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Fine Vol

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With a healthy team could we beat any of these schools?
1. Ohio St.
2. Michigan
3. USC
4. Notre Dame
 
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Definitely could play with Notre Dame . . . Last year's snakebitten team gave ND all they wanted.

Definitely could play with USC.

OSU and Michigan I'm glad we'll never know.
 
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I think we could take Notre Dame. I think USC could also lose to the Vols, but it all depends on how they are playing that day. Michigan and Ohio State have good O-lines and running backs. I don't think our defense could stop them this year.
 
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Michigan and Ohio State, no.

USC small chance but probably not.

I think we match up well enough with Notre Dame that we could beat them.
 
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I think if we was healthy we could play with and beat Notre Dame and USC. I'm not so sure with UM and tOSU.
 
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With how they played today, no to all 4.

Playing their best, I think they could take Southern Cal and Notre Dame.

Ohio State and Michigan would probably be like the Florida and LSU games... close on the scoreboard, maybe, but beat up and down the field.

Or they could be like the Arkansas game... beat up and down the field AND on the scoreboard.
 
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Does "if healthy" include Fellows?

I believe if we had everyone healthy and we played a perfect game we could beat ND, if they played a perfect game and out of 10 games with USC we would split. However, our perfect game against the perfect games of UM and Tosu...no.
 
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therealUT said:
Does "if healthy" include Fellows?

I believe if we had everyone healthy and we played a perfect game we could beat ND, if they played a perfect game and out of 10 games with USC we would split. However, our perfect game against the perfect games of UM and Tosu...no.
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To take that one step further...

If we still had Harrell and Inky, and if Tony McDaniel and Rob Smith hadn't bolted to the NFL... at a minimum our line play would have been better - and that is what cost us our losses... if, if, if...
 
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General Jack said:
To take that one step further...

If we still had Harrell and Inky, and if Tony McDaniel and Rob Smith hadn't bolted to the NFL... at a minimum our line play would have been better - and that is what cost us our losses... if, if, if...
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I believe we can only go on the health factor, not the bolting for the draft factor. Else, we would have to give USC Bush and White...
 
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Could we beat those teams?? With this Coach? No way! We just barely beat tthe Univeristy of Kentucky, in FOOTBALL. 410 total offense agianst UT?? What do you guys think a real team would do? Talent wise, we have some of the best, but it's a shame to see them not prosper into what they could be. I'm glad we won, but come on! 17-12 AT HOME!
 
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VolNavy01 said:
Could we beat those teams?? With this Coach? No way! We just barely beat tthe Univeristy of Kentucky, in FOOTBALL. 410 total offense agianst UT?? What do you guys think a real team would do? Talent wise, we have some of the best, but it's a shame to see them not prosper into what they could be. I'm glad we won, but come on! 17-12 AT HOME!
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I am glad that your post doesn't lack perspective. Oh, and this post of mine, doesn't lack sarcasm.
 
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Oh, good one.............So much insight to your posts as well. Yes the only reasons we don't kill loser teams like Kentucky is injuries, yeah.........that's it, I hope it's a fun place in your world of denial. If you're satisfied with an escape win over the worst defense in the SEC, than keep on keeping on! Fulmer rocks! So do you think we'll win the Peach Bowl?
 
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I see it only took about 2 hours for the buzzards to start circling again.

I have major concerns as well . . . but as we know, there can be no logical middle ground in this argument.
 
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Yeah that's right, the buzzards.........I can't believe you guys are comfortable with another piss poor performance.
 
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VolNavy01 said:
Yeah that's right, the buzzards.........I can't believe you guys are comfortable with another piss poor performance.
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If you actually read my post above you'd see that I am NOT comfortable . . . nobody in their right mind is "comfortable" after that performance. I'm just not foaming at the mouth at this point.
 
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VolNavy01 said:
Oh, good one.............So much insight to your posts as well. Yes the only reasons we don't kill loser teams like Kentucky is injuries, yeah.........that's it, I hope it's a fun place in your world of denial. If you're satisfied with an escape win over the worst defense in the SEC, than keep on keeping on! Fulmer rocks! So do you think we'll win the Peach Bowl?
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Where did I say the only reason we didn't kill UK was because of injuries? I thought we played horribly today. I thought Ainge missed some key throws, WRs dropped some key passes, and our defense missed a lot of tackles. I was unaware that any team could have off days? I guess since Tosu only beat Illinois by 7, then Tosu is overrated?

I am satisfied with any W we get. In the end, what matters is that a team wins, everything else is stats. I do feel that we would have beaten LSU had Ainge been healthy, however, I still believe we would have lost to Arkansas.

Also, I am not sure if we will win our bowl game, since we have yet to receive our bid. I will see who we get paired up with and how we match up. Also, I feel that 9-3 is worse than what we should have been this year (11-1 or 10-2.)

What seperates me from you, however, is that my solution to everything is not 'Fulmer sucks.' My solution is also not 'keep Fulmer forever.' Give the man two years to get an offensive and defensive line, and if we are not winning the SECCG in two years, then send Fulmer packing.
 
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Sure sounds like it, people are actually discussing whether or not we could play with teams like USC, Notre Dame, Michigan..............I am sick of this year after year of mediocracy that is going on. Tired of not being mentioned for BCS games, tired of not winning the SEC, the same old same old............
 
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therealUT said:
What seperates me from you, however, is that my solution to everything is not 'Fulmer sucks.' My solution is also not 'keep Fulmer forever.'
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I'll never understand why is it so hard for some to understand this point of view without calling it complacent.
 
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How many years are we gonna keep saying this about Fulmer? It starts at the top, instead he'll get another pay raise, that no matter how bad a year he has there's no way he'll be bought out and then if he was have the money to lure a Top Notch coach. Year after year after year.
 
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