Tennessee vs UCLA: Season Opener

by Joseph Stanley on Sep 1, 2008 10:11 AM EDT

This ought to get you going! Thanks to BloodSpite for the video. Let me just say one thing:

WOOOOoooooooooo!!!!!

-- Joel

P.S. Jackson says "woo", too.

Ok folks here is the season opener video!

Rocky Top Talk puts it the best today

Tennessee does it better than anyone. While there are myriad reasons college football inspires fanaticism among its followers, one stands above the rest.

It's the anticipation.

Today's on-demand technology has rendered that state of human emotion known as anticipation practically extinct. Do you remember, back in the day, when your t.v. received programming from a grand total of three channels? Back then, programming was fixed in time and therefore scarce. Frosty the Snowman was shown once in December, and if you missed it, well, you just missed it.

Far be it from me to dress it up better than Joel does. He has it on the money.

Win or lose, this is my team. Its my alumni. Its my school. In many ways its my way of life.

Most of my freinds are Pro-Football fans. They have a hard time understanding my obsession with a college team, a team whose players are constantly in flux, a team who wins big, loses big, and makes no money and whose ranking system is more confusing than your Uncle Bobs instructions on fly fishing.

I can only boil it down to one thing: It's my team.

We are now at 11 hours and counting.

Game time, tonight. On ESPN.

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Wow

Our offense looked great (sarcasm) and what happened to one of the best secondaries in the NCAA? Gonna be a long season I don’t think Clawfense is the answer!

by Travass on Sep 2, 2008 12:19 AM EDT reply actions

Instead of creating another fan post, I'm just gonna work my way up and reply to everyone elses.

I only saw (while blogging w/you folk) the second half. It hasn’t been 24 hours yet, but darn near close, so I feel I can provide a somewhat objective opinion to what I witnessed last night.

Ball possession was almost completely dead even at the end of regualtion but it felt like Tennessee’s Defense was on the field the entire second half.

It is very difficult for a Def. Coord. to make adjustments during a half, but Chavis failed by staying w/the 4-3 and rushing 5 on almost every UCLA possession. Craft and the offensive line would led the D through, dump to a TE or someone else w/in 5 to 15 yards over the middle. How can you play zone D and have the LB’s line up so far off the line of scrimmage? Every first step the LB’s took was backward. Not laterally nor forard. Always backward. Granted, it looked as if the UT Defense owned this game at halftime (defensively) so there was no adjustment to be made AT halftime. I do not blame the players for being exhuausted. They played as hard as they could. I blame the coaching staff for this one.

Crompton takes WAY too long to make a decision. This will come with time, so I’m a bit reticant to put too much blame on this kid. But someone in the coaching staff must have noticed how long it takes this kid to make a decision. Is Tennesse using timing routes or not? It looks to me as if they’re not or else the ball would be out of the kids hand sooner. Is UCLA’s secondary that good that they can cover us so well? I wish I were home in time to see the INSTANT classic that ESPN is showing of the game, that way I could pay attention to see what D-fense UCLA was running.

(last one) Hardesty is much more impressive than Foster. Is Foster averse to hitting or getting hit. He seems to be waiting on K-Trans for a ride to the end zone. Foster…HIT THE DANG HOLE! Drive your body into the area you want to go to, stop looking for a way around players. The game is just too fast to wait for something to develop in front of you. Hardesty appears to have more natural speed and more of a forward momentum type of style. My vote is for Hardesty. Indirectly, why, o why does Phil feel like he needs to pass when he’s got plenty of time on the clock and he’s down by less than a touchdown?

The coaching staff has a lot to learn from this one.

"Phenomenological ontology? The Dude abides."

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Sep 2, 2008 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions