Could this be a sleeper team?

[biggbone]

could this team be like the 98 nat champ team.
when Manning left we were worried about Tee M.
look what he did. what do y'all think?

 

[lawgator1]

No.

 

[TEX_VOLFAN]

What do you consider a sleeper? +8 wins?...or undefeated? Yes, to +8 wins...A big fat no to the later!!

 

[utvolpj]

no, there was NFL talent all over the field in 98. We have any of that this year?

 

[rocks]

It would hard to be a sleeper team when everyone will be gunning for UT.

 

[tidwell]

Sleeper for the Peach Bowl maybe.

 

[99Vols]

no

 

[Crew]

Not really. ....no.

 

[biggbone]

It seems all experts on t.v. think we will challenge anyone.
We were not expected to win 8-9 games that year
Just a thought

 

[I MISS THE BOWL BROS.]

No fail

 

[Rocky-Top 10EC]

BIG FAT negative, CLK has made it so that the UT football team is anything but a "sleeper team"

 

[rckelly8]

I think if we play florida really well we got a good shot!

 

[vols496]

no, there was NFL talent all over the field in 98. We have any of that this year?

Eric Berry has enough NFL talent to be his own team!

But still i think 9 wins and we should be feeling very grateful.

 

[Neyland Law Vol]

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[BYUVol]

no, there was NFL talent all over the field in 98. We have any of that this year?

Interesting question. I'm certain Eric Berry and Rico McCoy will be drafted in the spring. Alot of the others will depend on this year (see Robert Ayers for what one good season can do for you).

I could see 6 or 7 in this class (Hardesty, Wes Brown if his knees don't give out, and a few others in this group of maybes).

 

[ole_orange]

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30 years of Malfunction Junction fail!

 

[Neyland Law Vol]

Unfortuneatly, this team is not even compareable to 1998. End of discussion. I will be thrilled with 8 wins.

 

[mkil5]

No, this is not a sleeper team. I thought we had a sleeper team last year, not a NC caliber sleeper, but maybe SEC Champion sleeper. Mainly because of the reasons you mentioned, Peyton to Tee, like Ainge to Crompton. We returned a lot of starters coming off of a SECCG appearance that lost by only one TD to the eventual National Champions in a game that many feel we should have pulled out if not for a few mistakes on our end.
But regardless, I was way off. I expected the Clawfense to be successful from Clawson's years at Richmond, not something that did not even resemble an offensive attack.

 

[BeecherVol]

Sleeper? Possibly
NC Sleeper? Not yet.

 

[Volfootball55]

Luckily the games are played on the field, who knows what happens this year good or bad.....

 

[oUTKickedCoverage]

It seems all experts on t.v. think we will challenge anyone.
We were not expected to win 8-9 games that year
Just a thought

Yeah, we were... we were #10 coming in to the season.

Roughly equivalent to about 10 wins.

 

[VOLnMiami]

could this team be like the 98 nat champ team.
when Manning left we were worried about Tee M.
look what he did. what do y'all think?

Negative

 

[VolinConcord]

Interesting question. I'm certain Eric Berry and Rico McCoy will be drafted in the spring. Alot of the others will depend on this year (see Robert Ayers for what one good season can do for you).

I could see 6 or 7 in this class (Hardesty, Wes Brown if his knees don't give out, and a few others in this group of maybes).

I really can't see Wes going at the next level if his knees are hurting him this bad now. The guy is a great ball player though.
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[WillisWG]

yep in 98 I was wondering how the offense would be without Peyton but in 09 I'm worried if the O can function with JC as QB....we're going to need a lot of players to step up BIG time for this team to win

 

[hmanvolfan]

could this team be like the 98 nat champ team.
when Manning left we were worried about Tee M.
look what he did. what do y'all think?

No to the team question, but you could use a nap.