The Official Tennessee vs. #17/20 West Virginia Game Thread, 3:30 PM ET, CBS

[RavinDave]

Looks like the boat race is on

 

[BigOrange88]

Done

 

[acd4476]

Will the dbs ever turn and look for the ball?

 

[nomads-11]

Gotta learn to keep it in front of you. DBs are killing us. Make WG earn it.

 

[JohnWardForever]

OK Yall. It was fun getting pumped up. Now we know where we stand. Now we know just how badly Butch recruited; and didn't coach up. You cant make up for all that in One Spring and Summer. It WILL Happen. It's gonna take 3 years. That's how it is with a new coach assigned with a rebuilding job. We are that. Go Vols.

 

[Vol Kilmer]

HORIZONTAL PASS anyone?

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

As much as it sucks to say, we need to have patience.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Wait, what happened to all of you who said Grier sucks, we have mire talent and should never lose to WVU? The responses I am seeing here are ridiculous. Its like you guys thought that one of the worst teams in the country was going to turn into a world beater.

 

[FLVOL_79]

Aight we gotta ditch the WR screens, runs for negative 2 between the tackles and move the ball down the field

So they gotta stop playing like Tennessee has been playing for 10 years?

 

[DAVOL]

Helton is trash,sorry.

 

[checkthetape]

I can't believe that I actually got suckered in to believing again when I know in my mind nothing about what we settled for is ELITE

 

[SLICKYINC]

Physically superior to us. Recruiting rankings don’t mean $**T. WV players know EXACTL where they’re supposed to be and what they’re supposed to be doing at all times. We don’t. Doors getting ready to be blown off. I don’t see more than 4 wins this season.

Man, come on. We’re playing 14 new guys, we knew that we had a lot of rebuilding to do. I’m proud of this team up to this point. “They said” we’d get blown out...

 

[panhandlevol]

Gonna take time. In other news we still suck and can't tackle for ****

 

[Matt2496]

We're down 3 scores. The team has quit at this point.

 

[doctorchoice]

Why are we running such a similar offense to last year? It looks like the same offense we ran against Georgia tech.

 

[KBVol]

We just can not cover their receivers or get any preasure on Grier

If we could get ANY pressure on Grier, our DBs would look much better. We have no SEC level DTs or DEs on the roster....at least none right now that are playing.

 

[governmentmule]

well crap


meed a score here

 

[VOLinAL]

Im no DC but at this point you have to stop all the corner blitzes and leaving safeties on an island.

 

[gr82batnvol]

Long long way to go. I was hoping we had the talent but I’m seeing a much different story. I guess Pruitt isn’t a miracle worker afterall, but I believe in the guy. I think we may need a couple of years of solid recruiting because our secondary is just getting flat out beat.

 

[ETV]

I think this is going to get out of hand

Maybe so. Then WVU will go out in a few weeks and lose to someone they have no business dropping one to. It's what they do.

 

[albedo33]

It’s going to get worse before it gets .... even worse.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

4-8 or 5-7 at best, I’m afraid
Losing is not fun, is it?

It'll depend on Pruitt. If he's able to improve the team as the year goes along we can still have a good November run. If not it'll be same ole same ole

 

[bleedorange1983]

No one in the country does less with more than UT besides Texas

 

[bpalmer28]

So this staff isn't capable of teaching life-long football players to not give 10 yard cushions?

If you knew anything about this team, you’d know that’s what they’ve been taught all year. They are outmatched in the game and are searching for answers. Until about 15 minutes ago, it was working pretty well. Stop being a dlck

 

[vol445]

Just hope they claw back into it