They're not up to the Challenge
I went to the Duke game last Saturday because I didn't want to have to pay $45 to watch it on TV. #10 for the ticket, plus $5 for parking, $5 for a program, and $3 for a coke, and I saved $22!
A few notes from the game:
- Watching Joey Kent and Stanley Morgan on the Jumbotron during the pre-game festivities threw the mediocrity of the current edition of the Vol offense in sharp relief.
- If I can go to a football game in Nov. wearing jeans and a T-Shirt, this global warming thing is OK by me.
- The Vols did not run through the T. They jogged. Some walked.
- After the first 3 and out by the immortal Casey Clausen, even Bobby Denton sounded depressed.
- I sat behind the student section, which was the only full section in the house.
- In a remarkable show of disrespect for the Immortal Casey Clausen and the Vol offense, Duke won the toss, and elected to defer.
- In an utterly predictable fashion, the Vol offense promptly lost 7 yards, going three and out, verifying Duke's estimate of their offensive capabilities.
- Our best chance to score in the first half was taken away by the ref, who ruled a fumble was an incomplete pass.
- The only signs of life in the stadium came when the FLA-GA score was announced.
- If I were a Vol player, I'd be humiliated to see my fans paying more attention to a game in Florida, than a game in Knoxville. Watching those same fans celebrate with the "Gator Chomp" would drive me berzerk.
- Page 12 of the game program includes this incredible insight: [Since Fulmer has been head coach], the Vols have finished in the top ten 6 times, including 6 top ten finishes. How perceptive!
Normally, I would pick Miami by about a million points, but the odd line from the Duke game, picking us to win by more points than we normally score, and the relatively low line for the Miami game(12.5) makes me suspicious.
Not that I think games are rigged or anything.
I'll pick Miami by 10 in a low scoring flag-fest.
Posted by Rich at November 4, 2003 12:21 PM
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