UT-Martin Uniform Announced

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what's the story behind the Summitt Blue and why the lady Vols have that as their secondary? I've always been curious about it
 
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WestTennesseeVol said:
Obviously it takes two to tango, but I never understood why we don’t schedule only in state “pay to win” games. I’d rather pay for UTC’s and ETSU’s budget than Akron’s and Ball State’s.
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Well, we play 3 cupcakes a year. Typically (not always), that breaks down as 2 Group of 5 teams, and 1 FCS program.

There really aren't a lot of Group of 5 teams in the state of Tennessee. I think MTSU and Memphis are it. And there's no way we're going to make either of them annual opponents. That would feel way too much like allowing them to become rivals. That ain't happening.

So those two Group of 5 games, we have to look a little further afield in Conference USA, or the American Conference, or Sun Belt, or MAC. This year, we got two from the MAC.

I do agree with you that we should always try to ensure our one FCS game each year is against a Tennessee school. That we totally ought to always do. There are like a half dozen of them, so plenty of room to rotate among them.

Oh, one other point: I think the current NCAA rules only allow FBS teams to play one FCS game a year and still count on our win-loss record. That's one reason it's the formula: 2 G5, 1 FCS.

Go Vols!

p.s. When I said "3 cupakes a year," I wasn't counting Vandy, since they're part of the 8 SEC games a year. LOL. Otherwise,...totally.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Well, we play 3 cupcakes a year. Typically (not always), that breaks down as 2 Group of 5 teams, and 1 FCS program.

There really aren't a lot of Group of 5 teams in the state of Tennessee. I think MTSU and Memphis are it. And there's no way we're going to make either of them annual opponents. That would feel way too much like allowing them to become rivals. That ain't happening.

So those two Group of 5 games, we have to look a little further afield in Conference USA, or the American Conference, or Sun Belt, or MAC. This year, we got two from the MAC.

I do agree with you that we should always try to ensure our one FCS game each year is against a Tennessee school. That we totally ought to always do. There are like a half dozen of them, so plenty of room to rotate among them.

Oh, one other point: I think the current NCAA rules only allow FBS teams to play one FCS game a year and still count on our win-loss record. That's one reason it's the formula: 2 G5, 1 FCS.

Go Vols!

p.s. When I said "3 cupakes a year," I wasn't counting Vandy, since they're part of the 8 SEC games a year. LOL. Otherwise,...totally.
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Yeah, I got to thinking after my post and could only come up with Memphis and MTSU as in state G5 schools. I, selfishly, wouldn’t mind seeing them play Memphis again, but there’s numerous reasons why that’s a bad idea. MTSU I wouldn’t mind, but we’d be sure to get their best shot every year. Still, keeping it regional (WKU, Southern Miss, Troy, etc) would surely be more interesting than Akron or Ball State. Zero reason to schedule out of state FCS schools though.

Good point on the NCAA rules, I forgot only one FCS win could count. But anyway, this has already gone way off topic.
 
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WestTennesseeVol said:
Yeah, I got to thinking after my post and could only come up with Memphis and MTSU as in state G5 schools. I, selfishly, wouldn’t mind seeing them play Memphis again, but there’s numerous reasons why that’s a bad idea. MTSU I wouldn’t mind, but we’d be sure to get their best shot every year. Still, keeping it regional (WKU, Southern Miss, Troy, etc) would surely be more interesting than Akron or Ball State. Zero reason to schedule out of state FCS schools though.

Good point on the NCAA rules, I forgot only one FCS win could count. But anyway, this has already gone way off topic.
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Yeah, but that's okay, folks won't mind if we have a conversation within the conversation, heh.

I did look it up a bit, we're actually pretty good at USUALLY keeping the FCS game each year in Tennessee. In the last 10 years, only two games went out of state: 2017 against Indiana State, and 2015 against Western Carolina.

In the past decade, we've played Austin Peay once, UT Chattanooga twice, Tennessee Tech twice, and ETSU once. Plus the UT-Martin game coming up, of course. The only in-state FCS program we didn't play during that period was Tennessee State.
 
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Hey Danny White, I'd love to see a blue "8" on the front of the orange stripe on the helmet.
Signed, true orange and blue VOL Fan!
 
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Meh, my least favorite uniform combo is the all orange. Last time we trotted those out we lost multiple players to injuries. Blue for Pat is a good touch, but these uniforms don't crack top 10 for me of combinations.
 
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