The Official Tennessee vs. #20 Missouri Game Thread, 7:30pm ET, ESPN

[volfanjustin]

Butch f'd up. Don't give a d*** who denies it.

He blew it tonight, end of half and end of game.

 

[90 Vol]

shut the music off!!!! embarrassing

Ok, I'm officially over 3rd down for what.

 

[SGMVols]

Our staff didn't get outcoached, we got beat by a team that's better than we are.

So is Indiana more talented than us now?

 

[VolsFanRJ]

Wouldn't have mattered but butch got a little retarded on the challenge and cost us a timeout. That wasn't smart.

 

[PA Vol]

So many reasons for that loss.

But that onside kick was on the refs.

You can't call a new penalty after a review.

 

[OrangeFrog]

shut the music off!!!! embarrassing

I don't see this as embarrassing at all. What exactly is the deal with the fan base?

 

[RSATURDAY]

Tehee

 

[YorkVol]

Well, a win would have been nice, but we are still a solid 2nd and 3rd string away. Lack of leadership, lack of depth and problems with the oline continue to plague us.

 

[UTBasketball2]

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[Doyle Hargraves]

What on earth are you talking about?

No, no, no, brother!
Just sit back and watch the idiots come out.
Good times!

 

[boxerpupsrcool]

The fat lady just sang..

 

[ukvols]

No he didn't. He shouldn't have challenged but that didn't cost us the game.

It wasn't the primary reason we lost. Not even close.
But, it ended the game.
Challenging the call ended the game.

 

[checkerboards09]

he did, but TN wasn't scoring a td and 2 pt conv with 30 secs.

We should have had all three timeouts and kicked it deep.

 

[UTodd01]

Fellas, we lost this game when Josh Malone let that pass bounce off his chest. I hate to point to one play, but that was the turning point.

Agreed.

This really changes nothing. We will thump Candy and be in a bowl game. Just with one less win. And we will still be hyped preseason next year.

 

[BEATBAMA12]

Fellas, we lost this game when Josh Malone let that pass bounce off his chest. I hate to point to one play, but that was the turning point.

This. It deflated the offense and defense. Tough loss, let's move on to Vandy and get to .500

 

[UT_King]

Um yeah with 2 timeouts we could have gotten the ball back with 30+ seconds left. Losing that timeout gave us no chance. That was a flat out awful decision. I have no clue what our coaches were thinking.

Kinda like wasting nearly two minutes at the end of the first half plus 3 timeouts.

 

[acd4476]

looking back at replay. no offsides. refs got us again.

 

[vol-un-tear]

Missouri is a good football team. Maybe if we had those time outs... Oh well. Go Vols!!

 

[Other_Guy]

Awful awful decision to even.chance it but Mizzu could have made the FG and not made a difference with like 30 secs left.

 

[bowlinggreenvol]

Oh stfu...that one decision didn't cost us the game.

It cost us any chance of coming back. If you don't acknowledge that then you're not worth arguing with.

 

[Obsessed]

Well look on the bright side, Vandy is next week. We will be bowl eligible after we embarrass their whole fan base all 12 of them.

It's a shame we have to depend on vandy being vandy to go to a bowl game.

 

[armchair]

Our offensive line was totally abused in this game by the missouri DL. That is why we lost. The right side, in particular, was horrid--turnstile blocking. Tennessee backfield? This way, please!

 

[Chad F]

This is an ugly game. Clearly not our best performance. In fact, I'd say this is second only to the Florida game as our worst showing of the year just based on how we folded in the end. Some good fight but bad mental discipline and very questionable calls by the coaches. Disappointing, but we are all used to that by now. Puts a really bad taste in our mouths (yet again) going into the last game.

 

[NewRiver_Vol]

That 2min butch let runoff at the half would have been nice, garbage playcalling. Oline is awful, just a big disappointment once again

 

[mackievol]

Malone gets a scholarship to catch a ball. he let the whole team down. Those are the facts