UTK
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Too long didn't read warning but I need to just vent a bit. Listen, I get it. I'm so sick of losing to UF, sick of losing to UGA, sick of losing to Bama. Us Vols fans have been more than enough patient the past 15 years. Hell, I only started watching the Vols in 2007! Little did I know, it'd mostly be down hill since then.
I find it just as embarrassing to look up our record vs UF the past 30 years as anyone else. But the reality is the past is something this current staff can't fix. They can only focus on the now and future. At a glance 38-14 looks just like another "uncompetitive" blowout loss to a major rival. I get that. I won't sugar coat it. It was ugly. However, anyone that knows football saw our staff draw up several plays that were quite literally "dropped". Make no mistake, I'm not saying if the players make those plays we win, but it certainly would of been a nail biter late into the game.
Think about that, this staff had a gameplan, despite being severely underhanded to take UF on the road to the wire. But the players didn't execute. In my moment of being pissed off, I even called for these WRs to have their scholarships yanked. I apologize for that. The moment was just too big for some of these young guys. I don't do moral victories, I'm not gonna celebrate a game because we simply played hard. That should be expected.
But. It's 4 games in year 1 and CJH has already shown he knows more about how to call a football game than any of our previous coaches since Lane. It'd be the easy thing to do later with our home games to "not show up" but let's get behind this new team and watch them grow and get better. It's our only option fellow Vols fans. There will still be a lot of embarrassing moments and heartbreak the next couple years, but if we can get away from the overwhelming negativity, I think CJH can get us back to respectability. Give the man time, it's a big rebuild.
Yes, we have been rebuilding for 15 years. But that is not on our current staff and players. Next week is a huge game, we beat Mizzou and you can argue we are on track for a 6-6 season. I get that it's sad that's what the bar has become, but it is what it is. A 6-6 season would be a great accomplishment given the roster. The play calling and schemes are there, and eventually the players will execute. I'm not saying we are gonna win championships the next few years, but all we can do is appreciate the slow climb out of the bottom. Just put things is perspective. I'm not saying never get pissed or negative in the moment, because at the end of the day we are all humans. It happens. But lets try to understand where we are. Keep wearing that orange proudly.
I find it just as embarrassing to look up our record vs UF the past 30 years as anyone else. But the reality is the past is something this current staff can't fix. They can only focus on the now and future. At a glance 38-14 looks just like another "uncompetitive" blowout loss to a major rival. I get that. I won't sugar coat it. It was ugly. However, anyone that knows football saw our staff draw up several plays that were quite literally "dropped". Make no mistake, I'm not saying if the players make those plays we win, but it certainly would of been a nail biter late into the game.
Think about that, this staff had a gameplan, despite being severely underhanded to take UF on the road to the wire. But the players didn't execute. In my moment of being pissed off, I even called for these WRs to have their scholarships yanked. I apologize for that. The moment was just too big for some of these young guys. I don't do moral victories, I'm not gonna celebrate a game because we simply played hard. That should be expected.
But. It's 4 games in year 1 and CJH has already shown he knows more about how to call a football game than any of our previous coaches since Lane. It'd be the easy thing to do later with our home games to "not show up" but let's get behind this new team and watch them grow and get better. It's our only option fellow Vols fans. There will still be a lot of embarrassing moments and heartbreak the next couple years, but if we can get away from the overwhelming negativity, I think CJH can get us back to respectability. Give the man time, it's a big rebuild.
Yes, we have been rebuilding for 15 years. But that is not on our current staff and players. Next week is a huge game, we beat Mizzou and you can argue we are on track for a 6-6 season. I get that it's sad that's what the bar has become, but it is what it is. A 6-6 season would be a great accomplishment given the roster. The play calling and schemes are there, and eventually the players will execute. I'm not saying we are gonna win championships the next few years, but all we can do is appreciate the slow climb out of the bottom. Just put things is perspective. I'm not saying never get pissed or negative in the moment, because at the end of the day we are all humans. It happens. But lets try to understand where we are. Keep wearing that orange proudly.
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