Vandy started off pretty well but injuries have beset them and one thing that makes you Vandy is that you don't have depth. They're lucky to be able to recruit a 1st string, let alone competent backups. Things have to fall exactly right for them to have a good season.
Yes I expect Tenn to win handily but UT has not earned the right to take any opponent lightly.
As for UK/UT, I am disgusted that the UT program has fallen to UK's level. Let's hope they can bounce back quickly but the Lane Kiffin thing was a tough blow from which to recover.
I dunno if UT will ever be one of the elite teams in the SEC again. Upper mid is where I see them settling in in this new hierarchy best case scenario.
They run their athletic manner in such a shameful manner... definitely the black eye of a conference that has a few teams who could vie for that title when you look at their athletic program as a whole. And the AD still has his job...
I do believe you'll see UT on probation in basketball and football simultaneously once the NCAA makes their final rulings. Probably in baseball as well, which from what I hear may be the dirtiest group of the bunch!!
Last edited by WMR; 11-16-2010 at 10:57 AM.
South Carolina is an elite SEC team this year. UT can do it as well.
You have no room to talk about being a dirty program. The UK football program is still recovering from its three yr probation in 2002. The UK basketball program was on probation a decade earlier and you now have one of the shadier coaches in college basketball. I wouldn't sleep well at night feeling smug that someone else's BB program is headed for probation if I were you. It could happen to UK.
Yeah USCjr is probably about UT's ceiling at this point.
Blah blah blah. Deflect deflect deflect. I'd rather spend my time whining about teachers too if I had to root for that bunch of thugs.
UT is the joke of the SEC. Quite an accomplishment considering their competition for running horrible athletic departments. Win streaks don't even begin to compare when you take a closer look at how they do business down in Knoxville.
Keep trying to deflect back onto UK when YOUR program is the one under investigation by the NCAA in THREE different sports!! But that's a UT fan for you.
Last edited by WMR; 11-16-2010 at 02:48 PM.
A UT fan doesn't stomp on the grave of rival schools undergoing NCAA investigation that we can't beat on the field because we know it can happen to anyone. You didn't find me making obnoxious posts like yours 7 years ago when UK was in trouble. UT fans are more classy than that. We can revisit this after the investigation is complete. Right now it's all speculation.
Let's address the here and now. I don't know what's so scary about UT competing in the SEC east. Tebow is gone, Urban Meyer's future is cloudy and even in one of UT's worst down years they nearly beat LSU and played SC well. UK showed that SC is not a team to be feared. All this after going through the Fulmer-Kiffin-Dooley fiasco.
I am not as gloomy about UT's future but I can understand why a UK fan would show his frustration towards UT.
Sea Ray, I hope that Tennessee's 26th straight win over Kentucky can bring some comfort to you in these difficult times.
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