Its time for a new era in UT football.

[milohimself]

Originally posted by U-T@Nov 30, 2004 4:38 PM
Michigan just got killed by OSU last week
And 2 years ago ended the season with two losses
Lost to Northwestern the year before that

They do struggle at the end of the year

In fairness, the Michigan rivalry is very heated. One of those "anything can happen" rivalries. I spend quite some time around Buckeye fans when I visit my grandparents in Ohio, and that game is as big there as Tennessee-Alabama for you guys, or Oregon-Oregon State for me.

 

[U-T]

They should have never lost that game......and to top that off....they got killed.

 

[orangetd88]

I would still like the naysayers to give me a list of programs that have been consistently better during Fulmer's tenure than UT.

 

[rwemyss]

Until Spurrier left, you'd have to say Florida... that said, their current low streak is much worse than anything I've seen out of UT since I figured out what football was as a wee tyke.

 

[GVF]

AHHH!! To be a UT fan. It's a love/hate emotion. We love our Vols and we always hate and want our coaching staff gone year after year after year. How many 3+ loss seasons have we had in 12 years. 2. 3? Whose the stats guy, Allvol? Who better to replace Fulmer? An Urban Myer type, I think it was posted on page 2. Yeah right. Mountain West. Just now getting recognition past 2 years. Butch Davis. Was he that good at Miami. Hasn't been at Cleveland. How many NC's does Bowden have at FSU. Spurrier at FLA. Even in the Nebraska hey days of the 80's and 90's, how many did Nebraska have. You cannot and will not go number 1 year in and year out. And for most of Fulmers tenure, he manges to get in top 10 or close to it more often than not. Freak is right. Where has USC been. Where have the others been. Up and down, up and down. Except for the past 2 years at 8 and 5, we continually come in near the top. Our version of losing seasons would be a dream world right now for some of these big programs that have lost the edge. This is major college football. It is unpredictable. Consistency is power in today's major college football environment. While otehr teams are switching coaches trying to bounce back, we have consistency in our program year in, year out. That gives us perrenial recruiting that few have.

 

[allvol]

This stat just in from the Tennessee website.....


Tennessee's 100th series meeting against Kentucky Saturday resulted in the Vols' 100th overall victory in the last 10 years -- a figure that leads the SEC.

The Vols are 100-24 since the start of the 1995 season and assured themselves of ending this season as the conference's top team over the last 10 years for the second year in a row. Tennessee went 99-26 in the 10-year period that ended last season.

Florida sports the second-best record in the last decade at 96-29, followed by Georgia at 87-35 and LSU at 81-39. Auburn, Tennessee's opponent Saturday in the SEC Championship Game, is 78-42 over that span.

Other SEC schools in order: Mississippi 69-49, Alabama 69-51, Arkansas 69-52, Mississippi State 52-64, South Carolina 49-64, Kentucky 43-71 and Vanderbilt 25-87.

 

[orangetd88]

Thanks for proving my point, allvol.

There are few others across the nation that have had that kind of consistency.