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#52
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Doctrippin said:
Derrick Mason is a great coach in a lot of ways, and he's actually got a good football mind, he just can't seem to translate it into a team that can even line up correctly every play.
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The last couple years I honestly don't think he's done all that great of a job. IMO, the only reason he's still there is because he's 3-2 against Tennessee. He's made it to 2 bowl games in 6 years, and his 6th victory in both years came in the last game of the season against us.

Mason's calling card is defense, and in his earlier years they did have a good defense. Check out that 2016 season. They won 6 games and lost games in which their defense allowed 13 (South Carolina), 13 (Florida), 20 (Kentucky), 23 (Auburn), and 26 (Missouri) points. That could have been a 7 or 8-win team with just an OK offense...that's James Franklin-level.

The last 2 years and especially this year, the defense has been awful and the offense, which has never been their strength under Mason, has been bad too.
 
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Jennings is a good enough on the field player. Too bad he has a habit of sabotaging his own team. I expect he will get his share tomorrow, but it is less than it could have been over the years. It is a very interesting question as to whether we are looking at the high water mark of Vol football. After this group of seniors (including Jennings) departs they seem to have mainly a lot of who dats returning.
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Genius insight from one albert over there. I wonder if he'd like to lay some money down on which team will be better next season.
 
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A pathetic stat right here, in the 5 wins Vandy has this decade on us they have beat us by a average margin of 16 points with 3 wins by 19, 25 and 22 points. We gotta get this thing turned around Saturday and put little brother back in their place.
 
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Orange defense said:
Tennessee opens as a 20-point favorite over VU
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    Your mileage may vary.

    Other lines of interest:

    Alabama -3.5 at Auburn
    Oklahoma -13 at Oklahoma State
    Wisconsin -3 at Minnesota
    Ohio State -9.5 at Michigan
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cjdore
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    Seems about right Auric...
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BrentVUSite Admin
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    If the game had been played after Week Two, Vandy would have been about a 7-point favorite.
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Nashmann
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    I think about 20 is very realistic.
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Vandy_Law07
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    Seems about right. Other than it being a rivalry game- not sure there’s much of a case for Vanderbilt this year.

    Plus, we’ve been absolutely horrendous on the road (particularly SEC play):

    @Purdue L 24-42
    @Ole Miss L 6-31
    @South Carolina L 7-24
    @Florida L 0-56

    Total: 37-153 (13-111 SEC)

    I think our best hope is that panic/irritation sets in with the Vols if we’re somehow still hanging around in the 3rd Quarter, and they start forcing things they shouldn’t to quell a restless Neyland...
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Commodoredave
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    We only have one cover vs a FBS team this year. Most of the time we have been been a couple TD short of the spread.
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commadore
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    Spread up to 22 to 22.5.
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roanoke
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    -23 by game time, I expect.

    I think our biggest hope is weather. Rain is in the forecast.

    UT likes to sling it around - a couple of early turnovers would help. Although we got an early turnover score and it didn't matter against UK. If rain interferes with the passing game - and if we are willing to try to stuff the box to stop the run... it's possible we could make it interesting. Strange thing is - we did play man and gamble to stop the run versus Mizzou and won the game; but then did not sell out against the run versus Uk and let them run for 8 yards a pop. UT is better than both of them - and can run and pass better than both of them. However, UT was lucky to beat both of them narrowly....? The transitive property of football does not always work.
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VU1970
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    I hope they believe all the hype.
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Georgiadore
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    Should utk win, are we allowed to downplay it since they would be defeating a weak VU team? That's the sort of thing we've heard from their fans and some media the last several times we've won against them. "Well, Tennessee was down..."
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I didn't know Vandy had a message board.
 
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“Congratulations to UT for finally finding a coach who represents his university perfectly. The historic conundrum for the Vols has been reconciling it’s role as a small-time institution with the fact of big-time football. In the person of Jeremy Pruitt they have finally found someone as small-time as the institution itself. His lack of sophistication and dynamism is a perfect match for UT.

Never heard of asparagus? Well, your average Vol doesn’t believe in high falutin vegetables either. What’s next? Jicama?

You like to stand around on the sideline with a slack-jaw and glazed eyes trying to camouflage your paunch with a billowy orange rag that looks like it was cut from the mainsail of a schooner? Welcome to Knoxville on any saturday night.

Low ACT score? Yep. Slow in thought and speech? Bring it.

Win or lose on Saturday, God bless our Vol neighbors for finally getting a coach who represents them perfectly.“

From vandymania after OP already made this thread. This elitist snobbery and use of big sophisticated words on a message board (probably from a Pellissippi State grad to boot, no offense) is why I hate Vanderbilt as much as I do. Nice campus, my kid had ear tubes from the hospital there, etc., but it’s the fan base that really makes me hate that place. Ironically, when they do lose, I guarantee you they will use the same excuses they said UT fans will use - the refs threw the game. It’s a Saturday night ritual as old as time on that board. By the way, somebody tell that nut that deep down Pruitt bleeds crimson.
 
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solivols said:
“Congratulations to UT for finally finding a coach who represents his university perfectly.

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Win or lose on Saturday, God bless our Vol neighbors for finally getting a coach who represents them perfectly.“
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Did you lose your train of thought between the first paragraph and the last?
 
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Teeman said:
I was concerned about the rain until I saw that Vandy is as bad as UT is running the ball. Still, this will be a close game if weather is a factor.
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Their running back and TE are their 2 best players, both NFL draft guys.
 
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