The crash is gonna be bad

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I am so high on Tennessee Football right now I don't know what to do with myself.

I am a total amateur at following recruiting. So maybe what I think I'm seeing isn't really happening. Feel free to bring me back down to earth.

I am in love with Team 117. I want these young men to see every dream they have of Tennessee be a reality this year. J Smith, B Mo, Tiny, AJ, Justin and Nate, Palardy, hell all of them that decided to don the orange and play in the most beautiful setting ever created for college football.

Coach Jones you better not let me down. If we crash, it's gonna hurt. And it's gonna hurt bad.
 
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Recruiting has been outstanding but unfortunately those boys cant help us until 2014. CBJ has to work with what he has this season. Won't be a "crash" if the expectations are right. I think we should expect a 7 win season. Anything better will be outstanding. If the team doesn't reach a bowl game - yes that will be a crash.
 
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vollygirl said:
I am so high on Tennessee Football right now I don't know what to do with myself.

I am a total amateur at following recruiting. So maybe what I think I'm seeing isn't really happening. Feel free to bring me back down to earth.

I am in love with Team 117. I want these young men to see every dream they have of Tennessee be a reality this year. J Smith, B Mo, Tiny, AJ, Justin and Nate, Palardy, hell all of them that decided to don the orange and play in the most beautiful setting ever created for college football.

Coach Jones you better not let me down. If we crash, it's gonna hurt. And it's gonna hurt bad.
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I was with you until Palardy...
 
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vollygirl said:
I am so high on Tennessee Football right now I don't know what to do with myself.

I am a total amateur at following recruiting. So maybe what I think I'm seeing isn't really happening. Feel free to bring me back down to earth.

I am in love with Team 117. I want these young men to see every dream they have of Tennessee be a reality this year. J Smith, B Mo, Tiny, AJ, Justin and Nate, Palardy, hell all of them that decided to don the orange and play in the most beautiful setting ever created for college football.

Coach Jones you better not let me down. If we crash, it's gonna hurt. And it's gonna hurt bad.
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This quote applies more to Vandy football IMO. If they experience some tough losses, what can they fall back on? Academics? Please. They are high on their recent success. Let's see what happens when they get knocked down a notch. UT will always be able to fall back on facilities, tradition, and a kick-ass stadium for recruits to buy in to.
 
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vollygirl said:
I am so high on Tennessee Football right now I don't know what to do with myself.

I am a total amateur at following recruiting. So maybe what I think I'm seeing isn't really happening. Feel free to bring me back down to earth.

I am in love with Team 117. I want these young men to see every dream they have of Tennessee be a reality this year. J Smith, B Mo, Tiny, AJ, Justin and Nate, Palardy, hell all of them that decided to don the orange and play in the most beautiful setting ever created for college football.

Coach Jones you better not let me down. If we crash, it's gonna hurt. And it's gonna hurt bad.
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I've been thinking this for months now. I understand after the Dooley era that people are grasping at anything they can to feel excited about UT football, but good feelings ultimately lead to greater expectations, and I feel at this point it's a disservice to Jones to heap all those expectations on him. He's been handed a team with a strong offensive line, but no QB, no playmakers at the skill positions and one of the worst defenses in the history of organized football. There's literally no reason IMO for people to think this team should win any more than 6 games, yet you've got people posting on this website that they think UT can win 8-9 games.

As of today, as best I can tell, Jones has hardly set a foot wrong since arriving in Knoxville, yet I'm afraid we're still going to end up with pissed off fans come November, not because Jones did anything wrong, but because he failed to meet the absurd expectations that spiraled out of control when he did all the off the field stuff right during the offseason. He's handled everything within his control masterfully so far, but he has basically no control over the roster full of sub-SEC talent that he'll be going into games with this year, and we'll just have to see how he does with that.
 
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VolFromNashville said:
This quote applies more to Vandy football IMO. If they experience some tough losses, what can they fall back on? Academics? Please. They are high on their recent success. Let's see what happens when they get knocked down a notch. UT will always be able to fall back on facilities, tradition, and a kick-ass stadium for recruits to buy in to.
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awesome priorities here.


laugh at academics but boast about facilities, tradition and a stadium. cause thats gonna get you far in lie.
 
