Tennessee-Auburn post game awards
by Joel on Oct 5, 2009 6:57 AM EDT
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I'm actually vacationing at a conference this week, so this edition of the post-game awards will have to be a group effort. A few to get you started:
- Best hire. Gene Chizik, who hired Gus Malzahn.
- Best offense. Gus Malzahn's, which often looked like a variety pack of trick plays. A reverse looked normal. And does it work? Oh yeah, it works. When you put up 459 yards on Monte Kiffin, you're doing something right.
- Worst offense. That'd be ours, which gained 314 yards. Fun fact: our passing game gained more yards (259) than the running game did (151). Huh, looking back, we did that against Ohio, too, although not to the same degree. Just think what we could do with consistent accuracy at QB and consistent hands at receiver.
- Best dreaming. Me, for the above statement.
- Player of the game, offense. Montario Hardesty, who rushed 21 times for 90 yards and a TD and caught three balls for 56 yards and a TD.
- Player of the game, defense. Rico McCoy, who had 16 tackles (10 solo), one pass breakup, and one forced fumble.
Gotta run. Whatcha got?
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Thought you were talking about Auburn there
consistent accuracy at QB and consistent hands at receiver
by memphispete on Oct 5, 2009 7:59 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Best Roger Clemens Impression:
Jonathon Crompton trying to throw it through Hancock’s helmet.
That’s all I got….
Neyland Stadium: Home of the biggest bust in quarterbacking history.
Hey Jon! How long will it take me to repress the memories??
by VolBrian on Oct 5, 2009 9:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Never thought I'd say this but...
Can we have Austin Rogers back?
by Prometheus1185 on Oct 5, 2009 9:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Fun with pictures....
Neyland Stadium: Home of the biggest bust in quarterbacking history.
Hey Jon! How long will it take me to repress the memories??
by VolBrian on Oct 5, 2009 9:44 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Ah, the laser-like intensity in his eyes...
The kid really is trying, which is why I cannot slam him like some other fans. Not that I don’t understand the frustration. Hard to believe he is the best option on this team.
He is preparing hard every week, staying late after practices to work with receivers, and this is the end result. I guarantee he feels worse than the fans about his performance. He has the physical gifts, he just cannot put it together in a live action situation. I actually feel sorry for him. The smattering of boos on Saturday was unconscionable.
Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.
by pound the rock on Oct 5, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm with you
It’s all in good (?) fun really. I understand that the talent cupboard is relatively bare and we’re basically rebuilding. And you’re right on about the boos. I would never boo this team. Even if he throws 6 ints. I may yell at the TV when I’m home and start drinking more heavily, but you won’t hear me booing in Neyland.
Neyland Stadium: Home of the biggest bust in quarterbacking history.
Hey Jon! How long will it take me to repress the memories??
by VolBrian on Oct 5, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1 I thought I was the only one who would start drinking heavily ! : )
Phil,GO VOLS !!!
by bulldurham on Oct 5, 2009 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well said
It certainly is shared blame between him and the WR’s. Incrompetence is all-incrompassing.
by memphispete on Oct 5, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
seriously
i know he’s trying out there… but the recievers? they were pathetic. as bad as crompton might be, you can’t let good passes go uncaught, because those opportunities are few and far between.
by golfballs03 on Oct 5, 2009 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Things have changed.
I posted that last year and it was deleted by the powers that be. I guess he has finally earned the ridicule.
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Oct 5, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Worst Best Seats
Me. I was sitting in DD row 1. I was write on the 50 yard line, had a great view of how the plays open up and could really see the whole field. Unfortunately, I felt like I was surrounded by a bunch of GVX commenters.
"I can't hear you, Rocky Top is playing."
by Getoffmyvols on Oct 5, 2009 10:05 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Unfortunately I think GVX is running some scheme
where they transplant at least one commenter to each section. You can’t get away from their stupidity, trust me.
RIP Steve McNair (1973 - 2009) Retire #9!
Member of the Committee to Keep Keith Bulluck.
Eric Berry for Heisman!!
by Pride of the Southland on Oct 5, 2009 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If that's the case
I request the “witch doctor” for this saturday. Might as well go all out I suppose.
Neyland Stadium: Home of the biggest bust in quarterbacking history.
