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McGeesPub said:
There’s no way the season is a success if we just win one C2 game in my opinion. It’s not a failure, but it’s certainly not a success. It’s essentially Tennessee purgatory.
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Definitely depends on how you define success and what you see the roof it thie team as. IMO, our absolute best case scenario (no major injuries, the staff getting every ounce of potential out of all of our players, and having chance going mostly our way) we win 8 or 9 games. But I highly, highly doubt we see that happen.


JMO, but success for Pruitt year one entails getting back to a bowl game, getting those extra 15 practices, and landing us some key blue chips on the recruiting trail. Anything else is just icing on top.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
I think most of us here know better than to think we can convince you of something when you've already made your mind up about it :)





I don't think anybody here is arguing this team has much more in them than 6 or 7 wins.


One of the things I keep thinking back to is the 2013 season. That team had less talent across the board (minus OL and probably CB as well), an inferior coaching staff, a tougher schedule (had 5 opponents who won 11 games or more) and was still two Pig Howard mistakes away from 7-5. Hell, even with all the problems the team had in 2017 they were still two plays away from 6-6, despite being the worst team in school history.



Lamarck had troves of fossil and biological evidence to support his conclusions about inheritance of acquired characteristics. But he was lacking a few vital pieces of info and looking at things the wrong way, so ultimately he was wrong.




I think that, as fans, we're lacking some vital information about a lot of players on our roster. There's really no way for us to quantify how much their poor performance in 2017 was due to lack of ability and how much was due to poor motivation, poor coaching, poor schemes, or general staff dysfunction.




We'll see in a few months whether many of our struggles in 2017 were due to a toxic situation or whether it was just a matter of everyone on our roster sucking. I'm not making up my mind either way until we've seen what Pruitt gets out of them in 2018.
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We will see, I hope this bunch surprises the heck out of me. I believe they have good coaches now, so we will see.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
No idea who this Celina Summers is but she was on Basilio on Monday.

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She's a poster on the board under mscelinaVol and a freelance writer.

She wrote the article referenced a couple of days ago on Saturday down south. The one about the boosters in the Haslam appointees. Believe she lives up near Ohio State at the moment.
 
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