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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2011, 08:19:20 EDT » |
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2011, 08:34:27 EDT » |
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  All men dream: but not equally. Those who Dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the Dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they May act their dream with open eyes, to make it Possible. This I did. —T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." - David Hackworth "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet" General James "Mad Dog" Mattis |
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 10:18:46 EDT » |
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Part of me doesn't want to watch tomorrow. I know I'll just get upset.
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 10:53:06 EDT » |
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Granny is spunky! She was the only one to tell me that everyone should hate Bama Early, and no one else would/will say a thing.! Go Granny! Also, I've looked at the board this week just hoping there would be some good Tide-Vols discussion, but noooooooo, NADA! NONE! ZERO! NOTHING!!! You guys need more spunky Vol posters like Granny around here.........  BG |
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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2011, 11:00:31 EDT » |
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Granny is spunky! She was the only one to tell me that everyone should hate Bama Early, and no one else would/will say a thing.! Go Granny! Also, I've looked at the board this week just hoping there would be some good Tide-Vols discussion, but noooooooo, NADA! NONE! ZERO! NOTHING!!! You guys need more spunky Vol posters like Granny around here......... BG What we need is a better football team. |
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"I think this is the most important non-important thing in the world." - Actor and Tennessee fan David Keith on Tennessee football
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« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2011, 03:28:06 EDT » |
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What we need is a better football team.
Well, you knew coming into this season the outcome could very well be 6-6 type of season. Even with the injuries (and they ARE major), the results so far is not far from what most projected. Most said next season would be telling of Dooley's abilities and not this year, which made sense. If the above is true, then I'm not sure I understand why the board's attitude has dropped so low. I don't know, I guess given the downward-spiral of the past few years, and with the key injuries to Bray and Hunter, events may have you guys feeling a bit snake-bit. ?????? BG |
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« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2011, 04:57:20 EDT » |
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Well, you knew coming into this season the outcome could very well be 6-6 type of season. Even with the injuries (and they ARE major), the results so far is not far from what most projected. Most said next season would be telling of Dooley's abilities and not this year, which made sense.
If the above is true, then I'm not sure I understand why the board's attitude has dropped so low. I don't know, I guess given the downward-spiral of the past few years, and with the key injuries to Bray and Hunter, events may have you guys feeling a bit snake-bit. ??????
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« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2011, 05:51:41 EDT » |
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For me it was as early as the Hunter injury. As soon as I saw Hunter clutching his leg, I said to my wife "there goes our season". It was early in the game, but I wanted to stop watching right then.
With the gut wrenching moments the past few years, I thought surely we'd get at least get SOME redemption this year. SOMEthing had to go our way, it just had to.
But with the UF game that fantasy was forgotten. It was going to be the same old shizzle. And it was confirmed for me vs. UGA.
Honestly, at this point I feel I've cashed out emotionally for this season. I bet I haven't spent 15 minutes of thought on this game all week combined. It helps that I have a two month old son who's got pretty much all of my emotional attention, though.
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« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2011, 06:09:27 EDT » |
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For me it was as early as the Hunter injury. As soon as I saw Hunter clutching his leg, I said to my wife "there goes our season". It was early in the game, but I wanted to stop watching right then.
With the gut wrenching moments the past few years, I thought surely we'd get at least get SOME redemption this year. SOMEthing had to go our way, it just had to.
But with the UF game that fantasy was forgotten. It was going to be the same old shizzle. And it was confirmed for me vs. UGA.
Honestly, at this point I feel I've cashed out emotionally for this season. I bet I haven't spent 15 minutes of thought on this game all week combined. It helps that I have a two month old son who's got pretty much all of my emotional attention, though.
Yep. Hunter's injury fundamentally changed our offense from one that could hit a home run at any time to the dink-n-dunk variety. But at least with Bray, we had a QB who was capable of executing all that dinking and dunking to its maximum effect. But now we don't even have that. At the outset of this season, our offense was on par with any of our mid 90's units. Now it looks more like the 2008 version. And God knows the defense isn't capable of picking up any of that slack. I'm pretty much over it. I'd look forward to basketball, but that promises to be just as bad- at least on the mens' side. Maybe I'll fully invest myself in the Lady Vols this year. It's likely Pat's last season, so I was probably going to do that anyway. What an uplifting story it would be for Pat to go out on top. Our fanbase NEEDS something like that, and badly. |
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« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2011, 04:14:52 EDT » |
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Yep. Hunter's injury fundamentally changed our offense from one that could hit a home run at any time to the dink-n-dunk variety. But at least with Bray, we had a QB who was capable of executing all that dinking and dunking to its maximum effect. But now we don't even have that. At the outset of this season, our offense was on par with any of our mid 90's units. Now it looks more like the 2008 version. And God knows the defense isn't capable of picking up any of that slack.
I'm pretty much over it. I'd look forward to basketball, but that promises to be just as bad- at least on the mens' side. Maybe I'll fully invest myself in the Lady Vols this year. It's likely Pat's last season, so I was probably going to do that anyway. What an uplifting story it would be for Pat to go out on top. Our fanbase NEEDS something like that, and badly.
As for the sentence that was bolded, you can't be serious can you? On par with the mid 90s offenses? Passing wise maybe, but those teams had running backs like Stewart, Hayden, Garner, Graham, Lewis, Henry and Stepens and the offensive line to make the holes for them. |
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« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2011, 04:26:17 EDT » |
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As for the sentence that was bolded, you can't be serious can you? On par with the mid 90s offenses? Passing wise maybe, but those teams had running backs like Stewart, Hayden, Garner, Graham, Lewis, Henry and Stepens and the offensive line to make the holes for them.
Yeah, there's no way this year's running game has ever had the appearance of being anything close to the running games of the 90's. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2011, 10:45:47 EDT » |
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As for the sentence that was bolded, you can't be serious can you? On par with the mid 90s offenses? Passing wise maybe, but those teams had running backs like Stewart, Hayden, Garner, Graham, Lewis, Henry and Stepens and the offensive line to make the holes for them.
I realize the running game is not as good. But with Bray, Hunter, and Rogers on the field, it didn't matter. We could do anything we wanted to in the air, and nobody was stopping it. And that offense actually did remind me of our '96 unit, when Graham had a very poor season and Manning, Kent, and Nash had to carry the load. Except Hunter and Rogers were better than Kent and Nash ever thought about being. And as we continued to loosen up opposing defenses with those three, I think it would've opened more holes for the running game. |
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