Good read about Saturday's game from si.com

[stevenrich2003]

some truth here. good read. thanks for posting

 

[bamacheats]

Poor ol Dooley. What. A. Dumb. Ass.

But Dooley hit on so few of his recruits -- he signed zero offensive line prospects in 2012, which is absolute coaching malpractice -- that Jones and company have had to plug in players signed in ‘13 or ‘14 at many positions.

 

[Pro]

Hiring Dooley was the equivalent of the death penalty.

 

[KBVol]

Here is a nice article by SI discussing TN youth vs OU upperclassmen. I did not know the disparity was this high.

Tennessee eager to see where it stands entering matchup with Oklahoma - College Football - SI.com

Staples, the idiot that wrote this article, has picked us to finish dead last in the SEC East....behind both Kentucky and Vandy. He can go pound sand.

 

[DarthVol]

Not to discount that we are a very young team, but a comparison of our 13 R-Fr/Fr against their 12 R-Srs/Srs/R-Jrs is pretty much irrelevant on the author's part. (According to one poster in the comments, they have 8 R-Fr/Fr in their 2-deep.) My quick perusal of our 2-deep showed 11 R-Srs/Srs/R-Jrs (vs their 12) not including special teams. (Don't know whether their 12 included special teams.) No doubt OU is a very talented and experienced team, but the bigger challenge here is the actual playing time experience of those 12 (and our 11), and that the game is in Norman.

 

[MaTaLa]

Guess they missed our bye week.

It's frightening how young our team is.

Frightening and exciting at the same time if we can keep a healthy perspective this year.

 

[deaconkane]

Not to discount that we are a very young team, but a comparison of our 13 R-Fr/Fr against their 12 R-Srs/Srs/R-Jrs is pretty much irrelevant on the author's part. (According to one poster in the comments, they have 8 R-Fr/Fr in their 2-deep.) My quick perusal of our 2-deep showed 11 R-Srs/Srs/R-Jrs (vs their 12) not including special teams. (Don't know whether their 12 included special teams.) No doubt OU is a very talented and experienced team, but the bigger challenge here is the actual playing time experience onf those 12 (and our 11), and that the game is in Norman.

From the way everyone talks Oklahoma's upper classmen is on their o-line and front 7 on defense. If that's the case, it is a huge advantage.

 

[DarthVol]

From the way everyone talks Oklahoma's upper classmen is on their o-line and front 7 on defense. If that's the case, it is a huge advantage.

Agree. Hopefully our guys/coaches find ways to neutralize some of that tomorrow night. Even the Death Star had a weakness.

GBO

 

[bowlinggreenvol]

Guess they missed our bye week.

It's frightening how young our team is.

It's apparent he meant back to back games, which is the truth. The sentence before, he says we play this weekend and then travel to Athens Sep 27th.