Nothing Positive Can be Spun

Dawgnoxious and I were there in living color. There is nothing positive that can be drawn from this debacle. As for the Vols. Congrats, you kicked the complete and total crap out of us. I'm only sorry that we bored your fans with such an uncompetitive performance.

As for us. Right now, I'm not pissed. I'm worried.

This team and this program have deep rooted flaws that have shown themselves intermittently over the past seven years. But most of the time, our toughness, strength of will, overall talent and team leadership would overcome those issues. In fact, I wrote a piece before last year's Colorado game talking about my basis of faith in the program and what makes it special. I think many of those strong foundational points are shaky right now. Although, they can be righted.

In losing to Vandy and UK in 2006, those flaws came to the surface like festering sores. To use Dawgnoxious' line...the final three wins of 2006 seem to have simply "wallpapered over" the big issues of last year. Well, they're back. They didn't go away with the miracle ending to last season.

Dawnoxious, Quinton and I aren't posting anything else tonight or most of the day tomorrow. Personally, I think everyone in the Dawg Nation needs to cool off from this. I've seen the message boards, and it's not pretty. This place has never turned south like those sites, and it's not starting tonight. I turned off comments for the night. Your existing comments haven't been deleted. They are just invisible for now. I'll turn commenting back on sometime Sunday.

It wasn't pretty execution. It wasn't pretty effort. It wasn't a pretty result. Naturally our reaction as fans won't be pretty. But it doesn't have to be instant.

Update: Commenting is on again.

PWD

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