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snowvols said:
I dont think anyone was expecting the amount of regression, but the win streak was hyped too much. It was a bunch of bad teams....and they were struggles. Those games were hard to watch for the most part. The Indiana, Missouri, and UK games were brutal...Vandy was too. We still didn't look good at all pulling those out.
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It wasn't pretty, but they were wins. Remember, in the preceding years were were losing those kinds of games...there was incremental improvement that we hoped would continue. Since then, we've gone in reverse. It doesn't mean that the winning streak was garbage, but it does mean that our trajectory is going in the wrong direction again.
 
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ob79 said:
But it left the vast majority of us feeling confident about this team and coaching staff.

And I'll take six wins in a row every season.
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It was a fluke akin to beating Vandy 8 times in a row. I kept asking during the streak and ill ask again who did we beat that was worth 2 nickels?
 
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snowvols said:
I dont think anyone was expecting the amount of regression, but the win streak was hyped too much. It was a bunch of bad teams....and they were struggles. Those games were hard to watch for the most part. The Indiana, Missouri, and UK games were brutal...Vandy was too. We still didn't look good at all pulling those out.
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winning is winning and for a team that lost to GSU and BYU early, it's not like we were competing at a championship level and we played down to those teams....

we beat the teams in our peer group. had to do it.....winning ugly last year didn't matter. just win. and they did.
 
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Neyland Law Vol said:
Guys in here keep saying "3-7", but if we had just kept our schedule before COVID beating USCjr, MIZZU, Vandy and then the three OOC scrubs, we would have had 6 wins and a bowl game. Not great but likely not prompting a termination at HC either.

I think this will be part of the University's thinking when they retain CJP.
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With this coach, there are no sure fire wins. See Ga St 2019 for reference.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Oh if you got DISH you can login to ESPN with the DISH account as your TV provider. I actually have to login to ESPN with YouTube as my TV provider as well.
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I tried that last year and our internet provider wasn't approved to link DISH to the app. I'll give it another try before tomorrow night
 
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LA Vol said:
I don't know a single person who expected UT to lose to ARK and get blown out by UK in Neyland. If you foresaw those, you must do very well in Vegas.
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After losing to BYU and GA St last year I don't understand how the program didn't consider it a possibility, while I didn't think it probable it wasn't out of the question.
 
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LA Vol said:
I don't know a single person who expected UT to lose to ARK and get blown out by UK in Neyland. If you foresaw those, you must do very well in Vegas.
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Before the season I saw a schedule where we should win 6 or 7. If we did worse than that then Pruitt is not the guy. Im not going to sit here and say I predicted those losses, but I cant say I'm surprised one bit by them.
 
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BAJAvol said:
I remeber him being on the hot seat going into year 3. But he won the conference in year 3.
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yeah, it's not exactly apples to apples cause of that, but the question was thin ice...and he was on it. they moved on from Steele after that and went for the big name in Venebles and very shortly afterward, took off to what they are now. he had just gone 6-7 two years prior to that i think...so he was still very much a question mark in many clemson fans' minds.
 
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BAJAvol said:
Losing to vandy in year 1 started it for me
Ga State was the first time I thought he wasn't the guy
BYU moved it to 99%
Ky this year solidified it.
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This is a fair take. But i'll add that the one common denominator is JG paying awful in all of those bad losses you listed. If you want to be positive (since it appears we are stuck with CJP for another season at least), you hope that JG being so good in practice but falling apart in game, and not a lot of options as back ups, has been the main problem. With the staff FINALLY moving on past JG this week, those problems will be in the past. We will see.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
In Dabos 2nd full season as HC he won a division title and repeated that in year 4. He wasn't a well received hire at first but people piped down after year 2.

Pruitt is just a dumbass, it's not going to click for him
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the question was about being on thin ice. he was. he's not anymore.
 
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TN-POSSUM said:
I still blame Kiffin, Hamilton, and Dooley for the past decade or so of miserable football. People forget he "redecorated" the UT Sports Complex. I don't ever want Lane Kiffin back at UT. View attachment 328552
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Thank you for posting this. I am stunned there are so many people acting like cucks on this board wanting him back.
 
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05_never_again said:
Key difference though is that Dabo's Clemson teams were never this bad. His first staff overhaul came after a bad loss...in a BCS bowl.

Tennessee isn't in the same universe as a NY6 bowl team at this point.
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didn't say they were. question was about being on thin ice..................siap, he was coming out of that bowl game against WVU. some viewed the venebles hire an act of desperation.

remember "clemsoning"? that was a thing, and it would have gotten him fired, had things not turned the way they did in 2012.
 
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Neyland Law Vol said:
Guys in here keep saying "3-7", but if we had just kept our schedule before COVID beating USCjr, MIZZU, Vandy and then the three OOC scrubs, we would have had 6 wins and a bowl game. Not great but likely not prompting a termination at HC either.

I think this will be part of the University's thinking when they retain CJP.
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You can only play the games on your schedule.

Here are a few first year coaches playing conference only schedules:
Eli Drinkwitz: 5-3
Sam Pittman: 3-6
Lane Kiffin: 4-4
Jeff Hafley: 5-5

There is a coaching issue in our program.

Edit: and none of those guys are very good. That's my point!
 
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drvenner said:
Well, except he's coming back next year. Apparently, he has been hurt most of the season and has been trying to push through it to help the team.
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Yea, that was posted after I had posted that, but same goes for the dozens of others across the nation that are “opting out” when the season started going down hill.
 
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