What Makes The Vols A Great Dynasty???

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JJ_Hickman_07

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1.the coaches(I mean Fulmer, Cut, and Chavis may just be the greatest group of coaches ever!!!!!)

2.the players

3.THE FANS
 
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Come on, I bleed orange, too (the avatar is my left calf), but Dynasty?!?
 
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hatvol96 said:
Thank you. I'm glad when someone occasionally relieves me of the duty of interjecting reality around here.
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Give us a break. Reality is when we go out in the world and deal with customers and clients. "We don't need no stinkin' reality around here!!!!!"
 
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hatvol96 said:
Thank you. I'm glad when someone occasionally relieves me of the duty of interjecting reality around here.
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It is hard to see if you don't take off the orange colored glasses occasionally.
 
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vader said:
Come on, I bleed orange, too (the avatar is my left calf), but Dynasty?!?
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We've been to a bowl game in 13 out of the last 14 seasons and you guys can't call it a dynasty. And thats under one coach, I don't how many in UT history. And you can't call it a Dynasty.
 
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You better believe I would. I mean how can you not. Just look at the last 14 seasons, we've only missed one bowl game. And I can only imagine the rest of the Vols history.
 
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Making a bowl game in the SEC is not very difficult. You've got the Mississippi Schools, Vandy, Kentucky, Ark and SoCar are usually pretty bad... Between them and a couple cupcakes, you'd have to be a pretty bad team not to make a bowl game.

That said, I think the combination of Fulmer, Chavis and Cutcliffe presents the opportunity to be great. It only happened one season because Spurrier occupied the great title last time we had these three guys coaching. But if they stick around, we could make it to the top.
 
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milohimself said:
Making a bowl game in the SEC is not very difficult. You've got the Mississippi Schools, Vandy, Kentucky, Ark and SoCar are usually pretty bad... Between them and a couple cupcakes, you'd have to be a pretty bad team not to make a bowl game.

That said, I think the combination of Fulmer, Chavis and Cutcliffe presents the opportunity to be great. It only happened one season because Spurrier occupied the great title last time we had these three guys coaching. But if they stick around, we could make it to the top.
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So you're telling me making 13 out of 14 bowl games isn't something to talk about because they talked alot about it last year. And I'm talkin all of Vols history I mean I don't know of to many other schools who have at least 4 National Championships.
 
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JJ_Hickman_07 said:
So you're telling me making 13 out of 14 bowl games isn't something to talk about because they talked alot about it last year. And I'm talkin all of Vols history I mean I don't know of to many other schools who have at least 4 National Championships.
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Princeton 24
Yale 19
Notre Dame 12
Alabama 11
Harvard 10
Southern California 10
Michigan 7
Oklahoma 7
Minnesota 6
Pittsburgh 6
Miami 5
Nebraska 5
Ohio St. 5
Army 4
Georgia Tech 4
Illinois 4
Pennsylvania 4
Tennessee 4
Texas 4
 
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JJ_Hickman_07 said:
So you're telling me making 13 out of 14 bowl games isn't something to talk about because they talked alot about it last year. And I'm talkin all of Vols history I mean I don't know of to many other schools who have at least 4 National Championships.
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Although the bowl record is indeed fairly long... 6th in history, although Florida is about to tie it with their 16th straight bowl appearance this season. Nebraska has the longest streak, playing 35 consecutive bowl games between '69 and '03. Their current streak is in jeopardy, however, as Michigan has played in 31 consecutive bowl games since '75. Florida State has also played 24 straight dating back to '82.

Like I said though, making a bowl game coming out of the SEC is not that big of a deal.
 
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In my opinion, to be considerd a dynasty means you have to win championships in bunches. Like Fsu somewhat did in the 90s. Or New England.

UT is a college powerhouse, but not a dynsasty.
 
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lets not forget that among those bowl appearances are humiliating losses to nebraska (twice), maryland, clemson, penn st. (twice), and kansas state.

this makes the atlanta braves a dynasty as well...
 
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love the enthuisasm folks, and the tradition speaks for itself, but dynasty we are not.

Dynasties are created when teams when consecutive or regular championships over a certain amount of time...when i think of dynasites...i think of Miami in the 80's, FSU in the 90's, Florida in the 90's, Nebraska in the 90's, USC today....BAma in the 60's...

the closest we have to a dyansty would probably be the 30's...and i don't know about you, but that was long before my time....
 
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milohimself said:
Making a bowl game in the SEC is not very difficult. You've got the Mississippi Schools, Vandy, Kentucky, Ark and SoCar are usually pretty bad... Between them and a couple cupcakes, you'd have to be a pretty bad team not to make a bowl game.
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and then i'll show you TN, FLorida, Georgia, Auburn, Alabama, LSU that you have to play as well...and ARK is capable, as was shown last weekend, of being in that mix as well. and there have been years in the not too distant past where SC occupied New Year's day bowl spot as well...
 
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Dynasty is a pretty strong distinction to make, but I'll go with you on it. I've only been around since '81 and really didn't start paying close attention until about '90 so I can't say for sure but I don't remember any extended periods of bad seasons. When I say bad I mean something like two losing seasons in a row or more. I guess extended periods of sucess ( I'm not going to get into specifics, but by success I mean winning seasons and championships, or at least the consistent shot at one) is a good characteristic of a dynasty. So yeah, I'll go out on a limb with you and say we've reached that point. We're certainly up there with the best programs in the history of the game
 
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MG1968 said:
lets not forget that among those bowl appearances are humiliating losses to nebraska (twice), maryland, clemson, penn st. (twice), and kansas state.

this makes the atlanta braves a dynasty as well...
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Excellent point and excellent analogy.

Dynasties don't lose back to back bowl games against Maryland and Clemson.
 
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jakez4ut said:
love the enthuisasm folks, and the tradition speaks for itself, but dynasty we are not.

Dynasties are created when teams when consecutive or regular championships over a certain amount of time...when i think of dynasites...i think of Miami in the 80's, FSU in the 90's, Florida in the 90's, Nebraska in the 90's, USC today....BAma in the 60's...

the closest we have to a dyansty would probably be the 30's...and i don't know about you, but that was long before my time....
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Florida won 1 National Championship. That is not a dynasty.
 
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jakez4ut said:
yeah, but they won 6 SEC titles...
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Then Alabama in the 70s must have been one of the great dynasties of all time. They won a handful of conference titles and multiple National championships. Come to think of it, they did the same thing in the '60s.
 
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When I think dynasties I think Wooden's Bruins, Lombardi's Pack, maybe the Steel Curtain...To me a dynasty pretty much means that there is little to no chance that any other team is going to win the Championship, however, today's sports media throws the term around a little too freely (see 1 outright National Champion and 1 split, USC.)
 
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