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Early SEC East outlook

Tony Barnhart, a college football writer I can actually stomach, is back writing again for the upcoming season.

He is actually the first writer I have read that kind of shrugs off the fact that Tennessee has no proven recievers.

Tony Barnhart always a good read. At least for me.
 
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3-What does Tennessee have to do to win its first SEC championship since 1998? Everybody is talking about replacing receivers Robert Meachen, Jayson Swain, and Bret Smith, who combined for 159 catches last season. But Tennessee will always find receivers. The offense, in its second year under David Cutcliffe, will be very good. The improvement has to come on the defensive side of the ball where the Volunteers finished eighth in every defensive category that matters. And here is the stat that should shock you, Volunteer fans. Tennessee’s defense gave up 4.1 yards PER RUSH last season and was still basically two plays away from winning 11 games.

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Tony Barnhart is the college football equivalent of Newsweek's "conventional wisdom watch" box. You will get no profound analysis or insight from him, but if you want to know what the prevailing sportswriters' opinions are, he's as good a vanilla, middle-of-the-road barometer as any. Some will find that interesting to know; others will regard it as totally useless.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Tony Barnhardt=Fat, clueless redneck rube.
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Having met the guy I can tell you that he's very personable, intelligent and professional; not a redneck . . . but he is fat.

Vercingetorix said:
Tony Barnhart is the college football equivalent of Newsweek's "conventional wisdom watch" box. You will get no profound analysis or insight from him, but if you want to know what the prevailing sportswriters' opinions are, he's as good a vanilla, middle-of-the-road barometer as any. Some will find that interesting to know; others will regard it as totally useless.
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A perfect assessment.
 
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I would agree with his thoughts on Tennessee. Im not the least bit worried about our receivers with Trooper being their coach. I like everyone else know the ? is our Defense, but again I have complete confidance in Chavis.
 
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Business said:
Early SEC East outlook

Tony Barnhart, a college football writer I can actually stomach, is back writing again for the upcoming season.

He is actually the first writer I have read that kind of shrugs off the fact that Tennessee has no proven recievers.

Tony Barnhart always a good read. At least for me.
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Thx for the article links !
 
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SWIL said:
3-What does Tennessee have to do to win its first SEC championship since 1998? Everybody is talking about replacing receivers Robert Meachen, Jayson Swain, and Bret Smith, who combined for 159 catches last season. But Tennessee will always find receivers. The offense, in its second year under David Cutcliffe, will be very good. The improvement has to come on the defensive side of the ball where the Volunteers finished eighth in every defensive category that matters. And here is the stat that should shock you, Volunteer fans. Tennessee’s defense gave up 4.1 yards PER RUSH last season and was still basically two plays away from winning 11 games.

:banghead2:
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He's a shill for Fulmer I guess. Can't think of any other reason someone would use the "2 plays from" line.
 
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TheDeeble said:
He's a shill for Fulmer I guess. Can't think of any other reason someone would use the "2 plays from" line.
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Give me a break. He could care less about being a shill for Fulmer. What he's pointing out is how unbelievable it is to have such a porous run defense and get away with it to the degree that we did last year.
 
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GAVol said:
Give me a break. He could care less about being a shill for Fulmer. What he's pointing out is how unbelievable it is to have such a porous run defense and get away with it.
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I don't think we got away with anything. Our porous run defense got killed against Florida, LSU, Arkansas, and Penn St.

If one can say were two plays from winning 11, they can also say we were also 2 plays from winning 7.
 
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TheDeeble said:
I don't think we got away with anything. Our porous run defense got killed against Florida, LSU, Arkansas, and Penn St.
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That's the whole point . . . He's saying that even as bad as the run defense was there amazingly were legitimate chances to win against LSU and Florida. It's not the typical "we were 2 plays away so we're better than our record" argument. It's the "Good Lord that defense was bad but you still almost stole a couple of games" argument.

If anything, he's saying that we were as "bad" as our 4 loss record indicated.
 
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GAVol said:
That's the whole point . . . He's saying that even as bad as the run defense was there amazingly were legitimate chances to win against LSU and Florida. It's not the typical "we were 2 plays away so we're better than our record" argument. It's the "Good Lord that defense was bad but you still almost stole a couple of games" argument.

If anything, he's saying that we were as "bad" as our 4 loss record indicated.
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Adding to yours and Barnhart's argument: Crompton was QB'ing one of those games.
 
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GAVol said:
That's the whole point . . . He's saying that even as bad as the run defense was there amazingly were legitimate chances to win against LSU and Florida. It's not the typical "we were 2 plays away so we're better than our record" argument. It's the "Good Lord that defense was bad but you still almost stole a couple of games" argument.

If anything, he's saying that we were as "bad" as our 4 loss record indicated.
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And that's where he went wrong ...
 
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GAVol said:
Having met the guy I can tell you that he's very personable, intelligent and professional; not a redneck . . . but he is fat.



A perfect assessment.
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Be sure and alert me when the AJC's version of Jabba The Hut has his first original or creative thought. That is one of the signs of th Apocalypse. He does nothing but plant his cranium comfortably up the rectums of all the SEC coaches and print coach defending pablum. He's a disgrace to journalism.
 
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GAVol said:
Give me a break. He could care less about being a shill for Fulmer. What he's pointing out is how unbelievable it is to have such a porous run defense and get away with it to the degree that we did last year.
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Barnyard is a coach slurping dolt.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Be sure and alert me when the AJC's version of Jabba The Hut has his first original or creative thought. That is one of the signs of th Apocalypse. He does nothing but plant his cranium comfortably up the rectums of all the SEC coaches and print coach defending pablum. He's a disgrace to journalism.
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Who, in your opinion, does College Football Journalism justice?
 
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