re: Do you want to know the real truth for the gators hatin?

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This is a gauntlet thrown down. This is a coach saying, "I've reviewed the last 15 years of Tennessee's history with Florida, and it stops here." We were pretty freaking comfortable as a #2 behind Florida for a lot of years -- even won a national championship from that position -- but now here's a new coach saying that that's not good enough. We are going to stand you up and hit you in the mouth and fight you back.

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In principle I agree with you.The problem was in how he conveyed the message. It was pitiful in how he did it and how he conducted himself.Coach-speak bravado happens all of the time.

Don't y'all remember what Gerry DiNardo did when Vandy hired him in Dec of 1990 ? He went out of his way to mess with Tennessee. 'School to the East',throwing that turncoat weasel Doug Matthews out of practice since he was wearing an orange jacket. He really got under UT's skin and reminded them 'wow,we really do hate Tennessee'.

Suddenly instead of getting in dog fights with lovable Watson Brown, Tennessee pounded Vanderbilt 45-0,62-14 and 65-0 in a 3 yr period.

This could happen to the Big Orange now.