The Southeastern Conference's new-look football schedule for 2012 may result in the end of a television staple.
Florida and Tennessee have met every year on CBS since the network became the primary broadcaster of SEC games in 1996, but that matchup has stout company this year because of the juggling that occurred when Texas A&M and Missouri joined the league. The Gators and Volunteers are playing in Knoxville on Sept. 15, which is the same day Alabama and Arkansas will vie in Fayetteville.
"Normally you don't have that kind of selection on that day because Alabama and Arkansas in past schedules has been a week later," CBS Sports executive vice president Mike Aresco said. "Alabama and Arkansas is a game we've done the last three years, so it does give us some options on that first Saturday."
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VolnPickwick writes:
Just hope for a competetive game. This seems to be looming as apretty even match-up if you believe what you read in certain circles. Go Vols!
ULTIMATEVOLUNTEER writes:
But on the bright side....you don't have to listen to Verne (I don't have a clue what's going on)Lundquist.
ULTIMATEVOLUNTEER writes:
Here's one of many...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GzbAlyl4A
mountainbrook writes:
Wrong. REAL UT fans would hope its Muschump.
Tau_of_Tennessee writes:
Who was it that we passed over to get Dooley that you would have preferred?
RockVegas writes:
Everybody in the world knows the real reason the Tennessee-Florida will not be on CBS is because it always seem to be a blow out.It's just not a good game most of the time,it's like your watching the game from the year before,because we lose the same way every year.The networks are all about ratings and the Arkansas-Alabama game will have alot more viewers than us.I love Tennessee,and bleed orange just like everybody else but we are not good,and people need to stop making excuses fot U.T,once we start winning some ball games we will get the press and respect like everybody else.Back in the 90's we were on national T.V every weekend.
givehim6 writes:
Back in the 90's when both teams had title dreams it was " THE GAME ". BY 2008 it was a 1 side butt kicking game, last year it became UF 1 of 3 SEC east win games. Wonder what the 2012 game will be? UT's payback game? Huuumm?
Rich_Is_Re-born writes:
I must agree. Even last yr, UF blew us out. Say what you want, we scored late to bring it within 10, but in reality we got spanked. Now UF is swirling down the toilet as well, and you really can't blame them for chosing Bama and Ark. Perhaps we can get the UF game moved to Friday on ESPNU.
movol53 writes:
Where are all those "fans" that wanted Muschamp for the UT head coach when Dooley was hired? Seems he's not doing a very good job at his first head coaching job.
1vavolfan writes:
Can't blame CBS at all. Since Dooley has arrived we have had no chance of beating any of the top teams in the SEC. Probably not good for advertisers when half of the audience tunes out after the first quarter because UT is being blown out.If something doesn't change soon Bama and Florida will cease to even be rivalry games.
Rich_Is_Re-born writes:
The ones who wanted Muschamp are now the same ones trying to brainwash folks into thinking Dooley is an SEC coach.
eepwlg writes:
Hey doofus, More likely Muschump
hueypilot writes:
Florida may be swirling down the toilet in your mimd but not in mine. Living in Jacksonville, this report. Muschamp in his first recruiting class had 22 recruits (only 12 from Florida) to rank #3 in Rivals estimation. Just yesterday, at Florida's junior day he got six commits including Kelvin Taylor, Fred Taylor's kid who has broken Emmitt Smith's 25 year old schoolboy rush and TD records in his JUNIOR year. With a year to go he has rushed for just shy of 10,000 yards. Florida has verbals from ten, all instate commits.
When Spurrer wreaked havoc on the SEC he did it with mostly in state talent. How rich is Florida? According to ESPN's top 150 in the country almost a fifth of them (29) are Floridians. Texas is second with 29 and California 15 (Can't imagine why Kiffin chose to go to USC instead of staying in Knoxville)
When Fulmer had his best years, it was at the expense of guys like Mike Dubose, Ray Goff, Gerry Dinardo, and a dozen assorted second tier coaches that now do something outside football.
Now Dooley goes up against Miles, Saban, Mullen, Franklin, Spurrier, Richt, Petrino, Chizik with Malzahn until this year, .
With Muschamp and Jimbo Fisher locking down the prime players in Florida, and all the other quality coaches around the SEC, with A and M and Mo. getting the SEC draw to attract the few that get out of Oklahoma and Texas, it only gets tougher.
Ttown writes:
The hogs are on the up they got lucky last two years but the teams that were ready beat um they lost alot of there players didnt have a good class according to two our so sites there luck is out hate the hogs more than I hate the gators hogs have said for years well maybe next season so they have two good ones but still get blasted by bama and lsu and almost vandy and teaxs am lets see how it works this year we will have a way better season than last year the staff knows if we dont thats it and if so hart will make the right choice go vols
orangeman1 writes:
Hmmm. Lets see. Two top 10 teams or two unranked teams? Seems like an easy decision.
