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Enki_Amenra said:
It's revisionist-like. . . I mean, before the season everyone wouldve been pumped and giving A+'s at the idea of being in position to win those games. After the season it's like we were expected to be in those games and just came up short.

Maybe a few had us winning the Pitt game (I thought we would), but the majority had us with L's in both. I remember a few people talking about how we had no chance what-so-ever against Kriffen in his 2nd year.

Imo, it was exceptional and A+ coaching quality to be in those games and basically winning them.
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Glitch said:
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Enki_Amenra said:
It's revisionist-like. . . I mean, before the season everyone wouldve been pumped and giving A+'s at the idea of being in position to win those games. After the season it's like we were expected to be in those games and just came up short.

Maybe a few had us winning the Pitt game (I thought we would), but the majority had us with L's in both. I remember a few people talking about how we had no chance what-so-ever against Kriffen in his 2nd year.

Imo, it was exceptional and A+ coaching quality to be in those games and basically winning them.
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They have blown literally every single expectation I had out of the water..
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
It's revisionist-like. . . I mean, before the season everyone wouldve been pumped and giving A+'s at the idea of being in position to win those games. After the season it's like we were expected to be in those games and just came up short.

Maybe a few had us winning the Pitt game (I thought we would), but the majority had us with L's in both. I remember a few people talking about how we had no chance what-so-ever against Kriffen in his 2nd year.

Imo, it was exceptional and A+ coaching quality to be in those games and basically winning them.
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Agree. To take a team that was expected to win 3-5 games and win 7 with the toughest schedule (It’s not like the ACC or other conferences.).... while almost winning 2 more in spite of the refs??? Then put an if you had just won one more close game even if it was not supposed to be close.
 
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UneducatedGuess said:
There is not enough surface area for the amount of solar that would required to power the ship, let alone, charge batteries

Batteries would create significant weight additions

Water / turbine power …. You need a source to propel you through the water in order to turn the water turbine, create a net negative

Like the sailors of yore, kites are the most logical addition. That’s a relative term. With the price of diesel, im sure if it would’ve saved money it would have been done by now.

Capitalism really is an incredible system of incentives.
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Are you sure about all this, or is it just an....


...educated guess?
 
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bigdan said:
I think the same could be said for us turning ourselves in when this stuff was on the brink of becoming legal.. I detested Pruitt and wanted him gone in year 2, but the overall process of how this played out still doesn’t really sit well with me.
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So we should have kept him while Fuller and his boys fought with the other side that wanted them both gone?
Edit...hate it when autocorrect changes Fulmer.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
It's revisionist-like. . . I mean, before the season everyone wouldve been pumped and giving A+'s at the idea of being in position to win those games. After the season it's like we were expected to be in those games and just came up short.

Maybe a few had us winning the Pitt game (I thought we would), but the majority had us with L's in both. I remember a few people talking about how we had no chance what-so-ever against Kriffen in his 2nd year.

Imo, it was exceptional and A+ coaching quality to be in those games and basically winning them.
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Yep. Context is important and I think that a lot of people that had Pitt as a W probably didn't really know anything about Pitt's roster or how good they might actually be. It was a very, very experienced roster with more than a few bonafide playmakers.

Even so, just the way that game played out led me to believe that CJH might be the real deal. None of the position groups played particularly well. We made tons of mistakes. Frankly, there were many times in the game where we looked dead in the water. I was certain that we would fold like a cheap lawn chair and get beat by three touchdowns because that is what Pruitt's teams did.

But despite playing poorly for large parts of the game, we were still in it till the end. Not just that, but the team actually seemed to believe that they could win the game.

The fact that CJH had the team prepared to win every game is why I think he deserves a ton of credit. The hardest part of turning around a program is changing a losing mentality into a winning mentality, but you could see that even in the games we lost, the players never looked like they expected to lose.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
Would Peyton Manning have stayed at UT if Brandon Stewart won the starting job?

Scary to think about how different history would be for UT football. . . it'd be like Marty McFly and Doc when they go to the terrible alternate timeline.
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Never lost a competition for a starting job…so hard to gauge this hypothetical. Following Stewart’s career trek, I’d go with Peyton going at it until he wrested it away.
 
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UneducatedGuess said:
There is not enough surface area for the amount of solar that would required to power the ship, let alone, charge batteries

Batteries would create significant weight additions

Water / turbine power …. You need a source to propel you through the water in order to turn the water turbine, create a net negative

Like the sailors of yore, kites are the most logical addition. That’s a relative term. With the price of diesel, im sure if it would’ve saved money it would have been done by now.

Capitalism really is an incredible system of incentives.
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Meh, that’s just you’re uneducated guess.
 
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