Most Fascinating Stat for 2013

Are you encouraged by the rushing game this year?

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#51
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volfanbill said:
I am so tired of the tough schedule argument. Yeah, we played a tough schedule, but minus two of those ranked teams, we played like a AA High School against those ranked teams. It's not that we played a bad schedule, it's that we had no fight for so many of those tough games.
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Exactly. Tennessee knows how to win big games, it's not like we're Southern Miss.
 
#52
#52
checkerboards09 said:
Exactly. Tennessee knows how to win big games, it's not like we're Southern Miss.
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That's not even my point. Honestly, no one on this team knows how to win big games. Very few on the coaching staff even do. But it's all about playing tough, inspired and for 60 minutes. This team didn't do that for a good stretch of the season. That's disappointing.
 
#53
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volfanbill said:
That's not even my point. Honestly, no one on this team knows how to win big games. Very few on the coaching staff even do. But it's all about playing tough, inspired and for 60 minutes. This team didn't do that for a good stretch of the season. That's disappointing.
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I agree completely. That's pretty much what I meant. We play tough schedules every year, we know what to expect. UT shouldn't be slapped around for consecutive games.
 
#54
#54
Rifleman said:
Maybe this is the most disappointing season I can remember in that we wasted a great season running the football.

How good were we? Looking at yards per carry, this is the 5th best season since 1950:

1. 1993 - 5.9 ypc
2. 1951 - 5.8
3. 1956 - 5.0
4. 1998 - 4.91
5. 2013 - 4.90

We may very well finish up the year with better ypc than 1998! Still, the large number of turnovers, general ineffectiveness in the passing game, and a defense that does not have SEC depth ensures that we won't even see a bowl game.

In retrospect, Worley's injury probably did us in. We just needed a few more plays in the passing game in order get to 6-6.

If we can continue to run the football at this level, does anyone doubt we will have better days ahead?
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4th best season since 1950 in yards per carry:

1. 1993 - 5.9 ypc
2. 1951 - 5.8
3. 1956 - 5.0
4. 2013 - 4.92
5. 1998 - 4.91

Dobbs finished as the 3rd leading rusher. Lane had 5.3 yards per carry, so there are some good signs going forward.
 
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#55
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volfanbill said:
That's not even my point. Honestly, no one on this team knows how to win big games. Very few on the coaching staff even do. But it's all about playing tough, inspired and for 60 minutes. This team didn't do that for a good stretch of the season. That's disappointing.
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That's because most of our starters are from the Doofus era and are used to accepting losing as a way of life. You can bring a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. Until Jones weeds out the loser mentality that Doofus installed, it's going to be hard to get the players that inspired.

Butch Jones doesn't know how to win big games? I guess beating the #11 SC gamecocks is not a big game. Wow if the only thing you can see is disappointment in this team then why are you a fan?
 
#56
#56
checkerboards09 said:
I agree completely. That's pretty much what I meant. We play tough schedules every year, we know what to expect. UT shouldn't be slapped around for consecutive games.
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Yeah because teams aren't allowed to struggle right? A team with a first year head coach, mostly young players and the toughest schedule in school history is not supposed to get beat right? Great logic you got there. If you don't understand the difference in this years schedule then you're clearly blind. But too each his own I guess. Keep believing what you posted if it makes you feel better.
 
#57
#57
volfanbill said:
I don't care if you play Alabama 12 straight times, if you're the coach and you don't have your team fired up each Saturday, you've failed.
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I assume you have coached enough to know that can be done. I mean, you have to be an expert at getting teams fired up for each and every game or else you wouldn't know it can be done so easily.

(all others- check your sarcasm meter. vfb- check dictionary for meaning of sarcasm)

ah- you don't know how fired up they were, or weren't
 
#58
#58
Rifleman said:
We are talking about 2,043 yards for the season on 417 carries, not a one game sample size. Therefore, your argument is invalid.
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Let's go ahead and update those totals post-Kentucky as well: 2261 net yards rushing on 460 attempts and 18 rushing touchdowns (UTSPORTS.COM - University of Tennessee Athletics - Football). Any way you want to analyze it, 2013 has been characterized by, as Butch has noted more than once, the most productive running attack at Tennessee since 2004.
 
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#59
#59
Our stats in the passing game are at the bottom of the SEC, if we had just an average passing game, the run game would have looked much better!

And so would our record! JMO



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#61
#61
Volosaurus rex said:
Let's go ahead and update those totals post-Kentucky as well: 2261 net yards rushing on 460 attempts and 18 rushing touchdowns (UTSPORTS.COM - University of Tennessee Athletics - Football). Any way you want to analyze it, 2013 has been characterized by, as Butch has noted more than once, the most productive running attack at Tennessee since 2004.
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You actually have to go all the way back to 1999 to find a UT team that rushed for more yards per game. 188 this year vs 191 back then.

This team was very strong running the ball.
 
#62
#62
You can throw out the ypc stats all you want to, but the simple truth is we could not run it when we had to.
 
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Rifleman said:
You actually have to go all the way back to 1999 to find a UT team that rushed for more yards per game. 188 this year vs 191 back then.

This team was very strong running the ball.
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Turning a negative into a positive nice, Rifleman.

The stats though good do not surprise given our ineffective passing gm. Further, they would have been better if not for the times we prematurely abandoned the run gm to press the passing gm.
 
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