Heres what sucks if this indeed was the gameplan...

[Pride85]

Wrong. This is no longer amateur sports! These guys get paid now! They are professional athletes and certain expectations come with that. The days of "oh, these are just kids trying their best" are over!

Seriously if this is your true take on this then are really pathetic as a fan. If this team isn't up to your standards, please feel free to follow through with the suggestions from my earlier post. This is a truly sad, childish mindset.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

Wrong. This is no longer amateur sports! These guys get paid now! They are professional athletes and certain expectations come with that. The days of "oh, these are just kids trying their best" are over!

Then I suggest you complain to the team owner!

Let's see, UT is a state supported school and the state is supported by the citizens of TN.

If you're a TN resident, find a mirror and rant and rave until you feel better.

 

[DaddyChad]

You had 102,000 people pay a lot of money to come out and watch this slop. This kind of performance is a huge disservice to those who invested their hard earned money to come support this team.

102k ppl probably won’t care about the AP game if this team wins the East. This season isn’t about winning the small games it’s about winning the big ones. Most of our preparation likely was geared towards Florida. None of that prep was shown on the field.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

People are acting like what I'm saying is being unreasonable. It's the home opener of the year and it's Austin Peay for Christ's sake! It's not unreasonable to expect a program like ours to go out there, beat the living hell out of them, and provide some entertaining highlight reel moments to thrill the crowd. Nobody was excited that we were playing AP! The excitement came from it being the first home game and the anticipation of seeing this team execute at a high level. The fans did their part by paying a lot of money and showing up. The team failed to do their part.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

People are acting like what I'm saying is being unreasonable. It's the home opener of the year and it's Austin Peay for Christ's sake! It's not unreasonable to expect a program like ours to go out there, beat the living hell out of them, and provide some entertaining highlight reel moments to thrill the crowd. Nobody was excited that we were playing AP! The excitement came from it being the first home game and the anticipation of seeing this team execute at a high level. The fans did their part by paying a lot of money and showing up. The team failed to do their part.

Of course it's unreasonable. You can wish they played better and I'm right there with you.

The team knows that wasn't an exciting game. I'm sure it wasn't that much fun to play in either. But it's a game. You don't know what you're going to get at a game.

Are you complaining to God about the weather delay? That had to suck and He's Almighty......He should give us better weather on game day and not expose our families to lightning. He owes us that. We worship like He's God and this is the thanks we get.

See how silly this is? Life happens and it's messy. It's not a Hallmark movie.

 

[VawlDave]

Better to be humbled with a win than humbled with a loss.

 

[Rememberthelate90s]

We won move on. I don't care. I donated money and bought season tickets cause I love the program. I expect them to entertain me. They did. They didn't have a great focus. It happens. We have thrown one deep ball. You ass hats who think we haven't dialed it back to not show anything are morons. Watch the clemson game last year. We threw more deep balls in a game than we have in 2 games. Pretty obvious we worked on the under game. Pretty obvious we needed the work. I'd rather beat florida by 1 bc we worked on issues than beat peay by 72 and lose to Florida by 1.

 

[VolGee4]

People are acting like what I'm saying is being unreasonable. It's the home opener of the year and it's Austin Peay for Christ's sake! It's not unreasonable to expect a program like ours to go out there, beat the living hell out of them, and provide some entertaining highlight reel moments to thrill the crowd. Nobody was excited that we were playing AP! The excitement came from it being the first home game and the anticipation of seeing this team execute at a high level. The fans did their part by paying a lot of money and showing up. The team failed to do their part.

Are we really doing this after our 3 previous coaches the last 15 years? I guess we are.

I drove 6 hours with a family of 6. While I was disappointed in how we played, the atmosphere was great, and it was a weekend that my family will remember. It was 2 of my kids’ first game. I know what I’m paying for, and there is a reason why I do it regardless of the outcome. Perspective.

 

[lifeVol]

The offense was off tonight and the refs didn’t help either. The Austin Peay coach is a real Assbag

He's also the reason they wanted to play dirty.

 

[Daniel_Lincolns_Foot]

People are acting like what I'm saying is being unreasonable. It's the home opener of the year and it's Austin Peay for Christ's sake! It's not unreasonable to expect a program like ours to go out there, beat the living hell out of them, and provide some entertaining highlight reel moments to thrill the crowd. Nobody was excited that we were playing AP! The excitement came from it being the first home game and the anticipation of seeing this team execute at a high level. The fans did their part by paying a lot of money and showing up. The team failed to do their part.

The team doesn’t have “a part” to do besides go out and play the game. Your expectations of a game are irrelevant. Fans purchase a ticket for a seat in a stadium during an athletic competition. That experience was provided. To think you or anyone else is “owed” anything more is some real pretentious and entitled ****.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Wrong. This is no longer amateur sports! These guys get paid now! They are professional athletes and certain expectations come with that. The days of "oh, these are just kids trying their best" are over!

