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droski said:
how about the first game of the season against UAB? if the officials don't give em that call, they don't win.

We play every team, that is a true conference championship. We also play 9 conference games, compared to the SECs 8.
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the SEC champ plays 9 SEC games, and that's all that matters.
droski said:
No i wouldn't. Beyond the tv money there is no upside. We aren't the big-10 or something where you can win the conference without beating Ohio state or Michigan.
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before you go and get all high and mighty about the virtues of the Pac 10 conf. scheduling (which i will give credit for actually taking adv. of the12th game and making it a conf. game) last year was the first year that this round robin actually happened. Prior to then, it was no better or different than what the big 10 tries to pass off as a conf. champion.
 
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#254
The mods have been screwing with me all day. First it was a pink Gator princess avatar, now the "maid." Course it could be even different now.
 
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So, hat, exactly how many more days will you be in Knoxville? By the way, Lg, I ain't buying the excuse that the mods put that avatar in for you....
 
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hatvol96 said:
Yes.
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Hat, on your suggestion to fine, I watched replays of the Wood and the Gotham. I like the tactical speed and the fact that he has more than one run in him. Rare for a 3 year old. Would like to see him get a nice 6-12 post draw and hustle him up into the third flight and then make a move to the front before the turn for home and try to hold off the closers.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
This is really interesting stuff. Mind if I ask what your source was -- the media guide? Maybe there's a PDF online somewhere.

If you take the 98 team out, the numbers are REALLY bad, too. That was A) a great team that was B) also very lucky.
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The source is the UT website. I do not know how to post a link but here is the address. You can copy and paste it in the address bar.

All-Time Results: 2000-Present :: <blank>
 
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Nevermind. It looks like it pasted as a link. Just click on there and it tells you quite a bit of good stuff.
 
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kptvol said:
I saw him this past summer in Knoxville and it admittedly wasn't very good. The other three times I saw him were unreal. I bet if you listened to his Whiskeytown works, you'd appreciate him more. Stranger's Almanac and Pneumonia are really good albums.
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I'm with you on this one rather than Hat. When Adams is on, he's fantastic. The best show I've ever seen live was a Ryan Adams show; the worst show I've seen was also a Ryan Adams show. He was mercurial enough to begin with, but now that he (admittedly) likes to alter his consciousness a lot you just never know what you're going to get. The Knoxville show last year was supposed to be horrible, but less than a week later he played a show down here in Atlanta that was one of the best live shows I've ever seen. I can very easily see why someone who sat through two of his bad concerts (like Hat) would never even want to hear his name again.

A lot of his recorded music is just incandescent. Some of it is crap. I'm partial to his Whiskeytown stuff too, but Heartbreaker is a pretty great record as well.

Some of his best stuff was unreleased -- he recorded two whole albums in between Heartbreaker and Gold that the record company wouldn't let him release. If you're a fan and have never heard them, send me a PM and we'll figure out how to get them to you.
 
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This has been bugging me for awhile and I just can't help myself. What does Vercingetorix mean? Thanks in advance..
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I'm with you on this one rather than Hat. When Adams is on, he's fantastic.
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Ryan Adams has the potential to be one of the best musicians of the modern era. Unfortunately, he has that "Oasis" attitude that doesn't sit well with a good portion of the fan-base. I just don't understand behavior like that from a brilliant songwriter. It's very hypocritical, IMO. I can guarantee you that if I ever chose that route over my current role, I'd be humble and really try to connect with my fans.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Ryan Adams has the potential to be one of the best musicians of the modern era. Unfortunately, he has that "Oasis" attitude that doesn't sit well with a good portion of the fan-base. I just don't understand behavior like that from a brilliant songwriter. It's very hypocritical, IMO. I can guarantee you that if I ever chose that route over my current role, I'd be humble and really try to connect with my fans.
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The Knoxville show last summer was largely the result of some hecklers in the crowd annoying Ryan. He tried to play a few new songs, and the audience seemed entirely disinterested. People were yelling and being rowdy. It was a pretty irritating atmosphere.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Ryan Adams has the potential to be one of the best musicians of the modern era. Unfortunately, he has that "Oasis" attitude that doesn't sit well with a good portion of the fan-base. I just don't understand behavior like that from a brilliant songwriter. It's very hypocritical, IMO. I can guarantee you that if I ever chose that route over my current role, I'd be humble and really try to connect with my fans.
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When you change your route are ya gonna refrain from making references to your new Beamer ragtop? :whistling:
 
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hmanvolfan said:
This has been bugging me for awhile and I just can't help myself. What does Vercingetorix mean? Thanks in advance..
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Vercingetorix was the chief of the Gauls in their (unsuccessful) wars to keep the Romans and Julius Caesar out. I'd like to say that it has some portentous meaning for me, but mostly I've just liked the sound of the name ever since 9th grade Latin class. I made a halfhearted attempt to get the wife to let me name our kid that, at least as a middle name -- Vercingetorix would be a hell of a first name for a strong safety, don't you think?

(The original Vercingetorix is currently pictured to the left.)
 
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It's a hardtop convertible. :) And, I won't be changing my route, barring unforeseen circumstances -- I love what I do. . . .just a "what if." It's one thing to be able to reward yourself for hard work. It's another to define who you are by what you do or own.

As Dave said it best:

Look at me in my fancy car and my bank account. . .
How it all piles up so tall to one big nothing, one big nothing at all.

Keep it real, ya'll.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Vercingetorix was the chief of the Gauls in their (unsuccessful) wars to keep the Romans and Julius Caesar out. I'd like to say that it has some portentous meaning for me, but mostly I've just liked the sound of the name ever since 9th grade Latin class. I made a halfhearted attempt to get the wife to let me name our kid that, at least as a middle name -- Vercingetorix would be a hell of a first name for a strong safety, don't you think?
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I actually heard his name mentioned on the History Channel and had to stop because I recognized it from your screen name. That guy was a serious thorn in Rome's side.
 
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GAVol said:
I actually heard his name mentioned on the History Channel and had to stop because I recognized it from your screen name. That guy was a serious thorn in Rome's side.
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Yeah, he was apparently an enormous pain in the arse to them -- and maybe even younger than 20 years old then, too. Part of that is probably why I always liked the name as well -- there's been a picture of the Tank Guy in Tianenmen over whatever desk I've had since 1989, and Vercingetorix was fighting those same kind of odds a couple thousand years earlier. I'm a sucker for fight-the-power types.
 
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VOL-IN-BIG-ORANGE-COUNTRY said:
The source is the UT website. I do not know how to post a link but here is the address. You can copy and paste it in the address bar.

All-Time Results: 2000-Present :: <blank>
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Thanks for the link -- the way they've got the AP ranking thing in there in such tiny type, I can see why you weren't too sure of your 3 AM work! Still, I'm sure you were close enough to pull out the general trend.

Which, the way I look at the data, is this: by most measures (final rankings, overall W/L record, etc.), Fulmer's record just fell off a shelf about five years ago. UT was at a very high level for the first seven or eight years of his tenure, and then we've been on the low end of the Top 25 since then. But by the W/L record against Top 10 and Top 25 teams....well, it looks pretty consistent to me. (I.e., consistently mediocre, other than one year.) Why then the sudden drop-off in the overall record? Are we suddenly losing to more crappy teams than we used to?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
one year.) Why then the sudden drop-off in the overall record? Are we suddenly losing to more crappy teams than we used to?
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Not suddenly. It started in '96 when we lost our Coalition Bowl bid when we got beat in Memphis in the Liberty Bowl. Only time in 20 games against the Tigers. That's when we started losing to crappy teams. I was there, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it...
 
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