The morning after.....

[jakez4ut]

well, i guess we're right back where we started a few weeks ago.

a few thoughts as we go forward and close the book on this ugly chapter of the TN/Bama series.

-all week prior to the game, in usual fashion, there was a lot of fan fare for this game and it's nostalgia. And we know how much CPF feels that as well, and he's not afraid to tell you about it either. on the other side of the fence, CNS is calling it just another game, not sure what all the hub bub is about. well, i don't know about you, but it seemed to me that we had the pucker factor on to about level 10, and CNS and the tide simply got prepared for a game.

-no dancing around it today. CPF got out coached in a big way yesterday. from start to finish, the on side kick, the going for it on 4th downs, the excecution of his game plan..i think maybe for a few penalties, Ns has to be happy with how it worked out. and on the other side, we got the epitomy of the ever so famous "play not lose" game plan. Punt on 4th and 1 at their 47 down by 10. (remember, Bama scored on the ensuing possesion to boot). No Montario Hardesty. Lennon Creer on 4th down play? and absolutlely NO pressure on JPW all day long. we played off the line, rushed, 3-4 most times, and when we did blitz it was too late in coming.

yet, despite all of that i find myself rather calm. sure i had an episode or two during the 1st half, but minus a few obsenities i spent the rest of the day being farily calm and enjoying the KY/FL and Aub/LSU games.

i'm not sure why. no pressure of SEC title? maybe. knowing we just aren't that good? probably.
maybe my expectations are starting to adjust? we may be on to something.

or maybe it's just that now there's no where else to hide. that if we do lose again, what in the end does it matter? i'll be rooting for us to win....don't get me wrong. but hey, a loss now, so what. so we go to the Liberty bowl or independence bowl, or maybe we go to no bowl. :mf_surrender:

at least it might save the embarrasment of a possibility of another beat down.

anyone still disappointed this wasn't a national TV game of the week?:banghead2:

what does this mean to CPF's future? it didn't help. losing to bama and fl in spectacular fashion will do little for even the staunchest CPF supporter. and with games left against arch nemesis SOS, and perrennial door mat KY, that could both beat us......it may get worse....but who knows. maybe the team that beat GA will show up the rest of the season???:birgits_giggle:

the SC game may very well be one of the uglier games in th SEC this year. and i don't know abouy y'all, but KY officially scares me now.

try to enjoy the rest of your weekend folks.

 

[gcb/hoosiervol]

Hell KY scared me the second week of the season, just like Ark last season. I too am heartbroken and have to realize we are not what Ithought wem ight be this year,, a 10 win team. I will continue to cheer for the boys, I always have through the 60's 70's 80's etc. There were tough times then, but I thought in the 90's we had come back to being one of the premier programs in the country, guaranteed to be in top 20 on a not so good year. Right now it is top 20 if we are incredibly lucky. I have no answersto the question as to coverage on Hall, playing conservative ball, I have no answers to anything on the field from yesterday. I was literally sick for 4 hours after that debacle, worse to me than florida. Oh well I will "get a life" cheer for peyton and the colts on Monday and be ready for spurrier and the cocks on Sat. Are we on TV??hmy:

 

[Big Orange Diesel]

No Montario Hardesty. Lennon Creer on 4th down play?

On the CPF Locker Room Radio show after the game Bob ask why Montario didn't get in the game and CPF said it was the coaches fault. Coaches didn't get him in the game and said they used a lot of passing plays and Montario just isn't as good as Coker or Foster catching the ball. But coaches get Creer in on the 3rd and inches play?

This turn of events show why Tennessee is out coached! One of the hottest RB's you have and he doesn't get on the field Saturday. 3rd and inches and you have Creer in the game, not Foster or Hardesty.
:no: This goes to show you that the gameplan they had was horrible.

 

[Cartervol]

There is just one sure win left on this schedule UL-layafette. The rest are toss ups. Yes espn 6:45 start

 

[Mullet Vol]

It's called apathy. That is exactly the way I feel. It's like what I felt a for many years watching UT basketball. Excited before the game and sometimes during and usually afterwards very apathetic towards the whole thing. "Oh well, it's just basketball," I would say. Now I'm saying, "oh well, it's just football."

The bad thing this is just the beginning if Fulmer stays. There is not one team on our schedule (other than Kentucky b/c they lose Woodson) next year that will not be better then they were this year. I know we won't be any better.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

On the CPF Locker Room Radio show after the game Bob ask why Montario didn't get in the game and CPF said it was the coaches fault. Coaches didn't get him in the game and said they used a lot of passing plays and Montario just isn't as good as Coker or Foster catching the ball. But coaches get Creer in on the 3rd and inches play?

This turn of events show why Tennessee is out coached! One of the hottest RB's you have and he doesn't get on the field Saturday. 3rd and inches and you have Creer in the game, not Foster or Hardesty.
:no: This goes to show you that the gameplan they had was horrible.

Well, in Creer's defense, I believe two or so Bama defenders got to him before he even got to the line of scrimmage. I'm not sure if Foster or Hardesty could have made anything happen on that play necessarily. But the decision to not have Foster in at all on that situation is def. worthy of discussing and second guessing.

 

[General_Neyland]

well, i guess we're right back where we started a few weeks ago.

a few thoughts as we go forward and close the book on this ugly chapter of the TN/Bama series.

-all week prior to the game, in usual fashion, there was a lot of fan fare for this game and it's nostalgia. And we know how much CPF feels that as well, and he's not afraid to tell you about it either. on the other side of the fence, CNS is calling it just another game, not sure what all the hub bub is about. well, i don't know about you, but it seemed to me that we had the pucker factor on to about level 10, and CNS and the tide simply got prepared for a game.

