Where Is the SMASH Mouth TN Football Team

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I once loved to watch.....I miss that DEFENSE that struck fear in every team they faced....I miss the days when injuries were downplayed and not used as an excuse...when our team didn't fumble away games....where is our balanced team with stars at every position....where is the enthusiasm of being a TN VOL!!! Let's get it back and have a great year....our fans can give energy to the team so we need to do that and let the future of our coaching staff remain in our mind but not during the games. It is obvious we need a new direction and a revival of our PRIDE in our football team and I hope it comes soon! Our coaches have done a good job but we need to lift our program to a higher level....we need to get the coach and the players who have the intensity to get us where we should be as the great University we are.....GO VOLS!
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we only used them until the Friday before the Cal game. much ink was spilled regaling us with tales of our newly found toughness and smash mouth game. However, I haven't heard another word about it since then.
 
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I once loved to watch the single wing without being subjected to that blasted Notre Dame Box or that wretched wide-open T formation. Ah, the sweet vision of 5'10", 180-pound linemen with leather helmets pulling out and leading a quadruple reverse jump pass to the spinning fullback.

There was nothing more glorious than seeing a young man with a compound fracture and a human tibia driven through his skull spitting his teeth and his nose out, wiping the spinal fluid out of his eyes, chopping off his testicles with a blunt axehead (since we were too poor to afford the axe handle; that was for rich folks), and getting out there to leave his spleen on the field to beat Sewanee. The only thing better than watching a kid have his eyeball torn out was watching him try to put it back in before the next play, then realizing it was futile...so he would eat it to intimidate the opposition. Then he'd wash it down with a tall glass of melted beef fat spiked with picric acid. 'Course, we couldn't afford an actual glass either, so he'd rip his buddy's foot off and drink out of that.
 
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Ohio Vol said:
I once loved to watch the single wing without being subjected to that blasted Notre Dame Box or that wretched wide-open T formation. Ah, the sweet vision of 5'10", 180-pound linemen with leather helmets pulling out and leading a quadruple reverse jump pass to the spinning fullback.

There was nothing more glorious than seeing a young man with a compound fracture and a human tibia driven through his skull spitting his teeth and his nose out, wiping the spinal fluid out of his eyes, chopping off his testicles with a blunt axehead (since we were too poor to afford the axe handle; that was for rich folks), and getting out there to leave his spleen on the field to beat Sewanee. The only thing better than watching a kid have his eyeball torn out was watching him try to put it back in before the next play, then realizing it was futile...so he would eat it to intimidate the opposition. Then he'd wash it down with a tall glass of melted beef fat spiked with picric acid. 'Course, we couldn't afford an actual glass either, so he'd rip his buddy's foot off and drink out of that.
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That was beautiful man.

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... the days when we could line up and tell them we were running the ISO off tackle on 3rd down and hit it for a first down... the days when we could put pressure on an opposing QB... the days when we had the balls to stretch them vertically... the days when our special teams were second to none.

I remember seeing a clip of Cut coaching the offense the spring he returned to Knoxville and telling them we were gonna line up and the QB was gonna point at the o-gap and tell them 'We're running right here', and cram it down their throats.:rofl: What a joke.
 
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The days when we would punt on 1st down just for the hell of it....the days when we had to scrap our entire playbook to satisfy that weiner Walter Camp and his "seven men on the line" garbage....the days when you would lose both your legs above the hip in Belleau Wood and still dropkick a melon-shaped ball from here to Arizona, which wasn't even a state at the time and never should have been, consarn it...the days when we would rather die than abandon the flying wedge....the days when a 3-0 score was a real barnburner...the days when this young pup named Bill Monroe dueled AP Carter to the death before they made up and spawned Roy Acuff.

Yup, those were the days.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
we only used them until the Friday before the Cal game. much ink was spilled regaling us with tales of our newly found toughness and smash mouth game. However, I haven't heard another word about it since then.
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It's really easy to appear to be a great smash mouth offense when you're playing against our atrocious front seven.
 
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For the past 3 seasons, you've seen defenses in the SEC get to the point where running old school SEC football has become less successful. Auburn with Brown/Cadillac were the last reall smashmouth running team in the conference. Arkansas with Jones/McFadden are the exception right now, but even they are not running right at you all the time. Arky in a sense "spreads" the field to get better running lanes.

In essence, since 2004 when Auburn was running through the conference and Tennessee had Riggs and Houston rush for 1000 yards each has there been the type of football we have been traditionally accustomed to in the SEC. The era of spreading the field to get better running lanes and confuse the defenses has arrived...
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
For the past 3 seasons, you've seen defenses in the SEC get to the point where running old school SEC football has become less successful. Auburn with Brown/Cadillac were the last reall smashmouth running team in the conference. Arkansas with Jones/McFadden are the exception right now, but even they are not running right at you all the time. Arky in a sense "spreads" the field to get better running lanes.

In essence, since 2004 when Auburn was running through the conference and Tennessee had Riggs and Houston rush for 1000 yards each has there been the type of football we have been traditionally accustomed to in the SEC. The era of spreading the field to get better running lanes and confuse the defenses has arrived...
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You're mistaking a trend for a paradigm shift.

The idea that so-called "power football" is dead requires a couple of things. The first is a definition of what exactly "power football" is.

The reason I ask is because it's usually based on one of two things. One is formation, the other is actual play. A team like West Virginia runs anywhere from 40-60 times a game but they aren't called "power"; would a team that runs the power I or wishbone but passes a ton be "power"?

USC has had enormous success this decade running a decent amount of I-formation and offset-I to all points. Although the perception isn't that of power, the execution and plays speak for themselves.
 
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