If we lose to SC?

If we lose to South Carolina my reaction will be:

  • Call for Pruitt's Job

    Votes: 43 10.4%

  • Stay calm, cool and collected

    Votes: 320 77.1%

  • We're going 9-1 baby!!!

    Votes: 52 12.5%
  • Total voters
    415
  • Poll closed .
#80
#80
RockyTop140 said:
But some teams had more players out than others during practice. This is a bad year to judge a coach by. I still expect our defense to be able to line up correctly, but if there’s some rust, which I’m sure there will be, can’t put it all on the coach.
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Pruitt will be judged by his entire time here. If he loses this game he will be 0-3 in openers. This loss might be understandable. The problem is if you want the benefit of the doubt during tough times you need to have already established your ability when times weren’t tough. Losing to GA State is an albatross that will follow Pruitt’s UT tenure until he wins an SEC or National Championship.
 
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#82
#82
08Vol said:
Pruitt will be judged by his entire time here. If he loses this game he will be 0-3 in openers. This loss might be understandable. The problem is if you want the benefit of the doubt during tough times you need to have already established your ability when times weren’t tough. Losing to GA State is an albatross that will follow Pruitt’s UT tenure until he wins an SEC or National Championship.
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Yes this so much...great post
 
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Raebo said:
So if JG and others are in quarantine, HB starts and does poorly, you think this is a fair poll???
Let's at least wait until the game is played before we play the blame the coach game.
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I hope ANYONE not named JG starts under center anyways. Coaches job is to have the team ready. So yes we should be judging the coach accordingly.

Enough with the excuses. At some point we have to own it.
 
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wmcovol said:
If Tennessee loses, let’s all agree to meet here and talk about how great 2021 is going to be.
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If we lose, let's all agree to meet in an IHOP parking lot to kick the **** out of you for jinxing us.

I don't really mean that. Violence is never the answer. Peace and harmony should reign supreme. Unicorns are real.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I guarantee you a win in the SEC this year. Guarantee it. If the lads don't deliver a Vols win in the SEC this year*, I will give you my car. And my house. And my mailbox. And that tree in the front yard.

Guarantee it.



I think of it a little differently. And warning: it's a generational thing. Some feelings might be hurt. Let's call this a Trigger Warning, heh.

The millenial generation has been raised on computer games and consoles. Well, so what? The Gen X and Baby Boomers before them were raised on TV, what's so different about that?

Just one thing: TV and movies are about drama...story arcs. But computer games are about conflict (whether with other players, or NPCs, or just fighting against the conditions of the fictional universe). In other words, computer games are mostly about throwing you into the zombie apocalypse and seeing if you can navigate your way safely through. Give you a ring and tell you to throw it into a volcano in the deadliest place on the planet. That sort of thing.

So the millenials, they're just looking for their real life zombie apocalypse. Those of us who came before, we were happy to find some real life drama and story arcs, but they want their damn zombie apocalypse.

So the media are just trying to deliver. It's how we've gotten Global Warming Climate Change, and Covid-19, and Trump, and The Return of Socialism. Not their existence, but their ZOMG EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ALL PEOPLEKIND.

Heh. That's how I view it.



* one huge caveat: we gotta play the season. If we don't play the games because of covid or any other zombie apocalypse, I'm not giving you my house. :)
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Interesting take. I'm technically a millennial (born in 85) but raised as a gen x. I grew up riding my bike around the neighborhood, catching frogs, made calls on a corded phone, didn't know if your friend was home unless you stopped by, and can remember when TN was good lol. So, I'm searching for that story when we go out and beat USCjr's a$$!😉
 
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#95
#95
I don’t think any judgements can be made on this year. That said, we are in for a long year if we lose week 1.
 
#96
#96
BP4Prez said:
I don’t think any judgements can be made on this year. That said, we are in for a long year if we lose week 1.
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Why? Started 0-2 last year and finished right where we expected. One game is just one game and this is hardly more than a coinflip at a 3 point spread.
 
#97
#97
If we lose to SC that will be at least 2 we lose because the gators and the Volgators have already informed us that we are an automatic win to them. Evidently they know it and "we" know it.

*"WE" = Volgators
 
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Behr said:
If we lose to SC that will be at least 2 we lose because the gators and the Volgators have already informed us that we are an automatic win to them. Evidently they know it and "we" know it.

*"WE" = Volgators
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Volgators. Spurted coffee out my nose at that one. Thanks, buddy. :)
 
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