If you could rewrite some sports history...

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...the following would have happened:

1. Greg Norman would have won The Masters. Don't care which year.
2. Lou Gehrig would have stopped playing baseball because he wanted to, not because he had to.
3. USC beats Texas in Rose Bowl
4. Spurrier would have played his college ball at UT.
 
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1. Mike Tyson would have choked on Evander Holyfield's ear. He wouldn't have died, mind you--he just would have passed out for at least 10 seconds.

2. PJ Carlissimo would have wrestled Latrelle Sprewell to the ground, putting him in the Camel Clutch and made him say uncle in front of the TV cameras.

3. Somebody would have tackled Deuce Palmer on that two point conversion.
 
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3. USC beats Texas in Rose Bowl
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Any particular reason? I figured the others out and wouldn't have minded them, but what's the reasoning for this one? Don't like Texas?
 
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1. Don Denkinger would have correctly called Jorge Orta out at first base and the Cardinals would have won the '85 series.

2. Andy Kelly would have completed the final pass to Pickens (I think) in the '90 Notre Dame game at Neyland for the winning TD.

3. We would have played D on the final Georgia drive in '01 and I would not have had to sit through that crushing defeat.

Now that I think about it, UT would have lost 0 games in my lifetime.
 
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vader said:
1. Don Denkinger would have correctly called Jorge Orta out at first base and the Cardinals would have won the '85 series.

2. Andy Kelly would have completed the final pass to Pickens (I think) in the '90 Notre Dame game at Neyland for the winning TD.

3. We would have played D on the final Georgia drive in '01 and I would not have had to sit through that crushing defeat.

Now that I think about it, UT would have lost 0 games in my lifetime.
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SMART MAN !!!! :toast:
 
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1. Steve Spurrier would have won the heisman at UT and coached at UT and actually did something with the talents we had in the 90's and 01 and and have 5 national titles in 97, 98, 99, 01, 05.

2. We would have gotten Marvin Austin, Jimmy Clausen, , Arreloius Benn, JaMarcus Russell, Cadillac Williams, Darren McFadden, Patrick Turner, and Patrick Willis to come to UT.

3. 2005 would not have fallen apart. :cray:
 
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1. Rather than being blocked and squirting 20 yards backwards . . . Greg Burke's 51 yard game winning FG attempt against Alabama in 1990 would have been good and we would have gone to #1 in the country that night.

2. Charlie Liebrandt would have gotten himself locked in a restroom and been unable to lose the decisive games of the 91 and 92 World Series.

3. In the final seconds of the 1st half of the '04 Notre Dame/Tennessee game, Erik Ainge would receive a good snap and just thrown an incompletion or something and stayed healthy throughout the rest of the season.
 
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tidwell said:
Any particular reason? I figured the others out and wouldn't have minded them, but what's the reasoning for this one? Don't like Texas?
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Yea, that is mostly it. Just don't like Texas and thought USC was a better team.
 
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vader said:
Now that I think about it, UT would have lost 0 games in my lifetime.
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Yea, that is why I did not put it in the UT forum. Otherwise, every post would have amounted to UT having 50 National Championships and all of our cheerleaders being Playboy models.

:)
 
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1. Correct call would have been made on the phantom Jabar Gafney TD in Neyland.

2. All the pieces would have fell in place in '97 instead of '98 and Peyton would have gotten the Heisman and a Nation Title.

3. We would have kept our lead against OSU in the Sweet 16 and went on to beat Florida in the NC game by a last second Lofton 3. :rock:

4. Steve Bartman would have never been born. :cray:
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Lonnie Smith would not have had his head so firmly inserted into his arse.
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I thought of that one too. Just when we all thought the effects of the drugs had worn off Lonnie, he used some of those missing brain cells to lose a World Series.
 
