Recent content by njvols

No doubt. This shows how little anyone even tries to examine what makes teams tick. They had the best RB in the SEC (according to non UT fans), which chewed up clock and sustained long drives. They lost at least half their starters to graduation and probably half their two deep. I believe...

Yeah and I think each draft takes on a life of it's own. No way any more than 3 QBs should have been taken in top 15 and no way defense players should have fallen that far. I think you're right. Hooker would have been no worse than maybe fourth QB taken this year and teams who didn't hit the...

Crazy the 86-87 team went 7-11 in SEC with Tony White, Fred Jenkins, Dyron Nix and Roth.

Get him in shape...in line for some serious Frosh PT.

I’m thinking/hoping the reason for exodus of DBs in the portal was coaches realized we had to be better and signaled their need to transfer to have room to be more athletic. Front 7 being strong will also help take pressure off DBs

Drink gonna have a fun time this year w/o a senior laden D and no all sec running back to gobble up time of possession keeping D off the field. Expect fall back to 6 win threshold for flash in the pan Miz. We on the other hand will be back in the 9-10 win area for third straight year where we...

I agree. Gone are the days of 1983 roster, when you knew Reggie was #92, Tim McGee was 88, Johnnie Jones was 33 and Dale Jones was 54. I feel CFB is going the way of CBB, where they'll expand the playoffs further, and will become a cobbling of free agents into each year's team, with most...

Great write up. Appreciate the well articulated status report.

This has got to drive even the best of coaches entirely bonkers. Who cares about team. Who’s got the most cash. I mean we got a little NIL$ too so this whole thing of loving UT but going out to highest bidder is nuts anymore. Every season now a complete reshuffle.

All this could be good or bad. Barnes did pretty good last year. With lift of E8 exposure, I'd say we're gonna be pretty salty again. Don't like roster turnover, but if we can upgrade, we've got opportunity to maintain this past year level. Think w/ existing players, if they all stayed, we'd...

You'd think we fired our coach or something. Guessing Gainey would stay w/ Pa?

They weren’t but they got the luck of the draw. We had a chance to be there in the end. Shots didn’t fall and if refs called the same game for us as the finals we may have beaten Purdue. Couldn’t breathe on porcelain Edey without a foul being called. 5 seems about right, and see no fault in Bama...

If some coach can coach Toby not to immediately foul upon entering the game he’s got a chance to be really good somewhere…am thinking NC State type or maybe Big East. Who knows. Head scratcher on that transfer.

Agree. Another year under his belt will be huge for Estrella. He’s a competitor.

What the heck. Stars were aligned for him to be all SEC type player for us, if he could stay out of foul trouble. Well, it's clear now, we're going to have to be extremely aggressive in the portal. Going to be virtually an entirely new team next year, w/ exceptions of ZZ, Aidoo, etc...unless...