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Ashevolle said:
probably fake IDs. Pretty dumb to stop alcohol sales for 100k people because of 3 infractions. Just fine them.
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If it's like when I worked a liquor store the local police and ABC board would team up. It was always a kid who had an ID that they had just turned 20 to confuse whoever is checking. Then comes the "yep, it's my b-day. finally get to have a drink" line. One guy slipped up and the store got a week of no sales and a fine. We held the next kids ID and told him to sit down and called the police. They were there in about 30 seconds after the call. They took him outside gave him his ID back and we called another nearby store in Chatt to let them know what he looked like. 10 minutes later they called to say they had caught him too and the police did the same thing. Literally committing a crime to try to make someone commit a crime.
 
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Rizzo924 said:
The strip is gonna be one long wind tunnel with massive walls along each side. ☹️
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When I was a student at Tennessee, I had to work quite a bit. I was in a fraternity. I seemed to always get there right as the police are arresting one of my fraternity brothers…Two funniest episodes

1. Our President and another frat President were really big guys(6’3” 250+). They were actually breaking up a fight in the Tap Room. They each were holding two guys and pulling them off each other when the police come storming in. The police immediately arrested both Presidents (and no one else). Put them in the mostly full paddy wagon outside. The guys who were fighting even tried to convince the police to arrest them and not the Presidents who were breaking up the fights…to no avail. Both charges were simple assault, I think.
2. The other time was just outside the Tap Room. The Tap Room had two one person bathrooms. We reserved those for the ladies. The guys would go out back to the alley to relieve ourselves (always the gentlemen 😂) One of my frat brothers goes out there and starts to pee on a pile of refuse…wasn’t a bunch of trash. It was an undercover police officer pretending to be homeless (someone had been roughing up the local homeless guys “for fun” and there were police all over the strip that night literally lying in wait). He was arrested for assaulting a police officer and public indecency.

Well, since I always seemed to get off work and arrive at the “scene of the crime”, I literally became the fraternity bail bondsman. I would take up a collection from everyone there and sometimes even have to go back to the frat house for more. The funny thing was that no matter the charge bail was set at $500. I would tally who gave what amount. Then head to the police station. I went there frequently enough that they knew me. Would greet me by name and even get me coffee while I waited. Often, I would get there before my arrested frat brother would. I would hang out with the desk sergeant and then officers waiting. Often our discussions were always about the Vols. After they were charged, the offender would be released to my custody. I was often there longer than the arrested guy. I would tell the duty sergeant who I was waiting on, what their charges were and they would already have the paperwork ready…

Since I was the bail bondsman, I made the rules. 😎 Once we got back to the frat house, the arrested guy would have to get the money to pay everyone back. If they didn’t have the funds, then the Frat would make him a loan, but payback to the people who donated bail money had to happen within 24 hours. Once they had their court hearing, was usually time served and probation with community service hours (service hours requested by the fraternity attorney).

The court would release the bail money back to me. I would take the bail money and fund a party at our frat house. 😁 No one argued with my plan because they got a “free party “ and that was my condition to continue being the fraternity bail bondsman. I was also social chairman so I could throw an awesome party with $500…one time 3 guys were arrested. I hired a band for that party 😂

Sometimes I miss those days. Life is so much fun.

Yet another reason why we are headed to

15-0 🤠
 
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Jackcrevol said:
I recall, a joint, it consisted of a screened in porch, with what can best be described as plastic chairs & tables (some where stacked on top of one another). Now, in this day of pussification, building codes, no smoking, just imagine.

There were no cornhole boards, no video game golf, no charging ports for your Motorola V3M. No sir, there was a buffet style bar, with red plastic cups, several kegs, and a cover charge and some trash cans. There was one purpose, a unified goal. And that was to get trashed. Drinking was their business, and, business was good.
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I remember the Tap Room had a golf video game. If anyone actually played, guys would end up betting on it. The pressure was real if you missed a putt and your buddies lost money on you. Of course if they won, you were drinking for free 😁
 
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VolGee4 said:
We can just disagree. Mullen is a great developer of an offense and at the QB position. But look at those classes at UF and tell me who is playing pro ball. He is goofy and cannot recruit at a level that is needed to sustain elite status.

