Recent content by BudBarry

B12 only has 10 members, chose a round robin format for Conference with 3 OOC games for each member.

By NCAA rule, a Conference must have at least 12 playing members in order to have a CCG. Playing each team in the conference as the B12 does, what sense would it make to have a CCG?? There is no escaping a particular team or two one year and a couple the next. The B12 commish flubbed up last...

Most people call it 'Expectations and Standards'. If you are happy with a 2 point win, that is your so called ceiliing. To expect TN to go out and win games, not by just one or two, but by many, isn't all that horrible of an idea. IF...TN wants to be an elite team, a "Dynasty" as I have seen...

Is Coach Jones the answer for the Vols? This is from an outsider perspective that doesn't have a dog in this hunt. It does seem that the team is doing better going down the road. One camp says "that is progress". The other camp says "well, sure look at the competition". A while back I posted...

Owens was a beast in '69. 56 carries against Okie State. That's a hell of a lot of carries in one game. When then OC Barry Switzer was trying to run out the clock and not wanting a timeout, Mildren did just that to give Owens a breather. He had carried like 10 times straight. Switzer told...

Hedging? Yet you say IF/WHEN. dayummmm.

Big guy, I have been following the Vols for some time now. Go ahead and root for Baylor, TCU and Okie Lite. At least you will be rooting for teams with nothing less than 10-2 right now. I know you aren't used to that lately. Next year though, right? After the FR get used to flying around in...

My sides are hurting from laughing so hard. TCU is still a threat, sure but Baylor? Down to FR QB and they have taken some hits on their starting rotation. What makes you think that OU is going to lose? Okie State gives us more cause for concern than the Horned Frogs and Bears. Given the...

Of course, she's a legend. and CHW is doing a good job. My point about the AD was AD's have a big influence of a programs' success or non-success, just as much as the coach. I thought Kelvin Sampson was an ok hire at OU, but I think bringing in Lon Kruger (HOF coach IMO and Class Act) was and...

Throwing out the BGSU and WCU games, this is the common thing that had me thinking while watching the game Sat. night. First Half Points Second Half Points VS OU 17 VS OU 0 VS FL 17 VS FL 10 VS AR 17...

Not a rat, just a football fan that has lived in TN. I had to move (PCS) to another post out of state. My wife is still in the military as am I (I left teaching and coaching behind to go back into the military, better pay and benefits ya know) and she still lives in TN as do my kids. We are both...

Indiana has better athletes than Ohio State? Purdue has better athletes than Michigan State? Arizona State > UCLA? BYU > Oregon? Star ratings given to HS players don't mean squat to me. And that's just me. It's good from a stand-point of going after those that have the skill/ability/potential...

If I had to make a calculated guess, I would say that the speed of the game in the SEC is something DeBoard isn't used to. In the BIG-10, it was common saying that CB's, SS's, FS's were nothing more than LB's that were a step faster than the fastest DL. I don't think he can draw up a play that...

That's a difficult concept to grasp. I do not know of any team (NFL, NBA, NCAA, pop-warner) that doesn't make adjustments of some kind. A) continue doing what works and B) adjust those things that AREN'T working (O and D) and make the other guy make a move. You don't keep doing what you're doing...