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I'm right there with ya. Right now, Butch Jones is infallible to me. I have 100 percent faith in him.

But we're going to lose some games this season. We might get blown out in a few. And the staff might even make a few questionable play calls. But as Vols fans, we have to be patient. With CBJ, there is no "wait and see" like there was with Dooley. There's just "wait."

He'll get us back on top. We just have to be patient.
 
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Just realize that these prize recruits you keep hearing about still have their senior year of high school to play and we have one of the toughest schedules in the country. All I can say is be patient and we should see a team that plays hard for their coach and improves throughout the year. Give Butch a few years to get his players in here and build some depth. Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say. But all signs are pointing to some fun years to come!
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I've been thinking this for months now. I understand after the Dooley era that people are grasping at anything they can to feel excited about UT football, but good feelings ultimately lead to greater expectations, and I feel at this point it's a disservice to Jones to heap all those expectations on him. He's been handed a team with a strong offensive line, but no QB, no playmakers at the skill positions and one of the worst defenses in the history of organized football. There's literally no reason IMO for people to think this team should win any more than 6 games, yet you've got people posting on this website that they think UT can win 8-9 games.

As of today, as best I can tell, Jones has hardly set a foot wrong since arriving in Knoxville, yet I'm afraid we're still going to end up with pissed off fans come November, not because Jones did anything wrong, but because he failed to meet the absurd expectations that spiraled out of control when he did all the off the field stuff right during the offseason. He's handled everything within his control masterfully so far, but he has basically no control over the roster full of sub-SEC talent that he'll be going into games with this year, and we'll just have to see how he does with that.
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I'll assume you aren't baiting me with the "expectations" word. I have no comment on that.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I've been thinking this for months now. I understand after the Dooley era that people are grasping at anything they can to feel excited about UT football, but good feelings ultimately lead to greater expectations, and I feel at this point it's a disservice to Jones to heap all those expectations on him. He's been handed a team with a strong offensive line, but no QB, no playmakers at the skill positions and one of the worst defenses in the history of organized football. There's literally no reason IMO for people to think this team should win any more than 6 games, yet you've got people posting on this website that they think UT can win 8-9 games.

As of today, as best I can tell, Jones has hardly set a foot wrong since arriving in Knoxville, yet I'm afraid we're still going to end up with pissed off fans come November, not because Jones did anything wrong, but because he failed to meet the absurd expectations that spiraled out of control when he did all the off the field stuff right during the offseason. He's handled everything within his control masterfully so far, but he has basically no control over the roster full of sub-SEC talent that he'll be going into games with this year, and we'll just have to see how he does with that.
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I think 7 wins is very attainable for this year anything less is questionable but depends on what happens during the season.

On sub sec talent??? I have an issue with that because when they were being recruited 90 percent of volnation was saying we were going to be in Atlanta once they were coached up. N the guys that left last year weren't the only talent recruited. Im not picking but we can't have it both ways n say now they all suck because cdd recruited them. I believe 7 or 8 win talent but not championship for sure.

Gbo
 
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vollygirl said:
I am so high on Tennessee Football right now I don't know what to do with myself.

I am a total amateur at following recruiting. So maybe what I think I'm seeing isn't really happening. Feel free to bring me back down to earth.

I am in love with Team 117. I want these young men to see every dream they have of Tennessee be a reality this year. J Smith, B Mo, Tiny, AJ, Justin and Nate, Palardy, hell all of them that decided to don the orange and play in the most beautiful setting ever created for college football.

Coach Jones you better not let me down. If we crash, it's gonna hurt. And it's gonna hurt bad.
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In spite of all my excitement, I haven't lost sight of the fact that we are probably at best a 7-5 team this year, or even a 6-6 team. My excitement really has nothing to do with this year's record at all. It has more to do with the promise of the future! Right now all we can go by are the things that CBJ and his staff are doing OFF the field and so far, I have to say they are batting a thousand! If you are bracing yourself for something like a prominent player getting kicked off the team or a major injury, that's always a possibility but I don't foresee any disasters. I think CBJ is running a tight ship and I think players are so hungry to win that they have bought in sight unseen. Let's just pray for no injuries this fall camp.
 
