Hardest Ticket in UT History...

Tennessee 34
Oklahoma 31.

 

Butch purposely had the DBs play like crap last week to fool OU into thinking they can throw all over us.

Mayfield throws 4 picks.

Butch is a genius.

 

I'll be shocked if we win.

 

I simply feel our coaching disadvantage mitigates any talent advantage we have in this game. I hope our coaches make me look like a complete fool, but I'm not getting suckered in until they show the ability to beat a team with ~equal talent and solid coaching. And, yes, momma may have raised a puss.

 

Tennessee is the more talented team and Neyland Stadium should be as rowdy as ever. Bob Stoops is on his last legs at Oklahoma and his team/coaching philosophy is nowhere near what has made him special. That said, Butch Jones doesn't win these types of games. He hasn't before and I have no reason to pick him today. Butch has been a loser thus far in his Tennessee coaching career in terms of winning games. Until he wins big games, like tomorrow, he'll still be considered an average coach that recruits and promotes the program well. I do think this team is talented enough to win one of the Oklahoma/Arkansas/Georgia games.

 

I think our DL is going to eat their OL up.

 

BS.

 

Speaking of Neyland Stadium and it's blue-bloods and bluer hair masses - what, exactly leads anyone to believe it's going to be "rocking"?

When was the last time that Neyland was legitimately and consistently so loud and rowdy as to disrupt a team? When was the last time that the crowd seemed to have even a marginal affect on any game, and for 60 minutes?

Who's the last team that dreaded playing in Neyland Stadium, other than some never-was FBS or FCS school - and Neyland delivered?

Florida 98, IIRC.

For over a decade, it's had infrequent spurts of volume and rowdiness, but how could 100k drunks NOT be able to accomplish that?

The days of Neyland and its crowd being any sort of advantage are only still found in the fond memories of the most desperate and delusionally hopeful.

Nobody gives a shit about playing in Neyland. Nobody.

 

TennyD offering up some ipecac. Force feeding is less than a day away.

 

Would it matter?

 

pure slander.

 

It is just terrible that people have expectations about winning at Tennessee?

Should we all just give up and wait for failure?

There is one way to keep a mediocre to bad coach around indefinitely: apathy.

I'm going to expect to win games and and when we don't I'll probably be pissed. Expectations are a good thing.

 

Correct.

Tennessee 42
Oklahoma 27


Edit: and we may suck ass, but more than enough time to be [itch bay]y and angry post game.

 

Y'all ain't gonna bring me down.

 

I know that Tenn D is just stirring the pot because surely he must welcome such expectations. If the level headed crowd is expecting a win, what must that say about the less-objective crowd?

Butch getting smoked tonight would cause many a combination of anger and disappointment. Nothing like having excitement dashed to warm a coaches seat.

Florida 2012 was the turning point for MANY (though god only knows why it took that long).

 

First year starters at LT and RT, one being a true freshmen that we let walk. Barnett and Maggitt should beat them consistently. My only fear there is that they'll just get the ball out quickly and negate what would be a good pass rush.

 

He's a red shirt freshman.

 

The only difference is their WRs don't outweigh our corners by 30 to 40 lbs. So if we press their quick throws it'll be a different game.

 

This isn't a game we have no business winning. UT, at the very least should be right in it until the end. It's hard to be overly confident because we haven't been a consistently good team in a long time and games like this have usually been a disaster. UT needs to win this game for momentums sake, a win here could push this team to be better than maybe even they think they are, a loss will make the game against Florida much more daunting. No pressure.

 

Either way. He yet to compete against someone like Barnett/Maggitt.