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re: The Long Slide - Tennessee Volunteers Football
Posted on 8/16/21 at 2:15 pm to VolsDeep
Posted on 8/16/21 at 2:15 pm to VolsDeep
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Unless you’re in your 40s and posting on tRant (which would be hella sad).....what’s it like to have never witnessed your team win a National Championship?
1998 was also a long time ago.
Zero players on Tennessee's football team were born the last time the Vols got one either.
In 1998, Michael Jordan and Karl Malone were battling it out in the NBA finals.
South Park was in its second season and the animation was still using construction paper from Walgreens.
Craig Kilborn was still the host of the Daily Show.
Monica Lewinsky went on national TV to say she blew Clinton in the oval office and had the cum-drenched dress to prove it.
AOL acquires Netscape.
Britney Spears was still recording "Baby One More Time", her debut album. Nobody would know who she was for another year.
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Posted on 8/16/21 at 2:25 pm to deeprig9
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Lane Kiffen
If Kiffin stays, I dont think they would be where they are today. he had them on an upward trajectory IMO
Posted on 8/16/21 at 2:40 pm to deeprig9
quote:Any program can fall, any program can be rescued.
Can the program be rescued
Posted on 8/16/21 at 2:59 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
Definitely. Pure incompetence from the top down for over a decade. Textbook example of how to destroy a program.
It appears the admin woes are behind us for now (seems….) so hopefully we can get out of our own way and start building something again. The current situation is tough, no doubt. But not insurmountable
It appears the admin woes are behind us for now (seems….) so hopefully we can get out of our own way and start building something again. The current situation is tough, no doubt. But not insurmountable
Posted on 8/16/21 at 3:24 pm to VFL1800FPD
The last time Georgia won a football title:
January 1 – The comic strip The Far Side debuts in newspapers.
May 21 – The Empire Strikes Back is released.
May 22 – Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game of all time, is released.
May 23 – Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining, based on the 1977 novel of the same name, is released.
December 8
John Lennon is shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.[3]
Bro shut the frick up. Your last championship was literally before Ataris.
January 1 – The comic strip The Far Side debuts in newspapers.
May 21 – The Empire Strikes Back is released.
May 22 – Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game of all time, is released.
May 23 – Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining, based on the 1977 novel of the same name, is released.
December 8
John Lennon is shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.[3]
Bro shut the frick up. Your last championship was literally before Ataris.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 4:47 pm to deeprig9
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Is this the new normal for Tennessee football? A look at their history says yes; in fact it seems to have been the new normal for several years now, and we've finally got the benefit of hindsight to see it.
Tennessee doesn't have a hard climb back into relevancy, largely because they are in the SECE.
Of the 6 competing programs in the East, only two are outperforming their historical norms, Georgia and Kentucky. So it doesn't take a miracle to return to 9-3. If they could sustain that for 3 out of 4 years, then they are viable at playing for a division championship by upsetting Georgia or Florida.
But the there are two things that bash this narrative against the rocks:
1) Alabama and Auburn coming East and destroying any chance at UT ever winning the East ever again.
2) Vowel fans fancy themselves as a national power and believe they should be playing for Nattys. Thus, they would run off anyone that has a modicum of success followed by any setback. Unless they swallow their pride and accept that they are basically performing at Kentuckyish levels in football and that this is the state of their program, then they will not have the patience to ever rebuild.
This post was edited on 8/16/21 at 4:53 pm
Posted on 8/16/21 at 4:57 pm to TN Dawg2
It's one thing to get stuck in a rut for a year, or two, or five. When you are stuck in a rut for 13 years and still don't see a light at the end of the tunnel, you can't say you are stuck in a rut. That's your new home, living in a van down by the river.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 4:59 pm to deeprig9
True dat.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 4:59 pm to deeprig9
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1998 was also a long time ago. Zero players on Tennessee's football team were born the last time the Vols got one either. In 1998, Michael Jordan and Karl Malone were battling it out in the NBA finals. South Park was in its second season and the animation was still using construction paper from Walgreens. Craig Kilborn was still the host of the Daily Show. Monica Lewinsky went on national TV to say she blew Clinton in the oval office and had the cum-drenched dress to prove it. AOL acquires Netscape. Britney Spears was still recording "Baby One More Time", her debut album. Nobody would know who she was for another year.
Members of the 1980 team are receiving social security.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:01 pm to deeprig9
Which 3 teams do you believe beat UGA this year? Clemson is a given but what other 2?
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:06 pm to deeprig9
Think UT has hired its worst coach yet....
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:12 pm to deeprig9
I miss Dooly's puke orange pants 
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:16 pm to TN Dawg2
quote:Ever?lol. Any program can fall - even alabama, let alone auburn. Who in the 90s predicted Nebraska football would become the state that it is today?
Alabama and Auburn coming East and destroying any chance at UT ever winning the East ever again.
You're not jesus, the future is unknown. All it takes is a competent head coach.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:27 pm to Smokeyone
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Which 3 teams do you believe beat UGA this year? Clemson is a given but what other 2?
Isnt it 3 or 4?
What odd, unpredictable circumstances are you counting on this year? Massive injuries, a terrible ref call, and a Hail Mary?
When they don’t happen, and thankfully they rarely do, you are badly wrong.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:31 pm to deeprig9
Humor them. They have so little.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:34 pm to deeprig9
UT - living in a van by the Tennessee River. Yep! Ha ha
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:39 pm to Cheese Grits
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You get rid of the fat guy and misery follows.
Same thing happened with Kansas football
don't forget Maryland
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:42 pm to RoscoeHarper
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Why don't you ask all current students at Tennessee?
They are not in their 40s.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:44 pm to deeprig9
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It's one thing to get stuck in a rut for a year, or two, or five. When you are stuck in a rut for 13 years and still don't see a light at the end of the tunnel, you can't say you are stuck in a rut. That's your new home, living in a van down by the river.
41 years of "next year is our year."
Tell us again about stuck in a rut.
Posted on 8/16/21 at 5:44 pm to deeprig9
Their athletic department being bankrupt hasn't helped their situation for the last while.
Fulmer was basically begging season ticket holders not ask for a refund last year even though they couldn't go to the game.
Fulmer was basically begging season ticket holders not ask for a refund last year even though they couldn't go to the game.
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