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Posted on October 5 at 4:50 p.m.
What do you mean rebuilding from 1985?
The 1988 team was one of the most underachieving teams in UT history.
Jeff Francis was a three year starter at quarterback that was a redshirt senior. That's a lot more experience than any of the guys at QB on this year's team. Randy Sanders was also a fifth-year senior and was one of the backup quarterbacks.
None of the QBs were asked to learn a new system that year. The same could be said for the rest of the offensive players.
Reggie Cobb had a sub par sophomore season after a fantastic freshman campaign.
Eric Still was an All-SEC guard. Tackles Antone Davis and Charles McRae were starters as sophomores that year, but both would be first round picks two years later.
Keith DeLong was an All-America linebacker that year as well.
Maybe there weren't any UABs or N. Illinois on that schdule, but look at the quality teams UT played and how badly we lost.
LSU hammered us 34-9 in Knoxville, and Auburn beat us 38-6 at Jordan Hare.
Yes, we won the last five games, but we were lucky that Vandy was still Vandy and Kentucky was stil Kentucky. Even in the five game winning streak UT failed to play that well. The biggest win of the year was a 13-point mugging of Memphis.
Posted on October 5 at 4:16 p.m.
I am sorry, but there is no way you can compare Pat Summitt and the Lady Vol basketball program to football, or even men's basketball or baseball.
Pat is a great coach and ambassador for Tennessee, but women's basketball isn't nearly as competitive as football.
Pat basically got in on the ground floor of things at the start of Title IX that allowed her to build a program.
There are only a handful of women's basketball team that come close to UT, but even UConn and the rest aren't in Tennessee's class. It's easy for Pat to walk in and recruit when you can all but guarantee a girl a trip to the final four before she graduates. Yes, that's because Pat has built the program, but the depth and quaility of opponents isn't nearly as strong as it is in SEC football, or football across the nation.
Posted on October 2 at 9:48 p.m.
Back in 1984 I had been away from my hometown area for a few years and had not seen my old high school play. I was visiting my parents one Friday and my old school was playing another team in the area so my dad and I took in the game.
The other team had a running back that just tore my alma mater up with 200 yards plus. As we were leaving the stadium I told my dad, "I don't know who that kid is, but he's something special."
The kid, a sophomore at the time, played for Escambia High School in Pensacola, Fla. He is now the all-time leading rusher in the history of the NFL. Yes, it was Emmitt Smith. So it is possible to tell how good a player will be that early in his high school career.
At 6-5, 250 and just a sophomore, it sounds as if he could grow into the DT everyone wants.
Posted on October 1 at 10:22 p.m.
How has Fulmer ruined Brandon Warren's career. We are four weeks into the season and have a quarterback that is struggling. Warren wasn't cleared to play until a few days before the UCLA game soe he didn't practice a lot. He's only had a few weeks to learn a whole new offense after sitting out a full season.
Fulmer has helped more young men than he's ever ruined. And I'd dare say he's had a positive impact on more lives on and off the football field than most of those of us who post (myself included) put together.
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Posted on October 1 at 10:10 p.m.
Some truth to what Johnny says, I agree, Hornung shouldn't have won the Heisman in 1956.
Majors won at Iowa State adn Pitt when there was basically an unlimited amount of scholarships available for each team. I think there were something like 100 players in Dorsett's freshman class at Pitt.
When he got back to Pitt in the early 1990s he struggled to win. I guess that's Fulmer's fault too.
Majors is a Tennessee legend, I don't deny that. But I was a student assistant in sports information at UT in 87 and 88 and Johnny wasn't very easy to deal with. Even then he seemed bitter about something.
Posted on October 1 at 4 p.m.
What does this comment have to do with a story about Ole Miss being on the cover of SI?
If you want to really be fair to Fulmer you'd point out he's won three of the last four against Richt. And Spurrier's last four years at Florida Fulmer was 2-2 against him and has only lost to Steve once since he got to South Carolina.
Any of us that took an intro to statistics class can manipulate the numbers--positive or negative--any way we want to in an attempt to make our case appear stronger.
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Posted on September 30 at 9:51 p.m.
As others have mentioned on other stories, just because a guy is a better practice player doesn't mean he's the better game player. The speed of a game is faster than a speed at practice and some guys react better to the faster speed with the juices flowing.
If we were winning and Crompton was completing 55 percent of his passes I wouldn't be complaining and I doubt if many of us would. But when we are 1-3 and Crompton seems to read defenses the way I read Chinese, it's time for a change under center.
Posted on September 30 at 11:11 a.m.
ACG, actually that was 2000 game. I remember because it was the last game I attended in Neyland and had seats in the north endzone where the play happened.
The 2001 game was delayed because of 9-11. It was Spurrier's last regular season game and Travis Stephen 226 yards in the UT win.
Posted on September 30 at 11:06 a.m.
Florida won the NC because Tim Tebow was a change of pace quarterback from Chris Leak. Last year, Tebow put up freak numbers, but the Gators had no other offensive weapons. They may have more weapons this year, but they aren't distributing the ball as well and people are catching up to Tebow.
Now Urban is crying because his guy misses a block.
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Posted on October 6 at 9:15 p.m.
Aaron Green was not from Cleveland although he was head basketball coach at Bradley Central. He is from Sweetwater where he played for his dad Danny Green on two state championship teams in 1993 and 1994. The Wildcats also won the state title in football in 1993.
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