-no dancing around it today. CPF got out coached in a big way yesterday. from start to finish, the on side kick, the going for it on 4th downs, the excecution of his game plan..i think maybe for a few penalties, Ns has to be happy with how it worked out. and on the other side, we got the epitomy of the ever so famous "play not lose" game plan. Punt on 4th and 1 at their 47 down by 10. (remember, Bama scored on the ensuing possesion to boot). No Montario Hardesty. Lennon Creer on 4th down play? and absolutlely NO pressure on JPW all day long. we played off the line, rushed, 3-4 most times, and when we did blitz it was too late in coming.

yet, despite all of that i find myself rather calm. sure i had an episode or two during the 1st half, but minus a few obsenities i spent the rest of the day being farily calm and enjoying the KY/FL and Aub/LSU games.

i'm not sure why. no pressure of SEC title? maybe. knowing we just aren't that good? probably.
maybe my expectations are starting to adjust? we may be on to something.

or maybe it's just that now there's no where else to hide. that if we do lose again, what in the end does it matter? i'll be rooting for us to win....don't get me wrong. but hey, a loss now, so what. so we go to the Liberty bowl or independence bowl, or maybe we go to no bowl. :mf_surrender:

at least it might save the embarrasment of a possibility of another beat down.

anyone still disappointed this wasn't a national TV game of the week?:banghead2:

what does this mean to CPF's future? it didn't help. losing to bama and fl in spectacular fashion will do little for even the staunchest CPF supporter. and with games left against arch nemesis SOS, and perrennial door mat KY, that could both beat us......it may get worse....but who knows. maybe the team that beat GA will show up the rest of the season???:birgits_giggle:

the SC game may very well be one of the uglier games in th SEC this year. and i don't know abouy y'all, but KY officially scares me now.

try to enjoy the rest of your weekend folks.

We are not right back where we started a few weeks ago...We are right back in the same situation we have been in for the last 3-5 years....and that is a team that is talked up alot in the spring with good recruiting classes that never pan out, we should be a good football team yada yada yada only to finish unranked, or out of the top 10 etc....If we hired the best coach today Its going to take a while to recover from the hole we have fallen in.....We are just the same we have been nothing new

 

[jakez4ut]

On the CPF Locker Room Radio show after the game Bob ask why Montario didn't get in the game and CPF said it was the coaches fault. Coaches didn't get him in the game and said they used a lot of passing plays and Montario just isn't as good as Coker or Foster catching the ball. But coaches get Creer in on the 3rd and inches play?

This turn of events show why Tennessee is out coached! One of the hottest RB's you have and he doesn't get on the field Saturday. 3rd and inches and you have Creer in the game, not Foster or Hardesty.
:no: This goes to show you that the gameplan they had was horrible.

and what makes that even tougher to swallow is the suspensions for Bama right before the game.....i just dont get it. how does this team do what it did to a GA team that beat this Bama team in the same stadium not show up, again?

the decision making during the game was poor and it was evident from the opening kick that Bama's was ready to WIN, not just play.

very frustrated.

 

[jakez4ut]

We are not right back where we started a few weeks ago...We are right back in the same situation we have been in for the last 3-5 years....and that is a team that is talked up alot in the spring with good recruiting classes that never pan out, we should be a good football team yada yada yada only to finish unranked, or out of the top 10 etc....If we hired the best coach today Its going to take a while to recover from the hole we have fallen in.....We are just the same we have been nothing new

that's probalby true. and the thing that is concerning is that this is the kind of game that NS was brought in to win, in this kind of fashion.

you look at the future...and you just don't feel to good about us going up against Meyer, Saban, Spurrier, Miles, Tubberville etc....year in and year out.

 

[AllVols]

On the CPF Locker Room Radio show after the game Bob ask why Montario didn't get in the game and CPF said it was the coaches fault. Coaches didn't get him in the game and said they used a lot of passing plays and Montario just isn't as good as Coker or Foster catching the ball. But coaches get Creer in on the 3rd and inches play?

This turn of events show why Tennessee is out coached! One of the hottest RB's you have and he doesn't get on the field Saturday. 3rd and inches and you have Creer in the game, not Foster or Hardesty.
:no: This goes to show you that the gameplan they had was horrible.

Good point but to point out the obvious 41 to 17 “This goes to show you that the gameplan they had was horrible” too.
:banghead2:

 

[erob3833]

well, i guess we're right back where we started a few weeks ago.


i don't know abouy y'all, but KY officially scares me now.

ky scared me when they beat lsu

 

[TacomaJPP]

yet, despite all of that i find myself rather calm. sure i had an episode or two during the 1st half, but minus a few obsenities i spent the rest of the day being farily calm and enjoying the KY/FL and Aub/LSU games.

i'm not sure why. no pressure of SEC title? maybe. knowing we just aren't that good? probably.
maybe my expectations are starting to adjust? we may be on to something.

Not jumping on you or anything like that, but this is the exact attitude of fans who are getting used to mediocrity. It's not your fault, it's just what happens when your program begins to go t!ts up.

 

[vol_in_ar]

On the CPF Locker Room Radio show after the game Bob ask why Montario didn't get in the game and CPF said it was the coaches fault. Coaches didn't get him in the game and said they used a lot of passing plays and Montario just isn't as good as Coker or Foster catching the ball. But coaches get Creer in on the 3rd and inches play?

This turn of events show why Tennessee is out coached! One of the hottest RB's you have and he doesn't get on the field Saturday. 3rd and inches and you have Creer in the game, not Foster or Hardesty.
:no: This goes to show you that the gameplan they had was horrible.

What was wrong with Foster, he was averaging almost 7 yards a carry