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#26
#26
I'm excited! If the defense is even remotely better this year we could go all the way. Last year we only needed to make one more stop to win in the games we lost.
 
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#27
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TNnative said:
So far, all I hear is wind blowing. Did we hear this in 98? Nope. But I heard this kinda nonsense from Miami before the 1986 Super Bowl.

Like it all ya want. I am starting to hate it, and for damn good reasons.
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The reason that all you hear is 'wind blowing' is simple. You are the closest person to yourself.
 
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ruger1234 said:
All the pieces are in place from DC to the waterboy for this to be a defense that none of us will ever forget. I'm thinking something similar to the 1992 Bama defense.
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Man I hope we are that good. That's still the best college defense I have ever seen, **mn they could play:eek:hmy:.
 
#31
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TNnative said:
So far, all I hear is wind blowing. Did we hear this in 98? Nope. But I heard this kinda nonsense from Miami before the 1986 Super Bowl.

Like it all ya want. I am starting to hate it, and for damn good reasons.
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/cry?
 
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#32
#32
snapcracklepop said:
I'm sure everyone except me saw these interview quotes from Coach Shoop like 25 years ago since Jimmy Hyams tweeted them tonight, but I thought I'd share them for those of you that forgot because they FARD me up!!! ;)

Shoop: `We’re very committed. We’re going to stop the run. Nobody will run the FB on the Orange Swarm. Nobody will run the FB on Tennessee.’

Shoop wants `11 men flying to the football like their hair is on fire. We’re going to come after the QB. Pressure makes the pipes burst.'

Shoop: `We’re very committed. We’re going to stop the run. Nobody will run the FB on the Orange Swarm. Nobody will run the FB on Tennessee.’

Shoop said juco DE Jonathan Kongbo has gone from 255 when he
signed to 280: `He may eat himself into playing inside (at tackle).’

Soon after Jimmy's tweet regarding Kongbo, Mr. KING Kongbo tweeted the following: "I'm telling yall I still move like a end"

We ready! GO VOLS!
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If Chubb doesn't get 7 ypc against team 120's D we have a contingent of his VN fanboys that will beshat themselves which will be a fun day for yours truly.
 
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TNnative said:
So far, all I hear is wind blowing. Did we hear this in 98? Nope. But I heard this kinda nonsense from Miami before the 1986 Super Bowl.

Like it all ya want. I am starting to hate it, and for damn good reasons.
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I agree with you. This type of hype makes 18-22 year old kids heads swell and their determination fade, after all they have already been crowned the SEC East champs this year.

I hope I am dead wrong and this team makes me eat crow but I just think the hype is out of hand about his team. They HAVE what it will take to win the SEC but will they play like it.
 
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VolBricks said:
I agree with you. This type of hype makes 18-22 year old kids heads swell and their determination fade, after all they have already been crowned the SEC East champs this year.

I hope I am dead wrong and this team makes me eat crow but I just think the hype is out of hand about his team. They HAVE what it will take to win the SEC but will they play like it.
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I don't know about you but I trust Cam Sutton, JRM, Alvin Kamara, and Josh Dobbs. I don't think they're the type that will the hype get to the team. This team has great leadership. I trust them to have the guys ready.
 
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TNnative said:
So far, all I hear is wind blowing. Did we hear this in 98? Nope. But I heard this kinda nonsense from Miami before the 1986 Super Bowl.

Like it all ya want. I am starting to hate it, and for damn good reasons.
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Give us a couple of those damn good reasons.

The SEC teams we play, play us hard every year. The teams in the first half of the season, because we are a stepping stone to where they want to be. The teams in the second half of the season because they are trying to salvage their season and get to a bowl game.

If we don't live up to expectations, what's going to be different. People are going to talk bad about us? It's been so good the last decade, I'd hate for them to think ill of us.
 
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livefaith said:
I remember that. With a rookie QB to boot.

This is as OT as heck, but here goes ... Who would have thought Marino would never return to the SB again, at that point? In my list of all time QBs, by skill / ability / performance, I rank Marino a very close 2nd to PM.

Ironically, that rookie season, the Dolphins had a solid defense. Never again in Marino's long career was their defense good. Not once! Then the year after he retires, the offense lost it's way as expected, and their defense was excellent.

One of the oddities of sports IMO. Maybe DMs monstrous contracts could be linked to personnel budgetary issues that contributed to that. But it's still a really weird thing to me.

... ok, back to Shoop. :)
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Miami didn't play in the Super Bowl in 1986....the Bears and Patriots did. Miami played the 49ers a year earlier in 1985.
 
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#37
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VolBricks said:
I agree with you. This type of hype makes 18-22 year old kids heads swell and their determination fade, after all they have already been crowned the SEC East champs this year.

