Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Enki_Amenra said:
Do you think we get in if we beat Arkansas, but lose to Bama instead? I don't think so. That loss may have a way of working itself out for the better.

(This is going off the idea that a 10-2 UT would have losses to UGA & Bama). . . I was at 8-4/9-3 preseason as the base, leaning to 9-3. . . I moved pretty quickly to 11-1 or 12-0 after watching 5 minutes of highlights from the first 2 fall camp practices, 😂
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Bama win is doing the most work for us.

I even think we would have been better off with wins over Bama and UGA, and losses to OU and Ark
 
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BigSteve09 said:
I was trying to go back and find where we discussed expectations for the season in this thread or the one before it

the vast majority, like 99% of us, were good with 10-2. A lot of people were at 9-3, understanding that OU, Bama, Georgia would be tough. And not ruling out traditionally challenging games like Ark and UF.

some people were preemptively firing the staff if they went 8-4 or worse, which led to McGill idiot margining everyone.

all that to say, I think the posters here all had reasonable expectations. it just sucks being a fringe team coming down the stretch, given that we all though 10 wins would be a ticket to the playoff.
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The Official UT Season & Points Predictions (Poll)

You get two guesses on this poll. FIRST: What is our year end record INCLUDING a Bowl Game? (As a reminder, Vols were 9-4 last year including Bowl Victory) (Sorry, I did say a bowl game, because we don't know how many game/s we might play, so assume this poll is for our regular season plus...
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mrmax86 said:

The Official UT Season & Points Predictions (Poll)

You get two guesses on this poll. FIRST: What is our year end record INCLUDING a Bowl Game? (As a reminder, Vols were 9-4 last year including Bowl Victory) (Sorry, I did say a bowl game, because we don't know how many game/s we might play, so assume this poll is for our regular season plus...
www.volnation.com www.volnation.com
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Hmm thanks.

I was talking about the posts we made in the Recruiting Forum thread specifically. I think that 10-3 to 11-2 spread accurately covers how most felt, though.
 
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TrippieRedd said:
Well they are playing for a spot in the national championship, not for the championship.


To your point, there isn't 64 teams in basketball deserving of playing for the national Championship.
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FCS has 24 team playoff system so why can't FBS have one?

Bowl games I presume.
 
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Devo182 said:
I'm for all of this.

Auto bids and byes are stupid. But keep round 1 home games. Your reward for a great season is only having to play #16 at home.

I think it'd be awesome.
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it also rewards the community

your fans and local businesses should get another week of big time football if you've played well. the reward is more money for the local businesses and the university
 
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Midas said:
We were #6 in Nielsen Ratings last year and it wasn’t even a good year. We were over Oregon, Penn State, Texas and Notre Dame. We get viewers.
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I wasn't saying we didn't get viewers just that we are much more regional than those other teams. In the Southeast and with serious college football fans we are big whether they love or hate us. But with the casuals we are not an attention grabber, particularly with yankees, who care mostly about NFL Football. Unless we are playing their team people in Ohio probably aren't watching us.
When it is a big national game like the Superbowl or the CFB Playoff, tv is looking for a national audience.
 
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Midas said:
We rated higher than Texas on Nielsen ratings last year though. But the conversation is more about us and other “bubble” SEC teams vs the BIG 10 people they got up there. The only one ranked higher than us that had a higher Nielsen Rating last year was OSU. We were rated higher than Penn State and Oregon and for damn sure over Indiana and this was for nationwide viewership.
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We are a regional franchise. Think the Buffalo Bills, they are very popular in their region and a have fanatical following but the Dallas Cowboys are a national franchise.
 
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GoodTimeVol said:
That should be the first thing mentioned each time Jack, no excuse for that Georgia game. The interior played their worst game all year and that shouldn’t happen with upperclassmen
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Glen Ellarbee. Our offense was meant to run tempo. OL talent is nowhere near where it needs to be. Bigger indictment is play calling. I havent been impressed with Halzle this year.
 
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