Is anybody else miffed.....

#28
#28
I'm not worried about it. Just win and the rest will take care of itself!
 
#29
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lawgator1 said:
I think you are getting the narrative wrong. Because UGA and UF remain relatively down, and UT is one of the most experienced teams in the country, the sensible thing to do is make them the favorite to win the East.

But in the last decade you've become everyone's favorite whipping boy. The classic underachiever story, year in and year out. So on any given show one guy can tout the UT experience numbers and the fact that UGA has a new coach and UF's offense is unknown, and promote you. Then the other guy can go back to the party line about underachieving.

That way, one of them is right, and in four months or so can brag about it and either hype you more, or bash you more, as the case may be. Its win-win for the sports media.
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This I get but what I don't get is how was Tennessee favored to win the east in the years before that.. I hear the Jawja and Fla fans running their mouths bout this.. Which it isn't true.. Jawja are the great underachievers not Tennessee..
 
#31
#31
I'm immune to it. ESPN2 Championship Drive just called Michigan, UT, and LSU as the "most overhyped" teams this year.

"I have to see more out of Josh Dobbs and Butch Jones....."

Everybody is saying the same thing, including UT fans.
 
#32
#32
we did look like we folded like a cheap chair. Playing to 'not lose' and not to win. I hope it was a depth issue and not a Fulmer issue.
 
#33
#33
Team 120 is not Team 119. This is true for everyone else as well. This is the time of year that college football fans who follow their team closely get hyped about the upcoming season. Each one knows his team better than any other fan base knows his team. For pundits, they seem to largely base the upcoming year on what happened last year despite the fact the dynamics of a team is different from experience brought forth, new players in the mix, and coaching changes.

Of course, no one knows what is going to happen. Personally, I think Team 120 can be like Team 102 (1998) but even it had those 3 very close wins, 2 to start the season and then the arky game that my heart has still not recovered from. Preseason hype was 1997 was the potential National Champion and that turned out to be an SEC championship year and preseason hype for 1998 was that team was going to be good but a bit of a drop off from 1997 but it was the one that achieved the goal.

Bottomline, I am not miffed at what people say pre-season. To me it's like Charlie Brown's teacher, wah, wah, wah, wah. I know what I think I need to know -- excellent talent and what I perceive to be both a team and a head coach and staff with a little bit of a chip on their shoulder. It will be fun to see how Team 120 plays this card out. It seems to me the Vols have a couple of team captains and a number of other Vols who are sounding like Michael Phelps on that 4x100 relay last night. He remembered what it was like to lose to France in 2012 and he was going to do all he could to keep that from happening again. Team 119 had four of those to funnel into positive energy and execution on the field, that extra inch, that 63 effort, those 25 points. All the games are circled on the calendar and no one is more important than the next one.

See you in Knoxville three weeks from Thursday for the next one.
 
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rockymountainvol said:
...about ESPN and other news outlets basing our close losses in the 2015 season as reasons why we wont be successful in 2016? ESPN and SEC Network ran this hype train before the start of last season, then chided VOLS fans for being on the hype train after losing. I don't get this sense of hypocrisy. The networks basically have their analysts drink the Kool-Aid, then once something goes wrong, that team sucks. Except for Michigan. Michigan could go winless and still be the media's darlings.
I personally think #120 will be more focused. Both Florida and Alabama players have given this team enough bulletin board material to go lay 50 on each, but I know this game is as mental as it is physical.
I am just tired of reading the We Love Tennessee....But blogs.
I know, win and everyone is silenced.
SIAP, but I am in venting mode.
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See above. I agree. Why do you think that is?
 
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rockymountainvol said:
...about ESPN and other news outlets basing our close losses in the 2015 season as reasons why we wont be successful in 2016? ESPN and SEC Network ran this hype train before the start of last season, then chided VOLS fans for being on the hype train after losing. I don't get this sense of hypocrisy. The networks basically have their analysts drink the Kool-Aid, then once something goes wrong, that team sucks. Except for Michigan. Michigan could go winless and still be the media's darlings.
I personally think #120 will be more focused. Both Florida and Alabama players have given this team enough bulletin board material to go lay 50 on each, but I know this game is as mental as it is physical.
I am just tired of reading the We Love Tennessee....But blogs.
I know, win and everyone is silenced.
SIAP, but I am in venting mode.
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You are getting riled about the shifting opinions of, for lack of a better term, drama queens. And if the sports world is in a sense a monarchy, this makes you a drama serf, subject, or peon.

