feathersax
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BV, can you and your buddies take a 211 day hiatus from VN? You honestly add nothing to the conversation for anyone. Your sad attempts at intellectual negativity are simply negative and are becoming the equivalent of disco music. We may suck, we may finish 5th in the east. We may also wind up in Atlanta. Why can't you allow people to be positive and have hope? What is it in your nature that has to always disagree with a positive light on this season?
I think we are a lot better off then a lot of you guys. We are inexperienced at key positions.. true, but we are deep with inexperience. We can rotate inexperience all day long now. These guys are football guys, they eat, breath, and bath in it. We have three deep at every position. All filling a roll. We have an identity now. A passing nfl attack with speedsters everywhere, huge ass tight ends, and a significant deep threat. Every position is filled with guys that are being brought up the tennessee way and won't quit. I'm in until proven false.
I am one of the people with orange tinted glasses, I see us being better next year.
1. We got rid of two cancers that were affecting the locker room and we expect Butch learned a coaching lesson or two in the process.
2. We had the worst string of injuries I have ever seen on any kind of team. We lost virtually all our DTs including O'Brien and Bain, so we could not stop the run. As bad as that was, and contributed to two bad losses, we had backups get reps that will help this year. I doubt we see the injury bug hit us as hard this year.
3. The offensive line will be much better this year, with experience, less injuries and maybe one freshman contributor. I believe we redshirted two or three last year. First time in 4 years we will have real depth.
4. In Butch's first 4 years we had some 4 star recruits that did not contribute, and we started with a bare cupboard. So we have had no depth, anywhere. We will this year, everywhere.
5. Though we lost Dobbs the great playmaker we also lost Dobbs the guy who could not hit someone who was open 10 yards away. Yeah, he was great, yeah he is a great ambassador for UT, and yes he got better. But with our better offensive line and the better passing talent of either Dormady or Guarantano we will be okay at QB.
6. I really believe our RB situation will be better. Yes we will miss Kamara, but not having the Hurd distraction will make this position a net break even or plus over the year.
7. The staff has been upgraded materially. If we get good coaching at DB then we will see a marked improvement in defense.
8. This recruiting class is better than many believe. Yes, I know Butch can't get out of his own way for his Butchism's like "we are recruiting 5 star hearts", but there is a lot of truth in what he says. And despite the two bad losses last year he is getting better as a coach.
Those are my orange tinted opinions/facts and I will stick with them until proven otherwise.
For the record I'd like to see Butch win a lot of games nxt year and take Bama down to the last 2:00.
That said I know better than to say that and set myself up for disappointment knowing the pieces aren't there for him to win more than 7 games.
No, many of us just get tired of childish whining. You screech worse than LG in the PF.
Hey man, let me ask you this.
If everything someone started a "Big Game Butch" Thread after every Music City Bowl victory, would you be happy if everyone replied...you are right he is a big game coach, lets call him big game butch.
If every time CBJ said something stupid, would you be happy if every single poster defended everything he says even though every news media in the country is mocking him? Would it be better if every single one of cried and had a group hug every time someone said something mean about our coach?
If every time someone makes an optimistic prediction would you be happy if we all replied that we are going 15-0 and winning the NC and anyone that says otherwise is not welcome here?
If every someone posted something about our roster would you be happy if everyone replied that he are better than everyone else in the country at every position?
Hey man, let me ask you this...who died and left you god's gift to all that is football? You hate your coach, you hate the new class, you hate positive attitudes, you hate where you life...is there anything you don't hate? Seriously, you act as though your opinion is the alpha and omega of UT football and it simply comes across as a big whine.
That's rich, you complaining about someone complaining.
No, you are serving up enough for everyone.
Yeah, cause I'm the one that looks like they need a binky right now.
So about the positions where we lack quality depth questions that you posed to me and I answered...
Edit: my bad, that wasn't you that asked me that. My apologizes. Butch is the GOAT with the BSIA. They all have 5 star hearts. He are going 15-0 next year and winning it all. Alabama, LSU and USC and Vandy have nothing on us. We are superior at every position. What out boys next year is our year....finally
and 82 will still be a cry baby.