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BigSteve09 said:
furthermore, that account is just click hunting

The song is about rural Massachusetts, rural Maryland, rural Virginia, and obviously West Virginia.

The two original song writers were a married couple that were from Mass and Maryland, and they started writing the song while they were driving on back roads through rural Maryland on the way to a family reunion. They wrote it loosely about roads that they grew up on in Western New England and in the MD/VA area, respectively. They added features of VA because it was easy to fit in the song. The husband grew up listening to a WV radio station as they didn't get a lot of country in MA, so that inspired some of it, and he also knew other "hippies" from WV that he had met in song writing circles. John Denver loved the song because it reminded him of roads he grew up knowing even though he moved often (NM, AZ, AL, TX).

The whole point of the song is that anyone who has ever driven on a rural road or highway can relate to the spirit of the song. It was easy to write in "West Virginia" so the writers and Denver kept it.
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I get the feeling I should have been home yesterday. Yesterday.
 
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Going to be spending the Kensucky weekend in Pigeon Forge and trying to come in for the game.

It'll be my first game back (assuming I get tickets) since Doolander's first Orange and White game.

Early question, where do the Smokey's post up pre-game (both real dog and mascot)? My girlfriend is not a Tennessee fan, though she is open to becoming one. But, she is OBSESSED with Smokey and wants to meet them.
 
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utkevdawg1 said:
Going to be spending the Kensucky weekend in Pigeon Forge and trying to come in for the game.

It'll be my first game back (assuming I get tickets) since Doolander's first Orange and White game.

Early question, where do the Smokey's post up pre-game (both real dog and mascot)? My girlfriend is not a Tennessee fan, though she is open to becoming one. But, she is OBSESSED with Smokey and wants to meet them.
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Probably near the Vol Walk before it begins. Smokey is usually out around the stadium with fans.
 
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I REALLY REALLY want Charles to replace Burrell at corner. Starting Charles would give us two 6'1 long limbed boundary corners, and a 6'2 star that supports the run aggressively like a linebacker. I've never really been a Flowers fan due to him playing like a baseball player. But he looks physically better this year so hopefully that translates, same for McCullough. Burrell is serviceable, plays decent in stretches. But once he gives up a play it is like a snow ball effect, opposing teams just start to pick on him back to back. Something mental IMO once he gets beat.
 
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It would be cool if Spyre had a performance based NIL where you could pledge a certain amount for each win and after the win you got to vote on who wins the award.
 
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drvenner said:
That is interesting. I think I would have walked out, but that is easy for me to say. I don't know all the facts, but if they put in a bid for a certain amount and tried to lower it at closing, I don't see how they would have had a case at all. Also sounds like you had a very bad realtor.
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Sounds like the realtor just wanted a fee - any fee and quickly.
 
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VolByLaw said:
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i have mixed feelings on their comments.

on the one hand, i basically agree with them. i think on a year in, year out basis, w/out stacking top 5 type classes on top of one another for several years in a row, and our current recruiting prowess doesn't change (top 15ish territory), we probably are an 8-4/9-3 program, with the ability to have a 10+ win season every so often. On the other, they're basically saying we're Kentucky.

kind of a good news/bad news deal....good news is, we're waaaay better than we've been the past 15 years, and at least involved in the discussion for SEC title contention on yearly basis. bad news is, the ceiling is made of brick apparently.

in the end, i think as long as we get consistent QB play and we continue to build depth on the defense, TN can be a contender. and i think the analysis they offered assumes all things will always be equal, in terms of GA and Bama always being the elite of the elite, and TN will never recruit consistently enough to truly compete at that level.

sure, they mentioned realignment and the changes coming in the conf, but while doing so, they referenced TX as a program that should assume itself a contender? seriously?

anyway. like i said at the end of the day, i basically agree with them..i think a consistent 8-4/9-3 program that will get 10/11 every so often. which, in reality is what this program has always been. we consistently won more than we lost and went to bowl games. and we consistently would contend for and win conf titles every 3-6 years, until our run from the mid 80's to the early 00's, easily our most consistently successful run since the General.
 
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