North Carolina Buyout??

Do you agree with MH's/DD's decision to request out of the UNC/UT game?

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#626
#626
I read on another site, that this could also be a case of retribution. Hammy and Pearl were trying to schedule a home and home series in basketball with UNC, but UNC said no.
 
#627
#627
gainesvol82 said:
Not at all. Family is off-limits and that was completely classless even if he was trying to make a point about generaliztions.
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Your mom just asked me to tell you to pay attention to the whole conversation next time before you rush in and start making kneejerk posts about it.
 
#628
#628
wow, this is a first for me ....
just take the beating, would not be near as embarrassing as paying a team to back out and run away
 
#629
#629
OMG LOUD NOISES!!!!!!!!! I R THA ANGRIEZ!!!!!!!!!!! ARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!1

This is a good one, keep it going :)
 
#630
#630
Why doesn't UT schedule a home and home with MTSU? The payout with a return game to Murfreesboro would probably be about 200,000 both ways. MTSU and the Vols Could probably work out something with the Greater Nashvile Sports Authority for a "road" game at Titan stadium, A la Wyoming several years ago. Makes more sense to keep the money in state as opposed paying 750,000+ to a Mac or other Sunbelt team. Of course, Hamilton maybe fearful of the long term effect a loss to the Blue would have on his long term job prospects!
 
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Legal blue said:
Why doesn't UT schedule a home and home with MTSU? The payout with a return game to Murfreesboro would probably be about 200,000 both ways. MTSU and the Vols Could probably work out something with the Greater Nashvile Sports Authority for a "road" game at Titan stadium, A la Wyoming several years ago. Makes more sense to keep the money in state as opposed paying 750,000+ to a Mac or other Sunbelt team. Of course, Hamilton maybe fearful of the long term effect a loss to the Blue would have on his long term job prospects!
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Not sure vols fans would travel to Murfreesboro and Nashville in a year to see us play those guys.
 
#632
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Velo Vol said:
I never thought I'd see the day that we ran from playing North freaking Carolina.

It boggles the mind.

RIP Tennessee Football
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If this is all it takes to boggle your mind, I'd hate to be around you if something remotely significant occurred.
 
#633
#633
Legal blue said:
Why doesn't UT schedule a home and home with MTSU? The payout with a return game to Murfreesboro would probably be about 200,000 both ways. MTSU and the Vols Could probably work out something with the Greater Nashvile Sports Authority for a "road" game at Titan stadium, A la Wyoming several years ago. Makes more sense to keep the money in state as opposed paying 750,000+ to a Mac or other Sunbelt team. Of course, Hamilton maybe fearful of the long term effect a loss to the Blue would have on his long term job prospects!
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Because we make 3.5 million or so from a home game before television is factored in.
 
#634
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bigorange#1 said:
Blah blah blah....hamilton is the worst!
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I doubt he's the worst but honestly... I could care less about him.

While not what most of us would have liked, dropping this game will contribute to rebuilding UT football. And THIS.... I do care about.
 
#636
#636
This is pathetic. So what if the schedule is tough. I am a Vol but we should man up and play. This is an embarrassment to all of Volnation. This WILL get press if/when TN is in consideration for postseason games and rankings. Despite what some of you think, this will not be forgotten by fans of college football.
 
#637
#637
Tennessee AD Mike Hamilton told ESPN.com's Joe Schad that the Volunteers wanted to lighten their schedule.

"I would love to play North Carolina and we wish we could play this series. But in looking at our 2011 schedule, it's tough," Hamilton said. "We're playing this fall with 71 or 72 guys on scholarship and we want to get our program back to where we need to be. We wanted to lighten up the load a bit."


Well looks like its time for me to move up North and root for Canadian Bacons of CFL!
 NC lost five games last year in a weak ACC. In our third year of rebuilding, if the NC game ain't a win next year then tar & feather Hammy & Dooley.
 
#639
#639
To Hammy's defense, he did ask NC to reschedule later. But they refused to move it to later in the decade. So, it's not like we got scared and ran. I mean, if you call us scared, then they are too because they knew we'd be back up in a few years, and didn't want to schedule us then. But Hammy is right, next year's schedule is going to be brutal enough. Cincy won't be a pushover by any means.
 
#640
#640
I heard the word on Cumberland Ave. is Hamilton already initiated the yearly Florida and possibly Alabama buyout as well.
 
