David Pollack comments about the Tennessee Vols won't sit well with Kirby

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taylorvol said:
Ainge was not smart making those comments. GA‘s crowd took that personally and it was the loudest I’ve ever heard that stadium in 25 years of making that trip to Athens every other year.
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I knew we were in trouble as soon as the game started. Never seen that place so loud and rowdy.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
However you can manufacture it, you manufacture it. The Chiefs have said the same thing after their last 2 Super Bowl wins. It’s a complete load of bull$hit, but it seems to work.

We have to 100% go into Athens and match their intensity for the entire first half. We always have 1 good drive or play and then it completely falls flat . We get through the first half and it’s game on from there .
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This is 2024
 
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taylorvol said:
Ainge was not smart making those comments. GA‘s crowd took that personally and it was the loudest I’ve ever heard that stadium in 25 years of making that trip to Athens every other year.
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I don't think his comments had an effect on the outcome. I don't know of another time that we were both in the top 2 going into the game. It was going to be bonkers in Athens or Knoxville that year just because what was on the line. IIRC we missed a couple deep shots early that could have got us going in that one.
 
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BruiserVol said:
I knew we were in trouble as soon as the game started. Never seen that place so loud and rowdy.
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It was wild and my GA buddies confirmed it was the loudest that stadium has ever been. They said “your former QB Ainge is an idiot”. Lol.
 
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Christian Lowe said:
Aaron Murray is pretty open and honest on his personal channels and he still works for the mouse
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Maybe his ideas align more with those at ESPN in the first place? In my experience watching Murray, he sticks mostly to the X's and O's anyway. Pollack is more an opinion guy. Facts are facts. Opinions can be more polarizing. Though lately the line between them gets blurred a lot.
 
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901 Orange said:
I don't think his comments had an effect on the outcome. I don't know of another time that we were both in the top 2 going into the game. It was going to be bonkers in Athens or Knoxville that year just because what was on the line. IIRC we missed a couple deep shots early that could have got us going in that one.
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Who knows but I do know that Ainge’s comments definitely had an impact on the crowd. They were deafening and took his comments personally. It was a really dumb thing to say by a former UT QB the week before TN played in Athens. No need to fire up the barking dogs.
 
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taylorvol said:
Who knows but I do know that Ainge’s comments definitely had an impact on the crowd. They were deafening and took his comments personally. It was a really dumb thing to say by a former UT QB the week before TN played in Athens. No need to fire up the barking dogs.
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I would bet u that half the people there had no idea what Ainge said. TBH with you Idk what he said. I live in Georgia and everyone I work with are Dawg fans. Trust me they were amped because it was #1 vs #2. I had to hear from them after the game and not 1 Dawg fan brought up Ainge after the game. I had a UGA booster tell me it was the loudest he had ever heard Samford because of the magnitude of the game. Gotta remember that their big matchups with Bama were all neutral sites.
 
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taylorvol said:
Who knows but I do know that Ainge’s comments definitely had an impact on the crowd. They were deafening and took his comments personally. It was a really dumb thing to say by a former UT QB the week before TN played in Athens. No need to fire up the barking dogs.
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Just to add some context, before we went to Athens as a #1 ranked team, the last #1 ranked team to play in Athens was Fla in 2009. UGA was an 8 win team that year. In 2022 we both were in the top 2 and they were the defending champs. That was the biggest home game in their schools history. It was going to be deafening regardless of what was said before the game. Same as it would be if we get a #1 vs #2 matchup in Knoxville.
 
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VolForLife83 said:
"I think the thing about Tennessee is I think Tennessee's box is so elite defensively," said Pollack. "It reminds me of Georgia a couple of years ago. And it might not be the upper-echelon player, but the depth is better. So many guys along that defensive line that they're rotating in and they're not just space eaters. And they're not just big clotters. They're twitchy guys that penetrate, make plays -- it's like hockey shifts. And they rotate in. And I think we've seen, they've been shut out the last three games at the half, Tennessee's offense. And Tennessee's team, in every game, they're very much in it. And it's because they're so dang good on the defensive side of the football."



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Rodney Garner is the best coach on Heupel's staff.
 
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pimo1 said:
Maybe his ideas align more with those at ESPN in the first place? In my experience watching Murray, he sticks mostly to the X's and O's anyway. Pollack is more an opinion guy. Facts are facts. Opinions can be more polarizing. Though lately the line between them gets blurred a lot.
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Pollack was one of the reduction fires from ESPN, IMO he is just doing what he can to stay relevant and not have to get a real job.
 
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Tennman said:
I agree, it was deafening
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We had several false starts @ UGA 1st half 2022 and this year when that happens that is a bad recipe for Josh's offense. It really handcuffs him when its 1st & 15. That has happened a lot this year attributing to the 1st half shutouts. That and the Sampson fumble at the 15 yard line on first drive vs Bama and the read handoff fumble by Nico in the red zone vs Florida
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
One of my law partners went to Georgia and was at that game and he told me there were almost no kids and few older/infirm people there among the UGA crowd, it's like there were no wasted seats in terms of noise and it's the only time he's ever seen that. It would make some sense since, with the stadium being open on one end there are limits to what they can do noise wise and that's about the best way I can think of to up the volume.
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Where do you practice?
 
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Volador said:
Due to Pollack being a Dawg Grad, I always kept his opinions at arms length on ESPN. But after reading about his firing and his thoughts on how restrictive ESPN was on freedom of speech, his opinions, in my opinion, are much more palatable now. Quite insightful analogy about hockey shifts.

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Pollack is a good analyst. He is not afraid to call out Georgia. I think he is just calling it as he sees it, and he really likes your d-line depth and talent.
 
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