Tennessee not covering the spread/Your outlook

If Tennessee does not cover against Appy State will your outlook be diminished?

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He_Made_It

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I feel comfortable saying that we'll beat the spread, which is hovering between 20 and 21.

If Tennessee does not cover the spread against Appalachian State, will your personal outlook
for the season be diminished?
 
#3
#3
Somebody needs to tell Butch that we want to be able to place bets on our Vols this year and expect him to cover the spread each week while winning them all.
 
#5
#5
Moot question, man. Vols not only cover the spread, we obliterate it. 51-0 kind of obliteration.

Go Vols!
 
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When a coach starts coaching to cover the spread, then I get suspicious. It could mean keeping players in the game too long and risking injury.

It probably had nothing to do with the spread, but Mike Shula had Tyrone Prothro (Bama) in the game against Florida. 9 minutes left up by 28 when he suffered a gruesome ankle injury. Bama went on to win 31-3, but it sure cost them a great player.

Don't slam Shula for Prothro injury

A paragraph from the article:
How else can we explain the bashing Shula has received nationally for having star receiver/kick returner Tyrone Prothro in Saturday's 31-3 win over Florida with fewer than nine minutes left and Alabama holding a 28-point lead? Prothro landed awkwardly while trying to catch a pass and broke two bones in his leg, and I guess we're supposed to believe that's Shula's fault.
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Other sportswriters commenting
Stewart Mandel, SI.com: "... there's no overstating the magnitude of the loss and, in turn, the stupidity of coach Mike Shula's reasoning for keeping [Prothro] and the other offensive starters in with a 31-3 fourth-quarter lead. Was the Gators' offense, so inept all afternoon, suddenly going to score four touchdowns in 10 minutes?"
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Dick Weiss, New York Daily News: "Prothro, its best deep threat, was carted off the field with a splint on his lower left leg after landing awkwardly trying to catch a fourth-down pass in the end zone in the fourth quarter, when he should have been on the bench."
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Pete Thamel, New York Times: "... but Shula may have hamstrung the Tide's season by leaving in his starters too long ..."
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Screw the spread.. Just salt it away and give younger guys reps for down the road.
 
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I picked a 42-10 score, beating the spread by 12 but if we don't beat the spread it won't diminish my expectations. We could be up 42-17 late and Appalachian State put a garbage touchdown on the board. The spread don't matter, IMO, as much as how we look.

This game could be much like BG game last year. We catch hell for "only" beating them by 30 but at season's end it would look like a solid W. BG looked good last year at season's end. This one will too.
 
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That spread doesn't seem to square with all the hype. Hopefully it's based on expectations of our Vols emptying the bench after the first quarter.
 
#16
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The spread is meaningless. There is no asterisk by the winning teams name indicating the spread was covered. A win is a win.
 
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He_Made_It said:
I feel comfortable saying that we'll beat the spread, which is hovering between 20 and 21.

If Tennessee does not cover the spread against Appalachian State, will your personal outlook
for the season be diminished?
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I'm really not sure we cover the spread especially being week 1. I would imagine play calling is very vanilla on both sides of the ball and if the opportunity presents itself we get as many starters out soon as possible and let the 2nd and 3rd stringers get as many reps as possible. I would imagine ending the game as healthy as possible is much higher on the priority list than covering the spread. In a perfect world Dobb's,Hurd,Kamara,Sutton,JRM and the rest of the starters are out by halftime and our backups pad the lead and the stats. Let Dormady throw it 10-15 times and let S.Jones sling it around a little in the 4th Quarter
And let JK,CFA and I forgot the name of the late addition RB all get 10 or so touch's. Of course things usually don't work out the way we want and end up having to play the starters longer than they should have to. Would love to be up 35-0 or 42-0 at HT and not have to worry about seeing the starters again till next Sat night. You just never know how first games of the season will end up going
 
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BleedingButch said:
Completely disagree, stat is not meaningless. It's the only stat that effects my bank account.
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On the same page with you. Not sure I will even touch our game. I rarely and I mean very rarely bet on any Vol Football games. I will never bet against us and tend to jinx us when I do bet the Vols. There have been many games I didn't expect us to cover or expected us to lose and I just won't bet at all because I damn sure can't pull against nor pull for us to only win by a certain amount. Way too many other games that I have no attachment to.
 
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Even if the Vols lose to Appy St, most Vol fans will still have confidence in Butch Jones:eek:k:
 
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He_Made_It said:
I feel comfortable saying that we'll beat the spread, which is hovering between 20 and 21.

If Tennessee does not cover the spread against Appalachian State, will your personal outlook
for the season be diminished?
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Absolutely not. Take North Texas last year. We didn't come close to covering the spread but it didn't change my outlook on how we finish the season. It has to be hard for 18-22 year olds to get up for every game,especially games against teams they know should never be remotely close. If not for it being the first game of the year I could see players having very little interest in playing Appy St and looking ahead to next Saturday Night. Hell us fans tend to do that for certain games I know the players do.
 
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photovol said:
Even if the Vols lose to Appy St, most Vol fans will still have confidence in Butch Jones:eek:k:
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My confidence in him would seriously diminish. Truth be told I don't have the confidence in Butch yet to win our more important games much less against UF,Ala,on the road in Athens or in College Station. Hell I don't have full confidence in him going into next Saturday Nights game against a team that isn't even ranked. It's more of it being a huge showcase game in an atmosphere that has never even been played in. Good thing is Butch gets many of those opportunities this year to earn all of our trust and prove the stage isn't too big for him. All it takes is winning a few of those games just like Fulmer had to do his first season and those doubts quickly dwindle away. Lucky for all of Volnation we won't have to wait long to find out.Then once it starts it comes quickly and often, which could be a very good thing or a not so good thing. Either way we will have a good idea one way or another by week 3 in October.
 
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#25
Play second stringers, don't give any plays/packages away, Eric Ainge is scared for the B.A.B game lol :blue font:
 
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