Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[Cosmo Kramer]

My four year old has a birthday party from 12 to 4 today so I'll miss the game. Should I tell her that her friend died in a fire and not go...or...no?

 

[BigSteve09]

Vols today
Golf today
XFL today

Good day

 

[Dooby15]

People already deciding how the baseball team will finish and how the season will go after one game.

 

[RikidyBones]

Go to the party.
Don’t record the game.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Daughter won't even see me there lol. I'm the bday dad. I take both kids to their friends birthdays so I'm used to it.

The trend of not opening presents while people are there is a legit trend.

 

[UTSuave’]

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[Devo182]

Hell a lot of Vol football and bball fans also don’t know anything about those sports. And not just on SM. Ever visited a game thread? As soon as the opponent scores a TD it’s lights out for the season

I'll always remember 2019...

"We're 0-2!!! We'll be lucky to win 1 game this season and that'll be an FCS team!!" Ofc this was after losing a buzzer beater to a good BYU team. And then we went 8-5 lol.

So many fans are just foolish and don't get the ups and downs and variance inherent in sport.

They say silly things, "no way we can lose to X team, since we just beat Y team". That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

 

[JCP201]

Last year….. we started out against a mediocre/bad Georgia southern team…. We didn’t play Texas until several games in and we scored 2 runs on 7 hits…. Last night against a comparable team to Texas we scored 1 run on 6 hits….. it’s way too early to know what kind of hitting team we have… With the philosophy that we teach…. I bet we end up as the top 2-3 power teams in the SEC this year.

Good point-- hard to figure how it's going to go after one game-- We just had a huge turnover over our massive hitters, so I was guessing it might be more about the pitching this year. That said, we havent even seen one of our best players in the lineup due to NCAA junk that seems to only happen to VOLS.

 

[Billy Antrim]

I'm actually a little surprised people are freaking out over one baseball loss.

First it's been silly how many overreactions there have been to basketball, but it's sad that they're doing this for baseball my god.

It's what happens when expectations get too high.

Reminds me of my golf game. For years after a great game of golf (for me breaking 40 on 9 holes), I would say "it's about time, I've got this figured out!" My expectations were through the roof. Then next time, when I played like crap, I would get depressed and angry with myself for playing so poorly. I just think it's human nature to react like that.

Now, after 30+ years of playing golf, I understand that performance in sports comes and goes, sometimes on a daily basis. So a bad shot or a bad round doesn't bother me nearly so much.

 

[DarthVol1]

We beat 3 of the top 8 in the first NCAA bracket, yet we are not in top 8. Makes sense.

 

[MarcoVol]

On here, game football thread, soon as we get behind by a touchdown or the other team does something cool, it’s ‘we suck again’ , you can set your watch to it It’s a little annoying

Bit of an emotionally unstable crowd

 

[volbeast33]

Good point-- hard to figure how it's going to go after one game-- We just had a huge turnover over our massive hitters, so I was guessing it might be more about the pitching this year. That said, we havent even seen one of our best players in the lineup due to NCAA junk that seems to only happen to VOLS.

Two of our massive hitters had a combined 2 homeruns going into last season(Trey and Ortega) Baseball rosters are huge… I bet we have more guys ready to step up as well this year.

 

[BigSteve09]

 

[BigSteve09]

Seems like the committee and media have got their mind made up about Tennessee

 

[volbeast33]

Bit of an emotionally unstable crowd

During games is why I couldn’t be an AD…… we would have coaching turnover at every halftime.

 

[volbeast33]

Seems like the committee and media have got their mind made up about Tennessee

I have seen us any where from a last 2 seed to a 3 seed….. DCJW!!

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

It's what happens when expectations get too high.

Reminds me of my golf game. For years after a great game of golf (for me breaking 40 on 9 holes), I would say "it's about time, I've got this figured out!" My expectations were through the roof. Then next time, when I played like crap, I would get depressed and angry with myself for playing so poorly. I just think it's human nature to react like that.

Now, after 30+ years of playing golf, I understand that performance in sports comes and goes, sometimes on a daily basis. So a bad shot or a bad round doesn't bother me nearly so much.

Yeah, but I don't think your Vandy or LSU baseball fans are freaking out after an early season loss because they know how college baseball works.

We ignnit

 

[RikidyBones]

 

[RikidyBones]

That'll be the last you hear from me til four. Don't mess this up everyone.

 

[drvenner]

It is all of these rules changes they have made in an effort to speed up games. Once in the box and pitcher toes the mound they are not allowing time to be called.

Didn't he grant time out in the same situation later to an AZ hitter. I hope so because I love a good conspiracy theory

 

[drvenner]

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I thought you were saying doggone. Then I wondered why anyone would every say dogoff.

 

[Devo182]

It's what happens when expectations get too high.

Reminds me of my golf game. For years after a great game of golf (for me breaking 40 on 9 holes), I would say "it's about time, I've got this figured out!" My expectations were through the roof. Then next time, when I played like crap, I would get depressed and angry with myself for playing so poorly. I just think it's human nature to react like that.

Now, after 30+ years of playing golf, I understand that performance in sports comes and goes, sometimes on a daily basis. So a bad shot or a bad round doesn't bother me nearly so much.

EXACTLY.

And you came to that realization from experiencing the variance firsthand in a sport.

My guess is many football fans that don't get that never played basketball or baseball or golf where the main determinant of the outcome isn't pure "want" or brute force as football is often more about. The difference between being 5-5 on 3 pointers for a game and 0-5 is an inch or two. And this is even magnified in a game like golf as you well know.

 

[InVOLuntary]

I've seen less cold shooting in Antarctica.

 

[#JuanVol]

People already deciding how the baseball team will finish and how the season will go after one game.
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I mean we are on pace for a losing record and to not make the tournament. I’m very concerned.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

2 fouls on Zeigler already. Not ideal!

 

[crawdaddyjc]

Not the expected start.