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OK. OK. We're 4-1. We've debunked Corso's championship-bound Golden Bears. We just beat the daylights out of Tiger High. Ainge is a new man. We've found a running back with blazing speed who is quick to the hole.

Now. . . .to the meat of the schedule. In just over a month's time, we'll face Georgia, Alabama, and LSU. We already dropped a huge one to Florida. This will be the defining weeks of our year and, possibly, of Fulmer's career. If we can keep the train on the tracks, it would be a rebound of phenomenal magnitude. However, losing to our arch-rivals will not sit well with most Vol fans (myself included).

Listening to the Sports Animal a couple of days ago, I have to agree with one caller's assessment that 9-3 or 8-4 will not be an acceptable "turnaround." Since when was it OK to lose to the three teams that compete with us for the SEC title on a yearly basis? Since when can we, with any honesty, say "we had a good year" with losses to the Gators, Tide, and Dawgs? We are SUPPOSED to win 7-8 games a year. Last year's disaster should not change our expectations. That leaves 4-5 games to define our season.

So far, we're 1-1, in my book. Let's go down to Athens and make it 2-1, carrying momentum into two monster home games against Alabama and LSU. We see that there are chinks in the armor of some of the other SEC powers, and it's time that we prove our status among them.
 
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You might not like it, but not a chance in hell that 9-3 or 8-4 even slightly warms Phil's seat.
 
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That's not the point of the thread. I'm not trying to "warm anybody's seat." I'm trying to figure out why a decent percentage of the fanbase seems to accept that 9-3 or 8-4 with losses to the only teams that really matter on our schedule seems acceptable.

I guess I just refuse to become complacent. We're doing a great job in a lot of areas, but we've got to improve (drastically in a few aspects) to get back on top of the SEC.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
OK. OK. We're 4-1. We've debunked Corso's championship-bound Golden Bears. We just beat the daylights out of Tiger High. Ainge is a new man. We've found a running back with blazing speed who is quick to the hole.

Now. . . .to the meat of the schedule. In just over a month's time, we'll face Georgia, Alabama, and LSU. We already dropped a huge one to Florida. This will be the defining weeks of our year and, possibly, of Fulmer's career. If we can keep the train on the tracks, it would be a rebound of phenomenal magnitude. However, losing to our arch-rivals will not sit well with most Vol fans (myself included).

Listening to the Sports Animal a couple of days ago, I have to agree with one caller's assessment that 9-3 or 8-4 will not be an acceptable "turnaround." Since when was it OK to lose to the three teams that compete with us for the SEC title on a yearly basis? Since when can we, with any honesty, say "we had a good year" with losses to the Gators, Tide, and Dawgs? We are SUPPOSED to win 7-8 games a year. Last year's disaster should not change our expectations. That leaves 4-5 games to define our season.

So far, we're 1-1, in my book. Let's go down to Athens and make it 2-1, carrying momentum into two monster home games against Alabama and LSU. We see that there are chinks in the armor of some of the other SEC powers, and it's time that we prove our status among them.
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I could hear The Battle Hymn of the Republic playing while I read that post.

:rock:
 
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I'll stick with 4-1 based on the fact everyone else is playing the easy teams as well.I wish we could have played the meat of our schedule beginning next week because the worm has definitley turned to our favor.We now have the missing link with the emergence of Coker.I can't wait to play UGA.We have played better between the hedges of late than at Neyland for some reason.It may be a 2-3 touchdown victory over the bulldogs IMO.:rock:
 
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utfantilidie said:
I'll stick with 4-1 based on the fact everyone else is playing the easy teams as well.I wish we could have played the meat of our schedule beginning next week because the worm has definitley turned to our favor.We now have the missing link with the emergence of Coker.I can't wait to play UGA.We have played better between the hedges of late than at Neyland for some reason.It may be a 2-3 touchdown victory over the bulldogs IMO.:rock:
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Now THAT is more like it!
 
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im watching UG vs MS game right now and i have to say that UG looks very beatable. it is tied 0 to 0 in the second quarter and niether team has come close. except when the ref called holding on a blocked punt. it was possibly the worst call of the day. ole miss has not scored a touchdown since their first game against memphis and have gotten beat up pretty bad in their other games. they are not a good team and UG can't do anything with them. i like our chances against them. go vols
 
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For the sporting types, I'm headed to Vegas next weekend so I'm really interested to see how the lines shake out. I would expect that UGA will be a 2-3 point favorite at home...I usually don't like to bet on my own team but I'll take the money line because I expect UT to win straight up (unless UGA has been hiding their offense up til now). The one that I'm just salivating over though is LSU-UF. I expect UF to be favored in the Swamp, and I don't think there's any way that LSU wins this game by less than two touchdowns. Anyone else have any thoughts?
 
