The Bama streak - when will it end?

#52
#52
Let's say our chance of winning vs Bama this season is 6% (that's what ESPN FPI thinks it is). And let's say it is 20% next season. And 35% the season after that. Rising to 45% in Pruitt's fourth year.

Believe it or not, statistics tells us that means we have a 73% chance of winning at least one of those four games. Heck, we have a better than 50/50 chance (specifically, 51.2%) of winning at least one of the first three games, if those per-game odds are close to accurate.

So I'm gonna guess we'll break the streak between now and October, 2021 (just over three years from now).

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As for whether Jeremy would leave Knoxville after building up the program so that we're winning championships, well, Neyland didn't go back to Texas, his home state, nor Army, his alma mater.

Humans, like birds, build nests. And the more comfortable the nest, the more it feels like home. Permanent home. Even if it's not where you grew up.
 
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#54
Coach Pruitt has to point out to possible recruits the fact that Tennessee gets lots of their games on television and that if you are good enough, you will get to play RIGHT NOW, instead of waiting 2 or 3 years for your chance to shine. Then we’ll start to see changes. Don’t forget, a couple of years ago we were winning against Alabama until butch choked. A better coach would have put the hammer down and won that game.
 
#55
#55
That's the one monkey we still have on our back. We shed a couple of them last week, so who knows? Even though Bama has a bye week after Saturday, we could catch them looking ahead to LSU. It's very doubtful, but I would love to see/hear the meltdown of the CBS commentators.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Let's say our chance of winning vs Bama this season is 6% (that's what ESPN FPI thinks it is). And let's say it is 20% next season. And 35% the season after that. Rising to 45% in Pruitt's fourth year.

Believe it or not, statistics tells us that means we have a 73% chance of winning at least one of those four games. Heck, we have a better than 50/50 chance (specifically, 51.2%) of winning at least one of the first three games, if those per-game odds are close to accurate.

So I'm gonna guess we'll break the streak between now and October, 2021 (just over three years from now).

...

As for whether Jeremy would leave Knoxville after building up the program so that we're winning championships, well, Neyland didn't go back to Texas, his home state, nor Army, his alma mater.

Humans, like birds, build nests. And the more comfortable the nest, the more it feels like home. Permanent home. Even if it's not where you grew up.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. This principle didn't keep Doug Dickey at UT even after all the success he had here (never subsequently matched at Florida)
 
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#60
A coach who instills mental toughness can snag a win without being an equal program...see Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss (they did it consecutively...almost 3 in a row).
 
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#61
Here is the real issue to me: if TN doesn’t find a way - any way - to beat the Peckerheads of Yellowhammer U this weekend, Lyle Effemall Jones will be in that locker room smoking a cigar all red-faced and beady eyed, dancing like the college intern he is...
 
#62
#62
It won’t happen until UT gets an administration that realizes what the actual mission of the states land grant university is and the impact a winning program can have on the school, the alumni and the state.
 
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MaTaLa said:
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love this gif. Is there a backstory on why Kiffin did this? Just for goofs?
 
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ShoalCreekVol said:
Here is the real issue to me: if TN doesn’t find a way - any way - to beat the Peckerheads of Yellowhammer U this weekend, Lyle Effemall Jones will be in that locker room smoking a cigar all red-faced and beady eyed, dancing like the college intern he is...
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Yeah and when’s he’s on bama’s sideline he’ll look over to the VOLS and realize how horrible of a job he did. Regardless of what he smokes Saturday he’ll know his contribution to victory was very minimal.
 
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