Wikipedia reminds us of 2017 of Tennessee football

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Too bad you can’t put and asterisks by the record, significant injuries were probably the worst in school history.... I recall an ESPN gameday commentator called the last Vol game in 2017 a college football version of the “dead man walking, he’d never seen anything like it before” in respect to beaten up and injured.
 
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Vol0725 said:
Too bad you can’t put and asterisks by the record, significant injuries were probably the worst in school history.... I recall an ESPN gameday commentator called the last Vol game in 2017 a college football version of the “dead man walking, he’d never seen anything like it before” in respect to beaten up and injured.
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I forgot that injuries were part of the game. Can't put an asterisk next to ot because of that.
 
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Vol0725 said:
Too bad you can’t put and asterisks by the record, significant injuries were probably the worst in school history.... I recall an ESPN gameday commentator called the last Vol game in 2017 a college football version of the “dead man walking, he’d never seen anything like it before” in respect to beaten up and injured.
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I'd bet some other team sometime, somewhere, has had more injuries to starters and their backups; but I don't remember any and I'm 67. I know the negavols' excuse for being nega's is "every team has injuries", but that's the excuse they use to pound their 'man chest'. Chuckle, chortle, ha ha ha. Some teams do have much more injuries than others. This year, the Vols injuries were absolutely historic. That makes it virtually impossible to win. Combine that with the worst esprit de corps we've seen in many years and there is no wonder the team lost. Yes, there is blame enough to go around, but the buck stops at the head coach's desk.
 
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Good addendum. Injuries alter virtually every team's best-laid plans. We've been going to battle without backup (or backup-backup) options for far too long, and that's our fault, not fate's.
 
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Our season with CBJ - take a look in the mirror.

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Put a positive spin on it. We could have been Georgia Tech. Tech somehow lost to our crappy team, which also cost them making a bowl game.
 
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OP -

“Oh no! A Wikipedia page that I don’t want to see that reminds me of a year I don’t want to remember!

I should show other people too!”
 
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Hard to believe it actually happened, 8 losses and winless in the SEC. Worst season in UT history. CBJ accomplished far more than Dooley, but when you have THAT accomplishment on your record it becomes very hard to discern which coach was worse.
 
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Vol0725 said:
Too bad you can’t put and asterisks by the record, significant injuries were probably the worst in school history.... I recall an ESPN gameday commentator called the last Vol game in 2017 a college football version of the “dead man walking, he’d never seen anything like it before” in respect to beaten up and injured.
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Even if we have our entire third team starting, we should still beat Vandy by 30. That’s where UT should and needs to be.
 
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UTK said:
Even if we have our entire third team starting, we should still beat Vandy by 30. That’s where UT should and needs to be.
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I tend to agree, but there is just so much parity in athletics today, that I don't think that's the case anymore. Honestly, you should see even more parity moving forward given the pure number of high quality athletes that "fall" to "lower quality" programs.
 
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OnlyGodForgives said:
Good addendum. Injuries alter virtually every team's best-laid plans. We've been going to battle without backup (or backup-backup) options for far too long, and that's our fault, not fate's.
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It takes 6-7 years to rebuild in the SEC. Butch didn't have time to build enough depth in year 5.
 
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livefaith said:
It takes 6-7 years to rebuild in the SEC. Butch didn't have time to build enough depth in year 5.
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Really ? Kirby did it 2nd yr, Saban did it 2nd yr, Miles did it 2nd yr, need I go on ? It takes a little more than brick by brick, it also takes coaching up the players you got even if they aren't your recruits, and it takes a few brains, not cliches ... yes, it does take some building, but not 3-4 yrs out and complaining about injuries, these things have to be forseen, taken into account and planned for, they're going to happen, you can't just sit back and say well darned, we can't win because we didn't plan better
 
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livefaith said:
It takes 6-7 years to rebuild in the SEC. Butch didn't have time to build enough depth in year 5.
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If you're truly rebuilding, you don't go 4-8 in your fifth season. I was pulling for Butch until I watched that cluster-fk of a game with U-Mass. It went down hill from there. Besides being an alumni, I've followed the Vols since the early 60s. I can honestly say I can't recall a team that embarrassed me more than this one. How the hell can four years of top quality recruiting end up like that?
 
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