He did well at MSU because of the instate talent and juco system there. Sure, he did well for their program, but he also feasted on weak competition their too. It’s only been recent that the SEC required a P5 OOC game on the schedule. Kentucky is their permanent East game. I said all of this when people clamored for him at UT. He was not a fit at UT, and my opinion has never wavered.
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His full classes were 2019, 2020, 2021, so idk about the NFLers yet and now Napier is wrecking what was left. See: Brenton Cox.

Js averaging a top 10 class is pretty dang good lmao. We'd slaughter folks (even more) if we could average 10th in recruiting.
 
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Orange Studs said:
My wife and I just finished the remake of "All is Quite on the Western Front" Its a 2022 remake of an old movie I think in the 70's. Guys it is a must watch. Just a great movie. Its on Netflix check it out I promise you will not be disappointed.
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I watched 😔
The mind set of the generals?? Let’s fight an 18-19th century style ground war with 20th century armaments. It was a slaughter on all sides. The ground won or lost for the whole war could probably be complete covered by the dead bodies.
 
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Athens will be the site of an SEC semifinal game that will have massive ramifications for the national title picture. Tennessee and Georgia will meet for the 52nd time since 1899, and never have both teams previously met while ranked in the top five.

The Volunteers landed at the top of the first College Football Playoff rankings but enter as more than a touchdown underdog to the third-ranked Bulldogs.

No team has found a way to stop Josh Heupel’s uptempo RPO two-deep vertical hybrid offense.

An early challenge against Pat Narduzzi’s defense at Pitt limited Tennessee to just 27 points in regulation. The Volunteers have defeated four top-25 teams since playing the Panthers, scoring at least 38 points in each.

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart led an effort to shut down Heupel’s offense last season. The Bulldogs limited the Volunteers to 17 points while recording nine tackles for loss, including six sacks.

Georgia lost much of the defense to the NFL over the offseason, as the handicap in this game resides in whether or not the Bulldogs will have a counterpunch to the Heupel offense.





Tennessee Volunteers
Plenty of defensive coordinators struggle to game plan for a Tennessee offense that stretches the field at a pace of nearly 21 seconds per play.

Heupel has integrated pieces of offense from previous stops, from the Mike Leach Air Raid at Oklahoma in the late 1990s to a veer-and-shoot RPO method adopted from Central Florida.

The goal of Tennessee’s offense is to stretch the field, expose coverage, limit substitutions and take plenty of deep shots.




No defensive coordinator has been able to solve the Volunteers’ offense this season, as no weakness exists in the analytics.

Tennessee ranks top-10 in Offensive Success Rate, Points per Opportunity and Havoc Allowed. The Volunteers have been so successful on offense that it has played the second-fewest number of snaps in passing downs.

If a team wants to impede Tennessee, it must be elite in open-field tackling, along with one-on-one man coverage.

The knock on the Tennessee defense was the coverage grading. While that mark still resides outside the top 100, the numbers have improved through October.

The front seven ranks top-10 nationally in Line Yards and Stuff Rate, dominating opposing rush attempts.

The defensive player quickly rising up every voting board is edge rusher Byron Young with his 33 pressures.




Defensive coordinator Tim Banks prefers man-to-man coverage over zone, but the struggle to limit passing attacks continues. The Volunteers rank near dead last in allowing passing plays over 10 yards.

The deficiency in pass defense, along with poor tackle grades against elite offensive talent, is what kept Florida and Alabama within one possession.

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Donald Page/Getty Images. Pictured: The Tennessee Volunteers.

Georgia Bulldogs
Smart and offensive coordinator Todd Monken started the 2022 season with pace on the offense. After losing five defensive players in the first round of the NFL Draft, the offense was expected to pick up the slack.

Quarterback Stetson Bennett has led the way with a 52% pass rate, ranking top-10 in nearly every single metric. Down and distance doesn’t matter, as Georgia is the top offense in Success Rate in both standard and passing downs.




Bennett has targeted tight end Brock Bowers more than any other skill position player. The Bulldogs will run motion and line Bowers up at nearly every position on the field with a heavy tendency in line or in the slot.

