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The reality being is that we have a team poiled to win the east. Coaching with make or break this year for us. Coaching will be the difference between 10-2 and 5-7.

We have the talent to be one of the top teams in the country but we could easily be on the brim of a losing season. It all depends..

It depends on how well out current roster is coached up.

We should pull off Florida and Georgia in my opinion opinion but alabama and LSU are a mystery.

Go vols!
 
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We lost to Vanderbilt and South Carolina with a better team than what we'll have this year.

I think we'll be lucky to finish with 8 wins. Maybe butch can come up with some more cliches. That will fire up everyone.

"I'd rather have only 6 wins with great execution than 10 wins with marginal play". That sounds like something he'd say.
 
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We will be breaking in a new QB, and lose our most dominating defensive player in a generation, as well as a host of play-makers on offense.

I don't know how Butch can coach any better than he did this year to make up the difference.
 
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eVOLve said:
The reality being is that we have a team poiled to win the east. Coaching with make or break this year for us. Coaching will be the difference between 10-2 and 5-7.

We have the talent to be one of the top teams in the country but we could easily be on the brim of a losing season. It all depends..

It depends on how well out current roster is coached up.

We should pull off Florida and Georgia in my opinion opinion but alabama and LSU are a mystery.

Go vols!
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Alabama a mystery?
 
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TheDeeble said:
We lost to Vanderbilt and South Carolina with a better team than what we'll have this year.

I think we'll be lucky to finish with 8 wins. Maybe butch can come up with some more cliches. That will fire up everyone.

"I'd rather have only 6 wins with great execution than 10 wins with marginal play". That sounds like something he'd say.
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those losses were without almost half of the 'better team' playing and the worst DB coach in the NCAA
 
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eVOLve said:
The reality being is that we have a team poiled to win the east. Coaching with make or break this year for us. Coaching will be the difference between 10-2 and 5-7.

We have the talent to be one of the top teams in the country but we could easily be on the brim of a losing season. It all depends..

It depends on how well out current roster is coached up.

We should pull off Florida and Georgia in my opinion opinion but alabama and LSU are a mystery.

Go vols!
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Why do you think we'll beat uga and then uf in the swamp? I'd love for that to happen, but Im just interested to see why someone thinks that we should be able to pull those two games off with all roster replacements? Can't be coaching. It's usually the team we're playing against that makes adjustments not us.
 
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If we have 9 wins again this season with a handful of Champions of Life badges handed out at the end I'll be happy. Overall the roster isn't as talented this year, but there is more depth, just not sure if that planes out to being even with last years roster.
 
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Grudenator said:
If we have 9 wins again this season with a handful of Champions of Life badges handed out at the end I'll be happy. Overall the roster isn't as talented this year, but there is more depth, just not sure if that planes out to being even with last years roster.
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Right. 9 wins this upcoming season would be a true accomplishment for cbj and the coaching staff.
 
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eVOLve said:
...Coaching will make or break this year for us...
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Well that's unfortunate.

On a side note, I'm glad we have another thread like this. I hope the entire off-season is full of threads like this, because it means more if it's posted a blue-million times.
 
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eVOLve said:
The reality being is that we have a team poiled to win the east. Coaching with make or break this year for us. Coaching will be the difference between 10-2 and 5-7.

We have the talent to be one of the top teams in the country but we could easily be on the brim of a losing season. It all depends..

It depends on how well out current roster is coached up.

We should pull off Florida and Georgia in my opinion opinion but alabama and LSU are a mystery.

Go vols!
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Alabama is in no way whatsoever a mystery. LSU maybe since it's in Neyland, maybe. Can't imagine we beat both UGA and UF this year, I'd guess a split is more likely.

Agree that the most important factor is coaching/player development, which is why so many of us are very concerned.
 
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Grudenator said:
If we have 9 wins again this season with a handful of Champions of Life badges handed out at the end I'll be happy. Overall the roster isn't as talented this year, but there is more depth, just not sure if that planes out to being even with last years roster.
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If we have a 9 win season, with 4-4 conference play again, the 2018 recruiting class is going to evaporate.
 
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The Vanderbilt game is a must win for the coach. Tough situation to have a game against anyone where you get fired of you lose. This is one of those rare times.
 
