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...and Steve Spurrier’s brashness and ridicule of UT during his tenure for the most part messed with the minds of UT coaches and players ever since. It set the tone that is still there even today.Better coaching
Better athletes
Better confidence
Better administration
Better belief they can overcome setbacks.
Almost every game has 1 or more of the above list and that is why they have our number.
I was going to say the same thing, Spurrier got in the entire Programs head and the fans as well and we've never been able to get in a winning mindset since those days....and Steve Spurrier’s brashness and ridicule of UT during his tenure for the most part messed with the minds of UT coaches and players ever since. It set the tone that is still there even today.
B.S.
I was going to say the same thing, Spurrier got in the entire Programs head and the fans as well and we've never been able to get in a winning mindset since those days.
I don't think this point has been made yet but we always play Florida early in the season and as long as I have been a Tennessee fan we start slow and end strong. That's why I think UGA made a big mistake moving our game to November.
We always find a way to lose, just like Kentucky does with us.The first few years that Spurrier coached Florida, he completely rattled Fulmer with his passing game and boldness. The gators would be throwing TD passes on 4th and 10 from our 35 yard line whereas Phil was absurdly conservative for years. Facing a 4th and half a yard from the florida 15, Phil would always--at least for a long time--kick the field goal. would always kick a FG. It took several years, but Fulmer eventually started playing the percentages on 4th down and going for it, and I'm convinced that it was because of Spurrier. There was one game in a pretty steady/heavy rain at Neyland. The weather didn't bother Florida: Rex Grossman was the QB, and they threw the ball a lot in that game whereas we ran the FB something like 30 times. It was a pretty close game, as I recall--but we lost! More generally, for some reason we always played one of our worst games of the season against Florida--maybe the worst. We eventually caught up with Spurrier, and post-Spurrier we played some good games as an underdog--and then we'd choke the game away late. Over the years we've choked away /several/ florida games that we could have or should have won.
A lot of UT fans were excited about UF having to come to Knoxville in Dec. 2020. It didn't matter. There's always an excuse for losing to them.I don't think this point has been made yet but we always play Florida early in the season and as long as I have been a Tennessee fan we start slow and end strong. That's why I think UGA made a big mistake moving our game to November.
Not always the solution. My Colts have lost to Jax in Jax since 2014, and they have more than often been the worst team. Colts had Andrew Luck and lost, Philip Rocers and lost, Frank Reich as coach and Chuck Pagano as coach, so coaches and qbs mattered little. This is one of those things that are just odd and until Colts break that jinx more than once and Vols beat Fla more than once and break it we as fans don’t have confidence. Why dies Tn beat Ky even when Ky has the ball virtually the whole game? Because Tn beats Ky.Step 1) Hire a real Fing Elite Coach.
Step 2) Recruit a decent QB
II don't mean within the game. The statement was about "having the better team" and losing.
2013, both teams were horrible.
2014, both teams were horrible
2015, i'll buy it.
2016, Tennessee won.
2017, Tennessee went winless in the conference. Can't buy having the better team argument, but I will acknowledge that Florida was also hot garbage.