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BCS National Championship Game: Neither Saban Nor Miles Is the Most Important Coach
It's tempting to try to boil the BCS National Championship Game down to Nick Saban vs. Les Miles. College football head coaches tend to end up with cults of personalities around them, and certainly The Process and The Mad Hatter have a couple of the biggest ones out there. No matter how good they...
LSU's Defense Is On Pace for Historic Levels
I wanted to find some way to explain just how good LSU's new-look defense has been this season. I was a bit down on the Tigers prior to the season because they lost the best player from each level in Drake Nevis, Kelvin Sheppard, and Patrick Peterson. Obviously, that pessimism was unwarranted. The...
College Football’s Coaching Carousel: Race Matters, Minority Candidates 2010
Time to once again play Athletic Director. Your school is slumping. You have fired the head coach. You are looking for a talented replacement, who will bring the program to prominence, satisfy fans and alumni, and secure your job. You want to hire the best coach regardless of race, but you are...
Tennessee Remembers What Continuity Feels Like // SEC 2011
For the first time since 2008, Tennessee is entering a football season with the same head coach as in the previous one. For a school that had exactly two head coaches from 1977-2008, that's a pretty remarkable statement. Indeed, stolid continuity is what made Tennessee different from other SEC...
Piecing Together a Season
As a card carrying member of the Delusional Optimism club, I'm proud to say that we here at ATVS have proudly kept our heads down, kept on plugging and delightfully enjoyed a season with successes that are no surprise of us. I genuinely feel this way, and it's not just some retrospective "I told ya...
Upon Further Review: The Auburn Game
Before I get into the miasma, let's acknowledge some things out of the gate. 1) Auburn clearly outplayed us. I've watched the game probably two or three times now. Cam Newton was far and away the best player on the field Saturday and it wasn't particularly close. Nick Fairley may have been 2nd...
Deep Analysis: LSU's Hidden Dominance
The government should make posters for display in locker rooms warning QBs and RBs about Drake Nevis. More than any other player, Drake Nevis stood out on Saturday night. Nearly every time a Florida run was stuffed or John Brantley was getting pressured, Nevis was the one doing it. I can't say...
Upon Further Review: The Florida Game
This one is sweet. It's sweet because the last two years Florida has ended our undefeated seasons. It's sweet because we haven't won in the Swamp since 2004. It's sweet because after a week where Les Miles endured ruthless media criticism, he beat a media darling. It's sweet because not only did he...
The Best & Worst of John Chavis
As we celebrate (?) the chance to see our old friend John Chavis again on Saturday, here's a look back at our picks for the five best and five worst defensive performances during Chief's tenure at the University of Tennessee (1995-2008). The Best #5 - 1998 SEC Championship Game vs Mississippi...
Tennessee at LSU Preview: Hey Chief
Josh Ward mentioned this on our podcast last week, and he's exactly right: there's a portion of any "Keys to Victory" piece for Tennessee this year that can simply be copied and pasted week to week: win the turnover battle, win special teams, win field position, minimize penalties, and get lucky....
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