Team 120 and all the pre-season Hype

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I was more excited about Tennessee football at the start of 2016 than I've been in over 10 years and now I'm sad and sick to my stomach....
How long before the Vols start another season with as high expectations and as much hype as 2016?

The future's just not what it used to be:cray:
 
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photovol said:
I was more excited about Tennessee football at the start of 2016 than I've been in over 10 years and now I'm sad and sick to my stomach....
How long before the Vols start another season with as high expectations and as much hype as 2016?

The future's just not what it used to be:cray:
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Given the way the league in general has played out this year - the entire SEC - except for Bama - is wondering what happened this year. The group of "second best teams" are all going to have 4 losses if Bama takes care of business and beats Florida. Ponder on that.

If you had told me prior to the season that the second best team would have 4 losses with only 1 SEC team in the top ten at the end of the season I would have called you crazy. But that is where the SEC is right now.

There is more than likely going to be a team with 4 loses in the Sugar Bowl - really strange.
 
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The SEC has become a one team monopoly. It's honestly not dominant this year outside one loaded team. Everybody next is just kinda above avg teams nationally. That's it.

Vols ... ugggh. Rebs ... laaaawd! LSU ... daaaang! ATM ... pfffft.

After UF gets steamrolled, then it will be official.
 
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its a self inflicted wound OP. stop buying the BS hype do some critical thinking and let the season play out. Everybody had expectations of greatness and everyone said this should be the year barring injuries. yet when those injuries happen (and happen and happen and happen...) the fan base wants to ignore them.
 
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It has been a crazy season that's for sure. So many 3 and 4 loss teams in the top 25.

I guess it could be worse. We could be Louisville who had a legit shot at the playoffs and the wheels completely fell off less than 3 weeks ago. Losing to UK is as embarrassing as losing to Vandy imo, especially when you have a Heisman contender at QB.
 
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photovol said:
I was more excited about Tennessee football at the start of 2016 than I've been in over 10 years and now I'm sad and sick to my stomach....
How long before the Vols start another season with as high expectations and as much hype as 2016?

The future's just not what it used to be:cray:
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And it was awesome! Still is. Let's go bowling. To think we were in the race for a NC until the LSU loss. I know I had lots of fun all year long. The losses hurt, but the wins were something else. This team is special, I didn't even know about "Champion's for Life", VFL yes, but never CFL that's some football league in Canada.

I will never get used to losing to Bama, it stinks everytime and as for the other pretenders that blows my mind(Vandy c'mon), it's an anomaly how bad we have been for so long, it's the worst stretch of Vol football in the history of Vol football, I'm ready for another NC, the time is now.

Not making the playoffs is for the birds.

Jump higher Vols.

Get it together Butch!

Go Vols!
 
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photovol said:
I was more excited about Tennessee football at the start of 2016 than I've been in over 10 years and now I'm sad and sick to my stomach....
How long before the Vols start another season with as high expectations and as much hype as 2016?

The future's just not what it used to be:cray:
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LouderVol said:
its a self inflicted wound OP. stop buying the BS hype do some critical thinking and let the season play out. Everybody had expectations of greatness and everyone said this should be the year barring injuries. yet when those injuries happen (and happen and happen and happen...) the fan base wants to ignore them.
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Faith mentioned the Vols, LSU, A&M, and Florida as all being 8-4 after Saturday, how were these teams impacted by injuries?

QB is critical in Football, too.

Go Vols!

Win that bowl!
 
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Stoked said:
It has been a crazy season that's for sure. So many 3 and 4 loss teams in the top 25.

I guess it could be worse. We could be Louisville who had a legit shot at the playoffs and the wheels completely fell off less than 3 weeks ago. Losing to UK is as embarrassing as losing to Vandy imo, especially when you have a Heisman contender at QB.
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Come on! Kentucky is way worse. What about it Joe?

Go Vols!
 
