Freak’s night before the Auburn game, admittedly off topic thread

#27
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Jackcrevol said:
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With Brown being their leading rusher I hate to see Moss questionable. Hopefully he passes concussion protocol and is good to go. Hopefully the O-line steps up and improves their game. Are they going to move Perry to LG and trust Haslam and Williams together on the right side?
 
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farmdogvol said:
With Brown being their leading rusher I hate to see Moss questionable. Hopefully he passes concussion protocol and is good to go. Hopefully the O-line steps up and improves their game. Are they going to move Perry to LG and trust Haslam and Williams together on the right side?
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I think you have to play Nic Moore. Its time to grow up.
 
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Just got back from Florida last night, Orlando for our daughter, son in law, and granddaughter. Then to Jacksonville for a few days of drs, and some fishing 😁. Working tonight and tomorrow, taking off Sunday, and going back to a different part of Florida for a couple days of fishing.
 
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Hanging in rainy East TN for 4-5 days. Not going to the game. Menu will be whatever I feel like having about 2 PM tomorrow (both for nourishment and a wee dram of spirits ha ha.)
 
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ftsandersvol said:
I want to see some offensive creativity tomorrow. Heupel is supposed to be an offensive guru, but his offense has become bland and easy to scheme. It has proven effective against lesser talented teams, but equal or better talented teams have neutralized it.
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Exactly why I’m concerned about tomorrow. I won’t be surprised if it’s a nail biter
 
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Swiftybaby said:
I must be honest, hate the greys. We should wear orange and white at home with the exception of a dark mode game.
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In case you were wondering...HERE is why they're being worn...

In 1939, Tennessee played ten regular season games and won all ten by a combined score of 212 to 0. Not one opponent scored a single point on them all year.It has never happened again, and it never will.

Tomorrow against Auburn, Tennessee wears a uniform built entirely around the man who coached that team.
His name was Robert Neyland. Everybody called him the General, because he was one. He graduated West Point in 1916, 28th in a class of 125. He played line in football, pitched the first no-hitter in the history of Army baseball, and won the academy boxing championship three years in a row. Then he went to France to fight in World War I. He took the Tennessee job in 1926. That was 100 years ago this season.

He wrote seven maxims and made his teams recite them before every game, starting in the 1930s. The first one is the team that makes the fewest mistakes will win. If you fumbled in practice, you carried a football with you everywhere for a week. You slept with it. In 1938 his team went undefeated. In 1939 nobody scored on them. Four players off that 1939 team were All-Americans and three of them are in the Hall of Fame. Across those two seasons his defense went 71 straight quarters without surrendering a point. Then Southern California beat them 14-0 in the Rose Bowl. Even that story has an ending nobody likes. The Army pulled him out of coaching twice. Once in 1935. Then again in 1941.In the second war he ran supply in the China Burma India theater, moving materiel through monsoons and over the Himalayas. He came home with the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit and the rank of brigadier general. He went back to Knoxville in 1946 and won an undisputed national championship in 1951, at 59 years old. He finished 173-31-12. Sports Illustrated later put him on its all-century college football team. Not as the head coach. As the defensive coordinator.

Now look at what is on that uniform tomorrow. A star on the back of the helmet for his rank. His actual signature on the helmet bumper. The kneeling silhouette they used to cast his statue. Blueprint lines on the shoulders taken from the 1948 stadium expansion, because he was Army Corps of Engineers and he helped build the place. An interlocking UT borrowed from baseball, for the pitcher he was at West Point. Be honest, it is still an alternate jersey and adidas will sell plenty of them. That is how this works now. But inside the back collar, in his own handwriting, are three words from the seventh maxim. Carry the fight.

The only person who can see them is the player wearing it.

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This feels like a big game for CJH. I don’t think he is on the hot seat nor should he be but to keep it that way we need to right the ship offensively, end the little SEC home game losing streak and take care of Auburn.
 
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ftsandersvol said:
I want to see some offensive creativity tomorrow. Heupel is supposed to be an offensive guru, but his offense has become bland and easy to scheme. It has proven effective against lesser talented teams, but equal or better talented teams have neutralized it.
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Meh.

Aguilar threw for 393 yards against Oklahoma and we ran for 250 against Florida last year.

Been different this year obviously but that was expected with young QB. Only thing that wasn’t expected was OL getting pushed around. Scheme seems fine to me.
 
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Settling down out here on the west coast. Noon-thirty start time for me tomorrow. Tonight, I'll fall asleep thinking about Shaun Ellis lumbering for a 90 yard pick-six in the '98 game. Let's hope we have a lot more of that kind of energy tomorrow.
 
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