Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXXVI

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jave36 said:
Dry-fit fits the same way as cotton, yoga jeans don't fit the same as denim.

I'm a Lucky guy myself, but GAP has lost their minds lately. My wife works for them, and they're using girls in their boys fashion ads. I already didn't trust their fashion, but now I definitely don't. Yoga jeans are hipster fashionable and soon to be grandpa fashionable, not grown up man fashionable in my humble, ex-haberdasher opinion.

Totally agree on Rustler jeans though, they're awful.
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Lucky ftw
 
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Ron Swanson said:
About Bates? It is true. Bates high school sweetheart. She got pregnant and moved to Cali with him. Pregnant again with #2. Someone posted story on VQ not long ago with link to her Instagram page.
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Wow...first I've heard of this. Can you share the link/story?

Glad Vic decided to leave. Was for the best.
 
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I4Jay said:
We gonna win Florida' ass
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I'm starting to get pretty confident myself. They looked awful vs Michigan, suspensions still going on, no game last week and very little practice with hurricane. Plus after watching UT assistant coach interviews today I'm starting to think they really did hold back quite a bit these first two games. And maybe we don't suck.

It feels like UT is going to unleash an ass whoopin this weekend. Reaaaaaallllly hope that happens. Our fanbase needs it badly.
 
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Ron Swanson said:
I'm starting to get pretty confident myself. They looked awful vs Michigan, suspensions still going on, no game last week and very little practice with hurricane. Plus after watching UT assistant coach interviews today I'm starting to think they really did hold back quite a bit these first two games. And maybe we don't suck.

It feels like UT is going to unleash an ass whoopin this weekend. Reaaaaaallllly hope that happens. Our fanbase needs it badly.
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One of the Florida guys said they haven't missed a day of practice other than Monday
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
Why do some people poke fun at the 17-4 narrative?

Since the CBJ era began we have played 53 games. 32 SEC games and 21 OOC games. We've won 32 games and lost 21 games. Cool, huh?

85.7% (18) of our losses have been in SEC games and only 14.3% (3) of our losses have been in OOC games.

We hate to lose more than we like to win. I think that's true of all the historical powers in the SEC. So while CBJ pushes a narrative that focuses on the total wins, many of us get hung up more on the losses and in particular the losses in our conference. jmo.

There are some who focus on wins and losses without making a distinction but that's not who we are. We are an SEC power historically and while we are now representing the SEC extremely well in OOC competition we have not yet established that we have returned to being a competitive power within the conference. We're close; we just need to get over the hump and that appears to mean at least getting the division crown.

So out of that 17-4 stretch 12 of those games were SEC games and we went 8-4 (The 17-4 stretch starts after the 2015 loss to Alabama). In that stretch we went 9-0 in OOC games.

Many of us have actually watched enough football in our day to assess our prospects within the conference based on how well we perform in OOC games. We may not always be right but we do the same thing when looking at our conference competition. While some fans want to shut down discussion of concerns about our defense those same fans want to pump up criticism of for exampe the Missouri defense or the Florida offense. That's okay. I understand. It is what it is.

There is no question we have improved tremendously as a football program and as a football team from where we were when CBJ arrived. We need to continue winning the OOC games but obviously for us to improve from where we are we will have to cut down on the losses in SEC play. That is the real challenge and it's not an easy challenge by any stretch. jmo.

Everybody is talking 8-4ish type of season this year (Catbone, I think is 7-5), so who are the 4 SEC teams we lose to in 2017? I think we beat FL, GA, SC, KY, MO, and VD. I'm uncertain about LSU & Bama and may be overly optimistic about GA but I think SC is overrated and am not overly impressed with anyone else.

This is the narrative I think will work. After Saturday, we will be 9-4 in our last 13 SEC games, a couple weeks later we will be 10-4, and then two weeks after that we will be 11-4. Bama comes up after that so either we beat them or just reset the counter. I agree with Butch I don't want to see the count going up on the losses side either. :)
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This is right on IMO. Tennessee is just not there yet by historical Tennessee standards. Go 10-2 this year and win the east and we'll be pretty darn close to what that standard should be.
 
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Here's a question. Would you rather go 11-1 with a loss to Uga and lose the east, Or go 9-3 and win the East. Personally, the first one for me
 
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Chief Vol 13 said:
You're full of doo doo if you really are of that mindset. So if Tennessee is playing the Green Bay Packers next week and I think Green Bay will win that means I'm not a Tennessee fan? Stupid.
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Here's the problem. The way that I perceive your predictions, based upon a number of your other posts, is that you seem like the kind of "fan" who would rather come on here and proclaim your genius if Florida wins on Saturday instead of coming on here and eating crow, even if it meant a victory for your team. That may or may not be true, but that is the feeling that I get based upon reading a good number of your posts.
 
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jave36 said:
Dry-fit fits the same way as cotton, yoga jeans don't fit the same as denim.

I'm a Lucky guy myself, but GAP has lost their minds lately. My wife works for them, and they're using girls in their boys fashion ads. I already didn't trust their fashion, but now I definitely don't. Yoga jeans are hipster fashionable and soon to be grandpa fashionable, not grown up man fashionable in my humble, ex-haberdasher opinion.

Totally agree on Rustler jeans though, they're awful.
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Never get the skinny jeans, but a decent fit with a little stretch is awesome. Once I got a pair of Lucky's with the stretchy stuff I never went back. It's just more comfortable.

Just say no to the fancy stitching or bedazzled jeans for men. There's a man code violation or two in there somewhere.
 
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drvenner said:
Here's the problem. The way that I perceive your predictions, based upon a number of your other posts, is that you seem like the kind of "fan" who would rather come on here and proclaim your genius if Florida wins on Saturday instead of coming on here and eating crow, even if it meant a victory for your team. That may or may not be true, but that is the feeling that I get based upon reading a good number of your posts.
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I'll eat countless servings of crow if Butch does get things to where they need to be. I'll also be glad to eat crow if we beat Florida this Saturday. Nothing like beating a major conference rival like the Gators and I hope like heck that I'm wrong about thinking they'll win.
 
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jave36 said:
Dry-fit fits the same way as cotton, yoga jeans don't fit the same as denim.

I'm a Lucky guy myself, but GAP has lost their minds lately. My wife works for them, and they're using girls in their boys fashion ads. I already didn't trust their fashion, but now I definitely don't. Yoga jeans are hipster fashionable and soon to be grandpa fashionable, not grown up man fashionable in my humble, ex-haberdasher opinion.

Totally agree on Rustler jeans though, they're awful.
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Um, I am almost afraid to ask, but what exactly are yoga jeans and why do you know so much about them?
 
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Chief Vol 13 said:
This is right on IMO. Tennessee is just not there yet by historical Tennessee standards. Go 10-2 this year and win the east and we'll be pretty darn close to what that standard should be.
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Just curious- what do you think historical standards are? And how old are you?
 
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