Tenn Game Plan

[moonshine]

Fair enough. Another question...how important is winning this game to your coaches? What I mean is, will they be inclined to throw the kitchen sink at UT vs saving some stuff for conference play?

Like the Vols, I think we'll see a pretty basic offensive approach. The coaches will want the film to breakdown so that the team can execute our bread and butter plays as the team gets further into the season. You may see more aggressive play calling from the D but that may be more out of necessity to try and keep the vaunted Vol O somewhat in check.

I don't believe Satterfield will throw the kitchen sink at UT unless App manages to keep it close midway through the 3rd quarter.

[ASUGoose]

Fair enough. Another question...how important is winning this game to your coaches? What I mean is, will they be inclined to throw the kitchen sink at UT vs saving some stuff for conference play?

I'd guess that it depends on how the first three quarters go and if we can get into the 4th quarter only being down a 2 or less scores. If that is the case I think we throw the entire kitchen sink, bathrooms, bedrooms and anything left out there to pull off the upset.

[EastHallApp]

Fair enough. Another question...how important is winning this game to your coaches? What I mean is, will they be inclined to throw the kitchen sink at UT vs saving some stuff for conference play?

That's an interesting question. I don't think it's so much how important they think it is as how realistic. I feel confident in saying they would view a win in this game as hugely important for our program. As others have said, I think if it seems we're in the game, no way we hold anything back. The question is, do we come out throwing haymakers from the start, or try to hang around for a couple quarters to avoid a disaster like we had against Clemson?

[JTApps1]

We will run our base offense to start and see how well that goes. If we can't move the ball at all we may mix it up some, but I doubt we show a whole lot unless its close late and we need a big play.

[B30020]

Tired of all this talk about not beating Tennessee and Miami. We can beat both these teams!! 12-0 season and let's go to the final four. I can bet the players are thinking this way!! Bring it on!!

[AtlAppMan]

We will run our base offense to start and see how well that goes. If we can't move the ball at all we may mix it up some, but I doubt we show a whole lot unless its close late and we need a big play.

With this attitude, why are we even playing the game? Now that we are FBS ALL our games are important. If anything, the OOC games could even be more important given the fact that the SBC SOS is near the bottom of FBS. Yes we want to win the SBC but we also have to treat these big games on the big stage as ultra critical in our maturation process as a program. This notion of treating the P5 games like we should just show up, take our check and try not to get hurt mentality makes no sense to me. These are opportunities to shine on the big stage and our team and coaches better darn well treat them that way in my opinion.

[BigO95]

VFL25 I think that you are spot on and the less the vols have to put on film the better it will be for them.
I mean no disrespect to this fine program but this is the worst year in recent history to have the vols on their schedule.

[AppSt94]

I am a "takem' one game at a time" kinda guy but in order for us to make a NY6 bowl game, we need to either win this game or keep it close until late, then beat everyone else on the schedule. I think that it is highly likely that we can keep this one close until late or possibly win this game. Tennessee is a better team than they were last year and they have a lot of returning starters. We also have a lot of returning starters from a very good team.

[EastHallApp]

We will run our base offense to start and see how well that goes. If we can't move the ball at all we may mix it up some, but I doubt we show a whole lot unless its close late and we need a big play.

With this attitude, why are we even playing the game? Now that we are FBS ALL our games are important. If anything, the OOC games could even be more important given the fact that the SBC SOS is near the bottom of FBS. Yes we want to win the SBC but we also have to treat these big games on the big stage as ultra critical in our maturation process as a program. This notion of treating the P5 games like we should just show up, take our check and try not to get hurt mentality makes no sense to me. These are opportunities to shine on the big stage and our team and coaches better darn well treat them that way in my opinion.

Beating Tennessee or Miami would be a bigger deal than winning the Sun Belt title. Sure we all want to win the league, but if we want to matter outside the Sun Belt we have to win big games outside the Sun Belt.

[bigdaddyg]

We will run our base offense to start and see how well that goes. If we can't move the ball at all we may mix it up some, but I doubt we show a whole lot unless its close late and we need a big play.

