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The Breakerboy said:
The secondary has made the most improvement with Martin opposite Sutton and Foreman balling at the nickel. QBs are starting to just eat the ball. They are literally taking WRs apart out there in man coverage. Foreman looks very good and is playing very physical at the nickel position. Martin's athleticism is creating problems. And Sutton has QBs scared to throw passes stupid to his side. They aren't getting picks but QBs are eating the ball too.
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Yet we have posters stating that Martinez is a weak link in the coaching. :crazy:
 
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From DeerPark regarding the turf mess:

There are many reasons why this is the case, suffice to say that there is significant enough pressure on UT that they need to do everything they can to keep a natural surface.

That said, I expect someone else to be in charge of the football field next year. The closed-door meeting on the turf that was mentioned in the media this week? The current groundskeeper was not invited.

UT has one of the top turfgrass programs in the country. The current groundskeeper uses their students as basically free labor, but does not follow many of the methods that are taught. I also expect that to change and for the AD to rely more on the resources present on campus.
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butchna said:
Agree...absolute arguments never ring true for me. They could dominate those two games and still flame out next year or conversely slip up and deliver next season. No set course.
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I'm with you here. Some seem to think 9-4 all but guarantees a great season next year. But it doesn't. 6-7 doesn't guarantee a bad season next year either. It would be a huge bummer for this year to go down on such a sour note, but that's about it. For momentum/recruiting sake, it would obviously be better to win out.

But truthfully, this season is already a failure since we are no longer in the hunt for a championship. This season has lost its sense of wonder and hope for a final stretch of meaningful games. I want to have a season where we get to this point and still have a chance to control our own destiny. This was not that year. So 7, 8 or 9 wins. Whatever. It doesn't matter much either way.

The more important aspect of the last two games for me would be:

1) To finally get a win over Missouri. We should have welcomed them to the conference with a few beatdowns. Instead, its year 4 and we're still searching for one against them. Inexcusable. If we lose this year, this will start to become a streak that people will talk about.

2) To not wake Vanderbilt up to the idea of being our rival again. It will probably happen whether they beat us or not. Ideally we would find a way to get a big lead early and never let them believe they were ever in it. But I think they will slug around with us for 4 miserable quarters. I hope we can find a way to get it done.

Glad we're going bowling regardless.
 
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Tennessee Golfer said:
Except that would entail actually catching a ball.
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Oh-snap-gif.gif
 
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highspeed said:
There are lots of reasons to think we have the better team and should win. However, I think they probably played their best game of the year on Saturday against BYU while we're coming off back-to-back lackluster performances. We're going to have our hands full in this one, I think
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Last home game for a beloved coach who is retiring because he has cancer. It's not going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination.
 
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@JamesPalmerTV: Peyton Manning just got done getting an MRI on his rib cage. Doesn't know results yet.

Damn this is sad.

I really wanted him to walk away last year
 
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I don't care about getting on the hitlist... crowder should not see the field. The kid just can't do it and it's painful to watch him whiff or run to block nobody.
 
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utvols88 said:
I don't care about getting on the hitlist... crowder should not see the field. The kid just can't do it and it's painful to watch him whiff or run to block nobody.
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Yeah. The fact that Chance Hall comes in with about the same recruiting ranking as Crowder and is immediately excellent as a freshman just shows how much better this staff is when it comes to talent evals.

They've only had a couple of misses so far and a ton of huge "hits" on the recruiting tail.

Also, I'm looking forward to this offseason simply because we get to flush yet another Dooley class out of the program.
 
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Catbone said:
I'm starting to feel the same way. I think quick, smaller and faster teams like Tennessee benefit playing on turf. JMO
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Tennessee smaller?

Tuttle
McKenzie
Barnett
Hurd
And quite a few other players on our team think you need a bigger TV…
:)
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
Tennessee smaller?

Tuttle
McKenzie
Barnett
Hurd
And quite a few other players on our team think you need a bigger TV…
:)
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What I mean is our style is the spread and on defense we have a lot of tweeners. Basically the polar opposite of Arkansas and UGA and Bama. I've just noticed a lot of spread teams play on turf IIRC.
 
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Really hoping Butch is accurate in Jashon being more game ready this week we need him and Crowder out of that lineup no offense. Wish Jack Jones was in too but Wiesman has done well.
 
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Also do you all think Butch saying the offensive performance wasn't as bad as he initially thought was just trying to be positive to the players because I personally thought it was the worst offensive performance this year :(
 
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