Something is amiss.

[Delmar]

Not true. We have made adjustments at times. In the Georgia game for example they only had 31 passing yards in the second half and scored 3 points.

Sorry Stephen. That’s because they only threw 4 passes. They didn’t have to throw and they knew it.

 

[volfeeva]

Not true. We have made adjustments at times. In the Georgia game for example they only had 31 passing yards in the second half and scored 3 points.

Georgia could have run the score up in the second half but because of the rain they backed off. Everyone knows that who watched the game. Georgia changed their game plan---it was not from something we did different on defense

 

[Stephen Gray]

Sorry Stephen. That’s because they only threw 4 passes. They didn’t have to throw and they knew it.

Yeah you are right. I just went back and looked at the play by play. I forgot they ran it so much. I’d say we have made adjustments even so, but more like in between games than during. The secondary looked better against LSU than Florida and did good things the Alabama game at times. They actually looked great against Kentucky. Missouri I forget, but last night was definitely a big step backwards.

 

[LadyinOrange]

Yeah.

Our offense is just off when Tillman is there. It's so weird.

McCoy, Keyton, and Hyatt have been devastating when they're the 3.

But our defense tonight....there was something else going on.

They didnt even try to win.

 

[Delmar]

This is the worst fan base in the country. We are having an incredible season, well beyond any expectation of this bunch. In fact, the idiots thing for the firing of the coaching staff and kicking all the players off the team were predicting a losing record. I hope the entire coaching staff leaves and you idiots get what you deserve, decades more of obscurity.

I think I will take a break from this site for awhile because I am tired of the so called fans that sit in their parents basement and wait for something to happen so they can jump on their keyboards and spout their venom. This loss hurts very badly, but absolutely NO ONE thought we would even be in the playoff conversation, so so acting like we are ready. We played poorly and lost. Stop acting like we are 2-9 instead of 9-2. It must be horrible to live your life constantly looking for a reason to be unhappy.

I would agree with you that it has absolutely been a great season and totally unexpected that we would be in the hunt for the playoffs. Never forget that. The disappointment (and some people express it poorly) is that we the bed against a mediocre team that scored 6 points the previous week against a Florida team that has basically quit on the season. And with the playoffs on the line.

63 points. Worst defensive performance I can recall in my 50 years of being a serious fan (60 if you count going to games). It was a helpless feeling and I can’t blame folks for being disappointed. Some should probably think about how they say it though. I’ve seen some ridiculous comments that take away from what they’ve done this year.

 

[Delmar]

What??

Name the freshman playing heavy minutes in our secondary!

We have plenty of older guys there. They just aren't good.

Your last sentence tells the real issue. But I’m not going to let the defensive coaches off the hook this time. No excuse for what happened last night.

 

[Stephen Gray]

I would agree with you that it has absolutely been a great season and totally unexpected that we would be in the hunt for the playoffs. Never forget that. The disappointment (and some people express it poorly) is that we the bed against a mediocre team that scored 6 points the previous week against a Florida team that has basically quit on the season. And with the playoffs on the line.

63 points. Worst defensive performance I can recall in my 50 years of being a serious fan (60 if you count going to games). It was a helpless feeling and I can’t blame folks for being disappointed. Some should probably think about how they say it though. I’ve seen some ridiculous comments that take away from what they’ve done this year.

I think there are several people, players and coaches both, who share blame for the disaster that played out last night.

 

[savannahfan]

South Carolina was the better team on this night. Simple as that. They out coached us and flat out out played us on both lines of scrimmage. We got embarrassed by a garbage football program in a season where we had a real shot to make some serious waves. Now we are back to being laughingstocks again. Pathetic.

I was going to post this as it is what it is.
Maybe not all the way back to "laughingstock" but on the way if we don't get it back together. Vandy is playing pretty good ball right now.
I feel the biggest lose coming out of last night's game is to the program itself. This setback is not as great as the farce of a game we played against LSU for the SEC championship in the early 2000's, but this farce of a performance WILL set us back with recruits and to some degree with the fanbase, and with the people who "place" you in the overall picture of college football. They do not like being embarrassed when they tell everyone that you are really good and then you preform as we just did.