Rich_Is_Re-born writes:
This is why you don't send your kids to school in Alabama. What in the hell did you just say? Talk about a run-on sentence.
RockyToptoNeyland writes:
I liked it when fla ut was a cbs night game, wish they'd give that to us, but it ain't happenin. I want a night game at home!!! Go UT!!!
sm1 writes:
I too would like to see the UT vs. UF game be a 7 pm or a 7:30 pm kickoff.
Ttown writes:
Reborn shut your mouth dude I was relpying to a comment u dont have a clue man get off this site
crappieking writes:
After doofus Dooley is fired after next year, and we hire Cowher, we'll be back on TV.
Ironcity writes:
This is a non story. I could care less if its on CBS. As long as they are on TV I don't care what channel or what time.
Rich_Is_Re-born writes:
So can you translate your pig-latin response for us. And you are correct....I don't have a clue as to what you said in that post.
RollTideJoe writes:
Verne Lundquist needs to retire. I watched a game a year ago where a receiver catches a pass, runs 52 yards to the endzone and fumbles as he crosses the goal. Lundquist asks Danielson, was that a completion? He didn't ask if it was a TD, rather was it a completion. Duh, he ran 52 yards with the ball dumbxxx. He constantly gets names of players wrong. All he does is give his cackle laugh at anything (and everything) Danielson says.
Rich_Is_Re-born writes:
Couldn't agree more.
tree_em_smokey writes:
WHAT?
sm1 writes:
I am afraid that you are right. This does not bode well for Tennessee.
I long for the days that our OL was so good, and so dominant, that it did not really matter who the feature RB was, we still had successful run game.
I don't care how many world-class receivers we recruit, until, or unless the overall play of our OL and DL becomes consistently SEC caliber, apart from the occasional fluke, we will never win against the upper echelon SEC opponents.
Football is blocking and tackling. Lately Tennessee has not been consistently very good at either one. I hope that changes soon.
VolinCalif writes:
Good point.The truth of the matter is I hope both coaches do OK this year. I would really like to see the East restored to the power they were a few years ago. Super S has done his job but others have let up a little. It took
Ark a lot of years to get back to where they were in the old SWC but they are on a ride now. So lets hope Fl, Tn, Ga and SC, Oh yes Mo can get it together and make the East the real power.
GBO 9-3 + a Bowl
VolinCalif writes:
Cute Rich
Vol_USArmy_Soldier writes:
The hits continue.
PHAT_VOL writes:
Why should it be?
Its no longer a rivalry and a game of little interest to the general football viewing public.
GO VOLS!!!
OrangePsyched writes:
No one had complained about CBS not showing our game. You brought it up. UT knows it has to earn it's way back to prominence. Dooley will be here for a long long time.
sameolvolalum writes:
No small one, he's not right. The huey-jock pilot gator fan's just into the same ol' rhetoric all sports fans espouse in making his judgments subjective. Everyone has an opinion. As for your opinion: Maybe you should have taken note that UT's OL is big, experienced and talented. They've simply been under-coached. CDD has addressed the running game's problems with the acquisition of OLC Sam Pittman and RBC Jay Graham. Several of the RB's from the Fulmer era flourished (some making the pro bowl) in the NFL, so it wasn't just the OL involved with their running production. You don't care about world-class receivers UNTIL the OL and DL have inproved? Whaaaat? That's not very sharp thinking with Bray slinging it out there. Football is about blocking and tackling.......duh!.....Really? Nice try, bud, and keep trying. IMHO, UT's moving forward at a good pace. I'm glad the guys making the big bucks are running the show and not one of us. GBO!
SavTnVol writes:
I agree, I wish all the games were night games. Instead of spending all the money it cost to travel to Knoxville and then set in that uncomfortable stadium, we have started doing a projector and big screen outside for the ball games. Nite time is the right time for the projector set up. Cold beer, boiled shrimp, chicken wings off the grill and a bunch of friends watching our VOLS. Just don't get no better than that!
By the way, Verne is as lost as last years Easter Eggs since little Timmy Tebow isn't in the SEC anymore. Man that Verne had a man-crush on Timmy.
Ayres_Hall writes:
The rebuilding is going to be fun. The haters like reborn and bodean will be rats with no home.
GetSimmsandTeagueout writes:
I'm surprised they didn't end it ten yrs. ago.
arkyvol writes:
i would have settled for somebody a) with a winning record, b) preferably at a major college level, c) who made his own name, and d) who wouldn't give hammy the time of day.
arkyvol writes:
two years of this kind of fun is enough for me. i'm too old to wait for the boy with the famous last name to have his second winning season. i'm way too old to wait around for his first winning season in the sec.
govolsbaby writes:
i dont care what channel its on because ill be there doing my part screamin by butt off when the gators are on offense.
i know its gonna be one of the best atmospheres in neyland for a long time. especially if its a night game. theres something about ut fans that if they feel they have a real chance they get way louder and excited
kcbigorngX writes:
You must possess a brain before anyone can attempt to wash it.
