Brent Cross

Stats is where it's at. TN/Tech Sports supporter. You don't know me, but I know you (your stats that is). I pray for each of my followers.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

I use X mostly for sports outlet to talk about sports and how to apply things in life and I use Facebook for my preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Sometimes I want to lay down the hammer and preach on X too. I preach the grace of God. Sometimes preaching must happen.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

Here is what I think about gambling:

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Timothy 6:10

It's ruined society.

[Pickett Co. Boys Basketball @PickettBobcats]

Your opportunity to get your business promoted in the BEST Location in the gym!

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

Buy in is what makes them great!

[GoVols247 @GoVols247]

Vols LB Amare Campbell on the difference in Jim Knowles at Tennessee compared to Penn State: Everyone buying in, trusting him.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

Last 3 wins by Vols vs Bama at Knoxville:

Won by:
3 - 2022
7 - 2024
16 - 2026

The days of teams having superior talent over teams are OVER with NIL.

Now it comes down to coaching....and.....player buy in to the system.

Look at Tn defense for proof of this.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

@BoCamaro At least now getting bowl eligible comes in the first 7 games instead of having to win the month of November like they use to have to do back around 2012...haha

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

Wow! Bishop for TN is a beast! TN D is for REAL!

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

What's going to be comical is Joe beating the Cowboys in two weeks. I am a Cowboys fan too.

[Jordan Schultz @Schultz_Report]

Breaking: The #Eagles are signing QB Joe Milton off the #Cowboys practice squad and to their 53-man roster, per sources.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

@UTVolShop @VolNetwork Tennessee.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

My prayer is that he read my post. I believe.

[TMZ @TMZ]

Carrot Top attends church with mother in Las Vegas amid recovery.

🎥: Backgrid

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

Man, that's one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

[Fan Account | Snoopy & Woodstock @Anklebiters0904]

🕊️ In Loving Memory of RJ Mitte. Forever Remembered. 💔

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

It always breaks my heart to see things like this. This life can really beat you down. I can't offer things will be good or better. But I can introduce you to the Lord Jesus Christ, the One that gives us hope after this life. Man.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Bryan Cranston has written a tribute for his ‘Breaking Bad’ on-screen son RJ Mitte who tragically passed away due to suicide.

“We were texting each other just a few weeks ago - figuring out when we could meet for lunch. I don't know if that lunch would have changed his future... But I do know that I loved him.”

[Arby’s Classic @ArbysClassic]

🚨 PICKETT COUNTY IS HEADED TO BRISTOL! 🚨

The 2026 Arby’s Classic welcomes Pickett County (TN)! 🏀🔥

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

@PickettBobcats PC should be battle tested this season, for sure!

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

Ouch....that hits hard. Very hard. Hear you loud and clear. '94, what could have been...

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

Let me tell you something folks, 154 games is better than 0 games

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

One of the reasons you become the best is because NO ONE believed in you. If you use that motivation correctly, you can accomplish more than receiving praises all the time. There's nothing like, "I'll show you..." as motivation.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

DeSean Bishop ran for 8,347 yards at Karns High School.

That is the second most in the history of Tennessee high school football.

He got two scholarship offers.

Coastal Carolina and Appalachian State. That was the entire list.

He also scored 102 touchdowns, third most in state history. He won Mr. Football in 5A two years in a row. He ran for 3,179 yards as a junior and 2,413 as a senior.

Two offers.

He committed to Coastal Carolina in July of 2022. Then the head coach there left for Liberty, and Bishop was back to nothing.

Karns High School is in Knoxville. So is the University of Tennessee.

The Tennessee Volunteers offered him a walk-on spot. No scholarship. Pay your own way.

He took it in December of 2022.

Alex Golesh was Tennessee's offensive coordinator in 2021 and 2022, the stretch when Bishop was coming through.

Bishop got hurt in camp and redshirted in 2023. In 2024 he was the backup and got 74 carries for 455 yards.

In January of 2025, Tennessee finally put him on scholarship.

That fall he started 13 games, ran for 1,076 yards and 16 touchdowns, made second team All SEC, and got nominated for the Burlsworth Trophy, which goes to the best player in college football who started out as a walk-on.

Golesh had left for South Florida to be a head coach. Then on November 30, 2025, the Auburn Tigers hired him to run their program.

Which meant that on Saturday, Alex Golesh brought Auburn into Neyland Stadium.

Tennessee wore Smokey Grey throwbacks with the old leather helmet stripes to honor General Robert Neyland.

And then it almost went wrong.

Tennessee trailed 7 to 3 at halftime. They had to pull their starting quarterback, Faizon Brandon, late in the second quarter and send out George MacIntyre instead.

So they stopped being clever and just handed DeSean Bishop the football. Over and over.

34 carries. 220 yards. Touchdown runs of 25, 44 and 5.

Tennessee ran for 237 yards as a team. Bishop had 220 of them.

No Tennessee player had gone for 200 in a game since Eric Gray in 2019.

Tennessee won 24 to 14.

Afterward he did not pretend it was a normal Saturday.

"I can't lie, this game was personal for me. Golesh was a big reason I was a walk-on. I wanted them to feel what they were missing."

Monday they named him SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week. He has now scored a touchdown in seven straight games.

Tennessee is 4 and 1. Auburn is 3 and 2.

He is 21 years old. He grew up in the same city as the school that would not give him a scholarship, and he is now the best player on its team.

Second most rushing yards in the history of high school football in his own state. Two offers, neither one of them from home.

220 on Saturday.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

I'm pretty sure I heard D. Bishop after getting a game ball immediately deflect credit to the offensive line. That is what a leader that people will follow does. They battle but don't absorb or bask in the glory.

[Tennessee Football @Vol_Football]

playing for and making the breaks.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

Wow! Clutch AB by Riley.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

@BoCamaro I watched Greeneville vs Upperman earlier this season and Greeneville looked really really good.

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

@UTVolShop @VolNetwork Pantone 151 C

[Brent Cross @LongLiveStats]

@RealCarrotTop, Hey man, I'm real sorry you're going through a hard time. This life really is vanity. Man, if you have not, I hope you will trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. He doesn't promise a better life, but He does promise hope. Take care, my friend.