I hope I am dead wrong and this team makes me eat crow but I just think the hype is out of hand about his team. They HAVE what it will take to win the SEC but will they play like it.
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Nearly everyone on this team will have experienced the crushing late collapses from last year. You really think there's a great danger of them going into this season on 'idle'?

Seems to me that we have really talented, very confident players with something to prove. I like that.

Also, and this is just me, personally... I say, let them have the experience of a lifetime, playing at THE University of Tennessee, with great expectations and a lot of hype. I wish every UT athlete for the past decade or so could have had that same experience.
 
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#38
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VOL 4 Life 83 said:
I remember when Butch was hired, and even after his first year, the talk was all about Butch and the coaches he had around him. Would he stay loyal to the same gang that had followed him from school to school, and if not, it would be the end of him. Well, I think we can all agree that he has taken the necessary steps to put the right coaches in the right spots to get this team on a championship level.

Edit: hopefully Azzani is next if the receivers have another year similar to last
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I agree about Azzani. Our receivers haven't lived up to their potential or the hype since he has been here. He needs to be next if they have another mediocre season.
 
#39
#39
NorCalVol67 said:
Shuler was impressive the 3rd Saturday in October that year for the abuse he received by the bookends Copeland & Curry and never giving up. I have never seen a QB take that kind of abuse and play the entire game.
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Heath said one of those guys put his helmet in his neck and it was harder than any hit he received at any level.

That was the loudest game I've been to.

Listen to me people....I implore you...do not stand in the upper deck. In the old days the upper deck fans sat and stomped their feet.

No amount of yelling can come close to this. If you sat under the deck, you couldn't even hear heard Bobby Denton on the PA.
 
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#40
#40
Can you imagine if this defense was that dominating that literally no team could run against us? This is being hyped as a defense for the ages. If we are half as good as being hyped by Shoop it'll be a great year.
 
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#41
led0321 said:
There is a lot of talk coming from Tennessee. Good, bad or indifferent.
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There should be. If you can do what you say its not talking trash.....its stating the truth. If he believes that teams will not run the football on us, then go ahead and say it.
 
#42
#42
I love the swag and confidence coach Shoop is showing and saying. 2016 is gonna be fun! Get your popcorn ready!:rock:
 
#43
#43
ruger1234 said:
All the pieces are in place from DC to the waterboy for this to be a defense that none of us will ever forget. I'm thinking something similar to the 1992 Bama defense.
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Alabama 1992? Might want to pump the brakes a little there. We are going to be good, but it is not all time good, at least not until they prove it on the field.
 
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#44
chuck0303 said:
The MVP award should have gone to Clint Sterner. Without his fumble, no championship. Having said that, it was Tennessee's D that pushed him back making him fumble.
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And he took a beating like nobody's business. They hit him har and often and he kept coming back. People can say all they want but Stoerner is one of the toughest I've seen play. Several time AL Wilson and crew hit him so hard I felt bad for him. Then he'd sling it down field for a 24 yard pick up for a 1st down. Tough kid
 
#46
#46
Clint Stoerner was a baller no doubt. We were lucky as heck to beat him that year, and I say him because he was the heart and soul of that team! Have you ever seen him talk about hat game? He still cringes! He can barely talk about it! Arkansas thought '98 was their year!
 
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LA vol7 said:
Clint Stoerner was a baller no doubt. We were lucky as heck to beat him that year, and I say him because he was the heart and soul of that team! Have you ever seen him talk about hat game? He still cringes! He can barely talk about it! Arkansas thought '98 was their year!
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I met him at a golf tournament in Dallas when he played for them. He was a great guy and yes, that play and game still haunts him. He said the Vols hit him so often he got to where he just expected to get drilled even on hand offs. He is a very good guy.
 
#49
#49
To play Devil's advocate:

The hype train ALWAYS gets a head of steam this time of year. If past experience is any indication, our expectations will ramp up and by August we will be a shoe-in for the National Championship with an undefeated season to boot.

Why is this year's hype train different (if it is different) for you? What has heightened your expectations?
 
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#50
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chuck0303 said:
The MVP award should have gone to Clint Sterner. Without his fumble, no championship. Having said that, it was Tennessee's D that pushed him back making him fumble.
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.......and that's an understatement. This is what Shoop's talkin' about! In that last series against the hawgs, UT's D-line and linebackers were like Niagara Falls smashing a moth. There just wasn't any blocking from those backs and O-linemen. The Vols were continually overwhelming them and Stoerner was scared stiff at every snap. As Shoop would comment, Arky's pipes were blown out by the orange swarm. Look out SEC. The swarm is back and they're all pi$$ed!
 
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