2006 Football

#51
#51
(Taylor Moran @ Mar 27 said:
California - win
Air Force - win
Florida - win
Marshall - win
Memphis - win
Georgia - win
Alabama - win
South Carolina - win
LSU - win
Arkansas - win
Vanderbilt - win
Kentucky - win
SEC Championship - win
Fiesta Bowl- win

14-0 national champs
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Thats what Im talking about
 
#52
#52
i've already said 9-3, but it's only because i think we just as capable of winning some of those games, as we are to lose them, as some of you have already pointed out. I don't hink 8-4 or 7-5 is out of the question either.

It truly depends on whether or not if this Offense can gel and get much better, and if the front lines on D can get good and deep in time for the fall.

but when you look at the schedule, there are 7 games that we should be capable of winning.....of course it wouldn't shock me if we lost a few of them either.

Cal...very tough early test. can we beat them? yeah we can. will we? debatable, but for now, i'm saying we win.
Florida...should be HUGE game for us both. on paper you'd have to go with the gators, but should we get a break or two, win the turnover battle..who knows. but for now, i pencil in an L.
Georgia...this one is tricky. it's in Athens, but they are replacing a ton of talent down there. based on that....i think we have enough for 'em, if we can stop the run...which you'd like to think we could since they'll be breaking in a new qb....but for now, i'm saying an L cause it's in Athens and though they've lost a lot, it's not like they don't have people that can play.
Bama...same as UGA, but more so. no Brodie croyle...no Ryans. it's in Knoxville. by this time in the season we should have found an identity, so i'm saying a W for now.
USC....i just can't see us losing to them again. wouldn't suprise me, but for now a W.
LSU....same as Florida....on paper, they should wipe the floor with us. for now an L.
Ark...this one is a bit scary to me. I think ARk could be one of the suprise teams in the SEC next season. I still think we should be able to beat them if they have found no passing attack. ground game should be very good for 'em. but for now, i'm saying a W.

So, LSU, Florida and GA are the teams that i think that can and will beat us. All the others, and really those too, we are capable of winning.

there are so many questions going in to next season....some have predicitons of next year thinking those questions wont' get answered right, and some have predictions based on those questions being answered correctly....

right now, we're all right in our assessments.....there's enough on both sides to warrant a good or bad prediction.
 
#53
#53
I am amazed at the respect SC is getting all of the sudden. Yes Spurrier is a great coach and yes they had a decent season last year, but after watching them play quite a bit last year they were just not that good. They had plenty of help with opponents shoting themselves in the foot and I was just never impressed with them last season. As far as UT goes I see 9-3 maybe 10-2. As bad as UT played last year it still took the ball bouncing the wrong way week in and week out to end up at 5-6. Almost every loss could have gone the other way if we made just a play or two that we didn't, and while I realize the same could be said for close wins there is just no way the offense won't improve....and you can't have the luck UT had 2 seasons in a row. 10-2 is probably very optimistic but the schedule is not killer this year and I can see it happening with some improvement in key areas.
 
#54
#54
(holdemvol @ Mar 27 said:
I am amazed at the respect SC is getting all of the sudden. Yes Spurrier is a great coach and yes they had a decent season last year, but after watching them play quite a bit last year they were just not that good. They had plenty of help with opponents shoting themselves in the foot and I was just never impressed with them last season. As far as UT goes I see 9-3 maybe 10-2. As bad as UT played last year it still took the ball bouncing the wrong way week in and week out to end up at 5-6. Almost every loss could have gone the other way if we made just a play or two that we didn't, and while I realize the same could be said for close wins there is just no way the offense won't improve....and you can't have the luck UT had 2 seasons in a row. 10-2 is probably very optimistic but the schedule is not killer this year and I can see it happening with some improvement in key areas.
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USC has no OL in 2006. They will lose to UT and UGA and beat UF
 
#55
#55
I think the real worry with SC is that you know if Spurrier sticks around a few years he will build that program up. They may not ever be as dominant in the SEC East as his UF teams but they will be better than they have been. This is just such a bad time for UT to be down with other eastern division schools getting a lot of enthusiasm from the media and recruits due to new head coaches and some unexpected success in '05 with lesser talent than we supposedly had. If we don't pick it up several notches on the field and in recruiting this year (and IMO recruiting will be heavily affected this year by on-the-field performance) we may find ourselves where SC has been for several years, a perennial 4th place team in the East looking for a chance to pop one of the big 3 in a down year.
 
