***Breaking News 9/30*** Cade Mays CLEARED by SEC to play immediately

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Freak said:
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You know how I like to have a fresh thread for breaking news. :)
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Lol. Let's just call it what it was...

Threads were popping up everywhere and GAVol tried to collect it all in one thread and chose to use the existing Cade Mays thread and that confused some people so Freak came in for the save.
 
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EODVOL said:
I love the enthusiasm, but I feel as those two names should never be mentioned in the same sentence. Dobbs is a treasure! What's that old 80's Cinderella classic "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)"
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Dobbs is my favorite UT QB.
 
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Anything that gets us closer to being a for real dominant type team is good. I think that's what has many not as happy about the Carolina game as they might be. We all wanna be on a par w Bama...and be a real threat to them. When you only win by 4 against an unranked team like that it looks like we're still a team that will beat Vandy..Mizzou...maybe Kentucky...but get blown out by Georgia and Bama. Not destroying Carolina like 50-12 made us look like we haven't gained much ground on the big boys. A lot of that is JG. He's just not a great QB...and I question if he's very good. He doesn't exude the confidence you'd expect from a dominant team. Seems shaky...like he's always panicky and nervous.
Waaaay too many errant passes and missed opportunities. We gotta fix that position.
 
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GAVol said:
Lol. Let's just call it what it was...

Threads were popping up everywhere and GAVol tried to collect it all in one thread and chose to use the existing Cade Mays thread and that confused some people so Freak came in for the save.
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Ha. Not at all. I thought it was clear. Whenever news breaks there are always a bunch of new threads, as you know.

As for Cade, I’m pretty pumped. I’d really love to see us be dominant in the run game.
 
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djohnnyg said:
Anything that gets us closer to being a for real dominant type team is good. I think that's what has many not as happy about the Carolina game as they might be. We all wanna be on a par w Bama...and be a real threat to them. When you only win by 4 against an unranked team like that it looks like we're still a team that will beat Vandy..Mizzou...maybe Kentucky...but get blown out by Georgia and Bama. Not destroying Carolina like 50-12 made us look like we haven't gained much ground on the big boys. A lot of that is JG. He's just not a great QB...and I question if he's very good. He doesn't exude the confidence you'd expect from a dominant team. Seems shaky...like he's always panicky and nervous.
Waaaay too many errant passes and missed opportunities. We gotta fix that position.
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Amen!
 
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ChrisVFL said:
Just seen this Boom! Defenses get out the way this year. Have a feeling we will have at least one 1000 rusher this year if this O-line holds up . GBO!🍊
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I like your optimism , unfortunately Chaney doesn't run the ball enough for us to have a 1,000 yard rusher, maybe that will change tho
 
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djohnnyg said:
Anything that gets us closer to being a for real dominant type team is good. I think that's what has many not as happy about the Carolina game as they might be. We all wanna be on a par w Bama...and be a real threat to them.
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If that's your perspective, Johnny, then you should be cautiously happy with the victory over South Carolina. It may, just may, be an indicator that we're on exactly the right track to "be on par w Bama" one day, as you wish.

Let me explain:

In Nick Saban's first year in Tuscaoosa, he lost to Auburn, Mississippi State, LSU, Florida State, Georgia, and ... Louisiana-Monroe. No dynasty yet, for sure.

His second season, he only beat Tulane by 20-6. Not a hugely dominating performance against a team that should've been a scrimmage. That same season, he only beat Kentucky 17-14. And was 24-20 over Ole Miss.

In his third year, Nick barely beat our now Fulmer-less Vols, 12-10. And squeaked by Auburn, 26-21. Still building.

His fourth season, Saban beat Arkansas 24-20. He lost to USCe, 35-21. Lost. He also lost to LSU and Auburn that year.

It wasn't until Nick's fifth season as head elephant that his team began dominantly beating everyone on their schedule.

Point is, dynasties take time to develop. To mature. It's the old play-recruit-play cycle. You play a good season, and attract better new players. With them, you play a better season, and then attract even better recruits. And so on. Until eventually, you ratchet yourself up to dominance.

But it doesn't come all at once.

So at first, you just focus on one thing: win every game you can. Just win. Win ugly, win pretty, win big, win barely, just win.

And let the dominating seasons happen when they will.

Go Vols!
 
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Honestly though I'm still bracing myself for a 50-pass game from our offense despite the news.

If the bar is low, I can't be disappointed 👍🏻
 
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With the athletes we have on Oline, we should be able to wear most teams not Uga or Bama down by the 3rd qtr hammering away in the run game. If the defense can do their part, we should be hard to stop. No **** sherlock , I know. But that's a plan we haven't had the personnel to implement since the early 2000s. We should be able to do it now.
 
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