Rain in the Forecast for Saturday....thoughts?

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35% chance of showers, wind should not be a factor-temperature great for fall football, so are we better in the dry or on a wet field. Our secondary is struggling as it is...I was taught that offense had the advantage on a wet field. Your thoughts? Go Vols! Beat Kentucky!
 
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87&91ALUM said:
35% chance of showers, wind should not be a factor-temperature great for fall football, so are we better in the dry or on a wet field. Our secondary is struggling as it is...I was taught that offense had the advantage on a wet field. Your thoughts? Go Vols! Beat Kentucky!
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I agree that offense has the advantage on a wet field. We could leave the dbs sitting in a mud puddle if it's coming down . I can't imagine that it wouldn't help us tremendously.
 
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I foresee...merger for this thread.


p.s. Will probably NOT be raining at game time, just 10% to 25% chance in those hours of the day.
 
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Rain usually slows down passing game she helps running game. I think Of Jerome Bettis w the Steelers during games in rain.
However, I recall Florida’s Danny Weurfel lighting us up and TN fumbled the center to QB exchange.
We stop the run and a Win is prevalent imo.
 
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Rain I would think favors Kentucky honestly. Would slow our passing attack, and help their strong running game.
Either way…WGWTFA
 
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vol94 said:
Rain usually slows down passing game she helps running game. I think Of Jerome Bettis w the Steelers during games in rain.
However, I recall Florida’s Danny Weurfel lighting us up and TN fumbled the center to QB exchange.
We stop the run and a Win is prevalent imo.
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that was Rex Grossman & Clausen had like 7 fumbled exchanges from center
 
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I have said for weeks poor weather would be Kentucky best chance if the cold rain mucks up the game. Conventional wisdom tells you if raining a sound running game is an advantage. However with our super fast offense dbs make mistakes from getting out of place. I imagine in a pouring rain they will still make those same mistakes and have less tolerance for a cutting zigging and sagging wide receiver over and over and over. It only takes a couple mistakes and its 6. Also Typically wet balls you dont want the passing game as much as running. However hanging onto the ball in traffic is difficult with a wet ball. However Heupel draws up repeatedly wide open receivers which limits the drops that slip into the defenders hands.

All of that yet I still would prefer good weather more for fans sakes at Neyland than the players. The players will be fine either way although a night game in rain will be cold. The fans need to have Neyland at capacity and Loud and sometimes a rainy day scares off a few thousand.
 
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vol94 said:
I was at that game too. Ugh. I was 0-6 Vs Florida watching In person. It took this yr for my 30 yr streak to end. 😆
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You know what? Something just occurred to me, speaking of streaks. I was at Vandy game in 2005 when they broke the losing streak to us. as at 2002 Bama when they broke the streak to us. I was at UGA in Athens when they broke the streak to us. am sensing a pattern. Never thought about this before. One thing is for sure, I have never attended a game in which we lost to Kentucky. They can never take that from me.
 
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35% isn't exactly a monsoon...plus it'll probably be later at night anyways since Sunday is the big rain day.
 
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OrangeInKy said:
You know what? Something just occurred to me, speaking of streaks. I was at Vandy game in 2005 when they broke the losing streak to us. as at 2002 Bama when they broke the streak to us. I was at UGA in Athens when they broke the streak to us. am sensing a pattern. Never thought about this before. One thing is for sure, I have never attended a game in which we lost to Kentucky. They can never take that from me.
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You may not want to go the game Saturday, 😆 just kidding. I’ve never see us lose to KY in person and attended many games since 1992. The craziest one was 2007. I was in Lexington and thingy for sure the game was over but their kicker missed a field goal. I can’t recall if TN blocked it but TN won in overtime (can’t recall how many). Of course I saw us lose to LSU in SEC title game. Also I was in Atlanta in 2001 Vs LSU. My son was four in 2007 but he got to witness the TN beat down @ LSU. He is a sophomore so happy he and other students are witnessing the best TN football team in their lifetimes.
I just hope the ride continues and we are able to run the table. It’s a difficult journey but it sure would be nice. I truly think the university and fans deserve it. Every school has rabid fans, including Nebraska, FL State, Miami, UGA, FL, Bama, etc. But we’ve been through so much and haven’t done “Jack” since 2001. Yet the TN fan base supports every sport as we love our Vols and hungry for success. Look at our baseball program and the sellouts. Hoover was incredible.

I truly believe the TN faithful would attend a curling match if we had a team and were in the championship. 😝

Go Vols!
 
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Haha. I’m staying away Saturday.
I was in Commonwealth for the 2001 game in which UK went up 21. I took a picture of the scoreboard with my disposable camera (because it was 2001) because I know it wouldn’t last. I have it framed with ticket stubbs. So, I took the picture mainly because a UK fan started barking at me “you’re not singing Rocky Top now are you *****?” I snapped a pic of the scoreboard and told him I send it to him because it won’t last and he would want proof one day. Surely enough, UK choked. One of my most proud moments was that reply to that dork.
 
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In the hills of TN (especially during the Fall/Winter) you can get all four season plus rain most days. Even when the forecast DOESN'T call for it. So I wouldnt put too much stock in the weather (either way) 3-5 days out. Plus our guys train in it. We'll be fine
 
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