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Old 08-28-2022, 12:43 AM
 
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SEC power rankings: Vols at #3

Anyone who watched our entire season last year knows how good we are going to be this year. We were two bad calls away from a 9 win season last year in Heup's first year working with a depleted roster.

Tennessee / Bama will be a dogfight down to the final play this year. I keep telling everyone I know this and no one listens, which will make it even more satisfying if we get the win.
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Old 08-28-2022, 12:50 PM
 
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The Vols will win the east I think we beat Bama in Atlanta after playing them close in october.
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Old 08-28-2022, 07:48 PM
 
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Tennessee problems for the last 20 years had been leadership at the top not at the football level. Now it appears UT has fixed the issues with the president and AD.

Even outside the southeast Tennessee has been recruiting nationally just fine over the years. Just take a look at the current roster and you will see kids from California and Arizona on the roster.

Also Tennessee had done very well over the years recruiting the west coast. Eric Ange, Casey Clausen snd Velus Jones are just a few examples. Also they have the #2 QB in the country coming to UT that’s from California.

Even Butch Jones was able to pull in the #3 class in the country and couple top 10 class.
Pruitt and Dooley even had top 15 classes in recruiting. Pruitt, Butch and Dooley are Tennessee worse 3 coaches in school history.

Now that UT has the dysfunctional leadership behind them, expect them to improve not only in football but all sports. Danny White is considered one of the top AD’s in the country. He had been the best AD Tennessee has had over the last 15 years.

Remember where Tennessee was before Heupel showed up? Year before Tennessee had 2 players drafted. Huepel 1st year he had 31 players to transfer out and 5 players drafted still. He took over a team under NCAA investigation and only 55 players on scholarship. Tennessee had the smallest team “scholarship wise” than anyone Power 5 team.

Huepel is the best coach at UT since Phil left and will have Tennessee back to a respectable program soon. He already has a top 15 recruiting class and most likely be Top 10 for the 23 class.
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Old 08-30-2022, 11:34 PM
 
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Thanks for the scoop! Go Vols.
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Old 08-31-2022, 11:44 AM
 
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Thanks for the scoop! Go Vols.
GBO!

First game tomorrow night against Ball State!

I thought Army was on the schedule for week 1 this year, I guess they changed it for some reason.
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Old 08-31-2022, 06:57 PM
 
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I won’t buy into this until I see results but I truly hope your right. Tired of saying “next season will be better”. I will be happy if we can confidently beat South Carolina, Missouri and Kentucky and show up to play Bama and Georgia. For crying out loud we need to beat Florida. No excuse for the annual embarrassment regarding Florida.
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Old 09-01-2022, 01:29 PM
 
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I won’t buy into this until I see results but I truly hope your right. Tired of saying “next season will be better”. I will be happy if we can confidently beat South Carolina, Missouri and Kentucky and show up to play Bama and Georgia. For crying out loud we need to beat Florida. No excuse for the annual embarrassment regarding Florida.
Good points.

We'll see tonight, even though it's a cupcake we're playing, Coach Heup implement his TenneSPEED system after a full year of installing it with an experienced qb!

GBO!
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Old 09-01-2022, 10:08 PM
 
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The Vols rolled tonight! Nearly hung 60 on the other team. This team is special. I feel it. Next week we'll find out more playing at ranked Pitt.
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Old 09-06-2022, 09:12 PM
 
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Vols open up as 7 point favorites @ Pitt this weekend. A real chance to make a statement.
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Old 09-12-2022, 04:36 PM
 
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Big win for the Vols. Not quite a statement win, but a good win on the road against a ranked team.

I think the Vols will make a real statement win by blowing out Florida in 2 weeks.
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