He’s also writ- calm and collected. He congratulates ten a book about SEC job there a couple of years ago, so it wasn’t opponents, talks basketball and gets a basketball, String Music: unusual for him to scramble around and chuckle here and there from reporters. Inside the Rise of SEC nd players. Tyndall is ery on the bench, Basketball, written for “He and his assistants called everyone personable o the court. You would never SECsports.com and NBA. they knew, scoured the country looking know an NCAA investigation from his com, and appeared on for unsigned high school players, junior tenure at Southern Miss looms. television shows on NBA college transfers and Division I transfers, TV, CSE, Fox Sports South It’s his second brush with the NCAA and the Big Ten Network. and brought in all the above. Two players rulebook. In 2010, the NCAA brought who had signed with Tyndall followed He currently co-hosts sanctions on Tyndall’s program at the Blue Ribbon College him to Knoxville, and that helped. Morehead State for an incident that Basketball Hour with “ e crazy thing is that the recruiting involved a booster o ering improper voice of the Belmont e ort could have been even better had bene ts to recruits, among other rules Bruins, Kevin Ingram. 6-foot-4 point guard Jon Octeus been violations. The show airs at 11 a.m. allowed in school. He was a senior-eligible Now, the NCAA is investigating CT Saturdays throughout transfer from Colorado State, where he Southern Miss and Tyndall’s two seasons the basketball season on had been a key player before deciding to 104.5 The Zone. there. is investigation reportedly stems get his graduate degree and use his nal from possible nancial assistance given to Information at www.blueribbonyearbookonline.com year of eligibility at UCLA. players who were academically ineligible “Despite the fact he was a college at the time. graduate with a 2.5 GPA, he wasn’t Tyndall has agreed to cooperate defeated Kansas State on Dec. 6 and upset What is your take on Tyndall’s allowed in UCLA, sort of at the last with the NCAA on the Southern Miss then-No. 15-ranked Butler a week later. Q: coaching job thus far? minute. He actually then wanted to come Chris Dortch, editor of Blue Ribbon situation, and perhaps he’s even been pro- “Considering the mess that to Tennessee, but school had been in College Basketball Yearbook for the last active. Before the season opener, assistant A: was left behind, including two session for two weeks already, and Tyndall 20 years and a Chattanooga resident, has coach Adam Howard resigned citing players taken in the NBA Draft, a four- and his sta just couldn’t pull it together. followed Tyndall’s coaching climb and personal reasons, and R.J. Rush, special man recruiting class choosing to sign “Octeus landed at Purdue, where he written about Vols basketball for even assistant to the coach, left citing family elsewhere and two players, including became an instant starter. Last time I longer. reasons. Howard and Rush were among point guard Darius ompson, departing, checked, he was averaging seven points, As the Vols prepare for the SEC opener the sta at Southern Miss who moved he’s done a great job. nearly ve rebounds, a little more than at Mississippi State on Jan. 7, here’s with Tyndall when he was hired at UT. Tyndall and his sta had to scramble to three assists and was leading the team in Dortch’s observations on Tyndall and the e Vols, meanwhile, seem as unfazed nd players and install his system, which steals and shooting 80 percent from the by any NCAA distractions as Tyndall. program: is complex compared to what has been TYNDALL >> PAGE 9 After going 2-3 in November, UT JANUARY 2 – 8, 2015 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville Page 3 4 transformational sales resolutions for the new year Change is hard for most people, but only through change can we grow. e New Year is the perfec t time to take a hard look at what worked in your sales approach and what didn’t Guerrilla deliver for you in 2014, to break Marketing ine ective sales habits, and to resolve to By LORI adjust your approach. TURNERWILSON Consider these four resolutions for 2015 to ensure you start the year ahead Ledger AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File of the pack. 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