#642
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TNHopeful505 said:
To Hammy's defense, he did ask NC to reschedule later. But they refused to move it to later in the decade. So, it's not like we got scared and ran. I mean, if you call us scared, then they are too because they knew we'd be back up in a few years, and didn't want to schedule us then. But Hammy is right, next year's schedule is going to be brutal enough. Cincy won't be a pushover by any means.
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Wrong, Cincy is a PUSHOVER. You saw what happened against FL this year, and that Cincy team was their best ever. I think that was like only their second 10 win season in last 100 years. We already have games against Montana, Middle Tennessee, Vandy, and KY that are not fit for TV. WE NEED PRIME TV TIME in order to land recruits. Maybe Hammy needs Saban to schedule our games, Nick had the perfect recruiting tool by playing big games but winnable games against VT and Clemson early on the last two years.

* I looked this up on Rivals. They have Cincy listed with a total of TWO four star players from the years 2006-2009. And those two are Freshman this year.
 
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#643
#643
vols-1 said:
Wrong, Cincy is a PUSHOVER. You saw what happened against FL this year, and that Cincy team was their best ever. I think that was like only their second 10 win season in last 100 years. We already have games against Montana, Middle Tennessee, Vandy, and KY that are not fit for TV. WE NEED PRIME TV TIME in order to land recruits. Maybe Hammy needs Saban to schedule our games, Nick had the perfect recruiting tool by playing big games but winnable games against VT and Clemson early on the last two years.

* I looked this up on Rivals. They have Cincy listed with a total of TWO four star players from the years 2006-2009. And those two are Freshman this year.
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That just goes to show that stars don't mean everything. are they in the mix for a NC every year? nope and never will be but the fact they have done what they have in those years without any 4 or 5 star recruits should be pretty impressive to all the people who believe that the number of stars your recruits have directly effects how good your team will be 100% of the time.

Having highly ranked classes/recruits is one thing winning games is another. Some coaches seem to be able to win with less others lose with an embarrassment of riches. End of day it does not matter. Either we play them or not and until there is a final word what we say in this thread makes no difference.
 
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#644
pimo1 said:
That just goes to show that stars don't mean everything. are they in the mix for a NC every year? nope and never will be but the fact they have done what they have in those years without any 4 or 5 star recruits should be pretty impressive to all the people who believe that the number of stars your recruits have directly effects how good your team will be 100% of the time.

Having highly ranked classes/recruits is one thing winning games is another. Some coaches seem to be able to win with less others lose with an embarrassment of riches. End of day it does not matter. Either we play them or not and until there is a final word what we say in this thread makes no difference.
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If stars don't indicate talent then why did Oklahoma and Florida put up over 50 points on Cincy the last two years? And those points were in the first three quarters! Cincy is not even close to competing with teams that aren't middle of road teams.
 
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#645
jwells said:
Not sure vols fans would travel to Murfreesboro and Nashville in a year to see us play those guys.
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Many Vol fans wouldn't have to travel if the game were put in Nashville. I'd think a series with the MTSU home game at a "neutral" LP Field with money split 50/50 would draw pretty well. Have the UT home game at Neyland. That said, I'd rather not venture down that path. We are not a charity put here to help boost up a program like MTSU to previously unseen levels of success by giving them local and national exposure. I'll take an uneventful win over them at Neyland and see them again in about eight years.
 
#646
#646
Well UNC will definitely use this in recruiting to their benefit. That is bad when you're trying to rebuild a program.
 
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Cartervol said:
Well UNC will definitely use this in recruiting to their benefit. That is bad when you're trying to rebuild a program.
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I'm still waiting for a good explanation on how the possibility of UNC using this against us with a few recruits will hurt more than playing the game, and them simply embarrasing us on the field 2 years in a row. I think this was a great move by Hamilton, and am glad to see him and DD wising up to the fact that no other teams in the SEC play these impossible OOC schedules, so there's no reason we should either. It only puts us at a further disadvantage because clearly the SEC schedule is tough enough as it is.
 
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#650
bleedorange0037 said:
I'm still waiting for a good explanation on how the possibility of UNC using this against us with a few recruits will hurt more than playing the game, and them simply embarrasing us on the field 2 years in a row. I think this was a great move by Hamilton, and am glad to see him and DD wising up to the fact that no other teams in the SEC play these impossible OOC schedules, so there's no reason we should either. It only puts us at a further disadvantage because clearly the SEC schedule is tough enough as it is.
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Cincy sucks, try again.
 
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