Don't feel sorry for yourself because you are lacking, sweetheart.
Now, dance for me.
VolFanInTheBoro (Inactive) writes:
You are NOT a real UT fan. A real UT fan wants the Vols to win no matter who the coach is. Trolls like you and the Barron or whatever name he is now using actually want the Vols to fail so you can say, See I told you Dooley can't coach.
thevoice writes:
Nobody in particular. However, most likely no one on here is privy to the AD's short list, inside knowledge, etc. In other words, we're not ADs. But the fact is, the Vol program on 2-19-12 is more attractive to a coach than when Dooley took over about 2 years ago. And I thank Dooley for that 2-year "stability." But the fact remains, he's not the coach to take us to the next level. He's already proved that with his head coaching record: 28-34.
thevoice writes:
Dave Hart was the FSU AD from 1995 to 2007, and likely made several coaching hires and fires outside of football. Even so, I bet he knows what he's doing in football and most likely was instrumental in Saban's hire at Bama. Being employed by two schools who won a national championship tends to make one associate with great coaches. He knows one when he sees one. I'm sue he knows Dooley is not one.
thevoice writes:
"sure" not "sue"
sm1 writes:
Huey Pilot is correct in that Florida is continuing to recruit a lot of very talented players. Huey Pilot is correct in that there are now several extremely good coaches in the SEC. Huey Pilot is correct in that SEC competition is now tougher than it has ever been, and it is only going to get tougher.
I do not deny the fact that UT has had more than a few NFL caliber running backs in its history. But there have also been more than a few who were either not successful in the NFL, or who never even played a single game in the NFL, who, nevertheless, had great success running the ball at Tennessee (e.g., Tony Thompson, Travis Stephens, Jay Graham, Hubert Simpson (when he was not in the doghouse), just to name a few.) Tennessee has had many good offfensive lines throughout the years, and I hate to single out one unit, but go back and look at the OL of 1990. I probably could have rushed for a 1000 yards with the holes that line routinely opened.
As for UT's OL now being "big, experienced, and talented," but "under-coached:" maybe your right. All I know is UT's run game last year was non-existent.
I have never seen a finesse style pass-happy team have much consistent success in the SEC. To win in this league, a team needs to be tough, physical, and smash-mouth: a team needs to be able to run the ball, and be able to stop the run; I submit Alabama as the perfect example.
I did not say football is ABOUT blocking and tackling, I said football IS blocking and tackling. Consider Trent Richardson's run up the middle against us last year. Everybody want's to talk about what a great run that was, but I also saw a lot of good blocking (on Alabama's part) and a lot of poor tackling (on Tennessee's part). Alabama wins because they block better than their opponents; they are also very good tacklers. Tennessee loses because their opponents block better than they do, and with a few exceptions, Tennessee does not tackle well either.
Finally, my point in saying "I don't care how many world class receivers we recruit . . ." is simply this: The game is won and lost on the line of scrimmage, and this is where Tennessee falls woefully behind many other SEC teams. Without good offensive line play, Bray will find it very hard to pass the ball when he is constantly running for his life, or lying flat on his back or his belly, even if he does have a plethora of world class receivers to throw to. Tennessee needs a good run game to complement their passing attack, and vice verca. And Tennessee needs more depth on both the DL and the OL.
As to whether or not Tennessee is "moving forward at a good pace," I really can't say, but for certain, I can say, "they are not here yet." I am a Tennessee fan who simply hopes they get there sooner rather than later.
It amazes me how many people on this site get offended even when no one is attacking them, and who lash out those who are not their enemies.
GONAVY (Inactive) writes:
I am thinking it is mostly wishful thinking on the part of the UT fan base that Florida's demise is so destined and apparent. Your points on recruiting seem to reveal quite a different setting. Neither UT or Florida will take the East in 2012; Arkansas and Bama on the other hand are title contenders. They've earned the prime time slot.
GONAVY (Inactive) writes:
It's Wynne, AR. If you toss insults instead of contributing something worth reading, at least spell correctly.
GONAVY (Inactive) writes:
Great post...
volforeverandever writes:
How do you make an adjustment at half when you have no depth so you can substitute? You are a complete idiot.It never has been about making proper adjustments it was simply when other teams were four deep we were two deep at some positions we just ran out of gas.Coach Dooley is building depth and will fix this.He sure didn`t have any depth when he came here thanks to Fulmers last weak class.Kiffin`s class at least is going to give us more senior help. Fulmer`s gave us two starters.If you don`t like Coach Dooley fine thats your problem,but don`t come on here and make stuff up as you usually do.For me he is coaching the team I love and therefor has my support.Oh by the way Tennessee will beat N.C. State. Go Big Orange
volforeverandever writes:
No,it`s nuts like you that is the problem.
Snapshot writes:
Dude, some punctuation and capitals letters would make it much easier to figure out what you are trying to say. Just a hint.
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