Hey Jon! How long will it take me to repress the memories??
by VolBrian on Oct 5, 2009 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If he talks like that in real life
I’d sit next to him for entertainment value alone
by Will on Oct 5, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Same here.
My seats are in YY10, first and second rows. Benji Shuler sits next to me. In between bites of hot dog, he actually has some good insight to the program. I digress…
I find the negative fans are the ones there on someone else’s tickets, and I let then know as much. Support the program or stay home. Boo all you want at pro events; those guys are getting paid.
These are college kids playing for cash and other benefits pride and they bleed orange. Believe me, I have been in seats near recruits and their families before and they definitely notice the rabid negativity.
Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.
by pound the rock on Oct 5, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i didn't notice any real negativity
not like last year anyway. were there boos??? i felt some general apathy, but not like hardcore hating…
there was a guy who could barely stand up behind me slurring cuss words the whole game, but at least he was there the whole game, and he was cheering even on the TD catch at the end.
by golfballs03 on Oct 5, 2009 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
UT vs UGA
Is this game not even going to be on PPV ? If so thats just sad !
Phil,GO VOLS !!!
by bulldurham on Oct 5, 2009 10:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It's on SEC Network/ESPN360 - 12:21 like Western Kentucky
We’re basically the Jefferson Pilot “Game of the Week”, which the Georgia game has never, ever been before. One could argue that it’s the fifth most compelling SEC game this week.
by Will on Oct 5, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah
Auburn/Arkansas at least get’s the noon ESPN game.
It’s because we both lost. If we had both won then we might have even been close to getting the 3:30 game.
damn, I hate games this early.
by golfballs03 on Oct 5, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd like to say this:
This was one of Crompton’s best performances I’ve ever seen him have. Yes, he made some inexcusably good passes, especially in the first half, but second-half Crompton was what we need and expect from him, and I have to give him props for that. How many of Crompton’s passes were dropped by receivers? While, yes, many of his passes should have been thrown about a foot farther in front of the receiver, some of those were catcheable.
I will say that I don’t think the football-to-the-helmet of Hancock was his fault, or Crompton’s. It looked, to me, like a very well busted screen play. Hancock was looking to block, not to catch, and the linemen were looking to pull, not protect. Crompton looked the way of the RB, but that was completely busted, so he tosses it to Hancock, hoping that he would sense what was going on. He didn’t, incomplete, better than a large loss, a sure incompletion, or an INT or Fumble from the RB being blasted, or him being hit as he threw.
The fumbled snap was horrible, but UT should have recovered. From what I’ve heard, Warren is way in the doghouse. He needed to pounce on that ball and cover it up, like Crompton was trying to do.
Our defense played well, but it did not make the plays it needed to. At all. Still, if we can play like we did in the 4th quarter, we can still be a goodish football team. Crompton was making the reads he needed to make, he was throwing the ball where it needed to be thrown, and he had great protection.
We need to build on that going on the road to Georgia. We really need a win here, moreso now than against Auburn. Georgia has shown themselves to not be an elite football team this year, whereas the teams we have lost to have combined to lose just 1 game, UCLA’s 23-16 loss at Stanford, who is 4-1 to date and playing very well. Georgia, though, is 2-2, with losses to both the ranked teams it has played. They are beatable, though Tennessee will have to play at the best we’ve seen from it this season to get that W.
I got punk'd by UT's Athletic Department.
by bobo_the_vol on Oct 5, 2009 2:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Ahem
inexcusably BAD
I got punk'd by UT's Athletic Department.
by bobo_the_vol on Oct 5, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anybody know what was going on with Warren and Coach Wilson?
Official MCM Hater!
Retire #9!
by gramsey712 on Oct 5, 2009 3:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Warren apparently tried to talk back
To a dressing-down of the Receiver Corps, from what I heard. He didn’t play the rest of the game. That, plus the missed fumble recovery definitely has him on the blacklist now, I’d think.
I got punk'd by UT's Athletic Department.
by bobo_the_vol on Oct 5, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There's surprisingly no information out there
Erin Andrews’ report of the incident has been the only MSM mention of it, haven’t seen anything from KNS, Wes Rucker or VolQuest. Maybe that’ll change after practice today.
by Will on Oct 5, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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