Tennessee Will Never Be Elite Again

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BowlBrother85 said:
This reminds me a little bit of a cover story that Sports Illustrated ran in 1996, which encouraged the University of Miami to drop their football program, because it had become an embarrassment both on and off the field. Five years later, they had one of the best teams ever, and won the National Championship easily ... and that was Sports Illustrated, not some cheap internet outfit like Saturday Down South.
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I remember one year Sports Illustrated came out with it's top 25 ranking before the season began. Auburn wasn't even on it but they won the national championship that year.
 
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This was always a dumb take because of the resources that Tennessee has. We have the stadium, budget, equipment, tradition/history/pedigree or whatever you want to call it. Even in our down years we have recruited talent, albeit not to the level we want. All we needed was the right guy with a plan.
 
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You might want to hold that one in your back pocket, just in case we don't remain elite because he said we might occasionally be in atlanta.
We DONT want to be like the 2019 tigers who's magic hinged on Joe Burrow and they fired their coach a few years later.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
This reminds me a little bit of a cover story that Sports Illustrated ran in 1996, which encouraged the University of Miami to drop their football program, because it had become an embarrassment both on and off the field. Five years later, they had one of the best teams ever, and won the National Championship easily ... and that was Sports Illustrated, not some cheap internet outfit like Saturday Down South.
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I remember that. They had just hired Butch Davis
 
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He was on TSA just before the Bama game and admitted that he was wrong. He said 2 years ago that it seemed appropriate but that he shouldn’t have counted us out.

At least he ate his crow. I’ll be honest, I thought 6 months ago we were still a few years (at least) from a #1 ranking. Heupel is a damn magician.
 
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With Tennessee having the resources and support base we've had, winning was always a matter of leadership. He could have known that. In fact he should have. Dumb a, inappropriate article all things considered...
 
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J C Higgins said:
Well, I'm 81 and for the past several years have thought I wouldn't live long enough to see us ranked in the top 10 so I'm feeling pretty good right now.
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I am 73, my father indoctrinated me to VOL fandom as I did my son. Curse or blessing? But we are all BIG Orange
 
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I didn’t read the article but we had several UT fans on Volnation crying like a infant declaring they WOULD NEVER get to see a competitive Vol football team again before they died. When I read post like that… well it’s just plain embarrassing. I just can’t comprehend being that unstable emotionally. JMO
 
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This smoothbrain take was always wrong because the problem was always bad management. There had been no changes in UT's fundamental environment. Same conference, same recruiting base, same academic requirements, same large, loyal fanbase committed to winning, etc. Just bad direction from the top leading to bad coaching hires. Once that was sorted it was just a matter of time.
 
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UCVOL said:
I'll just leave this article from 2 years ago right here.

First and 10: The truth hurts, but here it is. Tennessee, you will never be elite again

"...this program will never again win like it did in the golden years of Phil Fulmer and Peyton Manning and Tee Martin and Al Wilson. Never."

Meanwhile, I'm in-route to find his Twitter page.
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I was just talking about how the media speculated UT would never return to relevance. If I'm not mistaken, they gave Nebraska a better chance at a Resurgence than us. Funny how things work out!
 
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