I thought part of life was facing adversity and rising to the challenge. In this case they could rise to the challenge by preparing for an opponent who runs an offense they are not used to seeing. I'm sure the players and coaching staff are more than capable of preparing for Army. Wouldn't you agree?
It's easier said that done - it is hard for teams to replicate the triple option look in practice that week, so it is difficult to prepare for it. Army took Oklahoma and Michigan, on the road, into OT in 2018 and 2019. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that they'd come in here next year and beat us.
I don't have any insight in this regard. Whoever got the ball rolling, they made the right decision. And I am happy our current AD and HC followed through. If we had teams that run similar offense and needed to prepare for them sure. Otherwise there is really no benefit and really not being able to preoare properly for them you are subjecting your players to increased risks. It was a smart decision in that regard
This is just dumb. Do you see them lining up to play ? Hell no. Playing Army, Navy or Air Force is not what builds a program. Having healthy guys on your front has a hand in it though. We are razor thin on the DL after this season. We will likely have a couple young guys in rotation and whatever we can pick up from the portal. Why do you jeopardize that if you don't have to ? It is kinda like playing russian roulette. It doesn't make sense
Still can't believe you and other fans are okay canceling this game. We should be honored to play Army and have them come to our home field.
What @BigALWiLson said.
Lol, Army doesn't scare me but truthfully they would probably beat our ass in our current state of the program. With that said, playing Nebraska for a piece of a NC is a whole different animal. We didn't have a choice who we played. That was a bowl game. An important one. We also got our ass handed to us by them.
It wasn’t Hueple or White’s idea to chalice this game. As I stated prior Is that Dave Hart added them in 2016 and Fulmer started the process to replacing them with another team his last year as AD. So it’s s’more likely that Pruitt and Fulmer didn’t want that game. White and Hueple just followed through with the plans that was already set in motion prior to Whites arrival.
I'm not talking about Georgia, Florida or Bama's schedule. I'm talking about Tennessee's schedule. Let's stick to the topic at hand.
It doesn't matter who scheduled it. We should honor the commitment to play a service academy. Plus, how often are these guys who are going to serve our country in the future going to have the opportunity to also play in Neyland Stadium. The administration just took the chance to play in one of the best stadiums in college football away from them. We should be ashamed.
Nah if you go back and “Check My Stats/messages” you will see that I have already stated as a Marine I wished we played all the services academy’s every year and rotated them. I think we would beat them even in our worse years. But there is a reason why the schools including UT form the SEC don’t play them. There style of play is a nightmare for even teams like Bama. All those other schools you named don’t play in the SEC and Sheba to deal with Bama, UF, UGA and rest of the SEC every year. Notre Damn, Nebraska and Wisconsin would all finish in the bottom half of the SEC if they played the same schedule.
