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I understand that perfectly - it's provides the basis for your delusion.  Sewanee used to be great.  I'm talking about the present and future, and you're stuck living in an over-inflated impression you have of the past.

Stop while you're ahead. You're only proving to everyone how little you know about the SEC. Sewanee was never good in the SEC. The only record they still hold is the most consecutive losses in conference games that stands at about 40+

From my perspective the OL was overwhelmed in the 2nd half because it’s hard for 5 to block 7 to 8. Georgia fired off 7 to 8 because they didn’t respect JG’s QB skills and to be honest, no one should. He sucks. JG handicaps the O because he routinely throws high or behind which makes the quick slant a risk. And to top it all off he’s no threat to run because he has 2 left feet. The guy can’t outrun a snail on his best day.

It’s hard for me to believe that JG is our best option with Maurer, JT, and Bailey sitting on the sideline. Maybe the most experienced but talented, no, I’m not buying that. It appears to me that Pruitt errs on the side of caution. Considering that JG has reached his ceiling and he still sucks, I’d put the future in and ride it out. Bailey is not a small guy at 6’4” or 6’5” at 225 pounds. I think Maurer is up to 210 or 215 now. Not sure about JT. The walk on that appeared to be all world yesterday is way smaller than any QB on our sideline yet there he was, playing and kicking our ass.

I understand that perfectly - it's provides the basis for your delusion.  Sewanee used to be great.  I'm talking about the present and future, and you're stuck living in an over-inflated impression you have of the past.

Stop while you're ahead. You're only proving to everyone how little you know about the SEC. Sewanee was never good in the SEC. The only record they still hold is the most consecutive losses in conference games that stands at about 40+

I figured you'd probably say something about Sewanee not being that good, rather than comprehending the actual point, which is the times change.  The Ivy league schools used to be on top, prior to Notre Dame's dominance.  None of that history matters now - I can only hope Harvard doesn't have any delusional fans like you talking about getting back to where they belong.  

The expectations at Georgia and Florida should be 9-10 wins/year, and win the East 4 times per decade.  That's the reality this homer is perfectly fine with.  You're never going to be happy as a Tennessee football fan if you think we "belong" at the top. 

Your argument falls apart when it comes to Bama.  IF in-state/proximity recruiting is perfectly or at least highly correlated to wins, then Bama should be behind FL, GA, LSU, Auburn and possibly A&M.

Bama is close enough to Georgia and Mississippi (closer to Memphis than Knoxville) to have a built-in talent-proximity advantage over Tennessee. 

AL's in-state recruiting is marginally better than TN and they share the state with Auburn.

That just goes to show you how much more talent there is in that part of the country.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(region_of_Alabama)

Check out Bama's roster. 15 from FL, 10 from GA and LA. Add several each from TX, PA, CA, SC, MS and DC. They are getting the best recruits in the nation, not in the state. Also, many recruited in state will never stiff the field. Family played at Bama, or has big donation bucks, etc.

Bama's not positioned for the next 30 years to have a better record than Georgia or Florida.  They'll all have better records than Tennessee. 

TN is one Saban away from SEC dynasty.

LOL - oh, is that all?  There are 130 universities competing in Division 1. IF there's ever another Saban out there, it's highly unlikely he'll end up at Tennessee.  Why would he - he knows how much harder it would be to be dominant there.  If the A.D. at Tennessee had ever called Urban Meyer, he would have laughed in his face.  I'll ask you the same question that Roady refused to answer.  If Lincoln Riley was told he could coach at any school in the SEC, how many would he rank above Tennessee?  There's no way he'd come to Tennessee over Georgia, Florida, Alabama or LSU.  So you can try to argue that he'd take us fifth, but I doubt he'd come to Knoxville over Texas A&M and probably not Auburn.  I'd say we're probably about tied with Auburn ranked 7th and even that could be some residual arrogance left over from a few good years in the '90's. 

I'm not trying to put the school or the program down, I'm just trying to introduce some sanity.  I'd say the same thing to South Carolina or Arkansas fans, or any of the other present-day mid-tier programs. 

Kind of nice to be arguing about football with all the shit going on in the world.

I would say Auburn is better off being closer to GA than Bama is to MS. Since you voted in the last AL Senate election, so you should know your geography better than that.

BTW- Doug Jones is getting buried by TT (who says you can't have football and politics together). There's your landslide. 

Bama wasn't positioned to be better than FL and GA over the last 30 years, but.........

It was also highly unlikely that Saban ended up a AL. Rich Rodriguez turned them down. Yes, hard to imagine. The Bama job wasn't very appealing when Saban took it. He had failed in the pros and was willing to take it. They had been through the Mike's- DuBose, Price and Shula with Dennis Franchione. They sucked for 10 years. 

Bama has a marginal recruiting advantage over TN, but only marginal. The rest is bunk. 

Great analysis there...everyone is full of s**t.  Wow,,,very astute.!!
How can anyone criticize that........

Fuzz's standard seem to be ...if you aren't winning now then you're a middle tier program.
Ancient history seems to be whatever Fuzz decides is ancient.
If that is the case then if UT beats Kentucky next week we're can claim we're a top tier progranm again.
LSU has already lost 2 games this year  and last years NC is ancient history. This make LSU a bottom feeder program ,
Nonsense!!