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[TitanicVolz]

S.i.a.p but Crazy to think Patterson is on year 10!Gives a little Vol love on the Pitt game some trash talking just a time killer...Glad to see he found his role in the Nfl.

 

[Brillovol]

Credit to @TheRain for making me look at this twitter page, but dang if ole Betty doesn't remind me of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

@Weezer might be on to something...

 

[MoCo_Vol]

The crazy thing is, you look at the game, the numbers, our recent history, the state of the program, etc., etc., and you can recognize, intellectually, that was a pretty good result for us.

But when you watch the game, you know, intuitively, that we didn’t play well. Not even close to our potential.

And you know, that’s promising.

Absolutely, that's why I'm still pretty high on Heupel. In game 15 of his tenure we have what many would consider a good game if you just remove names and look at results and stats. But he's got the team playing at such a high level that we (and they) know there was another 2 or 3 TDs and plenty more yards left on the field.

Executing at a high level and still tons of growth to be had.

 

[bigorange]

 

[MoCo_Vol]

In all truth, astronaut boy is ignorant to speak of a fact independent of hypothesis, as if he saw the sun itself in itself with his eye. Also arrogant.

Someone must have rung up NASA and said we need a flattering story for people with bright pictures to top the news because the new inflation figures are out.

Okay...I'm confused a bit. Scott Kelly did see the sun with his own eyes outside the Earth's atmosphere. He's had multiple expeditions in his career.

 

[whitw]

Yes! I would drive it!

Nope!

 

[SoilVol]

Never ever consider a game lost before it is played please.

That’s so kiffin/dooley/butch/pruitt era thinking.

I truly hope that everyone in the RF VFL family realizes that this is a new era. The players and coaches are bought in. When the team fell behind during the Pitt game, did they fold like teams from the previous coaches tenure? NO! They followed the Maxims and prevailed in OT!

It’s totally time for a culture change in the Volunteer fanbase. Don’t get left behind! Don’t miss out! Definitely don’t join the Legion Of The Miserable! (They live in the FF and are very trollish)
Repeat after me:

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Go Big Orange!
Go Vols!
WGWTFA!!!

Who’s with me? Our team is coming and they are bringing Hell with them! We have been in over a decade long hell. Hellions of VolNation unite! Let’s rip a hole in the very fabric of the current landscape of college football and supplant all of these teams.

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Now now, I wasn't assuming UGA was a loss. I was answering the theoretical question on if we'd be in the playoff under that scenario.

No game is lost or won until the final whistle.

 

[Ron Swanson]

 

[MoCo_Vol]

I'm not sold on Georgia just yet. I mean they bashed Oregon, but that was another team that was overrated going into this season who had a first time HC with an inexperienced QB starting.

Really not sure if Georgia will get a real challenge until they face us unless South Carolina and/or Florida give them good games.

 

[gordonr24]

Hey Im at least entertaining the idea of dropping $300 plus on a ticket to attend the game. I havent thought about attending the Florida game for a long while because I hate them so damn much that seeing them beat us in person would shatter my soul.

Given that, I hate all the hype, the checkering, the former players showing up, the recruit visits, the alt jerseys. One thing that we know from history is the more hype, the worse the on field performance. The team gets tight, tentative and FL plays loose and whips dat ass.

Why cant we just treat it as a normal game? A TCB kinda mentality? Stop giving florida the special attention. That is when we will know we are back.

From what I’m seeing on Stubhub and Ticketmaster resale, $200 after fees will get you in the stadium. It’ll probably take closer to $400+ for the lower level.

 

[scores4fun]

S.i.a.p but Crazy to think Patterson is on year 10!Gives a little Vol love on the Pitt game some trash talking just a time killer...Glad to see he found his role in the Nfl.

Thats so awesome! Man CP is a baller! Love to watch him play! One of the most exciting VOLS ever!