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kiddiedoc said:
OK. OK. We're 4-1. We've debunked Corso's championship-bound Golden Bears. We just beat the daylights out of Tiger High. Ainge is a new man. We've found a running back with blazing speed who is quick to the hole.

Now. . . .to the meat of the schedule. In just over a month's time, we'll face Georgia, Alabama, and LSU. We already dropped a huge one to Florida. This will be the defining weeks of our year and, possibly, of Fulmer's career. If we can keep the train on the tracks, it would be a rebound of phenomenal magnitude. However, losing to our arch-rivals will not sit well with most Vol fans (myself included).

Listening to the Sports Animal a couple of days ago, I have to agree with one caller's assessment that 9-3 or 8-4 will not be an acceptable "turnaround." Since when was it OK to lose to the three teams that compete with us for the SEC title on a yearly basis? Since when can we, with any honesty, say "we had a good year" with losses to the Gators, Tide, and Dawgs? We are SUPPOSED to win 7-8 games a year. Last year's disaster should not change our expectations. That leaves 4-5 games to define our season.

So far, we're 1-1, in my book. Let's go down to Athens and make it 2-1, carrying momentum into two monster home games against Alabama and LSU. We see that there are chinks in the armor of some of the other SEC powers, and it's time that we prove our status among them.
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Good post. Challenging. I am one of those that is happy with the way things have been going, and after last season, would have been happy to accept 9-3 or 8-4. However, you are exactly right, we are TENNESSEE, and that should not be acceptable. We should not settle for mediocrity. I agree that a record like 9-3 shouldn't get CPF on the proverbial "hot seat,"but we as fans and the alumni should not settle.
 
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VolFan1978 said:
For the sporting types, I'm headed to Vegas next weekend so I'm really interested to see how the lines shake out. I would expect that UGA will be a 2-3 point favorite at home...I usually don't like to bet on my own team but I'll take the money line because I expect UT to win straight up (unless UGA has been hiding their offense up til now). The one that I'm just salivating over though is LSU-UF. I expect UF to be favored in the Swamp, and I don't think there's any way that LSU wins this game by less than two touchdowns. Anyone else have any thoughts?
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You'll probably catch UT at +120/+130 on the money line.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
OK. OK. We're 4-1. We've debunked Corso's championship-bound Golden Bears. We just beat the daylights out of Tiger High. Ainge is a new man. We've found a running back with blazing speed who is quick to the hole.

Now. . . .to the meat of the schedule. In just over a month's time, we'll face Georgia, Alabama, and LSU. We already dropped a huge one to Florida. This will be the defining weeks of our year and, possibly, of Fulmer's career. If we can keep the train on the tracks, it would be a rebound of phenomenal magnitude. However, losing to our arch-rivals will not sit well with most Vol fans (myself included).

Listening to the Sports Animal a couple of days ago, I have to agree with one caller's assessment that 9-3 or 8-4 will not be an acceptable "turnaround." Since when was it OK to lose to the three teams that compete with us for the SEC title on a yearly basis? Since when can we, with any honesty, say "we had a good year" with losses to the Gators, Tide, and Dawgs? We are SUPPOSED to win 7-8 games a year. Last year's disaster should not change our expectations. That leaves 4-5 games to define our season.

So far, we're 1-1, in my book. Let's go down to Athens and make it 2-1, carrying momentum into two monster home games against Alabama and LSU. We see that there are chinks in the armor of some of the other SEC powers, and it's time that we prove our status among them.
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I think we're supposed to win a lot more than 7-8 games a year.
 
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Ole Miss' starting tailback already has well over 100 yards...

Georgia's QBs are 5-17 for 30 yards so far.

I'd like to think the Vols' D is better than the Rebels'...
 
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#22
I think our D is definetly better. They don't have any mobile QB's and if we take away the run it should be a easy day in Athens.
 
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#23
I think Joe T will be back.

I know Richt said that he thought Joe would be ready to practice 100% by Monday.

No chance he sticks with these two losers.
 
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Watching more and more of this Ole Miss-Georgia game, I'm thinking UT is going to be lighting this Georgia D up
 
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