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| LonzoVol | Sep 6 2012, 03:54 PM Post #1 |
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Brent Hubbs VolQuest.com Editor Talk about it in The General's Quarters All week, things have felt weird. Having covered Tennessee football for 20 years, something just has seemed off. And then it hit me: it's not a different feeling because Tennessee won its season opener (come on, way too easy), it's odd because the Vols are playing a true, honest-to-goodness, we-bought-us-one, Week Two tune-up game. The Tennessee football team scheduled a long-time favorite early season basketball foe, Georgia State. Vol hoops has always lined them up if Stetson was already booked. I hope no one called Doug Dickey because he would not believe this one. And Coach Dickey never would have scheduled it. If you scan the history of schedules since the arrival of SEC Divisional play in 1992, the exact moment when the Florida Gators became a fixture for Tennessee in September, you will see that the Vols haven't had one of these games leading into a match-up with Florida. Tennessee hasn't had a game where it got to work out the kinks, make adjustments and grow from its season opener before it began SEC play. This was actually Florida's tradition. Before taking on the Vols, the Gators would schedule/pay off some team that essentially just moved up from eight-man football and would play poorly in an 82-39 rout, leaving Vol fans to say, "The Gators aren't tested because they have played no one!" And let's not go into how that theory works out normally. But this new thing, this "warm-up game" idea, I say hats off to the good scheduling. Welcome to your own week of getting things ironed out. It's a perfect tune-up for an electric atmosphere a week from Saturday when the Gators come calling. However, he did overstate this slightly. Tennessee's last few second game opponents beginning with last season and going backwards have been: Cincinnati, Oregon, UCLA, UAB, Southern Miss. and Air Force (won 31-30) with game saving tackle on the goal line by Antonio Reynolds!). |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Sep 6 2012, 04:41 PM Post #2 |
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We have in many years played a tough opponent to open the season (UCLA, Cal, etc) and then followed up with a cupcake before heading into Florida week. But that was a few years back. In recent years we have played some cupcakes before heading into Florida week. To me the big difference in the equation is that Florida has to play a quality opponent for the first time prior to playing us. That means that they can not prepare all off-season and in camp strictly for UT, as they did in the past. They will be battle tested themselves now, but they will also be banged up a bit and have used some emotion up, something that they never had experienced prior to playing UT. The only time that that we both had faced one another when both teams had played several games was in 2001 after our game was postponed by 9-11. |
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| gallavol | Sep 6 2012, 04:55 PM Post #3 |
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Cynical Idealist
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When the university presidents go to the 5 conference with 16 teams each they could put the very wise requirement that all schools play a 9 game conference schedule and OOCs have to come from within the conference alliance. This would end the stupid games like GA ST vs TN and would send TV revenues skyrocketing. Never having to watch a really bad (match up wise) game, that would be football heaven to me.
Edited by gallavol, Sep 6 2012, 04:56 PM.
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| LonzoVol | Sep 6 2012, 04:55 PM Post #4 |
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Also, the Florida game has occasionally been the second game of the season in years past. The 12th Man is waiting for the arrival of the Gatas, you can bet on that. |
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| *Zippy | Sep 6 2012, 09:08 PM Post #5 |
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Burning Man, 2009 FOREVER
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Hell no, dont get rid of the bought wins. I want to see UT hang 100 on someone. 9 conference games and maybe 2 others within the alliance...but let everyone have their fun at least once. Just make sure they all have to play a different patsy. That way the alliance conferences can maximize the number of women's college athletic departments that are funded with the money we pay the men to get the shit kicked out of them. That's pretty much an analogy for our society today, now that I think about it. |
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