Now, go out there and join the other worry warts in straddling the electric fence. I will have the power source hooked up in a few seconds. The damn ground pulled loose again......
 
#36
#36
All this means is every little things Butch does or doesn't do is going to be ran through with a fine tooth comb.

Keeping us in the news trying to break the focus of team 120
 
#37
#37
no...i don't care. let's just play some football and see what happens. i actually want no coverage right now.
 
#39
#39
Having watched football for nearly 40 years, I can tell you the major networks have ALWAYS seen the Big-10 and PAC-10 as THE conferences even though the SEC has recently won national titles 6 years in a row. They think of the SEC as sunburned rednecks drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon in a rusty pick-up truck. They're biased - pure and simple.......and don't think this is the ONLY area they're biased.
 
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HoptownVol said:
I'm immune to it. ESPN2 Championship Drive just called Michigan, UT, and LSU as the "most overhyped" teams this year.

"I have to see more out of Josh Dobbs and Butch Jones....."

Everybody is saying the same thing, including UT fans.
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In starting to think UT is so overrated, theyre actually underrated. 😵
 
#43
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rockymountainvol said:
...about ESPN and other news outlets basing our close losses in the 2015 season as reasons why we wont be successful in 2016? ESPN and SEC Network ran this hype train before the start of last season, then chided VOLS fans for being on the hype train after losing. I don't get this sense of hypocrisy. The networks basically have their analysts drink the Kool-Aid, then once something goes wrong, that team sucks. Except for Michigan. Michigan could go winless and still be the media's darlings.
I personally think #120 will be more focused. Both Florida and Alabama players have given this team enough bulletin board material to go lay 50 on each, but I know this game is as mental as it is physical.
I am just tired of reading the We Love Tennessee....But blogs.
I know, win and everyone is silenced.
SIAP, but I am in venting mode.
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Wait, so you don't understand the Michigan hype? You don't see why a team that went 5-7, got a new proven head coach, then went 10-3 capped off by schlacking the UF defense is hyped? Let's compare that to UT who went 5-7, got a new head coach, then went 5-7 including a loss to Vandy. In 3 years Butch still hasn't gotten to 10 wins or beaten UF.
 
#44
#44
We have a coaching staff that hasn't proven they can win week in and week out at this level yet. There. No sugar coat. Win the east a couple years in a row, or better a couple of championships, or take an NFL team to playoffs-super bowl and ESPN might start worshipping the ground you walk on. Who cares honestly.
 
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#45
I don't pay a lot of attention to the talking heads. This season there are a few factors in our favor the media has in my opinion not fully accounted for : an upgrade in coaching with two new assistants and an OC who seemed to knock the rust off after a few games last season, a return of not only a large number of starters but a return of skilled starters, a favorable schedule with UF and Ala at home ( the bye week is not as favorable as last year) maybe a healthy receiving corps, and improved depth across the board. I think the fan base consensus would be more accurate than a numerically smaller number of media analysts ( See the Law of Large Numbers Theorem). Last year the fan base seemed to decide on a 7-5 or 8 -4 season. I can't divine what the consensus is this season but it seems to be 10-2 or 11-1. In any case I anxiously anticipate good things this season. I think our losses last year were more a function of lack of depth than anything else. I think the team and the coaches learned a lot last season. Go Vols!!
 
#47
#47
I'm not only miffed. I would go a step further and say I'm ticked. But I couldn't say I'm P.O'd. That would be a little too far.
 
#50
#50
jackaro said:
I am not miffed at all. The first reason being that it is not an unreasonable assumption to think that Butch didn't somehow miraculously learn how to win over the off season. If he has learned how to win the close ones then he needs to prove it on the field. Second, I don't take what a bunch of talking heads on TV say personally. That would lead to a lot of needless anxiety.
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Butch didnt lose or win any of the games last year. The team did. Why some cannot grasp this concept is a mystery to me.
 
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