Orange Colored Glasses-WKU

Ladies and Gentlemen- as the most realistic vol fan in the house (dad the pessimist and miller ever the optimist) i bring you my thoughts on the vols thus far.
the good- montario hardesty ran wild for 160 yds, bryce brown chipped in over 100, david oku had 2 tds and tauren poole ran well in limited action. i liked that we threw to the tight ends some- and they caught the ball. brandon warren had 1td and luke stocker had 2. all three were goalline situations too. i mean we out and out dominated one of the worst teams in all of college football so i can complain too much. we did what good teams do. we beat a team badly that we were shouldve beaten. i know that this is miniscule but chad cunninham looked better on kickoffs than last year. i mean i think we held them to something like 83 yds so the D played great. lots of young guys played and played well. teague 6 catches. dbs jackson, evans, myers and dt montori hughes. hopefully they will continue to improve, but unlike some ut fans i know that they will make mistakes. mistakes that will kill us and maybe cost us the game, but they will be better for it and we will be better somewhere down the road.
let me also say something about "better" we will be better than last year, but im not ready to announce lane kiffin as the greatest coach of all time. cmon people give me a break. dont get me wrong i hope that he is, but i really dont see lanetrain staying around very long. this is just a stepping stone for him. USC, Notre Dame, Michigan, or Oklahoma come calling- hes gone. face it.
ok some bad news- well we start 5'8" former walkon nick reviez at mlb. to put that in focus bama's middle backer is 6'4" 250 and can fly. we also started 2 former walkon offensive linemen. granted it was due to injury but lets get real. they were walkons. and im not talking kelly washington walkon. the one series when we played mostly 2nd teamers on D they went right down the field on us. granted it was late in the 2nd half and we were way up, but we are going to need those guys to play and play well for some stretches and i hope that they improve. it will be interesting to see how we punt and kick next week to see if both cunningham and lincoln have recovered from their slumps of last year. oh and crompton. yeah he looked great when he threw the 5 tds and 220 yds, but he looked horawful when he threw the 2 pics. they helped him out by throwing lots of out routes and underneath stuff, but credit to miller on this. we need to throw the ball down the field if we are gonna have anymore success this year. so far i have us beating everybody but florida, alabama, and ole miss. ill give us the win over georgia at this point. prediction for saturday vols win 24-14

food for thought. teams on the rise in the pudge poll. tennessee, cincy, clemson, miami, michigan.
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