5 Years to the Day

[ursaminotaur]

5 years to the day since Schiano Sunday and the #7 Vols are a 10 win team. It's been a long and winding road with few peaks and many deep valleys. And, more than once over the course of this toxic decade, I have feared that we weren't going to make it out alive.

But - miracles do happen.

It's been such a fantastic season. Coach Heupel, Hendon Hooker, Jalin Hyatt and so many other dudes in that locker room have made football fun again.

This is one Vol that is very grateful this Thanksgiving that we made it back from the dead. Long live the great state of Tennessee and GBO!

 

[Gandalf]

5 years to the day since Schiano Sunday and the #7 Vols are a 10 win team. It's been a long and winding road with few peaks and many deep valleys. And, more than once over the course of this toxic decade, I have feared that we weren't going to make it out alive.

But - miracles do happen.

It's been such a fantastic season. Coach Heupel, Hendon Hooker, Jalin Hyatt and so many other dudes in that locker room have made football fun again.

This is one Vol that is very grateful this Thanksgiving that we made it back from the dead. Long live the great state of Tennessee and GBO!

The far more amazing thing to me is that just TWO short years ago we were a 3-7 team, literally the worst team in UTs entire history and now we are 10-2.

It is hard to adequately describe my appreciation for White, Heupel, et al.

But for Kirby’s back to back 12-0 seasons, CJH is undoubtedly deserving of the CotY.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

And so many on here told us how great Pruitt was...and was going to be.

 

[OrangeInKy]

5 years to the day since Schiano Sunday and the #7 Vols are a 10 win team. It's been a long and winding road with few peaks and many deep valleys. And, more than once over the course of this toxic decade, I have feared that we weren't going to make it out alive.

But - miracles do happen.

It's been such a fantastic season. Coach Heupel, Hendon Hooker, Jalin Hyatt and so many other dudes in that locker room have made football fun again.

This is one Vol that is very grateful this Thanksgiving that we made it back from the dead. Long live the great state of Tennessee and GBO!

I was at the Vandy game the day before, but went back out of state where I lived at the time to be told about Schiano by a UGA fan. I was so mad. I can't describe the "here we go again" feeling I had. Needless to say, I was elated hours later when it was over.

 

[The Original Fade]

5 years to the day since Schiano Sunday and the #7 Vols are a 10 win team. It's been a long and winding road with few peaks and many deep valleys. And, more than once over the course of this toxic decade, I have feared that we weren't going to make it out alive.

But - miracles do happen.

It's been such a fantastic season. Coach Heupel, Hendon Hooker, Jalin Hyatt and so many other dudes in that locker room have made football fun again.

This is one Vol that is very grateful this Thanksgiving that we made it back from the dead. Long live the great state of Tennessee and GBO!

The sports media for some reason thinks Tennessee should be a perennial 7-5 team and Schiano was their perfect guy to do it. We demanded more

 

[apevol]

The sports media for some reason thinks Tennessee should be a perennial 7-5 team and Schiano was their perfect guy to do it. We demanded more

crazy how badly everyone was desperate for that to happen, and the righteous indignation when we refused to let that be our fate

 

[Orangethumb]

According to Wikipedia he is 12-22 from 2020-2022 at Rutgers.

Bullet dodged!

 

[ALLVOL 4LIFE]

And so many on here told us how great Pruitt was...and was going to be.

Not me. Worst Birthday I ever had. When they announced Pruitt, I was on the verge of crying and felt so hollow. Bad Day!

 

[loservol]

The so called coaching genius won't even be going to a toilet bowl game this year.

 

[joevol33]

Be careful, there's still a couple around who thinks he would've been the best coach ever

 

[Kylo]

Be careful, there's still a couple around who thinks he would've been the best coach ever

Seriously???

 

[joevol33]

Seriously???

Oh yeah. Plenty of comments since that day, pretty sure one even started a thread a couple of years ago maybe, in the NCAA forum about how good he is

 

[GetYouSomeofThat]

And so many on here told us how great Pruitt was...and was going to be.

I wanted him to be but doubted that he would be.

 

[Kylo]

Oh yeah. Plenty of comments since that day, pretty sure one even started a thread a couple of years ago maybe, in the NCAA forum about how good he is

I'm glad I missed that one.

 

[MAD]

Which was more shocking at the time for you, hearing that Kiffin was suddenly bolting to USC or Schiano was a done deal and would be our next coach?

 

[loservol]

Which was more shocking at the time for you, hearing that Kiffin was suddenly bolting to USC or Schiano was a done deal and would be our next coach?

As a Vols fan, you start to become uncomfortably numb to shocks.

 

[GiveHim6InSC]

I have never been so proud to be a Tennessee Volunteer fan as I was on that day. I got texts from several guys in my church home group saying stuff like “Surely y’all can do better”, “Tell me y’all aren’t hiring Schiano”, etc. and I had no idea who he was. A quick Google search told me all I needed to know and I prayed oh so hard that he wouldn’t be named the coach. Then I started reading about all the opposition at the fan level all the way to the legislature, dang near an organized coup.
When ESPN started criticizing Vol Nation, I knew we were in the right.
I think it was telling when he wasn’t named OSU coach and it’s even more telling now, with where the Vols are vs where he is.
GB

 

[JoAllan]

3-6
5-8
4-8

Gets even worse in conference record
3-6
2-7
1-8

Lost by 17 or more 13 times out of 22
Scored fewer than 22 points 23 times out of 34 total games. Scored 13 points or fewer 13 times out of a total of 34 games. His team has given up 27 or more 19 times out of 34 games and given up 37 points or more 11 times.

He SUCKS

 

[vols40]

According to Wikipedia he is 12-22 from 2020-2022 at Rutgers.

Bullet dodged!

Don't tell Hirbstreet that. He says we would be lucky to have a guy like him.

 

[LivinginthePast]

Don't tell Hirbstreet that. He says we would be lucky to have a guy like him.

yup herby always makes the wrong picks. I wish I had a job where I could always be wrong. Must be nice to start in front of all national media and be wrong all the time.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

That Schiano hire would have been like a death penalty.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

I wanted him to be but doubted that he would be.

I was extremely upset at first. I watched his introduction presser and he said the right things and won me over. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for him to prove my initial gut instinct correct.

 

[KnoxRealtorVOL]

The far more amazing thing to me is that just TWO short years ago we were a 3-7 team, literally the worst team in UTs entire history and now we are 10-2.

It is hard to adequately describe my appreciation for White, Heupel, et al.

But for Kirby’s back to back 12-0 seasons, CJH is undoubtedly deserving of the CotY.

While your point still stands and this in no way diminishes it, 2020 wasn't the worst team in our history, Butch's 2017 was.

2020 still won 3 conference games, and didn't get the luxury of 3 OOC scrubs.

Granted, scrubs were no guarantee under Pruitt, but even if he wins 2/3 scrub games, that's a 5-7 team in a normal season. It likely would have been a 6-6 team.

 

[Volbackhomefromtx]

Which was more shocking at the time for you, hearing that Kiffin was suddenly bolting to USC or Schiano was a done deal and would be our next coach?

For me, Shiano. That day I actually questioned if I could continue to be a Volunteer football fan after being a devout fan for almost 60 years. The collective action as a fan base made me realize I was not alone. Kiffin leaving only angered me.

 

[BenGrimm]

Twitter outcry was one thing but I think some big donors threatened to pull back which is really what squashed the deal.

Sadly that dumpster fire of coaching search was more entertaining than the 2017-2019 seasons combined.