More heart than I have seen in 15 years

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#152
irish1485 said:
Mediocre post from a mediocre poster celebrating a mediocre ass performance..sad to see. Keep celebrating the morals the moral victories, nothing to see here[.]
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Quality post. Truly the standard to which we should all aspire. I raise a glass in your honor.
 
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#153
So infuriating that Tennessee beat themselves up like they did. But, after Pitt went up 14-13, I said that we would likely cave and not show competitiveness the rest of the season. This is what we’ve come to expect. However, the team did not give up. They kept fighting. People making fun of this “heart” thing, but it’s extremely important. Would Wyoming beat that Tennessee team in ‘08 if we had heart? Heck no. The most heartless I’ve seen Tennessee in person was that rain game against Arkansas a few years back.
 
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Dino0027 said:
A one touchdown game is a close game, but UT continues to start a QB that can’t throw a pass and then shoot themselves in the foot with penalties. I was happy to see Hooker play well, but did what cost him his starting roll at VT at the end of the game. UT could have easily beat Pitt if they could find a QB that can play four quarters.
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I think Milton played better despite the overthrows. If he can get his long ball down I think he is hands down the best QB we have... That being said (exactly what you said) it seems what made those QBs transfer are issues all the same here.
 
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hatingbamaisawayoflife said:
No matter the results. More short handed than a long time More heart also
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I think we played well enough for me to continue believing that:
Sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday
Sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday
Sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday
March wind's gonna blow my blues all away
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
I think we played well enough for me to continue believing that:
Sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday
Sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday
Sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday
March wind's gonna blow my blues all away
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They have taken a little piece of my heart the last decade and a half. God I hope so.
 
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I don’t give a damn what the clowns on here mocking these players and staff say. I feel better right now this team than the 2019 team. We put 34 points up on the board vs a strong defense. We honestly left about 21 points off the scoreboard from overthrown balls in the 1st half. The players fought until the end….never showing an ounce of quit once down 14. That would have been the nail in the coffin last season then a blow out would have happen. Really ironic since plenty of you realists talked like this should have been like the Kentucky loss last year today.
 
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A few plays would have been the difference.

The succession of overthrown passes to start the game, including one which would easily have resulted in a TD, was costly.

Also, the 4th down and inches that was stuffed on Pitt's doorstep? Killer! If Hooker had just kept it and leaned, rather than handing off, another TD was virtually certain with a fresh set of downs inside the 4 or 5 yard line.

That's it, Tennessee wins.
 
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SDV said:
We need to support these guys. They actually stayed and want to be here. Its going to be rough this season, but if they continue to show fight, I'll be proud of them
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Same here.

“We talked about it all week long. Understanding who Pitt is as a football team and where they’re at as a program, we didn’t want to look at the scoreboard until it ticked to zero. We’re going compete to the very last tick. I am proud of our football team. I think they did that. They weren’t perfect in how we competed. But we did compete.”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
 
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Voltopia said:
I've seen a lot of heart over the last 15 years. I saw a lot of heart when Tennessee won at Auburn a few years ago. I saw heart when Tennessee played Alabama to a near stand-still in 2009. I saw heart when Tennessee rallied to beat Indiana in that bowl game a few years back.

Heart is not the issue. Heart has never been the issue.
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Calling out this BS.

Apparently you missed at least every game since halftime of the 2020 Georgia game, not to mention dozens of other examples in the last dozen seasons.
 
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VolCalls said:
Give Heupel two seasons. Year 3 we will be national contenders. He has two things the last 3 coaches didn’t: a brain and no ego.
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I agree with the overall message of the OP, this team showed fight and didn't quit, but with all of the attrition and new systems on both sides of the ball, getting to 6 wins will be an achievement. That said, I think we're getting ahead of ourselves to think we'll be national contenders in 2023, by 2023 hopefully we are good for 7-8 wins and no losses of 20 or more.
 
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Y'all are basing all your hopes of improvement on BGU and Pitt

That "improvement" and "heart" is about to disappear once we hit the SEC schedule

Sure, you'll be excited again once we beat TN Tech

The " I got a feeling we are going to beat Florida" posts come up. Then we go to.Florida and get ran out of the stadium by the 1st half

This is a bad team for many reasons. It doesnt help when you amplify that by bad coaching and there is plenty of that to go around

This " improved" D is about to get toasted and part of that is going to be from the offense running too fast against teams with better defenses that can stop this gimmick offense
 
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kcvols1 said:
Same here.

“We talked about it all week long. Understanding who Pitt is as a football team and where they’re at as a program, we didn’t want to look at the scoreboard until it ticked to zero. We’re going compete to the very last tick. I am proud of our football team. I think they did that. They weren’t perfect in how we competed. But we did compete.”

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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Teddy's words from "Man in the Arena" stills hold true to this very day. Would be nice if certain of our fans have the good sense to embrace the spirit of those words.
 
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Other_Guy said:
Pretty sure we've said that in the early stages of each coach we've canned.
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Yep. We loved Butch's positivity and feel good quotes. We also loved the fact that Gump Cornbread was country and "a real football coach." Then we denigrated those coaches for the same reasons on their way out.
 
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ALLVOL123,Is your problem that you don't have but 3 fingers on a hand that you cannot count to five?It will take coachHeupel time to get his team in place.Only 71 scholarship players.14 short. We have seen that Joe Milton is not the answer at qb,cannot help but overthrow deep receivers.At least 6 so far this year.At least 4 would have been td's.Players are playing hard and with fire. This will turn around.Go Vols.
 
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#172
The play call on 4&1 was horrible. But you can not take away from how this team just didn’t roll over.
 
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Other_Guy said:
Pretty sure we've said that in the early stages of each coach we've canned.
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they have.
they will do it again in 4 years for the next coach when HypeLord is fired.
culture needs fixing, last coach left us in a mess, fans just need to have patience, new scheme, the team showed heart and so on and so forth.
 
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Longsufferingvol said:
Yep. We loved Butch's positivity and feel good quotes. We also loved the fact that Gump Cornbread was country and "a real football coach." Then we denigrated those coaches for the same reasons on their way out.
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rofl every coach we hire, these dudes come out saying "we finally have a real football coach" "he is the exact opposite of the last coach! such a breath of fresh air!"
and dont forget the tried and true "but he has them not quitting"
 
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