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MoCo_Vol said:
Honestly got no issue with Heupel congratulating Bubba.

Why? Cause Bubba Wallace is a vol fan OG. So he's suffered through the crappy hires like the rest of the fans, he's never wavered that the Vols are his team. Dude had a very weird situation happen, one that regardless of what your personal thoughts are seemed way too specific to be sheer coincident (even though it apparently was).

If Bubba had a bit more negativity around him (like Urban Meyer at the moment) then I'd say maybe don't draw any attention to it. But his biggest blackeye is speaking out about an act he thought was racist which later was revealed to just be the most bizarre and random coincident.
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I don't want to get into the weeds about this, but IIRC, he wasn't the one who reported it and he never he saw it. One of the teammembers was there early, saw it, and reported it. All he was told was that it was there and probably was sent a photo of it by someone he knows. It was a weird situation that thankfully was just an innocent mishap and he acknowledged that too. He didn't double down or anything he was thankful it wasn't the real deal.

No harm no foul for me - its in the past. He's a Vol. He won a big race. He gets support from me.
 
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volbeast33 said:
That’s why i can never figure out Atlanta Vol….. he seems like a troll but several posters have met him and vouched for him….. he was all in to the gruden stuff as well.
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People will think I’m crazy, but the Gruden stuff the first time had some legs. Just didn’t get far enough and I think it was more booster encouragement than the AD wanting him. In hindsight, Gruden was never coming to college anyway. Stephen Hargis had a source.

The second time with Currie was just dumb. Currie used that as a smokescreen and could have easily nipped it by asking Gruden’s agent to release a statement.
 
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Good stuff as always @ChattaTNVol

I think more than anything Florida game exposed the lack of pressure our DL gets on a QB. And maybe that's by design, but I think it's a mix of a few things at this point.

As a team we're generating a lot of TFLs, but if you examine those numbers the DL accounts for just 9 of those. (note: Baron, Eason, Byron are all considered OLBs)

Butler - 2
Blakely - 2
Tremblay - 2
Simmons - 1.5
Terry - 1
Solomon - 0.5

Our lowest TFL total of the season was 5, against Florida. So ultimately we have some stout guys on the DL, big strong bodies but no one to this point has shown any sort of explosiveness to get into the backfield. Teams with stout OLs that can pick up extra blitzers (like Florida did) will be able to move the ball and pass protect against us. It's why Pitt and Mizzouri were able to rack up passing yards.

Now I don't think USC has a stout OL, they gave up all kinds of pressure to Troy. Also Doty only had 153 passing yards against Georgia, 61 passing yards came from Zeb Noland on one pass.

Ultimately our success against tougher teams, Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss, and yes even Kentucky will come down to either our DL generating more pressure (without us needing to blitz to do it) and/or our secondary/LBs creating more turnovers. So far all of our INTs have came in two games, TTU & Missouri. I think if we get a lead on South Carolina we will see some more.
 
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volsfan_17 said:
Um...if you read the article, it's the same news as yesterday - just hasn't been officially voted on until today. Wish it were additional news, but it's not.
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Sucks that it won’t help us with all the transfers we’ve already had though.. I swear it’s rigged
 
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yourstruly23 said:
A+ for trying something new
C- on execution... Has JP all over it IMO
looking forward to seeing want combo's Heup's staff comes up with in the future...
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Yeah something fans NEED to remember, Heup's staff didn't get to pick any sort of uniform accommodations for this season things were already in motion.
 
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