GreatScott

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I don't really understand the narrative that Florida is short on talent. According to the 247 sports team talent composite, Florida is the 5th most talented team in the SEC. At no point in recent history has Florida had less talent than Tennessee does. From my perspective, talent isn't the issue. It's coaching and culture. I had a front row seat to this kind of problem for years. It's going to be very difficult to fix. It's harder than you would think to find someone that can both coach and lead.
This is nothing against LSU or Tiger stadium, but I don't much like that the two stadiums nominated by the caucus are Tiger stadium and Wisconsin's stadium, and the two legislators responsible are from Louisiana and Wisconsin. I personally don't think federal dollars should be used on the upkeep of a stadium. Especially when the institutions owning the stadiums have plenty of money to pay for upkeep. Again, nothing against LSU specifically.
I'd like to hear what fans of different teams think about the schedule of permanent opponents listed above. I don't think they'll affect SOS too much, since there would be 6 other SEC games in addition to the 3 permanent and there are not easy schedules in the SEC, but just looking at the 3 games, it looks like Auburn gets the toughest draw. Who do you think got the best draw?
Yeah, I heard the same quote. There were quite a few Tennessee fans wondering how Milton got the start over Hooker last year, and even blamed Heupel for the Pitt loss last year, but Hooker himself says he wasn't ready. It's very exciting as a Vol fan to be playing with house money this year. Short of an absolutely epic collapse in the back half of the season, this year is a runaway success for Tennessee.
I don't think Tennessee uses the rush to protect Hooker. Tennessee only has 4 scholarship running backs. I'd bet they throw it around a lot and let Milton and Jackson get some reps.
I probably wasn't clear enough, but my comment about the NC was more general. I didn't mean to imply that winning the NC wasn't a great accomplishment. I also think that coaches of teams that aren't in the playoff conversation might be coach of the year. Lance Leipold at Kansas has a great argument for it so far.
Coach of the year isn't a participation trophy. It's earned recognition of accomplishment. The notion that someone's accomplishment this year is negated because of someone else's accomplishment in past years is pretty weak. I'm absolutely not in favor of participation trophies, but I think, at least in college football, the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. It seems like some people only value whatever team wins the national championship and every other team must be worthless.
Rodgers moved down too. Looks like Levis' slide had more to do with improved opinion of Dart and Daniels. I'd bet Levis overtakes one of them in the bye week.
I think he meant that the CFP is a new poll for the year, so there would be no leapfrogging, just the debut position. I agree that I don't see us as #1 without a GA loss. Also, Ohio St. is still out there.
I'm not so sure. You are correct as far as team standings for this year, but unless you've been to the places Tennessee's fanbase has been over the last 15 years, I imagine it would be difficult to understand what the Alabama win meant to Tennessee.
I don’t think Saban has gone soft. I think the singular thing that had made Saban the GOAT is his ability to make the right hires over and over again. Correct me if I’m wrong, but he’s never really had to fire any, since they always get hired away from him. This seems a bit of uncharted territory for Saban where it appears that maybe some of his assistant coaches aren’t performing to the Saban standard. FWIW, Tennessee fans thought Fulmer went soft too.
Yes, I would. As meaningful as this win was, if Tennessee/ Alabama had been more even over the last 15 years, then Tennessee likely would have had more meaningful games in that span.
I think he meant the final looks like a half time NBA score.
It’s about time. Tennessee’s been wandering in the wilderness for a long time.
Neyland will certainly be an advantage this year. Wish I could go to this one. This is going to be a loud one even by Neyland's standards. I very much want to believe TN is going to win this game, but for the time being, I'm very happy that TN could win this game. Absolutely, things like scheme, development, and team chemistry can and will beat talent alone, but this is still Alabama. They have more going for them than just talent too.
I may be misunderstanding your comment, but Tennessee may have the least talent coming from the portal of any team. We do have some very critical pieces that came from the portal, but we took very few players overall, due to self imposed scholarship reductions. I agree, on paper, there shouldn't be any way that Tennessee wins this.
I went to the easy one. In games where he started, Manning was: 0-3 against uf 3-1 against bama 3-0 against uga .666 win %
Just out of curiosity, was the cost due to out of state tuition? I attended UT and my experience was that UT was less expensive for the same or better quality degree. (Architecture)
Forgot to add, the 1 seed has won 2 out of 8 times, the same win percentage as the 4 seed.
Just to add some actual data, the 4 seed has won the national championship 2 out of 8 times, or 25%...
Doesn't change the fact that best 4 = most deserving. Even if the 4th best team in the nation has the cards heavily stacked against them to win the whole thing, it's not like that hasn't already happened... Besides, past performance is not always a good predictor of the future. My comment was more in regards the the nothing burger with weaksauce comment implying that being the 4th best team in the country is just a participation trophy.
Are you implying that the best 3 are not the 'most deserving'?...as if 'deserves' has something to do with it.
backwaterblue, I'm not putting myself in a position to answer for his actions. The conclusions everyone is coming to could be correct, and if that is the case, I do not condone his actions at all. All I'm saying is that there are a bunch of people ready to convict and we don't even know the full story. I have heard from people more familiar with the situation that something seems fishy about the story we have so far. One last point to ponder, thus far, Heupel has been very quick to indefinitely suspend any player that gets into big trouble like this. He has not done so this time and has said that he will wait for the full investigation before taking action.
Tidefan8x5, the police report says no such thing. It says only what he is accused of. We don’t know McCollough’s side of the story, and the police report certainly doesn’t give us all the facts we need to know what happened. You are assuming that whatever conclusion shows McCollugh in the worst light is the correct one. You may be right in the end, but you would only be right by accident, not because you had fully weighed all the facts.
It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds. So far, all we've only really heard from one side. McCollough only says he's innocent and hasn't provided his side yet. I've never met him but FWIW, I've heard from those that do know him that this would be extremely out of character for him.
How about a neutral District of SEC. We could place it at the intersection of Tennessee, Alabama, and either Georgia or Mississippi's state lines.