 

[Volhoops]

Georgia set the scheme against TN. Keep safeties back and let TN dink and dunk in front of you. TN does not like to drive as evidence of the offensive taking deep shots when nothing is there and getting behind the chains. You attack TN defensive secondary and use motion as TN does not handle it well at all.

 

[Volholic]

Just seems like it was a perfect storm. This is what happens when your team doesn’t show up and the other team plays stupid, unconscious, lights out football. They literally hit every long pass play they tried. Ridiculous.

 

[rdk4121]

To me, this loss is mainly on the shoulders of Hadden. He gave receivers about 15-20 yards of cushion every single play, gave up well over 100 yards passing, gave several pathetic attempts at tackling, extended at least a few drives by getting penalties, and after every big play he gave up he would go over and get in the face of the player that just whipped him. He was responsible for at least 28 points being scored.

The injuries in the secondary have just added up unfortunately. That combined with Jeremy banks being out was just far too much to overcome. Banks is the emotional leader of this defense, and the one that makes all the calls. Too tough to replace.

 

[90 Vol]

This is the worst fan base in the country. We are having an incredible season, well beyond any expectation of this bunch. In fact, the idiots thing for the firing of the coaching staff and kicking all the players off the team were predicting a losing record. I hope the entire coaching staff leaves and you idiots get what you deserve, decades more of obscurity.

I think I will take a break from this site for awhile because I am tired of the so called fans that sit in their parents basement and wait for something to happen so they can jump on their keyboards and spout their venom. This loss hurts very badly, but absolutely NO ONE thought we would even be in the playoff conversation, so so acting like we are ready. We played poorly and lost. Stop acting like we are 2-9 instead of 9-2. It must be horrible to live your life constantly looking for a reason to be unhappy.

Ahh, the good ole blame the fans shtick.

 

[Delmar]

To me, this loss is mainly on the shoulders of Hadden. He gave receivers about 15-20 yards of cushion every single play, gave up well over 100 yards passing, gave several pathetic attempts at tackling, extended at least a few drives by getting penalties, and after every big play he gave up he would go over and get in the face of the player that just whipped him. He was responsible for at least 28 points being scored.

The injuries in the secondary have just added up unfortunately. That combined with Jeremy banks being out was just far too much to overcome. Banks is the emotional leader of this defense, and the one that makes all the calls. Too tough to replace.

Injuries haven’t helped but the starters in the secondary weren’t very good. As I’ve said a hundred times, Burrell can’t cover a statue. What makes you think he and the others would have made it better?

 

[rdk4121]

Injuries haven’t helped but the starters in the secondary weren’t very good. As I’ve said a hundred times, Burrell can’t cover a statue. What makes you think he and the others would have made it better?

Mainly talking about Turnage going out, but I would've taken Burrell last night for sure. They certainly weren't playing great before Turnage got injured, but he was the only one even near a receiver all game. Plus guys like Charles, Dee, and Rucker missing time this year certainly doesn't allow them to improve on a week to week basis. I guess the same could be said about Hadden, but he's an attitude problem.

 

[Carp]

I think SoCar spent most of the last 2-3 weeks preparing for this game. I think Beamer knew he needed a signature win for recruiting and to get some excitement around his program. What better way than to knock off a top 10 Vols progam?

They looked completely unprepared vs Florida, which tracks because they weren't preparing for that game. They were preparing for this game and this game only the last 2-3 weeks.

 

[Smokey7]

This post is textbook sour grapes.[/QUOTEaight

Aight

 

[Smokey7]

We had one bad game.

I hope I'm overreacting.
Of course the offense didn't play that bad.

 

[VolsFan-TX]

We weren’t running ever after the first drive. Went nowhere every time we tried.

28 carries for 152 yards and 1 TD. That’s 5.4 yards a carry. We have averaged 191 yds per game and we were under that mainly due to the need to throw the ball to try to stay in the game. Our defense put our offense under tremendous pressure last night as we were forced to score a TD on every possession. We needed an Alabama game effort and result offensively to even be close in that game (7 scores out of 9 possessions), but even that would not have been enough with our defensive performance.

 

[livefaith]

You have a different team every week. No game is a lock. Winning is hard. And all wins should be respected.

Nobody wanted to listen to anything like this wisdom 2 weeks ago. They just wanted to rant on the corrupt playoff committee 3 weeks before it mattered.