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TheDeeble said:
We lost to Vanderbilt and South Carolina with a better team than what we'll have this year.

I think we'll be lucky to finish with 8 wins. Maybe butch can come up with some more cliches. That will fire up everyone.

"I'd rather have only 6 wins with great execution than 10 wins with marginal play". That sounds like something he'd say.
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This type of common sense is uncalled for
 
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TNinSC said:
Why do you think we'll beat uga and then uf in the swamp? I'd love for that to happen, but Im just interested to see why someone thinks that we should be able to pull those two games off with all roster replacements? Can't be coaching. It's usually the team we're playing against that makes adjustments not us.
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UF lost 7 off their defense, they've not recruited in recent years to the levels to replace their stars over there with the same caliber of talent. They'll probably have an improved offense, but their defense falls off a cliff this season IMO.
 
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TheDeeble said:
We lost to Vanderbilt and South Carolina with a better team than what we'll have this year.

I think we'll be lucky to finish with 8 wins. Maybe butch can come up with some more cliches. That will fire up everyone.

"I'd rather have only 6 wins with great execution than 10 wins with marginal play". That sounds like something he'd say.
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I prefer 10 wins regardless of how we get them.
 
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eVOLve said:
The reality being is that we have a team poiled to win the east. Coaching with make or break this year for us. Coaching will be the difference between 10-2 and 5-7.

We have the talent to be one of the top teams in the country but we could easily be on the brim of a losing season. It all depends..

It depends on how well out current roster is coached up.

We should pull off Florida and Georgia in my opinion opinion but alabama and LSU are a mystery.

Go vols!
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It seems that every time Tennessee is a laughing stock.. that's when we bring it.. look at the Gators last year. They thought they had the game in the bad before it even started. Well..

You know the result. We have our backs against the wall...

We need results not cliche's.
 
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BeardedVol said:
If we have a 9 win season, with 4-4 conference play again, the 2018 recruiting class is going to evaporate.
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We will be lucky to have 9 wins this season. It's reality. Yes are recruiting class will suffer again this next year. You can't lose to Vandy or South Carolina EVER. If you were a recruit would you want to go to a school that just lost to Vandy and South Carolina and has a coach who is a horrible cliche' machine? It's reality man.
 
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TNJOKER said:
It seems that every time Tennessee is a laughing stock.. that's when we bring it.. look at the Gators last year. They thought they had the game in the bad before it even started. Well..

You know the result. We have our backs against the wall...

We need results not cliche's.
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Posts a bunch of cliches...says we need results, not cliches.

Our backs have been against the wall for years. It sucks.
 
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Grudenator said:
We will be lucky to have 9 wins this season. It's reality. Yes are recruiting class will suffer again this next year. You can't lose to Vandy or South Carolina EVER. If you were a recruit would you want to go to a school that just lost to Vandy and South Carolina and has a coach who is a horrible cliche' machine? It's reality man.
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Oh I agree, 9 wins in 2017 is a stretch, but it is still possible given the nature of football. We could end up 8-5 and still have a 4-4 conference record if we drop the GT game though.
 
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CountVolcula said:
Our backups are just as good as SC and Vandys starters

No excuse for losing to those 2 teams
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Dobbs explained his play for the usc jr game being up til 2 every night studying for his big test in his major aerospace engineering. really his only bad game of the year and a lot of the guys playing in those 2 games were not 2nd teamers they were more of 3 and 4 deep men
 
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salutethehill said:
Well that's unfortunate.

On a side note, I'm glad we have another thread like this. I hope the entire off-season is full of threads like this, because it means more if it's posted a blue-million times.
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Lololol it's only begun
 
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eVOLve said:
The reality being is that we have a team poiled to win the east. Coaching with make or break this year for us. Coaching will be the difference between 10-2 and 5-7.

We have the talent to be one of the top teams in the country but we could easily be on the brim of a losing season. It all depends..

It depends on how well out current roster is coached up.

We should pull off Florida and Georgia in my opinion opinion but alabama and LSU are a mystery.

Go vols!
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Wtf?

Tennessee has zero players on top 25 returning starters SEC lists I have seen.
 
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