2022 Army game bought out (merged)

[PG1]

Just paid Army $500,000 to cancel the contract and not play next year and replaced them with Akron. Now Army is without a game next year. Any details on any other reason we would have dropped this game?

 

[lukeneyland]

I really won’t mind seeing us not get chop blocked to death

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Scared to play Army? Lol. Please. We would
Blow Army off the field.

 

[JoAllan]

I still love to play army…..and heck I gots 5 grandkids.

I break out those little plastic green guys every chance I get.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

I really won’t mind seeing us not get chop blocked to death

This^

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

Heard it was 500,000 less? Maybe I read wrong.

 

[GAVol]

I really won’t mind seeing us not get chop blocked to death

Seriously… I won’t miss seeing 3 of our guys get cut blocked on every play.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

Not scared, but this game was sandwiched between a road games at Pitt and vs Florida. Bad spot. UT has been trying to buy out for a while. Game was scheduled years ago.

 

[PG1]

Not scared, but this game was sandwiched between a road games at Pitt and vs Florida. Bad spot. UT has been trying to buy out for a while. Game was scheduled years ago.

So you are saying we just got out of a loss?

 

[VolArmy74]

Fulmer/Pruitt started the process to buyout the game. Hart is who scheduled it. Akron is charging 1 million. Army was going to charge 1.4, so we are losing 100k. Not much good comes from playing Army while they run the triple option. It's just a random game you have to prep for in an entirely different manner than every other game on the schedule.

 

[vols 30]

Scared to play Army? Lol. Please. We would
Blow Army off the field.

I remember thinking that before we played Air Force

 

[wmcovol]

Blame it on Milley. Move on

 

[JoAllan]

So you are saying we just got out of a loss?

Army 5 years running:
3-0
9-3
5-8
11-2
10-3

Akron:
1-2
1-5
0-12
4-8
7-7

One is a guaranteed win, one is not, and would be a grind out game before Florida.

A bowl will pay more than 500k…….Tennessee is and has been way down……right now their trying to get bowling again……sounds like priorities are in the right place to me.

It’s not like they don’t already play Bama, Florida, Georgia, LSU and play Pitt non conference.

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

So you are saying we just got out of a loss?

No if you read what others have mentioned. Injuries are more likely with philosophy of the academy schools. And yes that philosophy can sometimes sucker in your linebackers trying to be glory seekers and you have to be disciplined playing the academy on the triple option. So they get out of groove and with a game as big as Florida the game following you dont want your linebackers changing timing and techniques between games as important as that.

 

[DonDiego]

Yep, them dudes got guns.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Yes.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Army 5 years running:
3-0
9-3
5-8
11-2
10-3

Akron:
1-2
1-5
0-12
4-8
7-7

One is a guaranteed win, one is not, and would be a grind out game before Florida.

A bowl will pay more than 500k…….Tennessee is and has been way down……right now their trying to get bowling again……sounds like priorities are in the right place to me.

It’s not like they don’t already play Bama, Florida, Georgia, LSU and play Pitt non conference.

Army the past 5 years has generally gotten up for games against bigger names.

They took at the time at least highly ranked Oklahoma and Michigan to OT in the past 3 years. It would definitely at the least likely be a tough W.

 

[PG1]

No if you read what others have mentioned. Injuries are more likely with philosophy of the academy schools. And yes that philosophy can sometimes sucker in your linebackers trying to be glory seekers and you have to be disciplined playing the academy on the triple option. So they get out of groove and with a game as big as Florida the game following you dont want your linebackers changing timing and techniques between games as important as that.

So don’t play a team that can beat you? I wonder why this game was ever scheduled. Army’s talent even now is so far below ours it don’t matter if they ran a quadruple option we should play and beat them easily. This just looks bad.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

So don’t play a team that can beat you? I wonder why this game was ever scheduled. Army’s talent even now is so far below ours it don’t matter if they ran a quadruple option we should play and beat them easily. This just looks bad.

Ask Oklahoma and Michigan about that.

 

[KINGSVOL]

We have a Volunteer Army, why not pay them off!

 

[Coach_Z]

They about beat the hell out of Oklahoma last year. They’re disciplined. Their defense is usually staunch. I am very, very okay not playing them.

On the other side of the coin, I coached a DL for Akron so I am absolutely, very, very stoked about this.

 

[njvols]

We sure do love to pay folks not to step foot in Neyland.,.teams, ex AD, ex coach, not ever ex coach who never coached here, two week $860k consultants etc, etc.

 

[DeerPark12]

So don’t play a team that can beat you? I wonder why this game was ever scheduled. Army’s talent even now is so far below ours it don’t matter if they ran a quadruple option we should play and beat them easily. This just looks bad.

Don't play a team that runs a completely different offense than everyone else you play during a critical part of your season.

 

[JoAllan]

Don’t worry Tennessee will probably play them in a bowl game.

Army will win in the last seconds by some strange rule miracle.

During the off season the NCAA will change the rule.

 

[wmcovol]

Don’t worry Tennessee will probably play them in a bowl game.

Army will win in the last seconds by some strange rule miracle.

During the off season the NCAA will change the rule.

It will be a basic rule the NFL has had in place for years but NCAA has been to busy with interest-free loans & investigations of Oklahoma Tech to consider.