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#51
#51
rockydoc said:
Right, and there a couple new SEC tie-ins I think like the Papa John Bowl in B'ham. Six and six, the SEC will pressure Hamilton to send a team.
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The SEC won't have to pressure anybody. You take the best bowl bid available, and if a crappy bowl in Alabama or Louisiana or Tennessee is all that is available, then you take it because it is dumb not to.
 
#52
#52
hatvol96 said:
Like all the people who went to Tampa last year when we returned tickets to the Outhouse Bowl?
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The second year of back-to-back visit to the same place is always a drop off. Look back at the second year of the Fiesta Bowl trips.
 
#53
#53
Does anyone here really think we will go to a bowl? We can't score period.
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#55
#55
VolunteerHillbilly said:
Does a 6-6 season guarantee a bowl appearance? SC was 6-6 last year and did not get an invite.
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Watching/listening to TV announcers this season try to explain in shear disbelief probably has run off what little chance a 6-6 record would have brought, invite-wise.

I feel really sorry for the seniors who might otherwise have had a crack at the draft; hope miraculous combines turn up something for them.
 
#56
#56
R481967 said:
Watching/listening to TV announcers this season try to explain in shear disbelief probably has run off what little chance a 6-6 record would have brought, invite-wise.

I feel really sorry for the seniors who might otherwise have had a crack at the draft; hope miraculous combines turn up something for them.
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if they were truly NFL material then a bowl game or losing record would make zero difference. Maybe they should have worked a little harder if they really believe it's the reason.
 
#60
#60
hatvol96 said:
How badly placed is the bye week after Wyoming? Wouldn't everyone just as soon end this season ASAP?
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AMEN! I'm afraid this team may phone in the last 2 anyway. Here's an even worse scenario: What if lightening strikes and we win out? Can you imagine this team going to a bowl?:bad:
 
#63
#63
JagerVol01 said:
I actually think that having a bye week might make it easier to make a move before the end of the season. That is assuming that the UT administration doesn't want to fire Fulmer the week of homecoming and would like to give the interim coach (Chavis) a chance to regroup for the last two games. Also, do you realize that the last two times we have fired a coach were in the same month that a democrat was elected president? How is that for symmetry? Face it Fulmerites. He is gone, it is meant to be.
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Damn that's going to be a festive event!:eek:lol:
 
#70
#70
After the '07 season, the SEC had 10 eligible teams and 8 bowl slots, plus an extra for the second team in the BCS. SC was eligible but was the team left out, as the SEC had 1 more eligible teams than bowl allocations, even with Georgia getting the Sugar bid.

EDIT: re-reading this, I confused myself. Last year we had 10 eligible teams. We had 8 bowl tie-ins, plus an extra BCS bid (making 9 slots.) SC was passed over. Any questions?
 
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#71
#71
billbattle said:
Arcane indeed. I'll take your word for it. Every four years huh? Like leap year.
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The rule was added to encourage power teams to put 1aa's on the schedule to help keep the minor leagues financially solvent. If memory serves, Kentucky has benefitted from this rule in the past.
 
#72
#72
Gen.Neyland said:
One of SC's 2007 wins was against a Div. I-AA opponent. SC wasn't eligible.
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hatvol96 said:
You get to count a I-AA win once every four years, so South Carolina was eligible.
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they changed the rule back in 05 i believe, wins over 1-aa teams count now: you get to count 1 per season

the rule change was a big reason why cutler's vandy team had a chance to be eligible for a bowl game i think i remember the nashville media clamouring about
 
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#73
#73
JagerVol01 said:
I actually think that having a bye week might make it easier to make a move before the end of the season. That is assuming that the UT administration doesn't want to fire Fulmer the week of homecoming and would like to give the interim coach (Chavis) a chance to regroup for the last two games. Also, do you realize that the last two times we have fired a coach were in the same month that a democrat was elected president? How is that for symmetry? Face it Fulmerites. He is gone, it is meant to be.
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Somebody always gets fired when the Vols lose to South Carolina.
 
#74
#74
VolunteerHillbilly said:
Does a 6-6 season guarantee a bowl appearance? SC was 6-6 last year and did not get an invite.
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Rasputin_Vol said:
It doesn't guarantee an invite, it just means that you are "elegible"...
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the sec ran out of bowl bids last year didnt it? I seem to think that So Car. got left out b/c UK and MSU took up the last 2 (music and liberty) and then bama at 6-6 got into the independence and that filled up the last/bottom part of our bids

If anything though, bama getting into the independence proves that a 6-6 team can be invited to a bowl game, including a bad one that lost it's last 5 games and lost to louisiana-monroe; it's all about the names and marketability to the guys giving out invites
 
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