26 years in a row! Even as a Vol fan it seems a bit ridiculous

#26
#26
Cartervol said:
Eventually they'll beat us and probably when we least expect it. May not be until Bray gets out of here though. I don't know how much they lose off this years team , but i'd say they'll have a chance next year, although Tennessee should be a much better squad. Still doesn't guarantee anything. 26 is nice, enjoy it for now.
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They lose Hartline, Locke, Matthews, and probably Cobb. They would have lost all of their playmakers if Cobb goes pro. 27 almost looks likely now.....
 
#27
#27
Not all of it is mental. We're a lot better team than we were earlier in the season. The team that played UAB gets annihilated by Kentucky. That team doesn't exist anymore. The worm started to turn in that South Carolina game, and then they beat Tiger High. As bad as Tiger High was, as soon as those young guys got a W under their belts again, we had a football team.

We don't beat Ole Miss or Kentucky with the team that played UAB or JawJa. If they had stopped fighting back and working hard, this could have been the first eight-loss team in UT history, rather than bowl-eligible. The most impressive thing DD did this season was to keep them from giving up.

It was an even game by Saturday. The difference then was simply that there isn't a UK player who was born the last time they beat Tennessee.
 
#28
#28
Cartervol said:
Eventually they'll beat us and probably when we least expect it. May not be until Bray gets out of here though. I don't know how much they lose off this years team , but i'd say they'll have a chance next year, although Tennessee should be a much better squad. Still doesn't guarantee anything. 26 is nice, enjoy it for now.
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They lose pretty much everybody that matters: Hartline, Moncell, Locke, probably Cobb and Trevathon too, and like 10 other guys as well. I'd say they'll have no chance next year. I had been dreading this game all year because I thought this was their year. This streak could go to 50. Book it!
 
#29
#29
tri_vol said:
I think yesterday a big portion was mental. When they fumbled on the goal line, it was like they said crap we are kentucky and they are tennessee, this always happens.
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That fumble, and the Poole fumble that rolled right to Bray, both looked like perpetuations of the snake bit jinx.
 
#30
#30
GAVol said:
That's maybe been true in the past 5 years or so, but before that . . . yes, they were THAT bad. I'll bet they haven't gotten to 6 wins more than about 7-8 times in the past 30 years.
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And the only reason they get to 6 wins now is because the 12-game schedule lets them play an extra team like Akron every year. UK's "progress" is almost completely a product of scheduling.
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#33
#33
WoodsmanVol said:
Don't gloat. Florida has had our momma's and sister's bedside phone number for a while now.
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Yeah but this thread isn't about that. I just get a kick out of how everyone says how improved they are. Yeah they played some teams tough, but they got those stats by playing bad teams. So same old Kentucky.
 
#34
#34
They could have beaten us, but yesterday we just wanted it more. They lost their mojo after the fumble. I was afraid that would happen to us after we blew that opening drive, then went three-and-out, but we bounced back. We dug deep and didn't get psyched; they did, and that was the game.
 
#35
#35
WoodsmanVol said:
Don't gloat. Florida has had our momma's and sister's bedside phone number for a while now.
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This thread is about Kentucky-Tennessee.

But yeah, if Florida beats us for another 20 consecutive years then it will definitely be comparable to this.
 
#36
#36
they beat championship winning LSU in 07, beat better UGA and Auburn team on a regular basis. but for some reason they can't beat depleted UT.
 
#37
#37
Vercingetorix said:
And the only reason they get to 6 wins now is because the 12-game schedule lets them play an extra team like Akron every year. UK's "progress" is almost completely a product of scheduling.
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There is some truth to that but going from 2 wins a year to 6 isn't all about scheduling. They beat Carolina and lost to Auburn on the last play of the game - that wouldn't have happend before Brooks. Tennessee got much better as the year went along and KY stayed the same - if this game were played in September UK would have won.
 
#38
#38
LA Vol said:
They could have beaten us, but yesterday we just wanted it more. They lost their mojo after the fumble. I was afraid that would happen to us after we blew that opening drive, then went three-and-out, but we bounced back. We dug deep and didn't get psyched; they did, and that was the game.
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agreed - the fake punt was huge too
 
#39
#39
I went to my first game in Neyland this weekend and enjoyed it - i was told by my UK friends who've gone in in the past that it was a tough place for a visiting fan but I thought everyone I ran into was really nice - Thanks for the hospitality I will be back year after next
 
#40
#40
rockytop9808 said:
We haven't lost to you guys 26 times in a row in basketball. There's kind of a difference. We still beat you all in basketball sometimes.
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I was speaking historically i suppose - we've beaten you 42 times in basketball since the last time we've beaten you in football - yikes
 
#42
#42
dukes of maggard said:
There is some truth to that but going from 2 wins a year to 6 isn't all about scheduling. They beat Carolina and lost to Auburn on the last play of the game - that wouldn't have happend before Brooks. Tennessee got much better as the year went along and KY stayed the same - if this game were played in September UK would have won.
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Kentucky schedules four absolute patsies a year, including a I-AA team every season, so that's four wins. They play Vanderbilt every year, so that's five, and their permanent opponent out of the SEC West is Mississippi State, which is the worst team in the conference other than Vandy (and which will promptly go back to sucking after Dan Mullen gets a real job). Ashley Judd should be able to coach Kentucky to a bowl every year with that many gimmies on the schedule.

I just don't see any evidence that Brooks meaningfully advanced the Kentucky football program. They are what they've always been -- good enough to beat Vandy every year, talented enough to have a puncher's chance of pulling off a big upset every few years, but never a risk of being in the divisional race into October. If they've seemed to be a little better than that the last couple of years -- and I don't disagree that they have -- then I think it's had a lot more to do with UK improbably having one of the best players in the SEC on the roster than anything Brooks did to permanently move Kentucky football forward. How different would UK have been the last three years if Cobb had gone somewhere else?
 
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