Sometimes NOT pulling the trigger is the greater risk

[unfrozencvmanvol]

"Tickle us, do we not laugh;
Prick us, do we not bleed;
Lose to Kentucky at home,
Shall we not revenge?"
--- The Ballcoach of Venice

 

[TommyJoe]

Quoting Shakespeare?

@Freak this has to be a first for VN.

We are becoming more cultured. I might buy Hieneken instead of Bud to watch the next game.

 

[jim pique]

The same people bitc'''ing as they were last year at 2-5.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

The same people bitc'''ing as they were last year at 2-5.

Unfortunately the remainder of our schedule is much tougher this year than last.

 

[Boca Vol]

Ex-UF AD Jeremy Foley had a saying, "What should be done eventually, MUST be done immediately."

 

[hooperj75]

Quoting Shakespeare?

@Freak this has to be a first for VN.

“Harrison, Harrison! Wherefore art though Harrison?“

 

[airvols]

As i recall Julius Caesar being assassinated by the masses, more mattress burning‘s. The real question is to be or not to be.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

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"Tis better to have started a true freshman and lost, than never to have started him at all. Once Guarantano hath plucked the rose, we cannot give it vital life again, his needs must wither. Even if he doth possess compromising photos of Beldar."

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

As i recall Julius Caesar being assassinated by the masses, more mattress burning‘s. The real question is to be or not to be.

"I come to bury Pruitt, not to praise him.
The evil that shiddy coaches do lives after them;
And the good is often interred with their buyouts;
And so let it be with Cornbread."

 

[davethevol]

“He who hath smelt it, most assuredly hath dealt it.”

 

[airvols]

"I come to bury Pruitt, not to praise him.
The evil that shiddy coaches do lives after them;
And the good is often interred with their buyouts;
And so let it be with Cornbread."

Bravo!

 

[DonDiego]

"Mischief thou art afoot, take thou what course thou wilt."

Now, you know your azz Googled that...lol.

 

[DonDiego]

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She is so stupidly cute.

 

[99gator]

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

 

[DonDiego]

You guys, I have two volumes of Shakespeare in my bookcase. Don't make me pull them out.

'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps into this petty pace from day to day, until the last vestiges of recorded time....yada, yada, yada

 

[FredVol33]

Wow. Us Vol fans have so much time on our hands now, we are back to reading Shakespeare. That is great. I read these words on a bathroom stall at a rest stop near Knoxville, "I judge from all these words of wit.....this must have been the place where Shakespeare........spit."

 

[nomads-11]

So let me get this straight.....you think we need to reenter the coaching search process that we've done since 2008? Okay, I get it......but exactly why do we need to do that, in the manner we have....for the past 12 years? I don't mind a shake up or change.....I do mind ABSOLUTELY, doing the same steps again. That, my friend, is insanity.

Again, not adverse to change.....doing it the same way we always have.....NO. I'm not on board.

 

[chef3531]

Etu tu Pruitt?

You literally said "tu tu" lol

 

[nomads-11]

Muschamp was 28-30 at South Carolina.

Assuming UT finishes their remaining schedule with 1 win (Vandy) and 3 losses (Auburn, aTm, UF), Pruitt will finish the season with a 16-19 career record at Tennessee. Very Muschampesque.

VERY possible. Actually, highly likely and spot on if so. But I'm not worried about that. I'm actually more interested/worried in what Mullin does. No kidding. I respect what he's done and have said FLA has some LSU in them this year. But......I'm betting come SECCG.....should FLA make it, you'll get your clock cleaned. Badly. IF so then I'm asking myself, as a TN fan, if the current model works. Personally, that'd be a no at this point. And should FLA get destroyed....as I think they will.....it's only going to reinforce my personal views. Worst of all.....your coach will be no more viable than Pruitt....unless you're fine with winning the East most years and getting your ass kicked come playoff time.

I'm not....not as a TN fan or FLA fan.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

Now, you know your azz Googled that...lol.

That's what Marc Antony says to himself at the end of his speech at Caesar's funeral. I had to learn that one time. All these things teachers say "you may use this one day" and you're like "no way", well here you go, I used it on Volnation one night in my 40's. Confession though I did have to Google what play "prick us, do we not bleed" came from, but I remembered the line from Star Trek 6, lol.

 

[DonDiego]

“He who hath smelt it, most assuredly hath dealt it.”

Lol

 

[cgrish]

So let me get this straight.....you think we need to reenter the coaching search process that we've done since 2008? Okay, I get it......but exactly why do we need to do that, in the manner we have....for the past 12 years? I don't mind a shake up or change.....I do mind ABSOLUTELY, doing the same steps again. That, my friend, is insanity.

Again, not adverse to change.....doing it the same way we always have.....NO. I'm not on board.

You make a very good point. If we are gonna go after another hc that does not have a winning tradition in a good conference, no need to change. And preferably a proven coach in the sec. That would mean Urban, or Freeze. Bob Stoops does have ties to sec, and he is a proven winner. Other than those 3 stick with what we have.

 

[Special Ed]

Shakespeare nailed it 421 years ago in Julius Caesar:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."

I feel we have entered that territory yet again. We wait and wait and wait while other teams take action before we can finally load our pop gun...
In spite of what some folks say, I think UT fans have been incredibly patient.

In contrast to Julius Caesar, Fulmer is not bold enough to cross the Rubicon.
Therein lies the difference.

 

[Tnman1]

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

 

[FLVOL_79]

There once was a man from Nantucket, with a..

oh..nevermind.