What if this team stayed healthy?

#26
#26
TGVol said:
Team was healthy early on and barely beat App State and Ohio. The real and constant problem this year has been poor coaching, and no amount of spin can change that. Just look at all the penalties this year which indicate lack of discipline (and let's not even talk about few of the most talented players quitting in the middle of the year).
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This all day.
 
#27
#27
TGVol said:
Team was healthy early on and barely beat App State and Ohio. The real and constant problem this year has been poor coaching, and no amount of spin can change that. Just look at all the penalties this year which indicate lack of discipline (and let's not even talk about few of the most talented players quitting in the middle of the year).
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Exactly. We played ****ty football before all the injuries hit.
 
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#28
#28
We would be 11 and 1 and if Bama didn't bring there A game in Atlanta we would have a decent chance of winning.
 
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QuickSmurf said:
But you don't mention how they played after halftime adjustments. Good coaching. You can't have it both ways. If the first half is because of bad coaching then the 2nd half is because of good coaching :D.
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You don't have but about 6 really goods coaches in college football the other 100 plus you could put in a bag and shake and you would hope to get lucky, you got 2 great coaches in college and you know who they are, i think our next head coach will be JIM BOB COTTER, and that't not a joke.:eek:hmy:
 
#30
#30
"I see a lot of blaming Butch or DeBord or Shoop. But hardly anyone recognizes that this team was playing a lot of third string guys."



What? Are you kidding? That's all anybody says.

No matter that our defense was porous from day one vs App State or that we've pretty much only played our 3rd string linebackers and DTs, that's all most have said. Everything, and I do mean everything, is explained away by the injuries. Injuries explain some of it but far from all of it IMO.

As a matter of fact, a lot of guys have gone much further than you and have said we're playing a bunch of 5th stringers or "240 LB guys playing out of position" in their effort to explain away how bad certain position groups, primarily on defense, have been......and to shout down any other fans who have voiced serious concerns about how poorly team 120 has played for the vast majority of the year.

Look, everybody knows we've had a ton of injuries and have been particularly hard hit at defensive tackle. But anyone being honest about it must also acknowledge that whether we've had starters, second stringers or, on rare occasion, 3rd stringers in, that we've performed consistently all season long like an undisciplined, unfundamentally sound, and just in general a poorly coached and coordinated football team. Fortunately, we've had a handful of playmakers (Hurd vs App State, Dobbs, Jennings, Malone, Barnett) step up at critical times to make big plays to salvage some games for us.
 
#31
#31
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas.
Just kidding! That Don Meredith was an idiot.
 
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TucsonVol said:
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we would all have a merry Christmas!
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Already stated this. Mainly making a point that with these injuries how could we expect any better than what we got this year.


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#34
#34
Hard to say. We were mostly healthy going into the A&M game but still gifted the Aggies six turnovers (seven, I think, if you count the interception at the very end in OT that sealed the loss).

It seems like there were some behind the scenes chemistry issues until Hurd left. However, injuries or not, it's tough to argue that we were a well coached and disciplined team this year. Gritty and tough enough to come back after slow starts? - Yes. Well prepared going into games? - No.

So, losing to USC might have happened anyway. That loss was (is) inexcusacle and impossible to explain. If we'd been at full strength, the chances are higher that we'd have bumbled our way to a close win, and that would have put us in the SECCG.

At the end of the day, who knows? But this season will go down as a massive missed opportunity for so much more. We should have beaten A&M (double OT despite turnovers) and we should have beaten SC easily despite injuries.

In the end, even if healthy I think our level of play suggests that we'd still have dropped one that we shouldn't have.

Let's hope for a strong finish regardless. GO VOLS!!!
 
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#36
I don't think injuries caused us the game at TAMU...I don't think the Browns could beat Bama...were were still a more talented team against USC even with our injuries...

I think the difference is that the D wouldn't be giving up such huge amounts of yardage...don't think our record would be different.
 
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TGVol said:
Team was healthy early on and barely beat App State and Ohio. The real and constant problem this year has been poor coaching, and no amount of spin can change that. Just look at all the penalties this year which indicate lack of discipline (and let's not even talk about few of the most talented players quitting in the middle of the year).
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Actually penalties quite often are a DIRECT result of injuries because the team losing continuity which is essential to disciplined line play etc. That's one thing that hasn't been discussed much but shifting OL around just about every week really puts u behind the eight ball the whole game. But I'm tired of the "injuries never effect real teams" crowd and ready to move on.,...
 
#39
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Sarms58 said:
I don't think injuries caused us the game at TAMU...I don't think the Browns could beat Bama...were were still a more talented team against USC even with our injuries...

I think the difference is that the D wouldn't be giving up such huge amounts of yardage...don't think our record would be different.
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We'd have an announcement Monday next week and our new AD would get here allot quicker if we had this record without the injuries.
 
#40
#40
What if Tennessee had a head coach that had them ready to play in the first half of almost every game up to the Kentucky game?

What if Tennessee had a head coach that could use the bye week to prepare for a pitiful South Carolina squad and not blow the chance at a real championship?

Oh the places they would've went...
 
#42
#42
Before we had 1 single injury This team played like it had never seen a weight room, had no clue how all those not even ranked App State guys where throwing our 4 & 5 stars around like a sack of flour! We are not well coached...at all ! Butch has proven to be way to Loyal to lesser players at time. He don't have the Balls to sit a senior QB a quarter who is having a bad game and giving the ball away like free cheese. He refuses to adapt his ever predictable offense. Dobbs bails him out many times by playing back yard football.
 
#44
#44
It was obvious after game 1 this team had went backwards in development. True freshmen play well until the coaches got a hold of them now they play like high school jrs. Coaching is the diff not injuries
 
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