The sophomore averages more than three yards per route run, serving as the most explosive option on the offense. The possible return of Adonai Mitchell at wideout only benefits Bowers, as it would give him more space to work.

The biggest handicap in this game is the stress coming to Georgia’s defense in playing single man coverage.

Pitt’s Narduzzi found success in limiting Tennessee’s offense because of his aggressive defense. Quarters is the coverage scheme that features man-to-man played deep off the ball, confusing wide receivers after the snap. The Volunteers have been excellent at identifying coverage after the snap and changing routes for big plays.

Georgia defensive coordinator Glenn Schulmann is expected to roll with a three-man rush with a spy in the box for quarterback scrambles. Georgia’s numbers indicate a pass rush outside the top 100, but a delayed blitz from a fourth or fifth pass rusher has been a key methodology to this point.

The biggest question for Georgia’s defense is playing man-to-man coverage against a number of explosive options.

The two highest-graded cornerbacks in man coverage are both on Georgia in Javon Bullard and Tykee Smith. Neither has missed a tackle in over 250 combined man coverage snaps this season.

The more impressive number comes from yards after catch allowed. Along with Smith and Bullard, cornerback Kelee Ringo has allowed just single digits on the season in yards after the catch.




Tennessee vs Georgia Betting Pick
The critical handicap in this game is how the defenses elect to defend an elite set of skill-position players.

The Tennessee offense is based on stretching the field, taking deep vertical shots to two of the best wideouts in the nation in Cedric Tillman and Jalin Hyatt.

As stated above, cornerback play for Georgia has been impeccable in man-to-man coverage. The ability to play man frees up other defenders for the spy or delayed blitz on Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker.

Bullard has been a rock at the slot cornerback position, so Tennessee crossing patterns over the middle will be limited.

The targets for the Tennessee offense will be safety Malaki Starks and linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson. Both players have allowed lengthy yards after the catch, while neither has logged a forced incompletion when targeted in man coverage.

In particular, Starks had a disastrous afternoon against Florida as the most targeted defensive back, allowing 73 yards after the catch on four receptions.

While Tennessee will face its most athletic opponent of the season, the ability to execute against the safety position will determine the winner in this game.

On the other side of the ball, the Volunteers lack a single defender in PFF‘s top 200 slot coverage players. Cornerback Wesley Walker has been targeted 17 times this season, allowing 13 catches and 57 yards after the catch. Bowers and fellow tight end Darnell Washington should have no resistance to routes run within the hash marks.

The Bulldogs’ Offensive Success Rate in standard and passing downs gives Smart the ability to dictate tempo. Georgia will break a couple of explosive runs, but all indications are there for Bennett to target man coverage with his best weapons.

Expect Georgia to have successful multi-play drives capped off with touchdowns by the best red-zone scoring team in the nation.

Look for the Georgia defense to play Tillman and Hyatt in one-on-one coverage while keeping a spy on Hooker. Because the cornerback play from Ringo, Bullard and Smith has been elite in man coverage, there’s an expectation the Bulldogs could force a few punts.

A man-to-man quarters scheme downfield will limit the decision-making by Hyatt and Tillman after the snap, creating a big advantage for the home defense.

Action Network projects this game at Georgia -10 with a total well above market at 78. If the Bulldogs elect to go tempo on Tennessee, the total should fly over, but the better bet is a ball-control approach with continued success in achieving first downs.

The Georgia side has a correlation to the full-game and Tennessee team total under. Last season, Georgia won the battle in time of possession and first downs. Expect more of the same from the Bulldogs in Week 10.

Pick: Georgia -8 or Better
 
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VolNash17 said:
If Vols were to lose today within 10 points. We’re still in the playoff hunt. Being ranked 1st is a bigger deal than what alot of people think. Show’s you what the Committee thinks of Tennessee and gives us more wiggle room than if we were 2nd or 3rd. But luckily for us we aren’t losing. At least I don’t think so
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We ain’t losing boss. Vols by 17.
 
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All these people think they know how to defend Heupel but yet nobody ever does. Heard it from every fanbase so far. Sure UGA did well last yr after the 1st qtr but none of those guys are still around except for 2.

Everybody thinks they have the answer until Heup/Golesh hit you with some heat you haven’t seen on tape at all.
 
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