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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Tennessee vs The Maxims vs South Carolina[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Last year UT tapped on the door. Last week Tennessee knocked on the door. Saturday the Vols kicked the damned thing down! - with apologies to the legendary coach Oail Bum Phillips who passed away Friday (10/18).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys always know better. They are the experts and the buffoons running the program don't have a clue what they are doing. It doesn't matter who they are, where they are, or WHEN they are, the fanboys always know better.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys were outraged. Things were not going well and some kind of change needed to be made. When circumstances arose where the old guy was out of the game, a new leader was named and every fanboy voiced his opinion that the New Guy was exactly what THEY didn't want. They derided the choice, the guy who made it and every one of the idiots involved.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys knew the home team was in trouble. They could see the flashes of Union artillery and hear the occasional rattle of musketry from their bedrooms in Richmond. The Confederate army under Joe Johnston had fought bravely but had been forced to retreat time and again until now the federals were in several places less than five miles from the Confederate capital. Johnston had staged a counter-attack on May 31, 1862 at Seven Pines and had been wounded in action. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]It was President Jefferson Davis' choice of a successor to Johnston that had the fanboys in an uproar. Instead of the haughty and well-dressed John Magruder, who was already leading a portion of the army and therefore familiar with the terrain and the troops, or, even better, the superstar of Bull Run, Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard, that damfool Davis had promoted a guy whose last two efforts had been charitably somewhat less than stellar successes.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The new commander immediately set to digging in his army. This would never do, dammitall! Digging in the dirt was something slaves did, not a judicious use of fine southern manhood! The fanboys derided the new guy. He was an engineer[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif], for gawd's sake,[/FONT] not a cavalryman or even *shudder* an infantryman. They called him Digger and Spade and they just couldn't understand whatinthehell Davis was thinking.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]For his part, Jefferson Davis knew full well what he was about. After all, the Confederate President had served as on active duty in the Mexican War and had been Secretary of War in the administration of Franklin Pierce. He knew and trusted the New Guy and the sage advice he had offered thus far. He had made his decision without a moment's hesitation.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The name of the man the fanboys were busily deriding, you ask?[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Oh, just a then-little known general named Robert Edward Lee.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Lee took command on 2 June, renamed his force the Army of Northern Virginia and, three weeks later, launched what is now known as the Seven Days Battles and chased the Union host back whence it came. For the next three years he led that army through to the end of the war.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The names Johnston, Magruder and Beauregard are known only to close students of the Civil War. Lee's campaigns and battles are studied to this day at West Point, the U.S. Army War College, the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, the French Ecole Militaire at St. Cyr and even the Frunze Academy in Russia.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]But the fanboys are always right. Just ask them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]So how did the team do compared to the Maxims?[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1. The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Saturday's game was a dogfight from end-to-end. It can be argued that Head Chicken Steve Spurrier exhibited poor clock-management in the fourth canto, but had Marquez North dropped that pass, he'd have looked like a genius. Head Vol Butch Jones says repeatedly that every game comes down to a handful of individual plays and whichever side makes those plays will win.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]2.Play for and make the breaks. When one comes your way SCORE![/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]This Maxim speaks to effort: keeping the intensity up EVERY play and jumping on opportunities. Saturday, this Maxim was embodied by Daniel Hood, Raijon Neal and (drum roll) the much-maligned Justin Worley.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]3. If at first the game or the breaks go against you, dont let up PUT ON MORE STEAM![/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
Vol fans across the Fruited Plain were dismayed as the Incredible Disappearing Vols put in an appearance during the third quarter and the Vols fell behind 21-14, then came the fourth quarter and redemption!
[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]4. Protect our kickers, our quarterback, our lead and our ballgame.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
The contest between Tennessee's Tiny Richardson and the Chickens' insufferable defensive end Jadeveon Clowney went badly for Richardson most of the day. The thing is that when the time came to make the big play, Worley avoided Clowney and found Marquez North streaking down the sideline. Game. Set. Match.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]5. Ball! Oskie! Cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle THIS IS THE WINNING EDGE.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
Over the years Tennessee has been virtually unbeatable when rushing for over 100 yards in a game. None of UT's 146 rushing yards against the Chickens meant more, though, than those gained by Marlon Lane on the last four plays from scrimmage (not counting the ball-spike to kill the clock) which netted 24 yards [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]and set up Michael Palardy's game-winning chip-shot.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]6. Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
In Vol lore, alongside the names Widby, Hunt, Kremser, Reveiz, Wilhoit and Hall now rests that of Michael Palardy. Coaches Cafego and Neyland hugged as that ball sailed between the uprights.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]7. Carry the fight to South Carolina and keep it there for sixty minutes.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
