The problem is that when you have a terrible game - and every school has them - and you lose to a "cupcake" it looks even worse. I was there for the first North Texas State/Tennessee game.
Two things - I wouldn't call the Georgia loss last year a rout. Not the Vols' finest hour, maybe, but they made a game out of it. And two, why was storming the field after the Alabama win such a bad thing? Don't other teams celebrate after such a huge victory?
One of the high points of my years as a Vol fan was a brief chat I had with Coach Cafego - about 1978-79, somewhere around there at the press day for the Vols. Coach Cafego was posing with the punters (he was the punting coach) and I asked him if all these press days got old and boring. "No...
I wish him well and I hope he has a great career with the Horns. He is in a tough spot - no matter how well he does he will always be compared to the rest of his family and those are some big shoes to fill. And at least he didn't go to Bama, so there's that.
But isn't Birmingham one of the top banking centers in the country? I was always told that's why Bama had so much money to "support" their football program.
I think it was the national press who gave Beattie Feathers the nickname "The Bounding Antelope". I was not around then but I don't think it caught on.
I hope you positive thinkers are right. I look at the team and think, yeah, maybe one or two of the easiest games but there's not an SEC team we can beat right now. We've lost so much talent already and it doesn't seem to be over yet. But like I say, I hope you guys predicting a good season are...
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