re: Vols to play ETSU in 2018

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LSU was playing Notre Dame, Nebraska and USC in the regular season

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Tennessee has played USC in OOC as many times as LSU

OU > Syracuse

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Miami won the NC in 83 and 87, LSU had them on the schedule in 88.

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So you've scheduled Miami once since they e been good. UT has had them on the schedule twice

Do your own research. I did and did so just to make sure I got it exactly right.

And no, it didn't come from a media guide or fan site. It's not breaking news that Coach Gen. Bob Neyland is considered one of the greatest of all time or that he innovated the game. OR that he was considered a defensive genius.

If you're too lazy to look things up ask your own coach.

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All talk, no DATA

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Here's your data. UT leads in all but 2 categories.

Tennessee vs. LSU

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Do your own research.

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I'm looking at Tennessee's OOC schedules since 1970 right now, and I am NOT impressed.

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And no, it didn't come from a media guide or fan site.

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What didn't? You didn't provide any data.

And I'm still not seeing any actual DATA coming from your research.

Well, my girl just got into town, and it's time to go. It's been fun but I gotta say, you Voles are weak fricking sauce. Next time bring some fricking data to the conversation.

So you do have an inferiority complex, and you are mad

I tried my best to give WildTchoupitoulas the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was ignorant - maybe he genuinely believe what he was espousing. However, VFL1800FPD and others were right. There's no use in engaging this guy. So I suggest we stop giving him attention and move on.

Which bring me to... What do you see as the benefits and/or negatives of scheduling in-state schools? Opinions from all teams welcome.

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That's called "hype". What I provide is Data.

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You are actually too fricking stupid to respond to, but I will anyway.

1.Neyland's wife, Ada Fitch "Peg" Neyland, told this story on the correct pronunciation of the family name. She stood on one leg, patted her knee and said it's "KNEE-land, like my knee."
2.Neyland finished his Tennessee coaching career with 173 wins, 31 losses and 12 ties, for an .829 winning percentage.
3.When he retired from coaching after the 1952 season, Neyland ranked first on the all-time winning percentage list of any man in modern major college football history with at least 20 years in the business.
4.Neyland preached readiness, maintaining that, "Almost all close games are lost by the losers, not won by the winners."
5.Of his 216 games coached, the Vols shut out their opponents 109 times.
6.From 1938 to 1940, his teams recorded an amazing 17 consecutive regular season shutouts.
7.In the 1939 regular season, Tennessee outscored its opposition 212-0. The Vols are the last major college football program to shut out every regular season opponent.
8.Neyland coached the Vols to six undefeated seasons, nine undefeated regular seasons, seven conference championships and four national championships.
9.He reeled off undefeated streaks of 33, 28, 23, 19 and 14 games.
10.Neyland coached 21 Vols to first-team All-America honors. Eleven of those players went on to the College Football Hall of Fame.
11.At one time, more than 175 former Neyland players were active head coaches in the United States and Canada.
12.Neyland's starting assistant coaching salary at UT in his first year of 1925 was $750. Factor inflation and that translates to approximately $9,757 in 2012.
13.Neyland was born Feb. 17, 1892, in Greenville, Texas, northeast of Dallas.
14.After high school, Neyland passed his teaching certification test and became a substitute teacher at age 17 earning $75 per month.
15.He then attended Burleson College and Texas A&M University before gaining an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Neyland's father, a lawyer, begged his son to go to law school instead but the younger Neyland had no interest in that career path.
16.Neyland was a superb student-athlete. He won 35 games (20 consecutive) pitching for Army, was a starting end on the Cadets' 1914 national championship football team and was the academy's heavyweight boxing champion his final three years.
17.Neyland was Army's first baseman in 1913 when the team's ace pitcher pulled a muscle that ended his career. Former Vols football captain Sammy Strang (known as Strang Nicklin during his college days) coached the Cadet nine and called a meeting to proclaim Neyland the team's new starting pitcher. Strang told Neyland to give his first baseman's mitt to his teammate -- future five-star general Omar Bradley.
18.In his first outing, Neyland struck out 12 in beating NYU, 2-1. Later in front of a crowd of 15,000, Neyland was the pitching and hitting star in Army's 2-1 win over Navy. His outstanding performance excused Neyland from "hell-week" activities normally assigned to West Point plebes.
19.During a 1915 game against Syracuse, Army trailed by one and had a runner at third with one out. Strang decided to replace Bradley, a .385 hitter, with Neyland, who promptly grounded to third and the runner was thrown out at home. Neyland then was picked off first for the final out. Afterward, Bradley confronted Neyland and said, "Well I think I could have done as good as that." Neyland replied, "Well Brad, it wasn't my idea in the first place."
20.Neyland graduated from the Academy in 1916.
21.He was recruited to play professional baseball by the New York Giants, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics, but instead went to World War I as soon as he graduated and served in France.
22.Neyland later served on the U.S.-Mexican border in pursuit of Pancho Villa, and in India and China during World War II.
23.By the age of 27, Neyland was one of the youngest regimental commanders in the U.S. Army.
24.But when the New York Times reported that fact, Neyland almost immediately was demoted to captain. Brig. Gen. Douglas McArthur faced a similar situation but accepted the superintendency at West Point to avoid being demoted to major. When Neyland protested his demotion, Neyland's successor rewarded him with a below satisfactory rating and had him shipped off to MIT for one year of postgraduate studies in civil engineering. Which led to the future of Neyland Stadium and its design.
25.Neyland arrived in Knoxville when the UT football site, Shields-Watkins Field, seated only 3,200. By the time of his death in 1962, the stadium seated more than 51,000 and Neyland had developed architectural plans for its eventual growth to more than 100,000. Those dreams became reality in 1996.