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Zone read play action, deep shot to Ford, 75 yard touchdown.

While factually true, I've lived an hour or so from Bristol for all of my life, save the years at Tech. Most Hokies from Wytheville east do not fully understand or realize the beast that is Volunteer football. UT had over 100k, not a sellout, for a Thursday night game versus a formidable, but pretty small school. They have the whole SEC religion thing going on. There are people I work with that are UT fans, but don't generally go to their games, that are camping out starting Wed/Thurs. Not that we should be worried.

I have faith that we will be louder. However, they will make up a significant portion of BMS next week. Like I've been saying all summer, be prepared for verbal and physical shenanigans. I expect plenty of fights, especially for those on the fringes of the stadium mix or those who bought tix in UT areas.

It's a bigger phenomenon than you are realizing.

Play action to Bucky for 14 yds

Ha, I was gonna ask this. But he didn't hurt himself, that App St helmet did. The way he went down, I'm thinking he got the wind knocked out of him and at least bruised ribs. But they were both moving at a good clip, I would not be surprised if he didn't crack some. Knowing the SEC, I'm sure Tenn'd still report it as bruised ribs, strap him up in an extra thick flak jacket and throw him out there next week. Kid ain't gonna want to miss a game like Bristol anyway.

The Kannibal has to be salivating, either way.

I'm not ignoring what he did at all and I think I've said as much. His behavior was deplorable, but that's him as a person and not him as a coach. As a coach, he had more wins than any other coach in history. That's not really debatable.

I sure hope he isn't hurt, he isn't very good.

Remember how Butch Jones went over and addressed the Mountaineers after the game? And how they just looked at him blankly, like "Why are you talking to us"?

Some people thought it was classy, but I thought it was more a lack of awareness.

If App State had recovered that fumble instead of Tennessee, would Butch Jones have wanted an App State coach addressing his team?

That was going along with the question I had. How much would Vol defense improve with Reeves-Maybin in the whole game? Is he the linchpin?

My feeling is that Butch held back on play calling, but I'm not sure the Vols would have been successful last night with a more wide open approach.

Is there a specific reason why you had to take a train versus another mode of transportation? Not trying to get too personal.

Interesting that they went out of their way to prevent people from photographing the removal of the statue.

Congrats for climbing the tree for a photo.

Don't think that this is lost on our D.....you might as well paint a target on the right side of his flak-jacket.

We legit should start a beer exchange thread though. It didn't work out for us because I confused tailgating this weekend with tailgating at Bristol so you may not be too late. It's the only thing I'll think/dream about for the next 8 days

What quarter do the backups go in?