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Just think:

Heupel took us to #1, 11-2, and a mere glitch of a game away from the playoffs in Y2. We beat 3 of the last 4 national champions...in 1 year.

All of this with a Blue Chip Ratio of somewhere in the ~40% area.

Now imagine if we could merely hit 55% like Penn St or Michigan...or better yet 65-70% like Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon, LSU, UF, ND...we'd be unstoppable.

This class (not team, but 2024 class) is currently sitting at 66%. Keep it going and titles are coming home to Knoxville.
 
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Devo182 said:
Just think:

Heupel took us to #1, 11-2, and a mere glitch of a game away from the playoffs in Y2. We beat 3 of the last 4 national champions...in 1 year.

All of this with a Blue Chip Ratio of somewhere in the ~40% area.

Now imagine if we could merely hit 55% like Penn St or Michigan...or better yet 65-70% like Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon, LSU, UF, ND...we'd be unstoppable.

This class (not team, but 2024 class) is currently sitting at 66%. Keep it going and titles are coming home to Knoxville.
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We beat 6 of the last 7 national champions I think. Well, now 6 of the last 8 I guess.
 
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Devo182 said:
Did you meet Bjork or Sigur Ros there? Given their capital is about the size of Johnson City, I've always felt like the odds would be decent meeting someone famous there.
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Reykjavik is about twice the size of JC proper, but yeah, it's quaint. I really liked Icelanders. I think I'd been there 3 days or so before I actually heard anyone speak Icelandic. They are so comfortable with English they speak it to each other much of the time. Very pleasant people. Good (but dry) sense of humor.

Great example of Icelandic humor...
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
I’m at Kiawah Island about to go play golf very poorly and drink beer.
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Jealous. Next summer, the wife and I are going to drop the kids off at the in-laws in Mt. Pleasant and go spend the weekend in Kiawah. I’m not even close to good enough to play Ocean Course but you better believe I will anyway.
 
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Devo182 said:
Have you done much traveling outside the country? Besides going south of the border to run cocaine, of course 😅

Or mostly US NPs? Seems like you've been to every one.
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I've been to Belize, the Turks and Caicos, the Dominican Republic and Honduras... and Mexico on cruises and we took a couple little road trips through a little of south-central Canada when I was a teenager...but that's it.

I hope to at least knock out all the full 47-50ish NPs (they've added a few in the last few years so I'm not sure the exact number) in the lower 48 before I croak..but I've only been to 23 (edit: 24, I forgot Mesa Verde...Edit #2: 25, I forgot that they've just turned Gateway Arch into a full NP in 2018 and we've been there twice since 2011) full NPs so far, so I still have over half of them to go.

We have also been to a ton of the top State Parks in the states we have visited, and a ton of the National Monuments, NRRAs, National Battlefields, National Sea-lakeshore and National Historic parks which are in the NPS system...and a lot of the popular National Forest sites which are in the NFS system...which are highly underrated and underfinaced imo.

We are going to 4 new countries on a 10 day cruise we are taking in November...Costa Rica, Panama, Cayman Islands and Cartagena Columbia...so I will be able to say I've been to another continent.


Ps: IMO...Gateway Arch, while really cool, and while I think everyone should check it and the museums on-site out...should not be a full NP..

There are several AWESOME scenic areas among our federal lands that should have been made a full NP before that place.
 
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ugg said:
Reminds me of a game we used to play called pick up and smear. Usually 5-6 guys would play and everyone would try to kill the guy with the ball. Once he was smeared someone else would get the ball. Usually looked like the aftermath of a Harvard snowball fight when we were done.

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It was referenced as Smeer The (rhymes with steer) With The Ball in progressive Chattanooga circa 70’s, 80’s and mostly 90’s.
 
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SSVol said:
Reykjavik is about twice the size of JC proper, but yeah, it's quaint. I really liked Icelanders. I think I'd been there 3 days or so before I actually heard anyone speak Icelandic. They are so comfortable with English they speak it to each other much of the time. Very pleasant people. Good (but dry) sense of humor.

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Lol...that's great 😁
 
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