Tom Luginbill was just on Marty & McGhee on

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25801VOL said:
We have never been like Alabama, never.
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In his first 5 years, Phil Fulmer had the highest winning percentage of any active coach in the NCAA. Robert Neyland was the last coach to go undefeated, untied, and unscored on.

Is that not "like Alabama?"

Did you know we beat Bama 11 straight years in the 80s and 90s?

Tennessee has been a perennial powerhouse. Not lately, but the program has been spectacular at times.
 
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I’m old, but it seems I remember Tommy Luginbill playing qb for Ga Tech. They weren’t very good and neither was he . Just saying.....
 
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Guys not defending Tom or anyone who views us different. They are not emotionally invested as we are. Lived in Florida for the past 36 years. Use to talk a lot of smack with gator fans. Honestly! They all know I bleed Orange, and for years No Smack🙄 they are always more sympathetic and try not to bring it up, 🤣 Heck! They offer encouragement. They miss the rivalry!! As much as I hate the gators, their fans too! They've known misery before. And I can tell you from gator country as much as they like poking fun at us these days, I've had several tell me. The one thing they respect about Vol fans, is they are not JUMP SHIP! Bandwagon fans! No matter how bad things get! But it's also the thing they find most annoying 😂 we keep getting up off the mat beat to **** going "Hey! Where you going? I'm not done!!"🤣🤣 GO VOLS!!
 
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GAVol said:
Tell me something I don’t know. My point was that Alabama wasn’t just down a little. They had 3 and 4 win seasons in there which is unthinkable for that program.
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Not arguing that it wasn't a bad stretch. Just arguing that their stretch wasn't that bad.

As a Gator, 2010-2017 wasn't any fun either. But, it was only 8 years long. There were only 2 losing seasons. We were 4-4 against Georgia, 7-1 against Tennessee. They went to a Sugar Bowl. So, while it sucked, it wasn't what Tennessee is experiencing.

For Alabama, there were 3, 10 win seasons and an SEC title in there from 1997-2006. Now, there's no doubt that this stretch was poor, but they weren't a punchline throughout that entire time.

I think the proper comparison is LSU from 1989-1999. They had 8 losing seasons in 11 years. They were 33-51-1 in SEC play during that stretch.

And even with LSU, you have to look at the fact that their stretch is still 5 years shorter than Tennessee's and that Tennessee unfortunately isn't out of the woods yet.
 
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SpeedyVOL said:
SEC Network. They were talking about our situation. Luginbill said the problem with the Vols is the fans want to be Alabama, when in reality they should aspire to be Kentucky or Ole Miss. 🤬 What the.... ??? Kentucky or Ole Miss?
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Indeed
I’m afraid he’s mostly on target, unfortunately
 
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SpeedyVOL said:
SEC Network. They were talking about our situation. Luginbill said the problem with the Vols is the fans want to be Alabama, when in reality they should aspire to be Kentucky or Ole Miss. 🤬 What the.... ??? Kentucky or Ole Miss?
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This is part of the new pr campaign IMO that our own administration is pushing as a silent partner in a whisper campaign. "We're UT and we're more like UK than we are Bama or UGA and we should just accept it for now until doomsday." If that's going to be the case then the administration needs to be honest with everybody and make that message clear. Then their next steps ought be reducing seats at Neyland to about 65,000 and moving to another conference less competitive than the SEC.
 
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BondJamesBond said:
In his first 5 years, Phil Fulmer had the highest winning percentage of any active coach in the NCAA. Robert Neyland was the last coach to go undefeated, untied, and unscored on.

Is that not "like Alabama?"

Did you know we beat Bama 11 straight years in the 80s and 90s?

Tennessee has been a perennial powerhouse. Not lately, but the program has been spectacular at times.
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UT has never beat Bama 11 straight years. In the 90s early 2000s they did have a streak of 7 straight. And as good as Fulmer's first 5 years were by UT standards, it only netted one SEC east division top finish.
 
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Buster1972 said:
UT has never beat Bama 11 straight years. In the 90s early 2000s they did have a streak of 7 straight. And as good as Fulmer's first 5 years were by UT standards, it only netted one SEC east division top finish.
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My mistake. Seven. That sounds dominating, albeit less so.
 
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Volinnooga said:
That’s not at all what was said but go ahead and vent about whatever seems to be on your mind.
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Read the original post. The word ‘aspire’ indicates exactly what I posted. Not sure what about my post inspired you to give a smart@## reply, but knock yourself out, sport.
 
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