A dose of perspective...

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VOLveeta said:
And you went into this season with higher expectations?
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No. But we’re considering the here and now, I thought. I went into the day with higher expectations. Guess I misunderstood the thread.
I guess in that case, just pick any loss in the ‘05 season.
 
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Sorry, didn’t get the memo. When did losing to SC become acceptable? A win against SC would have been forgotten in a week, but we’ll never forget this loss. This is 2001 LSU all over again, but worse because it happened tonight!
 
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Orangepantsforever said:
No. But we’re considering the here and now, I thought. I went into the day with higher expectations. Guess I misunderstood the thread.
I guess in that case, just pick any loss in the ‘05 season.
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Fair enough. I've seen a hundred losses that shouldn't have happened. Sorry man, I have enjoyed the fact that this season it happened so much later than I expected.
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
There's no way to downplay the magnitude of this loss. It was huge, like, still talked about 20 years from now huge. Can't run from it.
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Oh please, it sucks and we had a bad night on D and they had a great night. It was the perfect storm. Still we have had a great season if someone had said we would be 9-2 at this point most would have said that was crazy talk. Our D has been hanging tough by a thread all year, especially on the back end. Year 2 under Heupel and we have had a great season. All we can do know is take care of Vandy and win our bowl game. No time to feel sorry for ourselves now is the time to suck it up and finish strong!!!!! This loss will be forgotten by next year, oh it will be a reminder to us but it for sure isn’t a program breaker after the move we have made in the last 2 years. Now we just have to make the next step. And we will!!!! GBO!
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
Oh please, it sucks and we had a bad night on D and they had a great night. It was the perfect storm. Still we have had a great season if someone had said we would be 9-2 at this point most would have said that was crazy talk. Our D has been hanging tough by a thread all year, especially on the back end. Year 2 under Heupel and we have had a great season. All we can do know is take care of Vandy and win our bowl game. No time to feel sorry for ourselves now is the time to suck it up and finish strong!!!!! This loss will be forgotten by next year, oh it will be a reminder to us but it for sure isn’t a program breaker after the move we have made in the last 2 years. Now we just have to make the next step. And we will!!!! GBO!
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I disagree. This is a generational loss because of what was at stake, being favored big, the margin of defeat. This will leave a mark for a long time.
 
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As my college professor use to say when handing back graded test papers after a hard test......ttspa (this too shall pass away).
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
I disagree. This is a generational loss because of what was at stake, being favored big, the margin of defeat. This will leave a mark for a long time.
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A generational loss????It was a bad loss for a team the has overachieved all year till now and wasn’t expected by most to be in the situation we were in going into last night. We have gotten better ever since Heupel has been here, but one bad loss and your saying it is the death of all that was accomplished. A win is a win and a loss is a loss. We will respond and learn from it. Hurt today and then go out and work to get better. The guys that return have tasted success, they will learn from this. We will bounce back. GBO!
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
A generational loss????It was a bad loss for a team the has overachieved all year till now and wasn’t expected by most to be in the situation we were in going into last night. We have gotten better ever since Heupel has been here, but one bad loss and your saying it is the death of all that was accomplished. A win is a win and a loss is a loss. We will respond and learn from it. Hurt today and then go out and work to get better. The guys that return have tasted success, they will learn from this. We will bounce back. GBO!
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Yes, historically epic loss that will be remembered for the rest of my life and yours. No way to gloss that performance over with so much at stake. I'm not asking for anyone to be fired, but all losses are not equal. And bad losses have a longer shelf life than good wins.
 
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I will wager you won't find one person who is not happy about a 9-3 season. I think you are seeing people upset because we started the day looking at a playoff berth and now will be in music city.
 
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Giving up 63 is a joke . It’s one thing giving up points to a team like Georgia , but good grief , 63 to South Carolina .
 
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Clad in Big Orange said:
I disagree. This is a generational loss because of what was at stake, being favored big, the margin of defeat. This will leave a mark for a long time.
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It was also stated that this was one of the worst losses by a top 5 team that was favored by 22 and what we lost by. That's not a statistic TN wants to be a part of -but we're on that list.

If I remember correctly, there were only two teams ahead of us historically with worse beatdowns after being such a heavy favorite.
 
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You know I generally go out of my way to be really cautious and nice with what I post.....but with you, at this time, with that condescending attitude/comment.....not happening. You can go F*$@ yourself with the "yall are acting like children BS". Expecting Tennessee's defensive backs to look better than the local highschool down the road is not acting like children. It's not about what we expected before the season vs losing our 2nd game, its the way we lost our 2nd game and when we lost it, and to who. If you can't get your head out of you ass long enough to see that, then just keep sniffing up all the s*** instead of spewing it onto this message board. The record expectations before the season, and the expectations that our DBs should have been able to cover a pathetic/depleted USC offense are totally different. As many of us have said, not a one of us are not proud of the big accomplishments this team has made this season, but we also want to continue growing on those accomplishments, and that sorry excuse of a defense last night is not how you do it. Something HAS to be done about it and it needs addressed immediately.
 
