Speaking of Sad VOL Posts

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The day in October of 65 when the 3 coaches were killed in a car/train crash in West Knoxville.

Then almost as bad was the day in March of 66 when Tom Fisher and John Crumbacher were killed in a wreck in Benton.

Oops, sorry didnt see the other post. Outside of the Marshall and Wichita State plane crashes dont think any other program suffered 2 such terrible tragedies in such a short period of time.
 
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TnWalker said:
Jabar Gaffney “catch”
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Sorry for the capitalization: BUT IT WAS NOT A CATCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was sitting 15 rows above the field. It was juggled all the way to the ground. By today's rules, it would be incomplete. The only thing about it was that it wasn't 4th down, so the reptiles still had another chance even if ruled incomplete.
 
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10 year old me at my first game in Neyland watching Keith Delong have a career day.....19 tackles, a sack, and an INT in a losing effort to the Crimson Turds.
 
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MHS Rebel said:
What are your recollections of sad Vol days? Preferably not fatal.

Inky
Chuck Webb
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Oh I know a few, but the one that gets me the most was 2002 Florida. The Gators coming to Knoxville without Spurrier. The *!@&?!# monsoon game. 8 damn fumbles, EIGHT. We sat on the first row of the upper deck that day, and for stretches of the game you couldn't even see the field, the rain was coming down so hard. We were drenched, soaked to the bone, shivering from the constant downpour, and Causen and Wells couldn't exchange the ball for crap. Meanwhile Grossman struggled but then put things together and Florida dominated us. No Spurrier, same Spurrier-like results. The insult to injury was afterward, when Grossman admitted on their postgame that the players got frustrated with some of the staff's playcalls, so they ignored them and ran Spurrier plays from the previous year -- and won with them.

Honorable mentions -

2001. It was NOT a catch.

2001. STOP DROPPING EIGHT. STOP GIVING UP THE MIDDLE. STOP USING THE MUSTANG.

2001. SPY the @?!#*! QB please.

2006 LSU - how hard is it to blitz the QB on fourth down? How hard is it, really? Three interceptions, can't handle any pressure, and you DROP EIGHT with that stupid MUSTANG AGAIN.


Looking back on it, it's frightening to think how much of my Tennessee sadness comes from the ol'd 3-3-5 "drop eight" Mustang. That really is foundational to many of my bad memories. I cannot stress enough how much I hate the Mustang to this day. If you saw it, you know Tennessee was gonna blow it. I hate it. I still hate it. I hate it so very much.
 
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Voltopia said:
Oh I know a few, but the one that gets me the most was 2002 Florida. The Gators coming to Knoxville without Spurrier. The *!@&?!# monsoon game. 8 damn fumbles, EIGHT. We sat on the first row of the upper deck that day, and for stretches of the game you couldn't even see the field, the rain was coming down so hard. We were drenched, soaked to the bone, shivering from the constant downpour, and Causen and Wells couldn't exchange the ball for crap. Meanwhile Grossman struggled but then put things together and Florida dominated us. No Spurrier, same Spurrier-like results. The insult to injury was afterward, when Grossman admitted on their postgame that the players got frustrated with some of the staff's playcalls, so they ignored them and ran Spurrier plays from the previous year -- and won with them.

Honorable mentions -

2001. It was NOT a catch.

2001. STOP DROPPING EIGHT. STOP GIVING UP THE MIDDLE. STOP USING THE MUSTANG.

2001. SPY the @?!#*! QB please.

2006 LSU - how hard is it to blitz the QB on fourth down? How hard is it, really? Three interceptions, can't handle any pressure, and you DROP EIGHT with that stupid MUSTANG AGAIN.


Looking back on it, it's frightening to think how much of my Tennessee sadness comes from the ol'd 3-3-5 "drop eight" Mustang.
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Its almost as if the bend but don't break philosophy doesn't work!?!?!?! So glad they're going away from that crap.
 
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