Some would usually say 8 wins is lowering expectations for UT football. I like that others know the NFL talent and depth concerns and are able to adjust expectations. 8 and a bowl win to 9 this year would mean some good football and raise next years expectations to win the sec east.
we were 2 years removed from an SEC east tie. now we are two years removed from Butch. That is a precipitous fall. Even a black hole has an event horizon in which time slows to a crawl, making one approaching it seem to pause, but ultimately succumbing to the sweet mercy of gravity obliterating their body. Not so with Butch. An ever-accelerating suck where time has no meaning (year zero!) and there is no merciful terminal acceleration, no event horizon, only infinite acceleration until relative time stops, frozen in irrelevance in a neverending moment that never ends, flying through the void to nowhere. so 10 years ago, such hells were beyond imagination.
well ya. I meant expectations relative to where we are as a program. I didn't mean the number 8 now relates to a different quantity.
You go into a game believing you have no chance you’ll probably lose. You go into a season believing your 7-5 you’ll play/practice to that level. It’s one thing for fans to be “realistic” but I hope our roster and staff believe they’re really good. I’m convinced a big part of Saban’s model success is initially, simply believing they can.
I asked a basketball player I coached last year, what makes you confident you re going to score when you shoot the ball? Or, how do you gain confidence in your shooting? After thinking for a second she said, "shooting more, ...practicing". My response was, if your not making any more even tho you re practicing more, did you gain any confidence in yourself? Seeing I had confused her I followed that up with, at some point that practice has to payoff with the ball going in more for your confidence level to change. How you practice or prepare is more important than how much.
Wright Morris To'oto'o Burrell Crouch Gray Middleton Williams Simmons Harrison Beasley - mostly special teams McCullough - mostly special teams barring injuries Then you got redshirt freshmen in Emerson and Harris
I'm excited to see what Pruitt does this year. Youth doesn't bother me. If he's "the guy" we'll know.
Like Butch rolling Worley and Peterman out ahead of Dobbs while still running the no read read option in 2014. Like Dooley imploding in 2011 I don't want to see that again. I want to see 7 or 8 wins and a thoroughly dominating ass whipping of Vandy
