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UTProf said:
Salman Rushdie stabbed and on a ventilator although at this point I think he's expected to live.*** Anne Heche dead. Rough week for celebs. I can't get poor Anne outta my head though. Burning is a legit phobia of mine and just the idea of anyone going through that bothers me so deeply. I can remember when we had to watch acid treatments for burn victims for a medical ethics class -- I have never gotten over it.

***If that name rings a bell but you can't quite place him, he's the one that wrote the Satanic Verses taking Iran to task and who they issued a Fatwa against. Several people associated with his book (publishers and the like) have been murdered over the years because of that Fatwa.
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Good lord. Both of those folks have lived incredibly strained lives. Rushdie for obvious reasons. But I didn't know Heche grew up Amish and was raped by her father from an infant up to 12 years old. Wtf. And then her brother died of a car crash at 18. And now her. Ugh. Reminds me how blessed many of us are just having regular lives.
 
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UTProf said:
Salman Rushdie stabbed and on a ventilator although at this point I think he's expected to live.*** Anne Heche dead. Rough week for celebs. I can't get poor Anne outta my head though. Burning is a legit phobia of mine and just the idea of anyone going through that bothers me so deeply. I can remember when we had to watch acid treatments for burn victims for a medical ethics class -- I have never gotten over it.

***If that name rings a bell but you can't quite place him, he's the one that wrote the Satanic Verses taking Iran to task and who they issued a Fatwa against. Several people associated with his book (publishers and the like) have been murdered over the years because of that Fatwa.
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Rushdie is so much more than that one novel. Midnights Children is a spectacular book. He is one of greatest living authors.

He was also married to Padma so...you go Salman.
 
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drvenner said:
Kinda harsh to block @UTSuave’ I mean, he has had to take quite a few laps in his day, but this post wasn't bad.
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Appreciate the love son…just know even when we don’t speak to each other..I’m still proud of you and all you have accomplished……………………..













….after you finish your lap

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Josh Pate talking Vols:

On Hendon Hooker:
We have talked many times about that TD-INT ratio from last year. And that's wonderful. Sometimes when we get into the off-season you start to look at stats in totality, and not necessarily how they were amassed.

And Tennessee fans know exactly what I'm about to say. Last year, Tennessee came out firing first quarters of games but then some of their productivity leveled off throughout games. Well the name of the game is consistency this year. They certainly want to perform at a high level, they want to put up those big numbers, but what they want to do is not get to the end of the first quarter, have the scoreboard say 17-3 Tennessee and then they're done scoring.

They want to be more consistent, and that's also the next step in the maturation of Hendon Hooker. The quarterback, in year 2 under Josh Heupel, for all I know he might have a worse TD-INT ratio but they may be better offensively this year.

When you look around and you understand they were 7-6 last year. For Alabama that would be bad, for Tennessee that was very good, given the expectations.

I think it's gonna be a good thing, for a guy like Hendon Hooker, that they ended up losing the game to Ole Miss and Pitt. Because think about how high the expectation would be for Tennessee this year if they had won NINE a year ago. It'd be the same team, lose a close game, win a close game, but nationally people would be talking about them being a dark horse conference title contender.

The fact is, you are what you are, but I think it helps them that they're still a little off of the national radar.
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Tennessee coming off a 7-6 year, eh, depending on how you want to count the bowl game against Purdue. 7-6, yes we have to statistically count it as a loss.

I broke their schedule down into three tiers. Their over under win total is 7.5. They won 7 last year, Vegas has them at 7.5 juiced to the over.

I got them with 2 games in tier 1 - Alabama and Georgia. They play them every year. One of the only teams to do that. It's not reasonable to expect them to win these tier 1 games. Let's call those 0-2 to be REASONABLE, not hopeful.

Let's move to tier 2. This is where they have to make some noise to get to what I think is a reasonable goal of 9-3. If Tennessee is going to get to 9-3 when we look at games at Pitt, Florida, at LSU, UK, at SCar. I need them to be 4-1 there. If they don't upset Georgia or Bama they need to be 4-1 in tier 2.

Then they need to sweep the rest, tier 3. Mizzou, Vandy.

If they drop both of those tier 1 games but go 4-1 in tier 2, which they are capable of, that's a 9-3 record.

I'm being a little aggressive. We won't have to wait long. This isn't Michigan's schedule. They don't play anybody for half the season. With Tennessee, they go to Pitt week 2. Pitt beat them last year. They go to Pitt week 2 then they have Florida coming in week 4 at home.

Those are hinge games. We will know whether 9-3 is realistic. There's no reason that Tennessee should start slow this year.

I expect that there will be some folks that look at 9 wins and say you're still a year away. I don't think it's the most unreasonable expectation to call 9-3 on Tennessee.
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BigSteve09 said:
Josh Pate talking Vols:

On Hendon Hooker:
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He's not wrong. A couple of calls go the other way last year, and the expectations would be unsustainable (sorry @VolsDoc81TX). We're already generating an uncomfortable level of hype, imagine if we ended 9-4. I would far rather expect less and deliver more, than the opposite.
 
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