Our scheduling bad luck

#28
#28
stolitonic said:
Sigh.

I miss the pre-92 days. You just played everyone else in the league. Simple. You knew exactly who was on your schedule the next year as well, you played the same teams. No whining about scheduling and assorted other crap. Win or lose, but no crying.

At this point-to hell with it. 18 game schedule for the regular season. Play all 15 teams in the league and 3 OOC games. These guys wanna act and get paid like pros-let them earn it

Might as well get some use out of the "entertainment district" as well

Get to work Stinky (Sankey). I wanna see YOU pressure the B10 on this one. You allowed them to bully you into a 9 game SEC schedule so now you have to redeem yourself
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We didn't play every SEC team pre 92. I think we rotated home and away with FL, LSU, MS, and GA. I'm not positive though.
 
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ChadwicksFumble said:
We didn't play everyone pre 92. I think we rotated with FL, LSU, and GA. I'm not positive though.
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We played Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Vandy every year. Played home and home for the 6th game on a rotating basis. So basically, we’d play LSU, Miss St. UGA and Florida every 6 or 7 years.
 
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dduncan4163 said:
Typical TN luck to lose Florida as an annual rival the moment we finally get a streak going. We've beaten 3 out of the last 4 years and we would have pounded them in Neyland this year.

It doesn't seem right not having them on the schedule. It's the game I want the most each and every year.
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Florida also stayed relevant several mediocre years by beating us. They won’t have that to fall back on if they have a bad year. Good riddance. Let them, LSU, and Georgia beat each other senseless for a few years while we whip up on some struggling teams who don’t have a psychological edge on us.
 
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IfDickeyStayed said:
Has any other SEC team had worse luck with their scheduling than Tennessee? We have been put in situations where we play each SEC team at its all-time best, and then they rotate off our schedule when they get bad. The best case in point is Florida, but it goes deeper than that. Look at the following list:

Alabama
Played Bama every year of the Wallace Wade era
Played Bama every year of the Bear Bryant era
Played Bama every year of the Frank Thomas era
Played Bama every year of the Nick Saban era
Played Bama every year of the Gene Stallings era

Auburn
Played Auburn every year of the Pat Dye era
Played Auburn every year of the Shug Jordan era

Florida
Played Florida every year of the Steve Spurrier era
Played Florida every year of the Urban Meyer era

Georgia
Played UGA every year of Kirby Smart's era
Played UGA every year of the Mark Rhict era

Kentucky
Played UK every year of the Bear Bryant era
Played UK every year of the Mark Stoops era

Vandy
Played Vandy every year of the Dan McGugin era

Ole Miss
Played Ole Miss every year of the Johnny Vaught era

South Carolina
Played Carolina every year of the Steve Spurrier era

The only well-known SEC coach that we firmly dodged was Vince Dooley, and he cursed us with his son. I, for one, am happy to not be playing UGA anymore. We have done our time being the game for each of the well-known SEC coaches. This list probably keeps us from winning at least 4 more SEC titles.
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This is just......idk...... stupid
 
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IfDickeyStayed said:
Has any other SEC team had worse luck with their scheduling than Tennessee? We have been put in situations where we play each SEC team at its all-time best, and then they rotate off our schedule when they get bad. The best case in point is Florida, but it goes deeper than that. Look at the following list:

Alabama
Played Bama every year of the Wallace Wade era
Played Bama every year of the Bear Bryant era
Played Bama every year of the Frank Thomas era
Played Bama every year of the Nick Saban era
Played Bama every year of the Gene Stallings era

Auburn
Played Auburn every year of the Pat Dye era
Played Auburn every year of the Shug Jordan era

Florida
Played Florida every year of the Steve Spurrier era
Played Florida every year of the Urban Meyer era

Georgia
Played UGA every year of Kirby Smart's era
Played UGA every year of the Mark Rhict era

Kentucky
Played UK every year of the Bear Bryant era
Played UK every year of the Mark Stoops era

Vandy
Played Vandy every year of the Dan McGugin era

Ole Miss
Played Ole Miss every year of the Johnny Vaught era

South Carolina
Played Carolina every year of the Steve Spurrier era

The only well-known SEC coach that we firmly dodged was Vince Dooley, and he cursed us with his son. I, for one, am happy to not be playing UGA anymore. We have done our time being the game for each of the well-known SEC coaches. This list probably keeps us from winning at least 4 more SEC titles.
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Slow news day. Get some fresh air and go for a walk.
 
#36
#36
VolinMichigan said:
I’m not going to sit here and complain about past schedules. Some of y’all need to always have something to complain about. It must be exhausting.
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Why even take the time to respond to an offseason thread on a Tennessee forum about Tennessee history? The irony is that your post is just another form of complaining, but you are apparently too clueless to pick up on that
 
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ChadwicksFumble said:
We didn't play every SEC team pre 92. I think we rotated home and away with FL, LSU, MS, and GA. I'm not positive though.
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Played 6 every year. 5 every year and 4 rotated. We wouldn't see UGA and UF for six years at a time. Same with LSU and MSU. Others we played every year. Biggest rivals were Alabama and Auburn
 
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GAVol said:
We played Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Vandy every year. Played home and home for the 6th game on a rotating basis. So basically, we’d play LSU, Miss St. UGA and Florida every 6 or 7 years.
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Pre-1988, that's correct. Beginning in '88, a 7th conference game was added where UT played UGA & LSU ('88 & '89) in addition to the "regular" 5. Then in '90 & '91, Miss St. & UF were on the schedule.
 
#41
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Rickyvol77 said:
Bear Bryant coached at UK too genius and was better
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Oh really what gave it away? Was it the fact I put it in the OP or the fact that everyone knows Bear coached at UK. Anyone who thinks Bear is UK's all-time greatest coach because of some years in the 1940s vs Stoops in modern times coaching through the hardest the SEC has ever been is a fool.
 
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IfDickeyStayed said:
Oh really what gave it away? Was it the fact I put it in the OP or the fact that everyone knows Bear coached at UK. Anyone who thinks Bear is UK's all-time greatest coach because of some years in the 1940s vs Stoops in modern times coaching through the hardest the SEC has ever been is a fool.
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So you are saying bear winning a SEC title and claimed NC at UK is not as good as Stoops having a sub .500 record ?
 
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