If we lose to SC?

[BUCCnVOLfan]

Boo this thread

Ha!! Exactly! No one wants to think that that could even happen! GBO!!

 

[Nooga]

So if JG and others are in quarantine, HB starts and does poorly, you think this is a fair poll???
Let's at least wait until the game is played before we play the blame the coach game.

If HB can’t beat SC with this Oline...it’s gonna be a rough year

 

[Eastknox865]

We have not accomplished enough as a team to be guaranteed a win in the SEC.

 

[aaronvol]

Everyone needs to read "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. There is an entire section devoted to the idea of "catastrophe" in our culture and how we are programmed to think in these terms. We beat SC.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

We have not accomplished enough as a team to be guaranteed a win in the SEC.

I guarantee you a win in the SEC this year. Guarantee it. If the lads don't deliver a Vols win in the SEC this year*, I will give you my car. And my house. And my mailbox. And that tree in the front yard.

Guarantee it.

Everyone needs to read "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. There is an entire section devoted to the idea of "catastrophe" in our culture and how we are programmed to think in these terms. We beat SC.

I think of it a little differently. And warning: it's a generational thing. Some feelings might be hurt. Let's call this a Trigger Warning, heh.

The millenial generation has been raised on computer games and consoles. Well, so what? The Gen X and Baby Boomers before them were raised on TV, what's so different about that?

Just one thing: TV and movies are about drama...story arcs. But computer games are about conflict (whether with other players, or NPCs, or just fighting against the conditions of the fictional universe). In other words, computer games are mostly about throwing you into the zombie apocalypse and seeing if you can navigate your way safely through. Give you a ring and tell you to throw it into a volcano in the deadliest place on the planet. That sort of thing.

So the millenials, they're just looking for their real life zombie apocalypse. Those of us who came before, we were happy to find some real life drama and story arcs, but they want their damn zombie apocalypse.

So the media are just trying to deliver. It's how we've gotten Global Warming Climate Change, and Covid-19, and Trump, and The Return of Socialism. Not their existence, but their ZOMG EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ALL PEOPLEKIND.

Heh. That's how I view it.



* one huge caveat: we gotta play the season. If we don't play the games because of covid or any other zombie apocalypse, I'm not giving you my house.

 

[GAVol]

Inverse relationship!!!

Welp . . . I'm screwed.

 

[cwbytruckers]

This season you will see just how durable Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and LSU are. No cupcakes. You have to bring it every week. If an SEC team goes unscathed they should be named National Champions by default. No other team will have faced so many potential road bumps.

 

[wmcovol]

Depends if S.C. wins on an untimed last play of the game due to Tennessee having too many men on the field.

 

[jarhead]

OP really had to do some extensive background digging to come up with that impressive stat.

 

[driscokid]

How does post count equate to intelligence?

Ha so true. There are people on here with thousands of posts that have enlightened us with nothing but endless moronic drivel..And I always wonder how anyone has time to reach 5-10k posts...

 

[golfballs]

FAHR Pruitt!

 

[LargeOrange1]

Good grief.

 

[TJSVOLS]

If HB can’t beat SC with this Oline...it’s gonna be a rough year

A true freshman with very little practice probably won't be the next man up.

 

[give_him 6]

This is going to be a very strange season. Buckle up.

 

[Glocker_Alum_2005]

With JG at QB, we can snatch defeat from jaws if victory at any point in any game. Dude is cursed at UT. I have no doubt if he had transfered to MD, UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse, etc. he'd ball out

 

[Catbone]

None of the above.

 

[YankeeVol]

 

[swampfoxfan]

Tennessee will not lose.

 

[DustyRockSolid]

Poster joined 18 days ago has only posted 4 times and his first Thread is a negative thread about our Football Coach? Man, he is really contributing positively to this message board......

Oh wait.

Did I miss a terms of service agreement that this violates?

 

[JohnWardForever]

IF Tennessee loses to SC , Fold The Tent. That's all.

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Did I miss a terms of service agreement that this violates?

Obviously.

 

[JohnWardForever]

Did I miss a terms of service agreement that this violates?

Not YET. But They're still protesting; SO------

 

[volmoon]

...You promise not to post such a presumptively negative poll ever again at the start of the season?
If so, I vote! If not, I don’t.

 

[Nocleats]

Pruitt said that all of the two deep should be ready to go, so I expect to win, but you never know since some key guys have missed a lot of practice.

This is almost a throw away year for everyone to be honest. Free pass for all.

“Some key guys”???
Almost all the key guys.. Vols haven’t had 1 full scrimmage, SC has had at least 4!!
OL and DL were basically non existent thru all of Fall Camp.. RBs and WRs haven’t had full contact!
I pray Vols can overcome but CJP basically was warning fans Vols aren’t ready..
GBO

 

[Pride85]

I am not going to justify this idiotic poll with selecting one. If we win, can we call for your ouster as a poster?