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By the way, got a second-hand tidbit from someone down here that Mullen really was leaning towards UT until Florida swooped in.

Just in case you have anything left of your nuts to take yet another kickin'.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
I want to offer a piece of sincere advice to those who seriously want to try to unplug after this is over with.

After the Oklahoma and Florida games in 2015 (I attended the UF game), I decided that the healthiest course of action was to quite literally cut myself off for a week and just watch the games without obsessing over every little thing going on. I stopped watching a lot of football. I didn't check any message boards (even this one, which is my safe space). I didn't read about football.

When we lost to Arkansas the next week, I watched, and, while disappointed, I was not at all devastated. Cutting myself off cold turkey and focusing my attention on other things had made it much easier to bear. I got back on after Georgia and kinda rode that train until South Carolina last year, and I'm prepared to do it again if I need to.

The best thing you can do is to pretend like it doesn't even exist, if you truly want to unplug. By all means, watch the games when they're on (I probably will), but don't spend any of your time during the week reading about football, on message boards or otherwise.
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I did that. Didn't watch quite a few games this year or just turned them off when I realized how bad we were playing. Only watched maybe 5-6 Saturdays of CFB this year, and that was 2 games at the most usually. I'm losing interest in the Vols and the sport in general, to be honest. This coaching search has been wildly entertaining, though.
 
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Pawww Finebaum just said Memphis has a better program than Tennessee right now and has had for last 5 years indicating we should consider Norvell. Wow just Wow
 
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InVOLuntary said:
All this comes right back to one common denominator, the Haslam mafia. For all the good they've done they've screwed just as much up. They have always counted on the sheep to keep throwing money at the UTAD. I think it's about to boil over.
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I'm convinced that this program will not be among the elite in college football again until we get an AD who won't let them run things. I have to think they knew they couldn't control Fulmer or Blackburn, so they ramrodded Currie in. That's where the President comes in. He can get the hell out as well. Maddening.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
I want to offer a piece of sincere advice to those who seriously want to try to unplug after this is over with.

After the Oklahoma and Florida games in 2015 (I attended the UF game), I decided that the healthiest course of action was to quite literally cut myself off for a week and just watch the games without obsessing over every little thing going on. I stopped watching a lot of football. I didn't check any message boards (even this one, which is my safe space). I didn't read about football.

When we lost to Arkansas the next week, I watched, and, while disappointed, I was not at all devastated. Cutting myself off cold turkey and focusing my attention on other things had made it much easier to bear. I got back on after Georgia and kinda rode that train until South Carolina last year, and I'm prepared to do it again if I need to.

The best thing you can do is to pretend like it doesn't even exist, if you truly want to unplug. By all means, watch the games when they're on (I probably will), but don't spend any of your time during the week reading about football, on message boards or otherwise.
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I will watch the games, but with a casual approach. I will not be emotionally invested, and the program will not be receiving any money from me. In fact, I'm already planning to make trips to other SEC venues next year, that I haven't seen, since I know UT football won't be worth a ****.
 
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The reason this search is national entertainment is because of sunday. Usually we suffer these searches ourselves, but this one is a national spectacle and much more damaging. Schiano deal opened up a sinkhole in knoxville.
 
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Les waiting for our call
 
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CeJayVols said:
Pawww Finebaum just said Memphis has a better program than Tennessee right now and has had for last 5 years indicating we should consider Norvell. Wow just Wow
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Memphis is probably 2-2 right now vs us if we played them every year since 2014. Maybe 3-1.
 
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bcartervol98 said:
Well, yes. As much money as we have floating around the big boys one would think by now they could bind together and stop the bleeding they have perpetuated.
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I realize there are other big boosters, do they just fall in line with what the haslam mafia does? Can a few of the others not band together and sort have a coup d'etat?
 
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Just a theory on it, but I believe Miles won't be contacted because of what went down at LSU. He won a PR battle against the AD and boosters that wanted him gone because he had a ton of support from his players. I think our AD fears they won't be able to control him or get rid of him when the time came. Maybe Miles embarrassed the LSU boosters and AD, and they've relayed a negative message about him to our leadership.
 
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Let me say this before I ask this question. I do not want to hire Doeren as HC period but got to thinking about some of the post about how the players hate him, the AD hates him and the people hate him there. SO why not just fire him? Why put up with him? Is there a huge buyout or something?
 
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HankHill said:
I’m ready to just give Jeremy Pruitt a shot. He knows what a big time program looks like. We will lock up the defensive side of the ball. Maybe he brings one of Cochran’s assistants for S/C coach. (Kiffin brought Cochran’s right hand man to FAU which a big reason why they are where they are imo).
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I'm fine with Pruitt.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
I want to offer a piece of sincere advice to those who seriously want to try to unplug after this is over with.

After the Oklahoma and Florida games in 2015 (I attended the UF game), I decided that the healthiest course of action was to quite literally cut myself off for a week and just watch the games without obsessing over every little thing going on. I stopped watching a lot of football. I didn't check any message boards (even this one, which is my safe space). I didn't read about football.

When we lost to Arkansas the next week, I watched, and, while disappointed, I was not at all devastated. Cutting myself off cold turkey and focusing my attention on other things had made it much easier to bear. I got back on after Georgia and kinda rode that train until South Carolina last year, and I'm prepared to do it again if I need to.

The best thing you can do is to pretend like it doesn't even exist, if you truly want to unplug. By all means, watch the games when they're on (I probably will), but don't spend any of your time during the week reading about football, on message boards or otherwise.
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Thanks for braving said message board to issue this advice.
 
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