I think Stoops is pretty good HC.  He?s done well considering he is a football coach at UK.  But yeah, he is not top tier.

Happy Thanksgiving, y?all. 

Yep, this team ain?t tough enough.  No
Real backbone.  Also, our DE?s don?t know what the word ?contain? means.  Almost all of that is on the staff. 

Not playing a 9 game conf sched is just plain stoopid.   

I may be in attendance to this one....

A buddy of mine is a big Mizzou fan.  I was talking with him last Friday and he had forgot that his Tigers were playing the Vols.  He has a plane and luvs to fly, so all the sudden he started working the logistics of flying to Columbia and taking me along.... it almost worked out, but we ended up watching it at B-Dubs near the airport where he has a hangar.  I'd have to say it was mucho better to watch that debacle with him as opposed to watching it solo at home. 

I make it an 80% chance we hang with them one half....but then again, who hasn't done that?

Close first half then in the 2nd half we started driving and picking up fouls.  We were in the double bonus by the 10:00 mark

Off to Honolulu for the Maui Invitational
1st game is against Syracuse Monday

As an aside, I like my new part time job, being an usher for basketball games (and some conserts)
Get paid to be in the arena 

Nice gig!  My uncle used to do that for football and hoops.  He was usually working down on the floor at TBA, so I would see him on the teevee frequently.  RIP, uncle Spencer. 

7 mil a yr on top of an ungodly lump sum!!!  And it?s guaranteed.   Even if he takes another job????

It was kinda like ?22 S Carolina, part 2.   

Dobbs & Chandler are in the backfield together for the Vikings today?. Wild.

ESPN analytics keep boosting our win chances for the next two games.  If we can TCB against Mizzou and Ole Miss upsets the Dawgs, the Vols-Dawgs game will be high stakes.

What happens to the SEC on CBS theme music?  I guess it will be shelved for eternity.

I love when the Orange is blended in with the Purple!  Dobbs has done OK, but he really hasn't been on fire or anything so far this season.  I think he is the 19th rated passer in the league right now.  The HC at Minnesota is a pretty good QB coach, so maybe this will give Josh a further chance to grow.  Too bad Jefferson is hurt right now. 

So another detail....if the above scenario (uga loses to Mizzou, UT wins out) transpires, another possibility is that UF wins out, and the 3-way tie is uga, UF and UT with two SEC losses each.  In that case, UF beats UT but loses to Uga, UT beats uga but loses to UF, so it would go to best division record.  In which case, one of our 2 SEC losses will have been to a West team, in which case, we win!

Anyway...we can still talk about this stuff today.  Uga likely beats Mizzou like a rented mule and makes this more or less irrelevant.

Even then, uga could still lose to both us and Ole Miss, in which case we win the tiebreaker. If UF also wins out, and there is another 3-way tie, then Division record of Uga and UT will be the same, so I think in that case, it reverts to head to head.

I know this is all a long shot...but interestingly enough, if we win out and uga loses to either Ole Miss or Mizzou, the tibreakers all seem to favor us.   

I'll say this...it all looks very unlikely, but stranger things have happened, and both Mizzou and uga strength of schedules in the first half the season were pitiful. I think uga was 117th in the country after 6 games.  Florida probably bumped that up a bit, but let's see how they do down the stretch.   

I don't think there is any way UF wins @LSU, so I would not worry about them winning out.  It's gonna be tough for the Vols to win out as well, of course.  We seem to be slightly favored @ Mizzou which sounds about right, and ESPN gives us a 1 in 3 chance of upsetting the Dawgs...which seems a little optimistic, but who knows.  I will agree that it is nice that 8 games into the season we still more or less control our own destiny.  Hopefully the Huskies game will be a good tuneup game instead of yet another grinder.

Yes, that would explain a whole lot.  We all know that something happened to cause such an anomaly.  I always thought it was dissention between the O and the D...but this would be a good explanation. 

Even if they could, I?m beginning to think the SEC won?t allow it.

Ya gotta luv how they review the spot when its initially ruled that we got the first down, but they won't review the spot when it's ruled we didn't get the first down - on the very next freaking play!  That pretty much says it all

I know that is a crazy question, but we looked pretty good in that first half last Saturday.  Milton played as good as I have seen him play, but he is still staring down his primary 90% of the time.  And of course, Bama was not playing at 100% that first half.  As we all know, Bammer came out hitting on all cylinders after the break and the wheels just came off for the Big Orange. 

Can we capture that first half magic and finish out unbeaten?  UK and Mizzou on the road will be a challenge.  I think we can give UGa a game since it is in Neyland.  I guess it all hinges on this weekend.  If we can get our damn head on straight for 4 quarters and our coaches can do their damn job, we could go up to Lex and blow them right off of the artificial bluegrass.  A big win, complete game here would be a huge shot of confidence in the arm....It's a big game this weekend which will determine the outcome of the whole season, IMO.

However, KY is dang good this year.  They have struggled in October though.  I sorta see this as a close game, decided in the final 5 minutes.  Lose this one and say hello to a disappointing 7-5 campaign.

I hope I am wrong and we blow them the fizzle out. 

Sorry I missed y?all

I've seen out 3-6 weeks...and now this. My head is spinning.

Doesn't sound official yet.  3-6 weeks is right.  This guy reported that he is "likely" out.  So maybe it is just his guess.  I do agree Bowers may opt out to get ready for the draft.

At times, particularly in pressure situations, he looks to me like he would rather not be out there.  That's not good.

ZACKLY

I'm in the North nose bleeds

Pretty sure I'm smack dab in the middle of the tree poisoner sections

https://x.com/Vol_Football/status/1711426498240938086?s=20

I plan on being in attendance.  My first road Gator game and first road Bama game in the same year.... about time, I guess

White Lightnin' by George Jones

I saw them in Philly during the Joshua Tree tour, it was hands down the best live performance I've ever seen. This clip??? Yikes! That's crap

Excellent venue however

I saw them in Philly for the Unforgettable Fire Tour.  Dang that was freaking amazing.  I still have that concert tee somewhere....