Draft Day Blues

[hatvol96]

OK, I just checked . . . Cutcliffe coached Tackles and TE's from '82-'88, Running backs in '89, QBs '90-'92 and was the OC and coached QBs from '93-'98.

'89 was a pretty good year for running backs at UT.

 

[GAVol]

'89 was a pretty good year for running backs at UT.

No lie . . . Those RBs were beasts. Plus the fact that we were winning early on with Sterling Hinton at QB should have gotten Cutcliffe a 300% raise.

 

[hatvol96]

No lie . . . Those RBs were beasts. Plus the fact that we were winning early on with Sterling Hinton at QB should have gotten Cutcliffe a 300% raise.

The win over Colorado State in the opener was one of the 4 or 5 ugliest wins in UT history.

 

[GAVol]

I remember looking at the box score after the Auburn game and seeing that Hinton had thrown the ball like 10 times.

 

[hatvol96]

I remember looking at the box score after the Auburn game and seeing that Hinton had thrown the ball like 10 times.

UT could have won that day without attempting a pass. I still think that, given the quality of Auburn's D-Line, was the best game I've ever seen a UT offensive line play.

 

[GAVol]

The best drive bar none that I've ever seen a team have physically was our opening drive against Georgia that year. 7 plays, 80 yards, 0 pass attempts.

 

[milohimself]

The best drive bar none that I've ever seen a team have physically was our opening drive against Georgia that year. 7 plays, 80 yards, 0 pass attempts.

Sounds good but I would give the best drive I've ever seen in college ball (in all aspects) is Navy's last drive against New Mexico in the 2004 Emerald Bowl. Navy had possession of the ball for 14 minutes and 26 seconds between the third and fourth quarters in a 94 yard, 26 play drive.

 

[jakez4ut]

Sounds good but I would give the best drive I've ever seen in college ball (in all aspects) is Navy's last drive against New Mexico in the 2004 Emerald Bowl. Navy had possession of the ball for 14 minutes and 26 seconds between the third and fourth quarters in a 94 yard, 26 play drive.

oh, i remember that!! when they finally gave the ball up, i couldn't believe it when they announced the t.o.p. for them....something like that just seemed impossible. they had the ball for almost an entire 1/4 of the game.....very impressive, even against NM.

 

[GAVol]

Sounds good but I would give the best drive I've ever seen in college ball (in all aspects) is Navy's last drive against New Mexico in the 2004 Emerald Bowl. Navy had possession of the ball for 14 minutes and 26 seconds between the third and fourth quarters in a 94 yard, 26 play drive.

New Mexico is a team from out west . . . That means that drive shouldn't count.

 

[milohimself]

oh, i remember that!! when they finally gave the ball up, i couldn't believe it when they announced the t.o.p. for them....something like that just seemed impossible. they had the ball for almost an entire 1/4 of the game.....very impressive, even against NM.

Yeah, it's not that the opponnent could or couldn't stop them, it's that they managed the clock and playcalling well enough to maintain the ball for nearly a full quarter.

 

[GAVol]

On that drive I mentioned against Georgia, we couldn't do much as far as running the clock . . . UGA couldn't stop us for a short enough gain to make us have to run that many plays. unch_bag:

 

[milohimself]

So did the Vols pull out like 1/2 the running play book on that drive or what?

 

[orange+white=heaven]

So did the Vols pull out like 1/2 the running play book on that drive or what?

It was called effective O-Line play. I'm hopeful we can refresh your memory of what it looks like this fall.

 

[GAVol]

We probably only ran about 2 or 3 different plays on that drive. That was the vaunted "Cobb-Webb" offense from back in the first half of the '89 season. It didn't last long since Reggie Cobb got kicked off the team at midseason, but I don't think I'm overstating it when I say that for 5 or 6 games we probably had one of the best 1-2 punches in school history and had two NFL first rounders as bookend tackles.

 

[vader]

Those "Cobb-Webb" days were awesome. Our O-line dominated Auburn in that game. Good times...

 

[milohimself]

Sounds like running back-to-back-to-back isos on NCAA on JV difficulty...