KnoxRealtorVOL
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I delayed this thread for a day or two after my normal posting, for obvious reasons. But AJ isn't playing this Saturday one way or the other, there's nothing we can do about it, and the week must go on. For whoever hasn't noticed, we are THE game Saturday night. Mizzou knows it and their fans are ready.
I'm going to start this by venting. Everything about finding Mizzou message boards is awful. Of the decent boards you can find, none of them have any activity. I saw a thread on one board right after the opening line was released, a UT fan started a thread about how he hopes that means it will be a good game. No one has posted in that thread or on that board in general since. The only board where I saw consistent posting looks like this:
So that's what I'm dealing with. Anyways, here's what the Mizzou faithful are saying about this weekend's game in Neyland:
-First thread I saw was titled "I'm more worried about Arkansas at home than Tenn on the road."
-They have an abundance of confidence in their front 7.
-They think Dobbs is very overhyped, and they believe their D-line will expose his weaknesses and shut him down.
-Example:
-They all pretty consistently think it will be close, but I haven't seen a single poster that doesn't think they will win.
-There is a thread titled "Volnation extremely confident of blowout Saturday"..... not sure what they're referencing. I haven't seen too much talk like that from our fans.
-More on Dobbs:
-They are taking a lot of pride in the likelihood of being considered a "football school" now.
-They are very upset and feel disrespected over the opening line that has UT favored by 3.
-More on the opening line, they are saying it only opened like that because "Tennessee is the new media darlings." Also referred to Tennessee on a few occasions as "flavor of the week."
-They posted these stats as a way of making fun of their own Mizzou fans that are scared of UT. It sarcastically said "these are scary, deflating stats"
UT Stats:
Red Zone Defense - 124 of 125
Sacks Allowed - 117 of 125
TFL Allowed - 109 of 125
Scoring Defense - 46th of 125
Rushing Defense - 64th of 125
Passing offense - 52 of 125
Passying YPC - 105 of 125
Rushing Offense - 94 of 125
Scoring offense - 66 of 125
Total offense - 78 of 125
I haven't bothered to check the validity of them, but a lot of that doesn't sound right at all. Especially red zone defense.
-I saw several instances of them quoting VP saying he feels sorry for Mizzou.
-Though their confidence lies in their D-line, the majority seem to feel they will actually dominate both lines.
-They grew a great deal of confidence in the likelihood of them winning after the news broke about AJ.
-I will say that in regards to the AJ thing, they seem to be speaking with a lot of respect for our program for suspending him. They seem surprised we would suspend our star player.
-One more on Dobbs:
-They are expecting this to be a repeat of their trip to Ole Miss last year, where everyone thought it would be a good match up and a tough road game for them and Mizzou ended up steamrolling them.
-Mizzou fans are essentially butthurt about the lack of respect they get as a prominent program. They are griping about us having several starters missing, saying that every game they win gets credited with them playing teams that have key players missing. They feel the world thinks they keep "backing in" to good seasons and records.
-I couldn't really get any grasp of general score predictions, only that they think they will win.
In short, they are confident. They reference their victory against us last year a LOT. For every poster that says something to the degree of "This game scares me" there are ten that will talk about all the reasons they will be dominant this game. They are definitely underestimating UT, and reference pre-Dobbs games a lot.
Before the South Carolina game I said let's go get win #1 of 4. We got it.
Before the Kentucky game I said let's go get win #2 of 4. We got it.
Let's go get win #3 of 4 and let's go bowling!
We'll discuss which bowl we're going to Saturday night!!
GBO!!!!!!
I'm going to start this by venting. Everything about finding Mizzou message boards is awful. Of the decent boards you can find, none of them have any activity. I saw a thread on one board right after the opening line was released, a UT fan started a thread about how he hopes that means it will be a good game. No one has posted in that thread or on that board in general since. The only board where I saw consistent posting looks like this:
So that's what I'm dealing with. Anyways, here's what the Mizzou faithful are saying about this weekend's game in Neyland:
-First thread I saw was titled "I'm more worried about Arkansas at home than Tenn on the road."
-They have an abundance of confidence in their front 7.
-They think Dobbs is very overhyped, and they believe their D-line will expose his weaknesses and shut him down.
-Example:
-They all pretty consistently think it will be close, but I haven't seen a single poster that doesn't think they will win.
-There is a thread titled "Volnation extremely confident of blowout Saturday"..... not sure what they're referencing. I haven't seen too much talk like that from our fans.
-More on Dobbs:
-They are taking a lot of pride in the likelihood of being considered a "football school" now.
-They are very upset and feel disrespected over the opening line that has UT favored by 3.
-More on the opening line, they are saying it only opened like that because "Tennessee is the new media darlings." Also referred to Tennessee on a few occasions as "flavor of the week."
-They posted these stats as a way of making fun of their own Mizzou fans that are scared of UT. It sarcastically said "these are scary, deflating stats"
UT Stats:
Red Zone Defense - 124 of 125
Sacks Allowed - 117 of 125
TFL Allowed - 109 of 125
Scoring Defense - 46th of 125
Rushing Defense - 64th of 125
Passing offense - 52 of 125
Passying YPC - 105 of 125
Rushing Offense - 94 of 125
Scoring offense - 66 of 125
Total offense - 78 of 125
I haven't bothered to check the validity of them, but a lot of that doesn't sound right at all. Especially red zone defense.
-I saw several instances of them quoting VP saying he feels sorry for Mizzou.
-Though their confidence lies in their D-line, the majority seem to feel they will actually dominate both lines.
-They grew a great deal of confidence in the likelihood of them winning after the news broke about AJ.
-I will say that in regards to the AJ thing, they seem to be speaking with a lot of respect for our program for suspending him. They seem surprised we would suspend our star player.
-One more on Dobbs:
-They are expecting this to be a repeat of their trip to Ole Miss last year, where everyone thought it would be a good match up and a tough road game for them and Mizzou ended up steamrolling them.
-Mizzou fans are essentially butthurt about the lack of respect they get as a prominent program. They are griping about us having several starters missing, saying that every game they win gets credited with them playing teams that have key players missing. They feel the world thinks they keep "backing in" to good seasons and records.
-I couldn't really get any grasp of general score predictions, only that they think they will win.
In short, they are confident. They reference their victory against us last year a LOT. For every poster that says something to the degree of "This game scares me" there are ten that will talk about all the reasons they will be dominant this game. They are definitely underestimating UT, and reference pre-Dobbs games a lot.
Before the South Carolina game I said let's go get win #1 of 4. We got it.
Before the Kentucky game I said let's go get win #2 of 4. We got it.
Let's go get win #3 of 4 and let's go bowling!
We'll discuss which bowl we're going to Saturday night!!
GBO!!!!!!