 

[livefaith]

What do you not understand - our defense has been awful year. It caught up to us finally.

Nobody batted an eye when Bama laid 49 on us because if the euphoria. Saban didn't change gears to the "USC like" strategy until we went up 28-10 in 2Q. Had they started from the opening, they wooda hung 60+ too. UF made a comeback and nearly won wnsame 4Q strategy.
It's obviously the way to beat us. Sling it all over and deep, the pop a run, reverse, or QB keep here and there. Shock revelation here ... we've got serious pass defense deficiencies.

 

[rusty11]

This defensive performance is bad enough to warrant firing the DC on the spot.

Offense hasn’t been great either. I think USC has the worst rush defense in the league. What have we rushed for?

We threw on 1st down and didn't get completions and we kept on doing it over and over and not getting completions. We needed to pound the rock after halftime, wear them down and keep their offense and our defense off the field.

 

[PACKERVOL]

Tha orange helmets.

Never wear them again!!!

 

[Smokey7]

Never wear them again!!!

Doesn't look that good. I love the Gray uni's.

 

[37027]

While I wouldn't dare question the long standing VolNation policy of never impeding a TRUE vol fans (like yourself) right to take away a fake fans (like myself) fan card at any moment they deem worthy, I would argue that any fan who has stuck by this program, from 2000-present especially, considering all the dark years endured, just might be entitled to a slight amount of slack regarding the privilege to offer their opinion without being cancelled and having their fan status revoked.

I'm well aware the crime of actually caring about success is a classic sign of a fake fan who should stop crying and go cheer for Bama. Which carries the automatic revoking of their fan card by any of those who behave more like real Vol fans and are much less caring about winning and more concerned with policing true fandom.

I will admit after the excitement of such an epic season, that saw heights few could have predicted, the letdown of losing by 3TDs to a team they were 3TD favorites over, where the biggest fear should have been style points not sufficiently stacked during the win, and the post game conversation should be about Josh having Milton throw 60 yard bombs and run up the score, instead trying to remember the numerous historically bad records the Vols set (most points ever scored on a top 5 team, most points allowed by UT in SEC play ever IIRC) during their inexplicably incomprehensible sabatoging of the all-but-guaranteed playoff spot they had about as easy a path to as could ever be imagined. Instead, platitudes about the season being better than predicted doesn't really help the reality that the program managed to somehow take all that momentum/success and squander it so thoroughly in one night that all they have accomplished now seems like the lesser feat in comparison.


I certainly didn't predict such an amazing season. One thing I would have considered even less likely is after beating Bama, Florida and LSU, heading directly to the playoff with a Heisman frontrunner QB, only needing to defeat two teams that TNs second string should get plenty of garbage time against, the former #1 ranked Vols would not just lose to a bad SC but lose in such historically horrible fashion that it would be spelling doom for a Butch Dooley Pruitt team of the dark times I allowed myself to believe we're actually a thing of the past.

For as good as they have looked, that team played so badly they took me back to Dooley sitting on a stool level Vols mind state. Bc they were that bad. The scary thing is they managed to do it with one game in a season so magical that it was almost impossible to conceive such ruination. Beating two bad teams for the committee to screw them out of the rightful spot they earned is the negative outcome I was already mentally preparing for. Or getting in and getting handled round 1. Either of those would have been fine endings to a season of massive leaps forward. To lose to this SC team at this time in such disgraceful fashion is almost hard to comprehend. Losing the playoff spot that was already earned by the worst performance imaginable .... Even after all the trauma I was not prepared for. But I have committed the sin of caring I confess. I wanted to see my team in the playoffs considering the circumstances. Which is the mark of the fake fairweather fan indeed.

Wow that was long.

 

[37027]

To me, this loss is mainly on the shoulders of Hadden. He gave receivers about 15-20 yards of cushion every single play, gave up well over 100 yards passing, gave several pathetic attempts at tackling, extended at least a few drives by getting penalties, and after every big play he gave up he would go over and get in the face of the player that just whipped him. He was responsible for at least 28 points being scored.

The injuries in the secondary have just added up unfortunately. That combined with Jeremy banks being out was just far too much to overcome. Banks is the emotional leader of this defense, and the one that makes all the calls. Too tough to replace.

Re the cushion, wouldn't that be per instruction from a coach?