How will you feel if we lost one or two more games?

#26
#26
Spawn said:
Failure. Pure and simple.

We have the talent, returning starters, highly rated newcomers.

We failed to develop a QB and the coach’s have failed to game plan, adjust and meet the challenge.

No matter how you look at it, this year has has been a failure
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We are only half way through. We lost one game we weren't supposed to. Take a Xanax and at least give them a chance to finish the whole season.
 
#29
#29
There was a pole on VolNation before the season started, best i can remember most people picked 6 and 4 or 7 and 3.
 
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#31
That is clearly likely to happen.

Yeah I'm fine with it - any reasonable expectations this year centered around 5-5. It is an absurdly tough schedule. FPI pegged us at 3.8 wins iirc. Vegas had us around 4.5.

I guesstimated us at 5.25 wins. Thought 5-5 was slightly more likely than 6-4...both very reaonable. Also making 4-6 well within range too, as was 7-3 to a lesser degree. Anything else was in the "less than 5% chance" area.
 
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robby487 said:
There was a pole on VolNation before the season started, best i can remember most people picked 6 and 4 or 7 and 3.
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Wouldn't be surprised. No one wants to pick what's most conservative. That is not fandom. But 7-3 always would have been a really great season. We were underdogs to half the schedule right off the bat after all...
 
#34
#34
We are a 4-6 team at best, 2-8 at worst - and probably a 3-7 team...unless a miracle transformation occurs in CJP and JG. I don’t see CJP changing much because he seems satisfied with in-game performance of JG. That gives you 17 points per game roughly. Is that enough to win? I don’t know.
 
#35
#35
5-5 seems like very, very wishful thinking. I'd take it in a heartbeat. We lose to Arky and 3-7 is likely.
 
#37
#37
JonGrudensAgent said:
Any season which includes a loss to KY or Vandy or any OOC cupcake should be considered a partial failure at least.

Given the win streak last season and what should have been some semblance of development in the younger guys a 7-3 record shouldn't have been too much to hope for.

Looks like a very long shot at this point.
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Kentucky is this year's GA State....
 
#38
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Devo182 said:
Does it? I can't find a schedule with anything sooner than January. Utsports shows 1/30 vs Kansas as first game.
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Last I heard, the ncaa postponed the college basketball season start till November 25.
Don't know when the Vols will play first game though.
 
#43
#43
To answer OP's original question one loss would be 10 to the power of one worse. Two losses would make me 10 times the power of two worse.
 
#45
#45
5-5 would be a step back, plan and simple.

We won 62.5% of our SEC games a year ago, dropping to 50% would be a step in the wrong direction in a season where we returned a large number of starters; including the quarterback and offensive line.

It is incomprehensible that our offense is worse than it was last year, despite more speed at WR and returning starters at every other position. It is unsatisfactory that our 5-star freshman QB isn't ready to play, regardless of COVID-19. And it's unreasonable that neither he nor Brian Maurer are being groomed to make Tennessee competitive. The best case scenario with JG would've been to go 7-3, which isn't good enough to win a championship, then the following year we'd be breaking in a new QB and likely take a step back... stalling recruiting momentum, then replacing our OL, star LB, CBs, RB, and other key players in year 5. Breaking in a new QB while the nucleus of our team is young would've made much more sense. Pruitt's decision to "play whoever gives us the best chance to win" will lead to mediocrity at best, IMO.

But how are we going to get to 5-5? What's the path? We'd have to take 2 of 3 from Arkansas, A&M, and Auburn. Given how we've looked the past 10 quarters... being outscored 109-24 (109-24!!!!).... we're more than likely watching a 3-7 team, maybe 4-6 if we pull an upset.
 
#46
#46
Spawn said:
Failure. Pure and simple.

We have the talent, returning starters, highly rated newcomers.

We failed to develop a QB and the coach’s have failed to game plan, adjust and meet the challenge.

No matter how you look at it, this year has has been a failure
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Not that I am objecting to what you are saying, but can we actually call this year a failure if we have only lost one game that we should have won according to the prognosticators? (I do think we had a good chance to beat GA though, Bama not so much)
 
#50
#50
No, it’s not acceptable.

If 5-5 would be considered a successful season, then our program is no better than Vanderbilt.
 
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