re: VOLS from 1989-2004

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Really 1998 was a magical year where they had Alabama and Georgia both down and Florida in a huge rebuilding process.

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Are we just making shite up now? Their only two losses, a combined 14 points, came against the two teams that played for a natty.

Their 10 wins were by an average of 23 points

Hell Georgia won the Peach Bowl that year. Bama sucked as they have in every single season in their entire existence where they weren't cheating their balls off.

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Bama sucked as they have in every single season in their entire existence where they weren't cheating their balls off.

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But we were cheating our balls off at that time. That was literally right around the time of Albert Means.

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The only thing holding them back is coaching.

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We are hovering around top 10 krootin wise and have been in each of Pruitts full classes. The fact that they haven’t found a better QB (or even tried to bring in a transfer) is the main issue right now.

Talent wise we are basically equal to Florida, but the coaching disparity is pretty large between the two

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The Vols are suffering for mostly the same reasons Nebraska is suffering. The lack of great in state recruiting and being surrounded by a bunch of teams with great instate recruiting

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1) Tennessee has a good bit of HS talent now. There are nine four stars in the class of 2021. However, only one of those nine is committed to UT. There were twelve four stars in the class of 2020 and thirteen in 2019. Tennessee only signed one of the thirteen in-state four stars in 2019.

UT’s problem is they can’t nail down elite in-state talent. The talent is there though.

2) Nebraska isn’t surrounded by states with fertile recruiting grounds.

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Bama sucked as they have in every single season in their entire existence where they weren't cheating their balls off.

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Y u mad bro

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UT’s problem is they can’t nail down elite in-state talent. The talent is there though.

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Lol the talent in state is overrated to shite. Rankings are inflated because it sells in state scrips but a 4* in TN is not equal to a 4* in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, or Louisiana.


Bunch of soft private school kids in the Nashville metro and Memphis kids are just too god damned stupid

Teams with better records since 2004:

Ohio State 179-32-0 0.848
Boise State 176-35-0 0.834
Alabama 183-38-0 0.828
Oklahoma 173-45-0 0.794
LSU 164-48-0 0.774
Clemson 168-52-0 0.764
Wisconsin 159-54-0 0.747
Georgia 161-56-0 0.742
USC 154-55-0 0.737
Oregon 152-56-0 0.731
TX Christian 146-61-0 0.705
Florida 146-62-0 0.702
App State 65-28-0 0.699
Penn State 142-62-0 0.696
Utah 142-64-0 0.689
VA Tech 149-68-0 0.687
Auburn 144-68-0 0.679
Texas 142-68-0 0.676
Florida St 145-70-0 0.674
Oklahoma St 139-69-0 0.668
Notre Dame 137-70-0 0.662
W Virginia 137-70-0 0.662
BYU 136-74-0 0.648
Cincinnati 134-73-0 0.647
Navy 136-76-0 0.641
Michigan 129-74-0 0.635
Iowa 130-75-0 0.634
Louisville 129-78-0 0.623
Michigan St 128-78-0 0.621
N Illinois 129-81-0 0.614
Stanford 125-79-0 0.613
Missouri 127-81-0 0.611
Houston 126-81-0 0.609
Toledo 121-80-0 0.602
Miami (FL) 125-83-0 0.601
Texas A&M 124-83-0 0.599
Central FL 124-85-0 0.593
Nebraska 121-84-0 0.59
S Carolina 120-86-0 0.582
Ohio 117-88-0 0.571
Kansas St 116-88-0 0.569
Arizona St 115-88-0 0.566
Texas Tech 115-90-0 0.561
GA Tech 118-93-0 0.559
Boston Col 116-93-0 0.555
Northwestern 112-90-0 0.555
Air Force 112-90-0 0.555
Troy 112-90-0 0.555
San Diego St 112-91-0 0.552
LA Tech 114-93-0 0.551
Pittsburgh 115-94-0 0.55
Fresno St 113-93-0 0.549
Arkansas St 112-93-0 0.546
Nevada 111-93-0 0.544
Marshall 111-94-0 0.541
Tennessee 111-94-0 0.541

98 Florida was national championship caliber, definitely not down.

Our D was one of our best D's since I've been alive.

Our offense was just mediocre thanks to erratic Doug Johnson and Jesse Palmer.

UT beat us on a missed chip shot FG in OT and FSU got a couple big breaks that helped them squeak by us.