UNC handed a far more deep and talented roster over to an exceptionally experienced HC, the honorable Mac Brown, who's won a natty and a bunch of SWC championships. They lucked into a fluke last-second passing faux pas in their win over a pretty lousy USCjr bunch (1-3, same as UT). They managed to slip by a terrible Miami team (not as good as BYU) and lost to a less talented Wake Forest bunch and last week a deliriously less talented Appy State. Yet...they finally put some pieces together, thanks in great part due to a future NFLer qb, and gave Clemmy all they could handle. Do I sit around and, like you, wonder how nice it would be for our Vols to be like THEM? Me? I envision such a fight brought on by that bunch of tarheels as hope for our youngsters...in very the near future. Decent qb-ing could've easily had us at 3-1 and not, like the game chickens, at 1-3.
I invite you to scroll upward and re-read Vol_Lyfe's post. He's right on. Whether or not all the crybabies on this site keep on whining all season long, these young men...minus the now-exiting bunch of clueless Butchites...are going to push onward, putting the pieces together and maneuvering themselves onto all the same pages, until we'll, first, see them put on a fight similar to the one NC put on against Clemmy. Then, they'll pull off a win over a top tier SEC team (like Auburn last year), they'll finally make a bowl game (yep. in 2020), and very possibly they'll find themselves in the same conversation they were in during the late 90's.
Patience? This coaching staff and most of the players have that in boatloads. All those who're whining that UT football's existential apocalypse is upon us? Well. It's just inside your heads. As long as these men...young and older...keep working and learning and believing and holding their heads up...I'm behind 'em 110%, and I'm not alone. GBO!
