The Official #23 Tennessee vs. New Mexico State Game Thread, 4:15 PM ET, SEC Network

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Big Al Orange said:
We win big. Bama looses, and Ohio St. is gonna beat the chit out of Nico and his UCLA sissys. I’d say it’s a good day to be a Vol !!
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Nico isn’t playing. It was announced yesterday he had an injury stimming from last week and symptoms just started yesterday.
 
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UTFanForLife said:
I agree he should have been playing way before the last game, for the reasons you stated and also QB play was not exactly great either.

I just don’t think 1 game, or in the case of Gmac one quarter, is an indicator of how well they are going to do the next year.
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Milton’s year is slightly behind Aguilar’s season this year in total yards per game and touchdowns. Aguilar also has been much worse than Milton with turnovers. If i had to guess, Aguilar will wind up having 50-60 total yards per game more than Milton

However what I said is once the season was effectively over and everything of significance was out of reach, it was time to bench Milton for the future. I said the same two weeks ago after the OU loss.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
You’re not hiring Golesh to take over a big time program and expecting the program to take a step to the next level. You hire someone like him for a rebuild.

If Heupel left for a better job, you get to look for a top tier of candidates. Not a bunch of mid major guys who are walking into a situation where everything is stable.
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If there is a top tier candidate out that person is going to LSU. If LSU were to take Heupel, then that says he is a TOP TIER candidate.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Nico should have been starting the minute the season ended in 2023 with our loss at Bama. We were out of contention for the SEC East and the playoff.

But for his first year of starting and game experience, he was 11-3 as the starter. There was a lot of things that gave promise to his future considering he had 3 years of eligibility left. No one was expecting Heisman level his first year of starting.
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Coaches are hired to win games. Not throw in the towel and start playing freshman
 
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volfan102455 said:
If there is a top tier candidate out that person is going to LSU. If LSU were to take Heupel, then that says he is a TOP TIER candidate.
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Who LSU hires doesn’t matter here.

I’m addressing the people who think Golesh should be the guy to take over if Heupel was to leave for any job. It’s dumb. You’re not collecting $6-8m from Heupel if he chooses to leave and hire Golesh.

He’d be in so over his head here where the coach would be expected to contend for the playoffs right away.

He is the type of coach that needs a 3-5 year runway to build a program. That’s not what Tennessee would be if Heupel left for LSU or any other job out there.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
Coaches are hired to win games. Not throw in the towel and start playing freshman
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If our QB play sucks next year or we are a middle tier team, I look forward to all the folks saying they were glad “we could pad stats in meaningless games last year instead of seeing if the future QB’s had anything to build on”

But once again, it’s hilarious to me that a big swath of people think Heupel is incapable of building a gameplan with a 4 and 5 star QB room with 2 weeks lead time against a C-USA team.

So many Heupel doubters apparently.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
I have been a Vol fan all my life. But dang n it, if we run Heupel off; I may just be done as a fan. It is one thing for a fan base to be passionate; but it is another thing entirely to be idiotic and ungrateful.
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The rumors are he’s willing to talk.I myself hope it’s a Mike Gundy get a raise kind of thing.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
If our QB play sucks next year or we are a middle tier team, I look forward to all the folks saying they were glad “we could pad stats in meaningless games last year instead of seeing if the future QB’s had anything to build on”

But once again, it’s hilarious to me that a big swath of people think Heupel is incapable of building a gameplan with a 4 and 5 star QB room with 2 weeks lead time against a C-USA team.

So many Heupel doubters apparently.
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How many teams do you see doing this? The answer is none
 
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I think it’s funny when people decide exactly what’s going to happen “next year”. No one on here thought we would be any good on offense this year and the defense would have to carry the team. And not many thought Aguilar would be any good.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Who LSU hires doesn’t matter here.

I’m addressing the people who think Golesh should be the guy to take over if Heupel was to leave for any job. It’s dumb. You’re not collecting $6-8m from Heupel if he chooses to leave and hire Golesh.

He’d be in so over his head here where the coach would be expected to contend for the playoffs right away.

He is the type of coach that needs a 3-5 year runway to build a program. That’s not what Tennessee would be if Heupel left for LSU or any other job out there.
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Have you ever seen a Tennessee coaching search? Might as well mark the top five off the list.
 
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jasonvol18 said:
I doubt any end up 1st Rd picks. Nobody outside of maybe Hood and McCoy even have a chance at being 1st rounders and I'd be shocked if either was.
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Josephs and Brazzel both have a chance. Either way that's 4 players drafted in the first 2 rounds. Been a VERY long time since we've seen that. And that is a sure fire way to show the talent gap has closed.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
How many teams do you see doing this? The answer is none
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We played a scrimmage today. Yet we had how many injuries with first team players? Once again, there was zero reason for most of the first team guys most of the season to be playing today.

But once again, so many of you think we simply lack the coaching or the recruits to handle a 3 win C-USA team.

Wonder if A&M fans are worried about their second team having to play minutes against Samford next week.
 
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BradstarVols said:
Yeah I'm mainly referring to this season. Front 4 doesn't get pressure like they did the first few weeks and Joey doesn't look the same these last couple games. Hopefully they can return to form the last 2 games.
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We are 6th in the country in total sacks. It's not a failure if we aren't #1.
 
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Smokymtnbullet said:
Have you ever seen a Tennessee coaching search? Might as well mark the top five off the list.
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Tennessee has never been in the position I’m describing. Even when Lane left, it was so late in the cycle that even the guys we did want, we tried to jam them up because of assistant coach buyouts we didn’t want to pay.

Heupel leaving means we collect $6-8 million from the second he signs with another school.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Tennessee has never been in the position I’m describing. Even when Lane left, it was so late in the cycle that even the guys we did want, we tried to jam them up because of assistant coach buyouts we didn’t want to pay.

Heupel leaving means we collect $6-8 million from the second he signs with another school.
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We had plenty of runway when we fired Jones and ended up with Pruitt.

There are too many schools looking for coaches that would get first pick over us. We need to keep the coach we have. We just do.
 
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