 

[SoilVol]

He is arrogant. I guess he did flatter you. It's a special combo. I know that any claim about how the sun looks without stipulating conditions shows that he doesn't understand what science is. Yes. Is the world scientific community in an uproar at the wholly novel news today? Mathematical physics does not allow that what the human eye sees under circumstances x,y, and z is "the" sun.

This is so weird... all he did was make a benign tweet "confirming" the visual appearance of the sun, in space, to his human eye. That makes him arrogant? The man has first-hand knowledge... and he wasn't making a scientific statement at an academic conference. He was just nonchalantly tweeting.

Such an odd thing to get bent out of shape about. And a bold statement to call him the arrogant one... I suppose you have spent more time in space and are the subject matter expert on our sun's visual appearance?

 

[Skullbone]

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[BigSteve09]

Me today:

"Oh, yeah, how about that"

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Hey Im at least entertaining the idea of dropping $300 plus on a ticket to attend the game. I havent thought about attending the Florida game for a long while because I hate them so damn much that seeing them beat us in person would shatter my soul.

Given that, I hate all the hype, the checkering, the former players showing up, the recruit visits, the alt jerseys. One thing that we know from history is the more hype, the worse the on field performance. The team gets tight, tentative and FL plays loose and whips dat ass.

Why cant we just treat it as a normal game? A TCB kinda mentality? Stop giving florida the special attention. That is when we will know we are back.

If you come, you can meet up with some of us. @InVOLuntary @utvols88 @Sugaray13 and myself will prob get together at some point. @InVOLuntary, are you going to the game? Also, why is @volatil’s name not showing up on here anymore?

 

[Vol464]

I’m one of those. I will believe it when I see it. They aren’t world beaters but neither are we. If Richardson has a great game then we probably lose but I don’t know which version of him we’ll see. If he has an off day then we could win by 3 TDs, but the history of this series favors them.

It’s a great opportunity for us to get the monkey off our back during a big broadcast, but it is also a game that could be a real disappointment if we play poorly again in front of a huge crowd full of recruits. We’re fully capable of winning and this being a turning point in the rebuild.

Eternal pessimist.

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

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[sneakergawd]

Kinda funny lol

 

[Nash_Vol97]

The crazy thing is, you look at the game, the numbers, our recent history, the state of the program, etc., etc., and you can recognize, intellectually, that was a pretty good result for us.

But when you watch the game, you know, intuitively, that we didn’t play well. Not even close to our potential.

And you know, that’s promising.

I like what Josh Pate said about the result.. I think it was him at least.

I’m paraphrasing but essentially said, “We know they can win pretty when the offense is scoring, but can they win ugly when the defense has to step up?”

Let’s go ahead and check the Can win ugly box:

 

[Ten_Titans]

Got my UF tickets today.

Gonna be bonkers in there.

 

[BigSteve09]

EA Sports College Football: The rise, fall — and return — of a beloved video game

When Joey Harrington arrived at Oregon in the fall of 1998, he had lofty goals: become the starting quarterback, win the Heisman Trophy and compete for a national championship. But there was something else in the back of his mind.

“You wanted to make the depth chart so you could be in next year’s video game,” Harrington says. Because in the 2000s, inclusion in “the game” was the dream of every college football player — even if the avatar was only a lookalike, with the same jersey number and physical attributes.


“Everyone would go into the game and find themselves,” says Harrington. “Even if you were third on the depth chart, you’d move yourself up to first string.”

Harrington nearly achieved all of his goals. After finishing fourth in the Heisman voting and nearly playing for the national title in a controversial BCS race as a senior, he was on the cover of “the game” — EA Sports’ NCAA Football 2003.

On Feb. 2, 2021, EA Sports announced on a new Twitter handle, @EASportsCollege, that a college football game would return “for those who never stopped believing.” A press release was issued with few details. Later that day, after 20,000 retweets, the account followed up with a tweet promising more information.

And then … silence.

