I don’t post much, and have seldom, if ever created a thread, but then again I’ve never seen my beloved Vols where they are right now. Let it be clearly stated that I BELIEVE we will win this Saturday, but then again I absolutely thought we would have won last Saturday with no problems.
So...WHAT IF we lose to BYU (surely not), lose to Chattanooga (Lord have mercy), and then get destroyed by Florida in the Swamp? Does anyone at all survive with an 0-4 start, and we’re suddenly facing the distinct previously unspeakable possibility of going completely, 100% winless in 2019?
*BTW, I hate the negative tone of my own post, and it’s not my nature to think this way...but after last week maybe it bears discussion...
Well, I agree that for the most part being a fan the last ten years has certainly not been healthy. Maybe it takes a disaster to motivate me to post? Maybe I need therapy? Maybe I need a traditional Tennessee winning tradition again?Actually the tone seems to be the norm for all 33 of your posts. Click on the name and read the 33 messages you have posted. There is a very common theme to all of them. Maybe being a "fan" just isnt healthy
I don’t post much, and have seldom, if ever created a thread, but then again I’ve never seen my beloved Vols where they are right now. Let it be clearly stated that I BELIEVE we will win this Saturday, but then again I absolutely thought we would have won last Saturday with no problems.
So...WHAT IF we lose to BYU (surely not), lose to Chattanooga (Lord have mercy), and then get destroyed by Florida in the Swamp? Does anyone at all survive with an 0-4 start, and we’re suddenly facing the distinct previously unspeakable possibility of going completely, 100% winless in 2019?
*BTW, I hate the negative tone of my own post, and it’s not my nature to think this way...but after last week maybe it bears discussion...
We have a QB who has a 6-13 career record and who would struggle at a DIV-2 school and a defense that Maryville high could score on regularly...Losing to Nooga would not shock me at this point...They have not given me any reason to think otherwise.No way you lose to Chattanooga.
Look at it this way. If you bounce back v BYU, that will be perceived as a quality win and it’ll help put the Ga State loss in the rearview and maybe even slide it to the anomaly column, a weird outlier. Then, if you pound Nooga the following week, it helps that perception even more and you actually go into UF game with a little momentum.
So, while some here are saying now’s the time to make a stand, not go to the BYU game to prove a point, etc, I actually think BYU is now a HUGE game in terms of erasing Ga State and possibly saving the season. Now if you lose to BYU and start 0-2, then you’re just screwed.
It's embarrassing it really is!It is amazing how the program keeps sinking further and further to new depths with each successive hire.
Kiffin's last (and only) season was 6 losses.
Dooley was 7.
Butch was 8.
And, d@mn, it looks like the bottom could really fall out with Pruitt.
Even with all of the practice, UT is getting worse at picking coaches instead of getting better.
They hired a HEAD coach who made Prattville one of the best HS programs in the country who went to Jacksonville State and won big there. He then went to UAB and won big there. See a trend?Your absolutely right and after giving up football for a couple of years and yet they come back and rebuild and BAM they are 11-2...Hmm...Wonder what their secret is?
I hope like hell that the team comes out and plays with fire and heart this Saturday. I want to see fire and brimstone on the sidelines and in the booth. Will we? If we don't, it may take a while to right this ship. It seems like a bunch of folks here don't remember 1988, though. Not that there are similarities between these squads and their respective histories. Buckle up.
Your absolutely right and after giving up football for a couple of years and yet they come back and rebuild and BAM they are 11-2...Hmm...Wonder what their secret is?
I do sir and I thank you for reminding me what a bunch of idiots we have running the UT athletic department.They hired a HEAD coach who made Prattville one of the best HS programs in the country who went to Jacksonville State and won big there. He then went to UAB and won big there. See a trend?
UT hired guy with questionable ethics and he left after 1 year. See the trend?
UT hied a losing coach at La Tech and he lost at UT. See the trend?
UT then hired a mediocre coat-rider who was mediocre for 4 years. See the trend?
UT then hired guy with no HC experience and he is still learning on job (best case) in Y2. See the trend?
Regardless, I think he is the coach through this season. Not sure the school, if then, can afford to let him go..maybe gets another year. Folks, we're not going to have any "proven" contenders during any possible coaching search. At the end of the day, this is still a business.I don’t post much, and have seldom, if ever created a thread, but then again I’ve never seen my beloved Vols where they are right now. Let it be clearly stated that I BELIEVE we will win this Saturday, but then again I absolutely thought we would have won last Saturday with no problems.
So...WHAT IF we lose to BYU (surely not), lose to Chattanooga (Lord have mercy), and then get destroyed by Florida in the Swamp? Does anyone at all survive with an 0-4 start, and we’re suddenly facing the distinct previously unspeakable possibility of going completely, 100% winless in 2019?
*BTW, I hate the negative tone of my own post, and it’s not my nature to think this way...but after last week maybe it bears discussion...
If the level of execution/effort they showed Saturday is replicated in the 11 remaining games, they might beat UTC. It'd be a close game.It is possible...After watching last weeks disaster I only have them winning 2 games.....Chattanooga and UAB...The rest will be brutal beatings unlike anything we have ever seen at Tennessee.
If we lose to Chattanooga, Pruitt will be fired within 24 hours....
Nope....he’s never coming. But coaching searches sure beat the football around here these days.You, DTO, Knucklehead and the other trolls planned your Gruden attack already, or you got someone else in mind this time?
I look forward it. The crying and hypocrisy was legendary, that's for sure.
I find that extremely, extremely unlikely.
I don't think you quite understand just how much money we still owe Butch and his staff, then would have to turn around and pay Pruitt. Nothing is impossible, but there's basically a zero percent chance he's fired this year, regardless of our record. We don't have infinite money.