I think you are full of it. I see many people saying that 2010 will be a year where Tennessee is "lucky" to go 7-5 or 8-4. Your expectations are just as low as Miami's expectations were when Shannon got in. Heck, look at yourself right now. You are on cloud 9 even though your program is 4-4 with home losses to Auburn and a UCLA team that in the month of November STILL doesn't have a single win in the Pac-10. Your coach has road the back of his 70 year old father's defense and you still view him as one of the elite head coaches in college football.
Face it, UT fans had low expectations for their team the same way Miami fans had.
Did you not read my post?
First of all Lane Kiffin with arguably less talent and a harder schedule is absolutely smoking the first season of Shannon at Miami.
Second of all Shannon still is sucking year 3.
Third of all, there is no need to try to look up RPI or whatever, but if you think TN has a schedule next year that looks anything comparable to the schedule Shannon had year two you are a dolt who knows nothing about football. I know that UF plays sisters of the poor OOC plus an FSU team that has not been good since before I finished 7 years of post H.S. education, but try to imagine playing a top 10 team out of conference, and then try to imagine a season in which you had to face the best in the SEC West before the SEC championship.
We understand, there will be no one next year to play the Tebow position and you know that the downward spiral of Meyer is about to begin. No you cannot have Monte when Charlie leaves, yes our cocky coach will bring in the players to back up his bravado and yes Mike Golic was right and Brandon Spikes is a disgusting coward for trying to blind a guy who is lying in a pile.
I predicted that in Kiffin's first year he would go 8-4. The part that we all wanted but thought would be asking too much is no blowouts. Your pathetic team playing at home against a bunch of walk ons because Lane could not get his players yet beat us by a whopping 10 points. Alabama would have lost to us at home if we had a decent kicker.
The UCLA game was awful but we all knew that we were left without a QB. It was never more painfully obvious than in a 3 picks on consecutive possessions game. The fact that Kiffin stuck by him and created a guy who looks pretty good and who will lead us to lots of victories to end the season is going to speak volumes to recruits.
We will beat you on the field soon, but we are already beating you for buzz and being hot on the trail. That is coming from a team that is 4-4...Imagine what it will be like when we start winning all of the time.
