Poor Sportsmanship?

[JCHateSteve]

Some folks just have to find something to complain about. We emptied our bench while Iowa was playing a majority of its starters and going for every 4th down. They tried to take Gaston's head off on that last drive too. Iowa are a bunch of punks. We should have run another play and scored again.

 

[StickMan]

We attempted to score with Moore in at the end. Iowa still had all their TOs as well. Once we got the first down we ran out the clock. Heupel gave Moore a few chances to have a moment in his last game as a Vol. People were very butt hurt that another TD might break the psyche of the Iowa football program.

Exactly. No matter how Heupel plays it, the idiots and pansies come out of the wood works.

 

[Boone&Crockett]

Eh, I thought it was a little tacky myself, maybe don't take a knee but just run the ball, throwing it with 30 seconds left was too much.

 

[DaddyChad]

If those were my kids out there that had given everything for Tennessee football but never saw the field I would be hugging Coaches neck for giving them the opportunity to do something rather than kneel the ball. I am still pissed we weren’t able to score.

Heupel played it perfectly honestly. He gave his guys the chance to execute the offense. Once he could kill the clock he did to prevent injury. He did everything right for his players and the program. Sorry if that hurt a few fans feelings.

 

[iuvol]

Iowa is going to remember this and put up 7 points the next time they face us

LOL

 

[OrangeInKy]

I’m mad we didn’t score 70

 

[northknoxvol]

Let the backups score if they can......if you dont like it then stop them.

 

[Other_Guy]

Huepel chose not to punch it in with 30 seconds 1st down at the 3 yard line.

 

[NeylandX5]

Well, they went offside giving us another down…so…we took the knee after that.

You're absolutely right. We could have put in the starters and pushed it into the end zone. We had time outs left too.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Obviously these commentators aren’t familiar with the old term, “It’s the defense job to stop them.”

You’re giving these young guys reps for next year.

What’s the big deal?

If the teams were reversed, they would say they were playing tough Iowa football for sixty minutes.

 

[AdoptedVOL]

Dude, come on. You know we should have taken a knee.

Not in Huepels nature. He plays to the end.

 

[Advol]

They let the clock run out on the 1 yard line. Satisfied?

I'm impressed..............I guess showing a little class and sportmanship is hard for some people!
Just an old mans opinion!!

 

[turbovol]

Chest-beating Vol fans are never going to agree it was wrong. But it was. You want the backup to run the full package and throw the ball, then put him in the game with 6/7 minutes left, when we've got a huge lead, and let him do it all. But Heup didn't do that. Why, I don't know. He puts the guy with 2/3 minutes left in the game and he's throwing his first passes with 30 seconds left. You simply don't need to do that. I don't have a problem with running the ball and trying to score with seconds left--but don't throw passes.

 

[2EastTnVols]

Who cares? We act like if the score was 42-0 rather than 35-0 the iowa kids would be scarred for life. If you're the best defense in the nation then you should be able to stop our backups.

 

[Vol4gzus]

Nah. Like the announcers said, players like Moore put in just as much time. Let them play. If they score, they score.

They also said take knee..

 

[vegasvolfan]

Obviously these commentators aren’t familiar with the old term, “It’s the defense job to stop them.”

You’re giving these young guys reps for next year.

What’s the big deal?

I think everything worked out fine.

 

[Vol4gzus]

I don’t care one way the other but if I recall, I believe Iowa was still blitzing. If we scored or of we took a knee, I didn’t care one way the other personally.

They Were blitzing and offsides

 

[Smokey7]

Is Osweiler mad Peyton was better than him

 

[GulfCoasterVol]

We stand on benness

 

[GameTime]

No gentlemen wear shoulder pads......Keep scoring until stopped.

 

[Probably_in_Class]

Since when is 35 points running up the score?

Well then playing a team that maxes out at 6...

 

[Orange Death]

In the immortal words of Ndamukong Suh to Tom Brady, "I'm not you're ****ing friend."

Full Send.

 

[m1al]

I think CJH "takes a knee" if not for his guy that followed him from UCF. I think he was trying to throw him a bone by letting him run the offense and I don't have a problem with it, at all....

jmho...

 

[LadyVolette]

Announcers wanted the game to be over.

Possibly, they didn’t seem too jazzed to be there

 

[LadyVolette]

Dude, come on. You know we should have taken a knee.

Nope.. he wanted to let Gaston play after our new, first-time starting QB played, as we played a team ranked 8 slots above us with all of their starters in the game with mostly our underclassman and pieced together non injured, non opted out remaining players.. in a bowl game, where according to rankings, we should have lost, no? Iowa needed to play better