You’re nothing more than a fan who has two choices:

1. Pay money for tickets so you can watch your favorite team play in Neyland Stadium.

2. Stay home and watch the game from your couch.

There’s no in between.

Nobody owes you a damn thing.

 

[chattavol420]

One thing I realized, the change to Hendon Hooker took place in the second game of the season 2 years ago. In this post you make it seem like he went the entire season and then made the change at the end. We were 1-1 after two games, we are 2-0 this year. Your argument is based fully on emotion and not logic at all. We will see starting with this weekend. I have my suspicions, but we can discuss them after the swamp.

I can see why you interpreted the comment the way you did. My point was really related to the way that whole competition played out. Hyper was a new coach and none of those guys had ever taken a snap for him. Hooker and Milton were both experienced upperclassman having started elsewhere. Heading towards the start of Camp. It seemed like it would be a competition between those two.
There are lots of times you’ve seen a similar scenario at other schools and typically the way it works. Is they start out the year giving multiple quarterbacks opportunities to play. You’ll hear coaches say things like you have to earn the job with your play on the field. We’ve seen Kiffin do that (with corral and plumlee) , Lincoln Riley handled competitions that was as has , Ryan Day, Kirby, and others.
Yet from the beginning of fall camp, it became apparent. It was going to be Milton. When does season rolled around nobody else ever got a snap at quarterback, even though Milton was horrible. It was surprising.

So yeah, he didn’t stick with him a long time. It’s just that he almost anointed him and didn’t let anyone else have a chance to earn it on the field. Who knows how long he would’ve stuck with him (ala Pruitt and JG) had Milton not gotten injured. But I’ve truly expected Heupel to encourage Milton to look around wall getting someone else to eventually take over after hooker. But nope… Back to Milton still playing poorly and not allowing anyone else to get a snap.
As brilliant as Heupel has been, this is a mistake.

Time will prove this to be the case. I believe Milton will cost us at least one if not two or three significant games this year before Heupel eventually turns it over to Nico. And I bet the house will all then wonder what could have been had he allowed Nico to play sooner.
Sixth year quarterbacks don’t get better at not missing wide open receivers.

 

[Rememberthelate90s]

I can see why you interpreted the comment the way you did. My point was really related to the way that whole competition played out. Hyper was a new coach and none of those guys had ever taken a snap for him. Hooker and Milton were both experienced upperclassman having started elsewhere. Heading towards the start of Camp. It seemed like it would be a competition between those two.
There are lots of times you’ve seen a similar scenario at other schools and typically the way it works. Is they start out the year giving multiple quarterbacks opportunities to play. You’ll hear coaches say things like you have to earn the job with your play on the field. We’ve seen Kiffin do that (with corral and plumlee) , Lincoln Riley handled competitions that was as has , Ryan Day, Kirby, and others.
Yet from the beginning of fall camp, it became apparent. It was going to be Milton. When does season rolled around nobody else ever got a snap at quarterback, even though Milton was horrible. It was surprising.

So yeah, he didn’t stick with him a long time. It’s just that he almost anointed him and didn’t let anyone else have a chance to earn it on the field. Who knows how long he would’ve stuck with him (ala Pruitt and JG) had Milton not gotten injured. But I’ve truly expected Heupel to encourage Milton to look around wall getting someone else to eventually take over after hooker. But nope… Back to Milton still playing poorly and not allowing anyone else to get a snap.
As brilliant as Heupel has been, this is a mistake.

Time will prove this to be the case. I believe Milton will cost us at least one if not two or three significant games this year before Heupel eventually turns it over to Nico. And I bet the house will all then wonder what could have been had he allowed Nico to play sooner.
Sixth year quarterbacks don’t get better at not missing wide open receivers.

So you're smarter than the guy who took us to number 1 past year? You think a freshmen is the answer? A freshmen who is banged up? If Milton costs us 3 games this year, we are still like 10-3. I'll take it sir.

 

[Boone&Crockett]

We did have a vanilla gameplan but we would have hung 45 on them if the receivers could have caught anything thrown at them, Milton wasnt crisp but he doesnt deserve the blame for that showing in full, it was just a sh*t show, receivers couldnt catch, special teams fumble, their QB ran it down our throat, our QB was off and throwing so hard on short throws no one could catch it, they pulled every trick they could on offense and the Refs were absolutely horrible, I just wish a mustard bottle had bounced off that Austin Peays coach one time.

 

[perico]

Peyton’s last game in Neyland against Vandy was sloppy. I remember being at that game and expecting him to put on a clinic. He didn’t. Players do have poor games where things just aren’t clicking. Milton has to be given the ability to play for a while.

Peyton was awful that game.