#56
#56
(Taylor Moran @ Mar 26 said:
My Predictions

09/02/06 California Knoxville, Tenn. ------ W
09/09/06 Air Force Knoxville, Tenn. ----- W
09/16/06 Florida Knoxville, Tenn. ---- W
09/23/06 Marshall Knoxville, Tenn. ---- W
09/30/06 Memphis Memphis, Tenn. ---- W
10/07/06 Georgia Athens, Ga. ---- L
10/21/06 Alabama Knoxville, Tenn. ---- W
10/28/06 South Carolina Columbia, S.C ---- W
11/04/06 LSU Knoxville, Tenn. ---- W
11/11/06 Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark. ---- W
11/18/06 Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn. ---- W
11/25/06 Kentucky Knoxville, Tenn. ---- W
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I think If we can beat Georgia then we will go Undefeated, but thats a big IF. The other games that are questionable we have home field advantage so I think we can pull through with those.
 
#57
#57
My Predictions

09/02/06 California Knoxville, Tenn. ------ L
09/09/06 Air Force Knoxville, Tenn. ----- W
09/16/06 Florida Knoxville, Tenn. ---- L
09/23/06 Marshall Knoxville, Tenn. ---- W
09/30/06 Memphis Memphis, Tenn. ---- W
10/07/06 Georgia Athens, Ga. ---- L
10/21/06 Alabama Knoxville, Tenn. ---- L
10/28/06 South Carolina Columbia, S.C ---- W
11/04/06 LSU Knoxville, Tenn. ---- L
11/11/06 Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark. ---- W
11/18/06 Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn. ---- W
11/25/06 Kentucky Knoxville, Tenn. ---- W


7-5 record for the regular season. Fulmerites will be hailing the great turnaround in the team after the 3 wins against perennial SEC bottom dwellers, and UT will chalk up a loss to a mediocre team in a middle to lower tier bowl game.

It's possible that we also lose to Spurrier, but for now I'm staying optimistic.

 
#58
#58
(SpPirate06 @ Mar 27 said:
I think If we can beat Georgia then we will go Undefeated, but thats a big IF. The other games that are questionable we have home field advantage so I think we can pull through wit those.
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There's not a font available on this board to accurately depict how big an IF that is.
 
#60
#60
(VolunteerHillbilly @ Mar 27 said:
I think the real worry with SC is that you know if Spurrier sticks around a few years he will build that program up. They may not ever be as dominant in the SEC East as his UF teams but they will be better than they have been. This is just such a bad time for UT to be down with other eastern division schools getting a lot of enthusiasm from the media and recruits due to new head coaches and some unexpected success in '05 with lesser talent than we supposedly had. If we don't pick it up several notches on the field and in recruiting this year (and IMO recruiting will be heavily affected this year by on-the-field performance) we may find ourselves where SC has been for several years, a perennial 4th place team in the East looking for a chance to pop one of the big 3 in a down year.
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I agree they may pose a threat in a the next few years but I am just dumbfounded at the attitude that they are some sort of power NOW because of the year they had in 05. You are right in that UT needs to get it together and do it NOW, but I don't see UT getting to the point that SC was.....not with the tradtion and facilities.....and I also believe that if the ship is not righted this year or next you WILL see a new HC.
 