As noted earlier, the Incredible Disappearing Vols did make an appearance in the third canto. Fortunately, that appearance was not decisive. Vol fans now await a full four-quarter effort in a victory. Tuscaloosa would be a good time for such.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Last spring the Vol fanboys were convinced, CONVINCED mind you, that Dave Hart was a moron and that they had the True Knowledge of who Tennessee's Next Head Coach should be and some joker from Cincinnati sureashell wasn't it.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys are ALWAYS right. Just ask them.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Brick by brick, Baby! [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]MAXOMG [/FONT]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Last year UT tapped on the door. Last week Tennessee knocked on the door. Saturday the Vols kicked the damned thing down! - with apologies to the legendary coach Oail Bum Phillips who passed away Friday (10/18).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys always know better. They are the experts and the buffoons running the program don't have a clue what they are doing. It doesn't matter who they are, where they are, or WHEN they are, the fanboys always know better.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys were outraged. Things were not going well and some kind of change needed to be made. When circumstances arose where the old guy was out of the game, a new leader was named and every fanboy voiced his opinion that the New Guy was exactly what THEY didn't want. They derided the choice, the guy who made it and every one of the idiots involved.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys knew the home team was in trouble. They could see the flashes of Union artillery and hear the occasional rattle of musketry from their bedrooms in Richmond. The Confederate army under Joe Johnston had fought bravely but had been forced to retreat time and again until now the federals were in several places less than five miles from the Confederate capital. Johnston had staged a counter-attack on May 31, 1862 at Seven Pines and had been wounded in action. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]It was President Jefferson Davis' choice of a successor to Johnston that had the fanboys in an uproar. Instead of the haughty and well-dressed John Magruder, who was already leading a portion of the army and therefore familiar with the terrain and the troops, or, even better, the superstar of Bull Run, Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard, that damfool Davis had promoted a guy whose last two efforts had been charitably somewhat less than stellar successes.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The new commander immediately set to digging in his army. This would never do, dammitall! Digging in the dirt was something slaves did, not a judicious use of fine southern manhood! The fanboys derided the new guy. He was an engineer[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif], for gawd's sake,[/FONT] not a cavalryman or even *shudder* an infantryman. They called him Digger and Spade and they just couldn't understand whatinthehell Davis was thinking.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]For his part, Jefferson Davis knew full well what he was about. After all, the Confederate President had served as on active duty in the Mexican War and had been Secretary of War in the administration of Franklin Pierce. He knew and trusted the New Guy and the sage advice he had offered thus far. He had made his decision without a moment's hesitation.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The name of the man the fanboys were busily deriding, you ask?[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Oh, just a then-little known general named Robert Edward Lee.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Lee took command on 2 June, renamed his force the Army of Northern Virginia and, three weeks later, launched what is now known as the Seven Days Battles and chased the Union host back whence it came. For the next three years he led that army through to the end of the war.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The names Johnston, Magruder and Beauregard are known only to close students of the Civil War. Lee's campaigns and battles are studied to this day at West Point, the U.S. Army War College, the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, the French Ecole Militaire at St. Cyr and even the Frunze Academy in Russia.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]But the fanboys are always right. Just ask them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]So how did the team do compared to the Maxims?[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1. The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Saturday's game was a dogfight from end-to-end. It can be argued that Head Chicken Steve Spurrier exhibited poor clock-management in the fourth canto, but had Marquez North dropped that pass, he'd have looked like a genius. Head Vol Butch Jones says repeatedly that every game comes down to a handful of individual plays and whichever side makes those plays will win.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]2.Play for and make the breaks. When one comes your way SCORE![/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]This Maxim speaks to effort: keeping the intensity up EVERY play and jumping on opportunities. Saturday, this Maxim was embodied by Daniel Hood, Raijon Neal and (drum roll) the much-maligned Justin Worley.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]3. If at first the game or the breaks go against you, dont let up PUT ON MORE STEAM![/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
Vol fans across the Fruited Plain were dismayed as the Incredible Disappearing Vols put in an appearance during the third quarter and the Vols fell behind 21-14, then came the fourth quarter and redemption!
[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]4. Protect our kickers, our quarterback, our lead and our ballgame.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
The contest between Tennessee's Tiny Richardson and the Chickens' insufferable defensive end Jadeveon Clowney went badly for Richardson most of the day. The thing is that when the time came to make the big play, Worley avoided Clowney and found Marquez North streaking down the sideline. Game. Set. Match.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]5. Ball! Oskie! Cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle THIS IS THE WINNING EDGE.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
Over the years Tennessee has been virtually unbeatable when rushing for over 100 yards in a game. None of UT's 146 rushing yards against the Chickens meant more, though, than those gained by Marlon Lane on the last four plays from scrimmage (not counting the ball-spike to kill the clock) which netted 24 yards [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]and set up Michael Palardy's game-winning chip-shot.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]6. Press the kicking game. Here is where the breaks are made.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
In Vol lore, alongside the names Widby, Hunt, Kremser, Reveiz, Wilhoit and Hall now rests that of Michael Palardy. Coaches Cafego and Neyland hugged as that ball sailed between the uprights.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]7. Carry the fight to South Carolina and keep it there for sixty minutes.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
As noted earlier, the Incredible Disappearing Vols did make an appearance in the third canto. Fortunately, that appearance was not decisive. Vol fans now await a full four-quarter effort in a victory. Tuscaloosa would be a good time for such.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Last spring the Vol fanboys were convinced, CONVINCED mind you, that Dave Hart was a moron and that they had the True Knowledge of who Tennessee's Next Head Coach should be and some joker from Cincinnati sureashell wasn't it.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fanboys are ALWAYS right. Just ask them.[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Brick by brick, Baby! [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]MAXOMG [/FONT]
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