What an opposing coach says about the end of our year

If you truly believe this you are a moron. If you don't believe it and you are still spouting it, you are a troll. Either way, you are wrong. I cannot name a single poster on this board that is happy with 8-4 and will tell you that they will take 8-4 every year from now on. Since 80% of this board falls into your gross generalization, step up and throw out some names. Shouldn't be too hard.

I'd like to average 9.5 wins per year.
 
That sounds like Kevin Sumlin. He is friends with Butch and the "it's not like Tennessee doesn't know what they are doing" quote sounds like that coach almost lost to TN or TN was giving them problems
 
Believe me or not 2 guys in there 50's both UT fans their entire lives have converted to Alabama fans in the past 10 years. No lie. NegaVols to Bama fans you seriously can't make that kind of stuff up!!! I tell them they are bandwagon fans but the bother were Tennesee fans for over 35-40 years

Going with "or not". No Vol fan could ever convert to pulling for Bama or any other team for that matter. Just not possible. I literally couldn't not pull for Tennessee if I tried.....and believe me, the last decade or so has made me "try"....it lasts about 3.5 seconds or so. Not for all the money in the world, just couldn't do it. And if others are claiming they could/did, I think they're full of ish.
 
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Going with "or not". No Vol fan could ever convert to pulling for Bama or any other team for that matter. Just not possible. I literally couldn't not pull for Tennessee if I tried.....and believe me, the last decade or so has made me "try"....it lasts about 3.5 seconds or so. Not for all the money in the world, just couldn't do it. And if others are claiming they could/did, I think they're full of ish.

Indeed. You either are, or you aren't.
 
Was meant for the previous post.
 
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Here's what an opposing coach has to say in Athlon about the end of our year last year:

"I don't know how they'll be on defense. As everybody over there got hurt, they got really bad, and you can sit there and say it's the coaches fault, but when you're playing with second- and third-stringers in our league you'll get gashed, especially on the back end. Vanderbilt hung (45) on them and it's not like Tennessee doesn't know what they are doing"

What about it Negavols, you are always blaming CBJ? Here's an opposing coach saying you can't blame coaching.

Don't know if you watched every game or not--but our Defense sucked all year long except for 2 quarters against Fla...

VT moved the ball in GAME 2 up and down the field and gave us 5 TOs or we probably would've lost that game.

2016 is gone.....get over it....we were terrible on D...no sense in continuing to make excuses--it's pathetic.

2017 is coming....GO VOLS!
 
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It is what it is. Progress is being make and will continue to be make regardless of what the dozen doubters spew. The program is in the best shape it has been in the last 10 years. Recruiting is looking very good. We have improved our coaching staff. The players are working harder in their strength and condition efforts. We had six players drafted this year compare to 0 the last two years. We have a new AD.The APR is the highest ever.

I guess if we wanted to go back to where we were 6 years ago, we could again fire all the coaches, lose our recruits, have half the team transfer, hire another coach and start all over again so the neagvols could start a new decade of bitc*ing and complaining. I don’t think I want to go that way again when the program is on the upswing. You may, but over 80% don’t want to. Go back to playing your flute in the band.

Freak can I use all my likes for the next week on this?
 
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Here's what an opposing coach has to say in Athlon about the end of our year last year:

"I don't know how they'll be on defense. As everybody over there got hurt, they got really bad, and you can sit there and say it's the coaches fault, but when you're playing with second- and third-stringers in our league you'll get gashed, especially on the back end. Vanderbilt hung (45) on them and it's not like Tennessee doesn't know what they are doing"

What about it Negavols, you are always blaming CBJ? Here's an opposing coach saying you can't blame coaching.

Opposing coaches always have nice things to say when you are losing. I would prefer that they hate our guts for whipping the crap out of them. JMO
 
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CBJ should change #7. Change "for 60 minutes" to "thru the final whistle".

Must adjust due to OT.

Neyland's maxims are sacred, in a way. Rather than alter them, CBJ should incorporate your phrase, "through the final whistle" into his exposition (and we all know CBJ is going to expound).
 
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Originally Posted by VOLINVONORE View Post
It is what it is. Progress is being make and will continue to be make regardless of what the dozen doubters spew. The program is in the best shape it has been in the last 10 years. Recruiting is looking very good. We have improved our coaching staff. The players are working harder in their strength and condition efforts. We had six players drafted this year compare to 0 the last two years. We have a new AD.The APR is the highest ever.

I guess if we wanted to go back to where we were 6 years ago, we could again fire all the coaches, lose our recruits, have half the team transfer, hire another coach and start all over again so the neagvols could start a new decade of bitc*ing and complaining. I don’t think I want to go that way again when the program is on the upswing. You may, but over 80% don’t want to. Go back to playing your flute in the band.

Can we leave the band out of it? Please?

Talk about spoiling a fine retort... :disappointed:
 
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The question isn't "progress" though pretty much any competent coach would have made some progress over what UT has been over the last several years.

The question is about the things that have prevented MORE progress and what those patterns of behavior and performance mean for the future. From there, we get to the VERY important question as to whether the progress made is enough. Some of us say it isn't... some of you say it is.

"Pretty much any competent coach would have made some progress". Okay, Butch did. In several important areas.

Is it enough? Enough for what?
 
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I bet what Butch spews after games this year will be much more measured. Which would give me hope that he is in fact not as stubborn as advertised and capable of adjusting for the better. I'm impressed with the addition of Brady Hoke and Butch's cutting bait on his OC and DC buddies. He's doing better than Fulmer did with staffing decisions. He still makes mistakes, but he seems to learn from them even if he doesn't admit it publicly. I bet we don't see any more FGs from the 1 yard line or kicking the extra point for OT from the 1 and a half yard line.
 
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I bet what Butch spews after games this year will be much more measured. Which would give me hope that he is in fact not as stubborn as advertised and capable of adjusting for the better. I'm impressed with the addition of Brady Hoke and Butch's cutting bait on his OC and DC buddies. He's doing better than Fulmer did with staffing decisions. He still makes mistakes, but he seems to learn from them even if he doesn't admit it publicly. I bet we don't see any more FGs from the 1 yard line or kicking the extra point for OT from the 1 and a half yard line.

agree on most of this and hope you're right on the rest.

by far your best post in this thread.:thumbsup:
 
... When my time upon this earth is done, and I am counting the last beats of my heart, my thoughts will be of the band, the band, and the band.
 
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