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SouthKnoxVol70 said:
Giving up 63 is a joke . It’s one thing giving up points to a team like Georgia , but good grief , 63 to South Carolina .
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I hear ya. I apologize, I was a bit flippant with this last night. I guess I just remember so many years of overreactions in the past from my fellow Vol fans... we were a bit entitled in the nineties and got spoiled. The last fifteen years or so have been gruesome.

I guess for me, a last second loss by a field goal would, in some ways, hurt more AND... it wouldn't reap what I believe this humiliation WILL reap. This is a game that every player and coach will have no choice but to look back on. The program COULD use it as a true paradigm changer. Hopefully they will. A blowout is the wakeup call I think the program needs and if anyone needs to be replaced, it'll happen much faster after this than a heartbreaking last second loss.

But yeah, maybe I was a bit flippant last night.
 
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Orangepantsforever said:
Nothing was on the line in ‘96 but respect. It sucked. Remember it well……but our ceiling was Citrus that year 🤷🏼‍♂️
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I remember it well too, and it was a worse loss than the one last night. Memphis State at the time was a game you counted on like a UT Chattanooga game now. It was extremely bad that year and cost more than just a Citrus bowl. (We actually still played in the Citrus bowl that year I believe.)
 
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topdog4tn said:
You know I generally go out of my way to be really cautious and nice with what I post.....but with you, at this time, with that condescending attitude/comment.....not happening. You can go F*$@ yourself with the "yall are acting like children BS". Expecting Tennessee's defensive backs to look better than the local highschool down the road is not acting like children. It's not about what we expected before the season vs losing our 2nd game, its the way we lost our 2nd game and when we lost it, and to who. If you can't get your head out of you ass long enough to see that, then just keep sniffing up all the s*** instead of spewing it onto this message board. The record expectations before the season, and the expectations that our DBs should have been able to cover a pathetic/depleted USC offense are totally different. As many of us have said, not a one of us are not proud of the big accomplishments this team has made this season, but we also want to continue growing on those accomplishments, and that sorry excuse of a defense last night is not how you do it. Something HAS to be done about it and it needs addressed immediately.
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I hope that healed something.
 
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BJSforVols said:
I remember it well too, and it was a worse loss than the one last night. Memphis State at the time was a game you counted on like a UT Chattanooga game now. It was extremely bad that year and cost more than just a Citrus bowl. (We actually still played in the Citrus bowl that year I believe.)
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We did, but I don’t know if we could’ve gone much higher. Those were the brief Bowl Alliance years. I can’t remember exactly how things were done then. There were still strict conference tie ins to bowls. Been a long time ago. I can’t really recall.
Nonetheless, that game was won on a fluke play that would’ve been overturned with replay. This one was just bad all the way around.
 
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The way I look at it...........
We played 5 great games.
We played 4 good games.
We played 2 horrible games.

That's the best in the past 15 years.
 
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VOLveeta said:
I hope that healed something.
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I hope you being condescending and standing on some kind of weird moral high ground does something for you. You didn't bring anything of any use to any of us to the board with your post. It was purely condescending and that was it.
 
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There's a difference between being beaten in a close game or by a good opponent. This one hurt because it was an embarrassment beat down by a 6-4 team. And even worse is the fact that the secondary has been giving up points and struggling all season long and nothing changes week to week. The Florida game exposed our defense and smart teams picked up on it.
 
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topdog4tn said:
I hope you being condescending and standing on some kind of weird moral high ground does something for you. You didn't bring anything of any use to any of us to the board with your post. It was purely condescending and that was it.
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I used to let comments on Vol message boards upset me. But that was in the dial-up days. :)

 
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VOLveeta said:
I used to let comments on Vol message boards upset me. But that was in the dial-up days. :)

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Maybe you should take into account that a person who has never been negative toward anyone on this board before, is pointing out that you were being a condescending prick. Even if you aren't as upset as others about the loss, or the way the loss happened rather, that doesn't mean you should come on here and say "ooohhh look at me guys, I'm not mad about the loss, I'm ok with the way things happened because we have sucked before and at least we have only lost 2 this year".

People have every right to be upset about certain things, and the way Tennessee's DBs played last night is one of those scenarios where people not only have the right to be upset, but absolutely should be upset about it.

so you probably won't stop being a condescending prick moving forward, but someone who doesn't ever speak negatively toward anyone on this board definitely needed to point out that is all you were doing with your post.
 
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