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UTK dangerously close to becoming UK
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:29 pm
My doofus little brother lives in Rockford and is a UT graduate. Yesterday he finally said what I've been thinking that he was thinking: "I like college basketball more than college football these days." He pointed out how college basketball season is way longer than the college football season and how the March Madness tournament is so much more awesome and exciting than the bowl season.
At that point I realized that Tennessee really is a few more Sweet 16s and a few more crappy football seasons away from being a basketball school... another Kentucky, basically.
* Both are lucky to win three conference games a year in football.
* Both are always looking for "improvement" and "building blocks" and moral victories in football. A trip to the 2014 Music Compass Pizza Bowl would be celebrated as improvement and a building block heading into next season. For either program.
* Both have a big-arse basketball arenas and a bunch of gray-haired hillbillies swearing oversized sweaters at the games.
* Both have bad high school football.
...At some point, when your football program has a stretch of prolonged misery and suffering as Tennessee, fans will look forward to something else to cling to. It's only natural. Fans need something to cheer about. After all, Missouri and Texas A&M have more SEC conference victories than Tennessee in the last four years. So does Vanderbilt. Only KENTUCKY has fewer.
If Coach Martin keeps the b-ball team strong for a few more seasons, and after Butch Jones proves to be a fraud full of corny euphemisms and desperate motivational tactics, Tennessee's battle cry in football really will be...
"Well, wait until basketball season."
Just like Kentucky. It really is amazing how quickly things can happen!
At that point I realized that Tennessee really is a few more Sweet 16s and a few more crappy football seasons away from being a basketball school... another Kentucky, basically.
* Both are lucky to win three conference games a year in football.
* Both are always looking for "improvement" and "building blocks" and moral victories in football. A trip to the 2014 Music Compass Pizza Bowl would be celebrated as improvement and a building block heading into next season. For either program.
* Both have a big-arse basketball arenas and a bunch of gray-haired hillbillies swearing oversized sweaters at the games.
* Both have bad high school football.
...At some point, when your football program has a stretch of prolonged misery and suffering as Tennessee, fans will look forward to something else to cling to. It's only natural. Fans need something to cheer about. After all, Missouri and Texas A&M have more SEC conference victories than Tennessee in the last four years. So does Vanderbilt. Only KENTUCKY has fewer.
If Coach Martin keeps the b-ball team strong for a few more seasons, and after Butch Jones proves to be a fraud full of corny euphemisms and desperate motivational tactics, Tennessee's battle cry in football really will be...
"Well, wait until basketball season."
Just like Kentucky. It really is amazing how quickly things can happen!
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Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:31 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:32 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
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March Madness tournament is so much more awesome and exciting than the bowl season.
Everyone with a shitty football team will obviously say that.
Oh and are you intentionally doing your sig line wrong?
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:33 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
4 straight losing seasons can do that.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:35 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
MLB
College Hoops
College Football
NBA
NFL
College Baseball
This is probably how I would rank my interests, although I do recognize that the NBA and NFL are superior products to their college counterparts.
College Hoops
College Football
NBA
NFL
College Baseball
This is probably how I would rank my interests, although I do recognize that the NBA and NFL are superior products to their college counterparts.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:35 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
What are you, UGA version of Tennessee Jed?
1/10
1/10
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:40 pm to MrTwoBits
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March Madness tournament is so much more awesome and exciting than the bowl season.
I mean this is true. Bowl season sort of sucks like 90% of the time.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:40 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
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BoneDrownedDaveReal
You've posted 41 times too many.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:43 pm to volfan30
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MLB College Hoops College Football
Look I like the MLB but there is NOOOOO F-ing way its over college football.
And its a cold day in hell when ANY basketball is over college football.
you yankee bastard.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:46 pm to RTR America
UGA hasn't won the SEC in almost a decade, and hasn't won the natty in 34 years. UGA has 2 BCS bowl appearances, same as UT.
This post was edited on 3/25/14 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:50 pm to VFL1800FPD
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UGA has 2 BCS bowl appearances, same as UT.
Actually we have 3. 2002, 2005, 2007
Ha
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:53 pm to ForeverLSU22
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4 straight losing seasons can do that.
And 5 out of the last 6. Lane Kiffin of all coaches gave them their one and only winning season since 2007.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 2:56 pm to Crowknowsbest
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Actually we have 3. 2002, 2005, 2007
Damn, fudged that up
At least one of ours was a BCS Natty
This post was edited on 3/25/14 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 3/25/14 at 3:07 pm to VFL1800FPD
^^^ Back when the prospects on your recruiting board were still in diapers.
Yes, you won the national title fair and square. But only because The Rooster was the other team's quarterback. And since that time we have 5 SECCGs, 2 SEC championships and 3 BCS bowl games.
And a 10-4 record against Tennessee this century.
PS - Tennessee is my least favorite team. I grew up a Georgia fan in the 90s. And Tennessee was the one team we could never beat. Tennessee beat us every way possible. The 92 game, the Todd Helton game and the Robert Edwards broken foot game being the most god awful.
Yes, you won the national title fair and square. But only because The Rooster was the other team's quarterback. And since that time we have 5 SECCGs, 2 SEC championships and 3 BCS bowl games.
And a 10-4 record against Tennessee this century.
PS - Tennessee is my least favorite team. I grew up a Georgia fan in the 90s. And Tennessee was the one team we could never beat. Tennessee beat us every way possible. The 92 game, the Todd Helton game and the Robert Edwards broken foot game being the most god awful.
This post was edited on 3/25/14 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 3/25/14 at 3:10 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
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BoneDrownedDaveReal
Posted on 3/25/14 at 3:11 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
Tennessee fans are a lot more bearable when they are bad at football. I am ok with this trend.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 3:24 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
Except one school has the biggest stadium in the SEC...bigger than UGA's, for example...and the other one is actually downsizing theirs.
Terrible comparison.
Terrible comparison.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 3:33 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
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Both are lucky to win three conference games a year in football.
I didn't know football started in 2010
Posted on 3/25/14 at 3:34 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
only because The Rooster was the other team's quarterback
You are just a font of tired old misinformation, aren't you? The Rooster led his team to a huge beatdown of Florida in the game before the title game. And nobody ever seems to mention the fact that we played almost the entire season without Jamal Lewis. Every team has injuries they have to deal with - get over it.
You are just a font of tired old misinformation, aren't you? The Rooster led his team to a huge beatdown of Florida in the game before the title game. And nobody ever seems to mention the fact that we played almost the entire season without Jamal Lewis. Every team has injuries they have to deal with - get over it.
Posted on 3/25/14 at 3:35 pm to BoneDrownedDaveReal
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PS - Tennessee is my least favorite team. I grew up a Georgia fan in the 90s. And Tennessee was the one team we could never beat. Tennessee beat us every way possible
So basically we kicked your arse for a decade but since we've been had a couple bad seasons we're becoming UK? Cool story bro
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