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engineerVOL said:
College football is just better but that’s not wrong. There are absolute crap games in college that should be good and some really good games where the better team puts up an absolute stinker.
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It definitely won’t be a popular opinion on a Tennessee Football message board, but I mean the CFB playoffs have been made up of the same 75% teams since it started. It just isn’t really a competitive league right now.
 
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YNWAvols said:
It definitely won’t be a popular opinion on a Tennessee Football message board, but I mean the CFB playoffs have been made up of the same 75% teams since it started. It just isn’t really a competitive league right now.
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The current CFP playoff system has been an unmitigated joke. I really hope the new expanded system is better.
 
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volinbama256 said:
Still Crazy after all these years and all the coaching changes, how diversified the viewpoints remain on here, and I love it... Many just love the win or hate the loss, while others dig deeper and break down the game and look ahead at how we match up against future opponents on the schedule... Many just pop on and off every now and then, while others seems to live on here. Many are super competitive in nature as seen by their posts, while others are just along for the ride... Some are on here just for the off topic conversations... all good.

I'm the seemingly no fun, bad fan/grad who is super competitive and always looking ahead, who wants desperately for UT to actually take that next step and be a top 10 team... I can't enjoy the win sometimes because I'm too busy breaking down what went wrong, but also I will say what went right. I'm realistic and don't look through orange glasses...

While I am actually happy with our win last night and how we never gave up and fought to the end, I am very disappointed in the undisciplined and sloppy way we played. I see it being our downfall in the coming weeks if we don't get some things fixed quickly and it will be the difference in a 6-6 season and a 8-4 season.

Everyone should expect beginning season jitters and rust, especially from the younger players and first year starters, but I didn't expect it from our two seasoned players in Hooker and Tillman. Between the two of them, they easily cost us 14-21 points that would have broken Pitt and sealed a very convincing win. Hooker over through, under through at least 2-3 WR's who were easily heading to the end zone if the pass was on target. Tillman certainly came through in the end when it counted the most, but he dropped what, at least 3-4 easy grabs that would have changed the momentum of drives and at least 1 TD... Hooker is a mobile QB, yet was sacked 4-5 times (I'll say 2 were on the O line and not Hooker) and acted confused on each... I got flamed yesterday, but there's no reason not to give Milton a look next week against Akron... He's there, no reason to see what he's got.

Our running game was barely a running game. We anticipated gashing them all day based on the WVU game, but only managed to get small runs in under 10yds that got us first downs and then a fumble that killed our drive and momentum.

Flowers fumble was absolutely inexcusable... sorry. He's a senior and all he had to do was literally take two steps back and catch it in the breadbasket. Wow it showed how much we miss Velus... that dude would have probably housed it at least once yesterday.

Defense--- Unless major changes are made in coverage and game planning/ingame adjustments, I just don't see how Banks is DC next season. The soft zone is going to get us absolutely killed against better throwing teams, which is basically all of the SEC.

I am not confident with how sloppy and shaky our offense was last night, that we will be able to outscore opponents like last season to overcome how horrible our secondary is.

This team found a way to win last night, and I am very proud of them-- we all remember a lot of past UT teams under other failed coaches who would have simply rolled over and given up. Heup has our kids all with the same great mindset.

The high expectations, even after BallSt, need to be cooled and reality needs to set in. Watching the other SEC games yesterday, unless we make some huge adjustments, clean up a lot of errors and sloppy play, make big adjustments on defense, I don't believe we have the talent/firepower this year to do any better than 7 wins at this point, based only on the first two games. I do believe it will all come down to our defense unfortunately. Just like last season, we don't have the depth and talent to get off the field against better teams and we will be gassed by the end of the 3rd quarter.

lots of talent/recruits coming in, so we are definitely headed in the right direction on that side of the ball, but it is going to take more time than many expected.
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Here’s the problem with all that especially the orange colored glasses comment for anyone that is happy about the win. First, I never take off my orange colored glasses because I am a fan that loves my team and always cheers for them. But I do have a problem with you saying that means I am not realistic. I think I am more realistic than the ones that went crazy calling out coaches and players after the big win yesterday.
Reality…
I remember what the coaches inherited last year.
No one plays a perfect game. It’s overcoming that matters.
You’re only as strong as your weakest link.
We will lose games this year unless there is a perfect storm.
Teams have strengths and weaknesses.

So I can keep my orange colored glasses on and be ecstatic for a win on the road against a ranked team when we didn’t play our best on O, and still look ahead and dig deeper when the next game is ready to be played. Learned a long time ago that getting upset about the whole season does absolutely nothing to make the team play the way they should or the coaches coach the way we want. Trying to learn how to enjoy the game while it’s happening. But I have learned how to enjoy a win.
 
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tnhunter 10 said:
This....I was in Sam's today wearing orange and it looked like a game day with other ppl wearing orange and just happy. Even had some ppl say "GO VOLS". That's not happened for football in a while.
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Yup. Was wearing my UT hat doing grocery shopping this morning and got 2 Go Vols and 1 Go Big Orange. 🍊
 
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