#61
#61
(Vol423 @ Mar 27 said:
7-5 record for the regular season. Fulmerites will be hailing the great turnaround in the team after the 3 wins against perennial SEC bottom dwellers, and UT will chalk up a loss to a mediocre team in a middle to lower tier bowl game.
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i don't think anyone thinks 7-5 would warrant the "turn around" tag....fulmerite or not as you so eloquently put it.

turnaround would be 9 or more wins imo.
 
#62
#62
(jakez4ut @ Mar 27 said:
i don't think anyone thinks 7-5 would warrant the "turn around" tag....fulmerite or not as you so eloquently put it.

turnaround would be 9 or more wins imo.
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I think that you missed my point. No matter how poorly UT plays during the meat of the season when it's playing tough competition, the Fulmerites always hail a beat down of Kentucky and Vanderbilt as a sign that the team has really come together. Then a loss in a bowl game to a mediocre team catches them offguard. For examples of this phenomenon, reference the seasons that we got drilled in our bowl games by Kansas State, Maryland and Clemson.
 
#63
#63
Let's see if we can go a few posts without using the label "Fulmerite" for anybody that doesn't think CPF is the Antichrist of coaching. It's gotten really old. :twocents:
 
#64
#64
(Vol423 @ Mar 27 said:
I think that you missed my point. No matter how poorly UT plays during the meat of the season when it's playing tough competition, the Fulmerites always hail a beat down of Kentucky and Vanderbilt as a sign that the team has really come together. Then a loss in a bowl game to a mediocre team catches them offguard. For examples of this phenomenon, reference the seasons that we got drilled in our bowl games by Kansas State, Maryland and Clemson.
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Good Point! Actually i think this team could show improvment and still not have the record to back it up! There isn't an automatic win on the schedule and if they lose to Cal it could snowball! But a win could do the same!
 
#65
#65
(Vol423 @ Mar 27 said:
I think that you missed my point. No matter how poorly UT plays during the meat of the season when it's playing tough competition, the Fulmerites always hail a beat down of Kentucky and Vanderbilt as a sign that the team has really come together. Then a loss in a bowl game to a mediocre team catches them offguard. For examples of this phenomenon, reference the seasons that we got drilled in our bowl games by Kansas State, Maryland and Clemson.
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i still don't think people put CPF on a pedestal for beating UK and Vandy...and i think everyone who's a TN fan was caught off guard by those losses you mentioned.

I hear what your saying, but i think your looking for something that's not there. i've never heard or seen anyone get super excited about the status of our program and boast victories over KY and Vandy as proof of where we are....sure, the streaks, well, now streak over KY, are nice, because you expect to beat them each year, but to say that people fall down in praise of CPF for beating KY or Vandy, well, i haven't seen it.
 
#67
#67
Well we all know that we will not be any good and CPF is the worst coach in the history of NCAA. If only we had another coach.
 
#71
#71
(U-T @ Mar 27 said:
Everyone and their mother put down UGA as a loss in 2004 as well
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My mother doesn't watch football!! :banghead: But if she did with Fulmer"s 20% win record against Mark Ritch she would have put her Social Security check on the Dogs!!
 
#72
#72
(rockydoc @ Mar 27 said:
But if she did with Fulmer"s 20% win record against Mark Ritch she would have put her Social Security check on the Dogs!!
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And she would have lost that check the last time we visited Sanford
 
#73
#73
(U-T @ Mar 27 said:
And she would have lost that check the last time we visited Sanford
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And she probably also knows that Mark Ritch was the guy that got pardoned by Bill Clinton; not the head football coach at UGA.
 
#74
#74
I think the consensus is 8-4. I think that is pretty fair. doesnt mean we can't hope for a turnaround like in basketball. I just think they need to be realistic.
 
#75
#75
(GAVol @ Mar 28 said:
And she probably also knows that Mark Ritch was the guy that got pardoned by Bill Clinton; not the head football coach at UGA.
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"she"??


Don't complain later in this thread when you get called a Fulmerite or an apologist.
 
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