With this attitude, why are we even playing the game? Now that we are FBS ALL our games are important. If anything, the OOC games could even be more important given the fact that the SBC SOS is near the bottom of FBS. Yes we want to win the SBC but we also have to treat these big games on the big stage as ultra critical in our maturation process as a program. This notion of treating the P5 games like we should just show up, take our check and try not to get hurt mentality makes no sense to me. These are opportunities to shine on the big stage and our team and coaches better darn well treat them that way in my opinion.

Beating Tennessee or Miami would be a bigger deal than winning the Sun Belt title. Sure we all want to win the league, but if we want to matter outside the Sun Belt we have to win big games outside the Sun Belt.

We want it all! Beat both of them, win the SB and win our bowl game! Shoot for the stars!

[VFL25]

This game seems like it's taking an eternity to get here. I'm just ready for our boys to strap it up and decide it on the field. You can only break down a game for so long!

[ukappfan]

As I agree with others we should play to win, I think Tenn with be too much. I am just wanting to not get creamed and leave healthy.

[sixtoes9134]

No blowout, stay healthy. Anything more is a pleasant surprise and helps validate where our program is.

[JTApps1]

We will run our base offense to start and see how well that goes. If we can't move the ball at all we may mix it up some, but I doubt we show a whole lot unless its close late and we need a big play.

With this attitude, why are we even playing the game? Now that we are FBS ALL our games are important. If anything, the OOC games could even be more important given the fact that the SBC SOS is near the bottom of FBS. Yes we want to win the SBC but we also have to treat these big games on the big stage as ultra critical in our maturation process as a program. This notion of treating the P5 games like we should just show up, take our check and try not to get hurt mentality makes no sense to me. These are opportunities to shine on the big stage and our team and coaches better darn well treat them that way in my opinion.

I would say the same thing no matter who the opener is against. Our staff (like most coaching staffs) have shown that they will try to focus on our bread and butter plays early in the season. I'm not saying we will only hand-off up the middle every play, but I don't expect us to run a ton of plays from deep in the play book. All I was saying is that we are going to try to do what we do.

[bigdaddyg]

We will run our base offense to start and see how well that goes. If we can't move the ball at all we may mix it up some, but I doubt we show a whole lot unless its close late and we need a big play.

With this attitude, why are we even playing the game? Now that we are FBS ALL our games are important. If anything, the OOC games could even be more important given the fact that the SBC SOS is near the bottom of FBS. Yes we want to win the SBC but we also have to treat these big games on the big stage as ultra critical in our maturation process as a program. This notion of treating the P5 games like we should just show up, take our check and try not to get hurt mentality makes no sense to me. These are opportunities to shine on the big stage and our team and coaches better darn well treat them that way in my opinion.

I would say the same thing no matter who the opener is against. Our staff (like most coaching staffs) have shown that they will try to focus on our bread and butter plays early in the season. I'm not saying we will only hand-off up the middle every play, but I don't expect us to run a ton of plays from deep in the play book. All I was saying is that we are going to try to do what we do.

Conservative playbook? Game film crap..whatever! Open it up, go all out for the win. Let our game film make 11 more opponents say "oh crap!"

[MDaniels84]

Just took a look at 10 day weather for Knoxville and it looks like low 90's with 50% chance of rain. Weather might alter game plan as well.

[bigdaddyg]

Just took a look at 10 day weather for Knoxville and it looks like low 90's with 50% chance of rain. Weather might alter game plan as well.

Your basic late August late day forecast. I'll never forget the first ECU game we played (lawnmower game). Kept seeing ECU guys cramp up as we appeared to get stronger. Conditioning along with line depth is huge. Having 7 or more guys to rotate on the D line will really help us.

[LegendsOutdoors]

Let's get some score predictions going...

[AppOrange]

Let's get some score predictions going...

I believe an official post about this will be coming soon.

[LegendsOutdoors]

I will patiently wait then, thanks.