Josh Pate eats crow about the Vols (and other teams)

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His biggest mistake was falling for Bama and picking them as National Champions after doing the exact same thing last year and looking ridiculous for it.

He did knock Tennessee a bit, but don't blame him. It's still early, but Aguilar looked better than what the national media expected. Also the OLine looked strong and the run game didn't lose a step. So props to him for correcting after the performance.
 
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The only crow to eat about the vols is the inconsistency in saying "Tenn has lots of questions, despite having a great defense and run game they will be average... these teams have lots of questions but I think theyll be great anyway!"
 
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Here's a bonus from Pate -- today he released revised rankings, based on what we saw in weekend 1.

He pegs us at #13. To get you there quickly: he talks about the Vols for exactly 1 minute, starting at 7:45.



Go Vols!


p.s. Oh, and a bonus: he leaves Alabama entirely out of it. lol.
 
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Carp said:
No one is gonna be 100% on their takes. But it's really surprising he was this wrong and on several big schools.

If you thought Nico was some sort of impossible loss, you simply didn't watch him 2024.
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His guesses aren’t surprising to me anymore. He purposely toes the line of “outlandish” to generate buzz. He picks trivial qualities that he imagines in certain coaches and players, same as most sports personalities.

Last year he picked A&M and Florida to make it over the hump because Mike Elko is “very cerebral” and Billy Napier is “organized”. We saw how that turned out.
 
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adam.vol said:
His guesses aren’t surprising to me anymore. He purposely toes the line of “outlandish” to generate buzz. He picks trivial qualities that he imagines in certain coaches and players, same as most sports personalities.

Last year he picked A&M and Florida to make it over the hump because Mike Elko is “very cerebral” and Billy Napier is “organized”. We saw how that turned out.
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Picking Alabama to win it all isn't outlandish.
 
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I enjoy his show. It's not something I go out of my way to watch though.

He does bring a lot of information about other conferences that I wouldn't learn about otherwise. I don't mind his poll segments. And I do like that he often goes against what other polls say.


He's an entertainer, and I view his show as such.
 
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Jaxon_Vol2017 said:
Picking Alabama to win it all isn't outlandish.
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I haven’t seen anything from Alabama to indicate they won’t lose 4 games again this year. If they win it, please share what you saw in Bama that marked the turnaround. Same for LSU if you believe in them too.
 
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RockyTop140 said:
Pate was saying all offseason that showing Nico the door might’ve felt good at the time, but on a Fall Saturday against a rival we wouldn’t be so proud anymore. He fell into the same trap that many others in the media did. Gave Nico too much credit
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I don't know what games he watched in 2024, that gave him the remote idea that Nico was the determining factor for offensive success or not.
 
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Maybe I’m naive (hopefully) but all the pundits,fans etc making dire seasonal re-predictions after one week of football seems a bit over reactionary IMO. Just about any program, as a general rule, can overcome one loss (exceptions understood) and there’s still a lot of talented teams sitting in the green room this week waiting to come onto the set IMO.
 
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Jaxon_Vol2017 said:
I've watched him since he started. Never gave me that vibe, at all. Its weird to me that some people hate on others who find success.
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I don’t think it’s hateful to say you’re full of yourself when you call yourself the self-proclaimed commissioner of college football.

Hey I remember when he was at 20K subscribers and giving good info about Tennessee’s 2021 coaching search. It’s impressive how he’s build his base. He also thinks he’s the ****. Which is fine
 
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tennrich1 said:
Maybe I’m naive (hopefully) but all the pundits,fans etc making dire seasonal re-predictions after one week of football seems a bit over reactionary IMO. Just about any program, as a general rule, can overcome one loss (exceptions understood) and there’s still a lot of talented teams sitting in the green room this week waiting to come onto the set IMO.
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Idk how “dire” any of that was. Seemed very reasonable and wait and see to me
 
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This is what should scare our opponents:

He gave extremely high praise to our o-line and defense. Can you imagine how these two units will play when healthy? Both units were hobbled for the Syracuse game.
 
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Jaxon_Vol2017 said:
I've watched him since he started. Never gave me that vibe, at all. Its weird to me that some people hate on others who find success.
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Yeah, a lot of the show is the long running jokes. I'm starting to think some people take him seriously when he says things like he wants all of the credit and none of the blame. I think it's mostly people who just see clips and don't actually watch the show.
 
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