(wilburnVol @ Dec 25 said:
Then you've seen and heard it from behind your crack pipe.
Vol football fans are pissed off big time and with the recent articles by the NFL folks and another round of Phil's delusional "we were almost 9-2" vomit, they are fit to be tied...or tie him up. Phil ought to hide out and shut up for awhile unless he is so depressed as to be suicidal. Sure sounds like he's trying awfully hard to do himself in.
As usual, the Phil Trolls roll out lies like "end of the world", not one post has claimed anything of the sort. Truth is, even among those that woud like to see Fulmer canned, and I am one of them, I expect that we will see very good football but not necessarily in the near future. The only question is can Phil deliver it?
Time will tell. He built this crumbling ship, I'll give him one more year to right it or, as far as I am concerned, he can go down with it and take his perverted view of reality with him. :focus:
We WERE almost 9-2. Unless you're too deluded to remember that 4 of our losses were because of less than 3-4 yards each.
I've been hearing alot of uneducated talk "we'll be horrible because we're not getting the recruits..blah blah" well..we didn't know how good or bad our class was last year really until the Army Bowl. I think it will be ok, BUT BUT BUT this years recruits aren't going to translate into wins next year, it will be LAST years, which was at the very top in the nation.
I've also been hearing solid arguments for a successful season.
With Coach Cut back, Ainge should be able to get right in the head. We've got an experienced secondary coming back, there are players on D to step up and play. Foster should be back at 100%, as well as Hardesty and keep in mind, before he got hurt, hardesty was better! We've got receivers coming back, and hopefully the new wr coach can find a few that are exceptional and give them the majority of the playing time in the same positions. The OL didn't lose too much , and I'm sure that there are people to step up, it's just that they weren't good enough to take over for last years seniors.
I think we'll be just OK next year. 9-10 wins would not be out of the question at all...and you never know, 2 years ago we were supposed to tank, and ended up winning the SEC East. WHO KNOWS!
I'm optimistic, as are many of the other non doomsdayers in knoxville that wouldn't be happy with a thousand bucks, cuz they'd want 2000.