Monte Going back to School

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good read. i'm excited as can be. looks like i'm arriving in knoxville as a freshman at just the right time. this is gonna be good.
 
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"Now, thats a different deal. He didnt get my attention until he said Tennessee." This quote from CMK says it all.
 
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tnman2591 said:
good read. i'm excited as can be. looks like i'm arriving in knoxville as a freshman at just the right time. this is gonna be good.
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I arrived in Knoxville as a freshman last year. I don't think anyone would say it was the right time. Football games were downright depressing when sober. Until the Wyoming game, which was just plain comical. I predicted Crompton would throw an int to a defensive lineman on the first series, and I believe he did it on his first or second pass attempt
 
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wildberry14 said:
I arrived in Knoxville as a freshman last year. I don't think anyone would say it was the right time. Football games were downright depressing when sober. Until the Wyoming game, which was just plain comical. I predicted Crompton would throw an int to a defensive lineman on the first series, and I believe he did it on his first or second pass attempt
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will be great for the Vols--but I'm sure he
will find the college game frustrating, maybe even very frustrating. As he points out in the piece, there are lots of time and practice restrictions at the college level--you can't work with the kids even close to year-round. Beyond that, college kids are young and mistake prone--and while Monte obviously will coach them up a lot, there is a huge difference between coaching a 25 year-old pro player who's been playing LB at a high level (meaning, say, major college and pros) for 7 years as opposed to, say, a 19-year-old freshman or soph who doesn't understand his defensive responsibilities.

There will be times--this fall, probably--when Monte will have to explain why his UT*defense gave up 30 points and lost a game. I just hope those days are rare--and in the end I've no doubt that the new staff will do excellent things for this program. I'm excited--but also trying to be realistic.
 
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wildberry14 said:
I arrived in Knoxville as a freshman last year. I don't think anyone would say it was the right time. Football games were downright depressing when sober. Until the Wyoming game, which was just plain comical. I predicted Crompton would throw an int to a defensive lineman on the first series, and I believe he did it on his first or second pass attempt
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It was Stephens throwing the INTs in the Wyoming game, but you are right, the tailgates were the only good thing about going to the games this year. I would go out to the tailgate and drink up, then endure the horrible sobering reality of the game.
 
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yeah it must have been a discouraging year to be a feshman on campus in knoxville, but hell, look at what we have to look forward to haha.
 
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