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one of the best football years I've ever seen...parity everywhere...great games every week...enjoyed the heck out of it...:pepper::pepper::pepper::pepper:

GO VOLS!
 
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RollerVol said:
one of the best football years I've ever seen...parity everywhere...great games every week...enjoyed the heck out of it...:pepper::pepper::pepper::pepper:

GO VOLS!
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Let's see:

1) 1998
2) 1985
3) 1991

Top 3 for me.

I will never forget how the stadium came to life after our first TD against Florida or the Hail Mary for the win!

Win that bowl!

Go Vols!
 
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As long as Butch is coach, I'm done with hype. To borrow a phrase, I'm going to wait for him to 1-0 every week with low expectations.
 
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photovol said:
I was more excited about Tennessee football at the start of 2016 than I've been in over 10 years and now I'm sad and sick to my stomach....
How long before the Vols start another season with as high expectations and as much hype as 2016?

The future's just not what it used to be:cray:
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I think a good question to ask is "How did we get to the point where team 120 was so hyped and expectations were so high?"
 
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luthervol said:
I think a good question to ask is "How did we get to the point where team 120 was so hyped and expectations were so high?"
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The team is loaded with experienced players. Who knew they would be watching from the sidelines due to injury?

Win that bowl!

Go Vols!
 
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2016 did seem more special than usual because there was more experience and then BOOM we became Injury U so the edge was nullified enough to drop a couple games to teams we should have beaten. Throw in the nail biter double OT loss to T a&m and then the blowout loss vs. Bama and you have enough losses to really feel like you under-performed.

Now if those disappointments in the L column happened at full strength without all the injuries, then there would definitely be cause to suspect something was rotten in the state of Denmark.

The experience we started this season with isn't the only way teams can have an edge though because there are all kinds of ways to cultivate that something extra needed to play beyond natural expected potential. It can be greater focus, more team synergy, better conditioning than opponents, less penalties, more practice executing each assignment, learning to read the opponent better or any number of others.

So just because we traded the plus of more experience than usual for the minus of more injuries than usual doesn't mean we can't rack up even more pluses next season with a slightly less experienced team.

It's also a matter of not getting so far ahead of ourselves with expectations that we lose our grounding in reality when we had a season like this one with twenty or more players we were counting on to contribute sidelined.

One in the hand is definitely worth two in the bush.

That's where the just win this next game mindset is vital.

Some could throw in the towel and say there's nothing to get excited about with the bowl game, but I think it's an excellent opportunity to put it all together and play a full sixty minutes of football.

As ready and prepared as anyone is, the most you can play at one time is the current play anyway.

I look forward to a team 121 with a lot of talent and Coach Jones and staff with another year of experience at Tennessee behind them like wind at their back to take advantage of the painful lessons learned from the disappointing parts of the season and put together more winning football in 2017.

In light of all the things that went haywire this season, (injuries, williams, hurd, etc.) it really could have been much worse.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
Let's see:

1) 1998
2) 1985
3) 1991

Top 3 for me.

I will never forget how the stadium came to life after our first TD against Florida or the Hail Mary for the win!

Win that bowl!

Go Vols!
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Uh the stadium didn't come to life after the hail mary, it died in Athens
 
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photovol said:
Uh the stadium didn't come to life after the hail mary, it died in Athens
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Let me rephrase. I will never forget when the stadium came to life after our first TD against Florida or when we won the Ga game with a Hail Mary.

My bad, I wasn't trying to confuse anybody.

Go Vols!
 
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Ok, Low expectations from now on is the new rule. 5-7 with 6-6 ceiling next year.

Cool.

You Coach Worshippers and Sunshine pumpers are confusing the heck out of me.

Last few years it was "winning is not most important--it is improving every week--moral victories"

This year it was "improving every week is not most important, it is getting the W"

Now it is "we have always been a mediocre team, we always will be, so don't expect anything great ever-- Champions of Life???"
 
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