Suck it up, Volsfans

#51
#51
I disagree. Colorado put up roughly 200 points on Nebraska that season. The Huskers were galactically overrated that year. I have no doubt UT would've gave Miami a better game than that.
 
#52
#52
tvolsfan said:
It would have been similar. I believe Miami was up 37-0 in the game before they stopped trying. Tennessee probably would have been in a similar situation before Miami relaxed a little.
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Correct. The "U" would have scored 70 if they chose to do so.
 
#53
#53
allvol said:
"what will fix it?" experience. the talent is already there, it just needs to get experience and improve from year-to-year. keep the good recruiting class coming to integrate them into team. Part of the problem this season is that both sides of the line were top-heavy with senior and jrs going pro that the almost all the players were inexperienced coming into this season.
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i agree about the inexperience...that too was a factor, but that still goes to depth. we relied, especially on defense, the guys we had up front last year and those starters up front last year were nasty.

after those guys, you can see where we are. there's a pretty decent drop off in talent from what we had last season up front on D to what we have up front this year on D, and they were all on the team last year, for the most part.

ON the offensive line, we have some young talent that may in fact develop in to quality SEC O linemen. but the o line the past 3-4 years has been a)woefully overrated or b)simply not as talented as we're used to seeing. I'd reallly like to see where we'd be if we had gotten M. Oher.

but i still say, esp. when you go back to the 03/04 recruiting class we brought in that was so highly regarded...and i don't know this off the top of my head, but how many of those highly touted recruits are even on the team today? How many have been significant contributors to this year's team?

We all know how we did in recruiting last year...wasn't absolutely terrible, but it definitely wasn't up to the standard we've set in the past. we should be getting some help from some guys coming next season that had to go to prep school...but i hope we get back to a class like we're used to, quick.

we need to get back to recruiting like we're used to, so when it's time to bring someone off the bench like we've had to do this year, the questions aren't so big.
 
#54
#54
tidwell said:
I disagree. Colorado put up roughly 200 points on Nebraska that season. The Huskers were galactically overrated that year. I have no doubt UT would've gave Miami a better game than that.
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i tend to agree..it would have been a better game...but i don't have any misconceptions...that Miami team would have won the game. they were very, very good.
 
#58
#58
hatvol96 said:
That Miami team would have beaten us so badly, future generations of Vols would still be feeling it 100 years from now.
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Now your love for Miami clouds your judgment. You've got whatever color glasses the 'Canes fans wear. Your drinking the 'Canes coolaid. Your a sheep, etc.
 
#59
#59
allvol said:
Now your love for Miami clouds your judgment. You've got whatever color glasses the 'Canes fans wear. Your drinking the 'Canes coolaid. Your a sheep, etc.
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Yeah, that's why every time there's a discussion of the greatest college teams ever, that Miami team is among the top 3 or 4 choices. If you think Tennesee would have been competitive, you're at a level of delusion that may be untreatable.
 
#61
#61
allvol said:
Now your love for Miami clouds your judgment. You've got whatever color glasses the 'Canes fans wear. Your drinking the 'Canes coolaid. Your a sheep, etc.
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#63
#63
any way that can be made a smiley????? that's funny right there.
 
#65
#65
VolunteerHillbilly said:
The talent is there. It's just not being developed.:yes:
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I don't know Billy. You cannot teach speed. I don't think there is much talent on the Oline or the Dline this year. But I agree with the premise that there is very little "coaching up".
 
#67
#67
Lexvol said:
I don't know Billy. You cannot teach speed. I don't think there is much talent on the Oline or the Dline this year. But I agree with the premise that there is very little "coaching up".
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i tend to agree with Lex. though with some of the folks we have, i don't know how much coaching up would make them THAT much better.

It will be interesting to see how some of the younger players develop over the next year.

but again, we simply don't have the talent up front, depth wise or starters, that we are used to having.

skill position wise, i think we have some real talent there....but we got some work to do before we start to resemble the Chad Clifton's, Cosey Coleman's, Al Wilson's, Leonard Little's, John Henderson's, Sean Ellis's and the like....you got to remember...we've been a factory in the past for those positions. the bar is set very high.

and right now, we don't have a lot of folks on that kind of talent level.
 
#68
#68
jakez4ut said:
i tend to agree with Lex. though with some of the folks we have, i don't know how much coaching up would make them THAT much better.
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That is really how I see it right now. We have some very limited athletes in the trenches.
 
#69
#69
Lexvol said:
That is really how I see it right now. We have some very limited athletes in the trenches.
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yep...and the bad news for us is that it may take a recruiting class or two to get us back to where we want to be in all reality....how patient are we really going to be, really....:p
 
#70
#70
Lexvol said:
That is really how I see it right now. We have some very limited athletes in the trenches.
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You could "coach up" Matt McGlothlin 24 hours a day, 7 days a weel and he wouldn't be a quality SEC player. The kid gives all he's got, he simply lacks the physical necessities.
 
#71
#71
Personally...the 1998 Mississppi State team was the best team of all time...

wow did I just say that???
 
#73
#73
hatvol96 said:
You could "coach up" Matt McGlothlin 24 hours a day, 7 days a weel and he wouldn't be a quality SEC player. The kid gives all he's got, he simply lacks the physical necessities.
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yeah, could see him on a rotation behind some guys, but not a starter...and honestly...that's how i feel about most of the guys up front.

we don't have any one guy that requires special attention or that stands out...until we get some of those guys back....well, you know the rest of that story.
 
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