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vollygirl said:
I'll assume you aren't baiting me with the "expectations" word. I have no comment on that.
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Not speaking to or about anyone in particular. Just in general.

In some ways, this ramping up of expectations (it's really more hope than anything else, IMO) is just one of the rites of summer, not just for UT fans, but for all college football fans. I think it's just important for people to keep in perspective that we were a 5 win team last year who literally lost all it's playmakers, and everyone who remains on the team was recruited by the same imbecile who spent the last three seasons running what was left of the program into the dirt.

To me, if people would just see that this is likely a 5 or 6 win team, then they're very unlikely to be disappointed with the job Jones does the fall, and if by some miracle we beat a team like SC, UF or UGA, then that would just be icing on the cake. Expecting to win those games is just setting yourself up for disappointment and Jones up for failure IMO. You just don't win a lot of hands in poker when you're dealt a non suited 7-2, and that's kind of what Jones is going to be dealing with this fall.
 
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whocaresgobobcats said:
awesome priorities here.


laugh at academics but boast about facilities, tradition and a stadium. cause thats gonna get you far in lie.
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It would seem to me that if you are going to criticize one's priorities and opinions on another fan board, that you would make sure everything was spelled correctly first :) True, academics are important, but I know of 2 former Vol/ NFL players here in Knoxville that are still hugely successful. They did not slack on their academics, but football was their "foot in the door", so to speak. It is all about what you do with your opportunities. UT has several highly-rated programs...Logistics, Architecture, Engineering ( to name a few), so the university is, by large, a great place to get an education.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
Not speaking to or about anyone in particular. Just in general.

In some ways, this ramping up of expectations (it's really more hope than anything else, IMO) is just one of the rites of summer, not just for UT fans, but for all college football fans. I think it's just important for people to keep in perspective that we were a 5 win team last year who literally lost all it's playmakers, and everyone who remains on the team was recruited by the same imbecile who spent the last three seasons running what was left of the program into the dirt.

To me, if people would just see that this is likely a 5 or 6 win team, then they're very unlikely to be disappointed with the job Jones does the fall, and if by some miracle we beat a team like SC, UF or UGA, then that would just be icing on the cake. Expecting to win those games is just setting yourself up for disappointment and Jones up for failure IMO. You just don't win a lot of hands in poker when you're dealt a non suited 7-2, and that's kind of what Jones is going to be dealing with this fall.
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We're a 6-6 team if we just beat who we're supposed to beat. We're a 7-5 team with an Auburn victory (which I think we can pull off). The only way I see us losing more than 6 games is if we are decimated by injuries at an un proportional level.
 
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92volalum said:
I think 7 wins is very attainable for this year anything less is questionable but depends on what happens during the season.

On sub sec talent??? I have an issue with that because when they were being recruited 90 percent of volnation was saying we were going to be in Atlanta once they were coached up. N the guys that left last year weren't the only talent recruited. Im not picking but we can't have it both ways n say now they all suck because cdd recruited them. I believe 7 or 8 win talent but not championship for sure.

Gbo
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I pretty much avoid the recruiting forum like the plague, but if 90% of the people were saying that, then 90% of the people over there are delusional as hell. With regards to the departed playmakers, clearly I was speaking about Bray, Hunter and Patterson. Of those three, Dooley had exactly zero hand in Bray's recruitment (he was already on campus when Dooley was hired), closed on Hunter, who IIRC had already been recruited by Kiffin's staff, and actually did recruit Patterson.
 
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whocaresgobobcats said:
awesome priorities here.


laugh at academics but boast about facilities, tradition and a stadium. cause thats gonna get you far in lie.
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"Far in lie"? Hmmmm, So apparently your college concentrated on something besides football OR academics. :loco: bye bye now. Thanks for sharing.
 
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