It’s been 18 months since the announcement with no further word from EA about the game. The Twitter account has 160,000 followers. Bits of news have leaked out through reporting, but requests for comments have been declined.

The Athletic has confirmed many details first reported by Extra Points and 247Sports. Most notably, the plan is for a July 2023 launch, and the game likely will only be available on next-gen consoles such as Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, according to sources and documents. This will be the most detailed college football game ever, but many aspects, like the inclusion of real players, have yet to be finalized.

If all goes according to plan, the 2022 college football season will be the last without a new video game in circulation. It’s been a long road back.

“NCAA Football always kicked off the video games sports season,” he says. “It typically shipped ahead of Madden. It was an important part of our portfolio as a sports brand (at EA). Less so as a revenue-driver like the big dogs.”

It wasn’t the revenue-driver like other sports properties because it was almost exclusively a North American game. Fans around the world played Madden and FIFA and NHL titles, not so much NCAA Football.

Harrington remembers loading up games with opponents’ stadiums to get a sense of what the place looked like before he traveled there, such as where the tunnel was located.

Kansas State running back Deuce Vaughn is the son of a former coach, Chris Vaughn, but he first learned about football penalties and play calling from NCAA Football.

“I learned when it’s third-and-1, I’m not throwing a deep shot,” he says. “Growing up playing the game definitely helped enhance my knowledge of the game.”

Inclusion in the game became paramount for players. West Virginia head coach Neal Brown has never been much of a gamer, but when he was a wide receiver at Kentucky and UMass from 1998 to 2002, he knew being modeled in the game was a possibility.


“When you knew you were going to be in the two-deep, you were going to be in the game,” he says. “I remember turning it on and seeing (my) number. It’s not supposed to be you, but it’s the skin tone, same number, same position. That was an ‘a-ha’ moment for me. Like, that was cool.”

Along with a July 2023 launch and exclusivity to the newest consoles, the game again will be built off of the Madden engine. An immense amount of detail will be included, from new stadium angles to music to the transfer portal. The hope is to include the actual players through group licensing, though that is not yet secured.

An expanded 12-team College Football Playoff in the game is possible too, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, in light of its approval by the CFP Board of Managers this month.

Much of that time has been spent acquiring photos, videos and audio from 133 current and future FBS schools, according to emails obtained by The Athletic via open records requests. That includes fight songs, secondary songs, crowd chants, stadium layouts, uniforms, throwback uniforms, helmet stickers and more.

Gameplay will have a lot more than just a fight song. The detail will get down to playing certain songs at certain times, like on third downs or entering the fourth quarter. EA Sports and CLC sent emails to schools requesting audio files and noted that EA Sports would handle copyright clearances. One email shows that CLC requested audio files be sent in by March 31, 2022. Extra Points has kept a database of known songs submitted to the game, via records requests. Stadium image requests have continued and are the most time-consuming asset to build.

If a star player chooses not to opt into the game, EA Sports can create a generic player with similar skills to fill the spot. Barry Bonds wasn’t in the MVP Baseball video game series in the mid-2000s because he withdrew from the MLBPA’s licensing agreement. EA Sports replaced him with the fictional “Jon Dowd.”

As for gameplay, the new game will not simply be a reskin of Madden. Dynasty mode and Road to Glory mode are expected to return. Other possibilities, like mascot gameplay, have yet to be determined.

While the transfer portal is relatively new to college sports, old versions of the game featured player movement like transfers and early entries to the NFL Draft. Realignment has been a constant in the sport. The ability to manually create superconferences is on the table, but final decisions have not been made.

 

[Wickman]

EA Sports College Football: The rise, fall — and return — of a beloved video game

Legit can’t wait

 

[Pridedad]

Doc's leadin', I'm followin'.

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Go Vols!

Well Doc definitely leading from the rear.


He will se this in a couple of days and agree!

 

[IhateGA]

To bad its only on Next gen Consoles.

 

[Chuckie]

Yes! I would drive it!