UAB kicking the crap outta UT

**MikeJones** · September 25th, 2010, 03:34 PM

Hats off To UAB if they win today they deserve it. They have domininated UT. I bet they are close or over 500 yrd offense on UT. Not to take away anything from UAB but UT seems lost or something.

**Ironlung** · September 25th, 2010, 04:14 PM

Poole went out with the injury and they're not the same team. It's been that way all year. If he's in they're much better.

**MikeJones** · September 25th, 2010, 04:28 PM

Agreed on that. Poole is a stud. UAB whipped UT in every aspect but the final score. UAB had some good players

**Biggin** · September 25th, 2010, 04:32 PM

the passing yards given up and the sacks allowed has to scare UT.

and Lung, why no Bray yet? Simms has been less than spectacular to say the least.

but Poole is the best offensive player aside from Stocker, him going out really killed their mojo on offense.

**Ironlung** · September 25th, 2010, 04:45 PM

They started 3 freshmen on the OL today. That's a big reason for the sacks. I was confused as to what in the hell was going on on defense a lot today. They looked completely lost. They need a major talent upgrade in the secondary and at LB. Art Evans and Anthony Anderson are a joke and should never see the field at a place like UT. Teague I think will be good, but he had a month to learn to play DB after playing WR last year. Gordon will be good, but he's a freshmen and is too agressive sometimes. The DL got plenty of pressure and I thought it was a matter of time till they knocked the qb out of the game. They beat him to death and he'd throw lolipops up and the DB's would sit there and watch the ball land in the receivers arms not making a play until the the receiver touched the ball.

They put Bray in against UTM and he struggled badly. He'll be fine but Simms is just better now. Simms wasn't bad today I thought. He doesn't have any kind of touch on his passes and needs to take a few 100 miles off some of them, but I thought he played decent today. Rogers dropped a couple easy ones, Moore dropped a sure TD, Hunter dropped a first down, Stocker had a TD go off his fingertips (it would have been a hell of a catch). Simms isn't going to do a lot to win games, he just needs to manage games. He's a stop gap till next year I think.

**Biggin** · September 25th, 2010, 05:18 PM

i think the depth of UTs defense is what is keeping teams in the game.
Gordon played excellent vs. UF last week, he is very young but really talented.

once teague gets more comfortable and gets his groove he will be the best DB UT has, he has all kinds of talent.

the DBs looked really bad today tho, its not like UAB has andre johnson and greg jennings on the outside at wr but they were still able to consistently complete passes and racked up 400(? it was close) passing yards.

UTs LBs were not great today either, they let way too many underneath passes and open guys go unchecked. out of position a lot too, that surprised me a lot.

Evans was bad today, really bad. I doubt he starts next week.

**joe morgan** · September 25th, 2010, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by MikeJones

Agreed on that. Poole is a stud. UAB whipped UT in every aspect but the final score. UAB had some good players

The final score is the only stat that matters mikey.

**heneedsa** · September 26th, 2010, 09:23 PM

The only crap kicking I saw was UAB's kicker. UT still won at least they were not playing JMU or Jacksonvillie St.

**heneedsa** · September 27th, 2010, 03:08 PM

UT put out a dvd a few years ago called decade of dominance. I think we are staring at maybe decade of insignificance, the desire is there but the talent is so lacking it may be ten years before we can compete with UF and Alabama again. The only thing that keeps it from being a bigger story is the downhill slide of Georgia, which is mind blowing considering their talent. 7 or 8 wins maybe the norm for a long time in Knoxville, hope I am wrong but unless every 5 star player wants to come help it may be awhile for a better day to come