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GAVol said:
I thought of that one too. Just when we all thought the effects of the drugs had worn off Lonnie, he used some of those missing brain cells to lose a World Series.
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If I could go back and make one sporting event end differently, there's no question that it's that game. The rest of the top 10 would probably be UT football losses, but that loss in 1991 is the single game that still eats at me the most a decade and a half later. The Braves had that game WON, dammit.
 
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1. 2004/2005 - Ditto on the Erik Ainge injury, which started a crushing chain of events. Not only could we have won the SEC title, but had Erik never been hurt, we'd have never had the QB deal for 05, and probably won the CC, or the NC.

2. We'd have won the 01 SEC title game, so Casey's legacy as one of the all time greats at UT would have been cemented, and even the most closed minded Vol fans had to recognize him.

3. Bruce Pearl would have come here 15 years ago.
 
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GoVols817 said:
1. 2004/2005 - Ditto on the Erik Ainge injury, which started a crushing chain of events. Not only could we have won the SEC title, but had Erik never been hurt, we'd have never had the QB deal for 05, and probably won the CC, or the NC.

2. We'd have won the 01 SEC title game, so Casey's legacy as one of the all time greats at UT would have been cemented, and even the most closed minded Vol fans had to recognize him.

3. Bruce Pearl would have come here 15 years ago.
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I'm going to disagree pretty strongly with #1. I'm not glad Erik got hurt, but I don't think that injury is responsible for all the things you listed.
 
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GoVols817 said:
2. We'd have won the 01 SEC title game, so Casey's legacy as one of the all time greats at UT would have been cemented, and even the most closed minded Vol fans had to recognize him.
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There are a couple of turnovers in the second half of that game I would erase if I could.
 
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I thought of another one . . . I'd go back to 1980 and kick a FG in the closing seconds against UGA instead of fumbling at the 2 and catapulting UGA to a National Championship season that they still talk about.
 
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kptvol said:
I'm going to disagree pretty strongly with #1. I'm not glad Erik got hurt, but I don't think that injury is responsible for all the things you listed.
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I didnt say it was responsible for anything... I said it started a crushing chain of events, and it absolutely did. If Erik hadnt gotten hurt, Rick wouldve never seen the field and there wouldnt have been a competition the following spring. Thats a fact Jack.
 
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GoVols817 said:
I didnt say it was responsible for anything... I said it started a crushing chain of events, and it absolutely did. If Erik hadnt gotten hurt, Rick wouldve never seen the field and there wouldnt have been a competition the following spring. Thats a fact Jack.
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True, but we might have lost to UK or Vandy in 2004. Rick played pretty well in those games. Also, I'm not sure about the lack of competition. I think Erik's true problem was his inability to grasp the offense when Randy tried to open it up for him in his sophomore season. Thus, although Erik was supposed to be the clear starter, he couldn't manage to complete close to 50% of his passes in scrimmages. Meanwhile, Rick is in the 70% range. I wish that we had continued to run the same offense in 2005 that we ran in 2004, with Ainge as the starter.
 
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kptvol said:
True, but we might have lost to UK or Vandy in 2004. Rick played pretty well in those games. Also, I'm not sure about the lack of competition. I think Erik's true problem was his inability to grasp the offense when Randy tried to open it up for him in his sophomore season. Thus, although Erik was supposed to be the clear starter, he couldn't manage to complete close to 50% of his passes in scrimmages. Meanwhile, Rick is in the 70% range. I wish that we had continued to run the same offense in 2005 that we ran in 2004, with Ainge as the starter.
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One of the dumbest things we ever did was let those scrimmage stats get out...

I watched every video I could find that summer on those scrimmages, and one common thread in them all was that Ainge was throwing deep balls to WRs and Rick was throwing dump offs to running backs. Yeah, he had a better percentage, but it was terribly skewed, and that high completion percentage wont win you jack when you are getting two yards at a time.

Sorry, we are off topic, just wanted to be clear, I dont blame everything on that alone, but it was the catalyst in the chain of events that I believe led to your main issues in 05.
 
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