My family has a Disney vacation scheduled starting Sunday with airfare on Saturday. Our flight leaves at noon on Saturday from Chattanooga to Orlando with a layover in Atlanta. I live in SE TN and I'm about about 35 minutes from the Chattanooga airport on a normal day. Here are my questions for anyone who might have a better idea of what is going to happen with the weather on Friday into Saturday:

Do we keep our original flight and plan on being able to drive to the airport around 10:00 or so on Saturday?

Do we move our flight from Chattanooga to a later time? For example, there is a 2:08 from Chattanooga on one of the smaller planes and a 5:21 flight on one of the larger ones.

Do we change our flight to leaving from Atlanta on Saturday instead of Chattanooga and just drive to the Atlanta airport Saturday?

This is very now Dawg I know, but I'm just trying to tap into the knowledge of others.

FTMFers😜

NM

First, I give zero you know whats about conference pride. I love that Tennessee took the big L.

That said, the ease with which Ohio State threw the ball at Tennessee raises some red flags for me. Tennessee's pass D was always overrated and mostly the product of a terrible schedule, and we exposed it to some degree, but goodness, that was something else last night. Very little pass rush, and easy access throws at the edges of their zones plus a lot of misdirection swing passes that kept the chains moving, and the over-the-top throws to Smith were just the icing on the cake.

The contrast between the two offenses was stark. Is this just a weird, one-off road game, or are SEC offenses down this year generally? No one in the SEC moved the ball this easily on Tennessee all year, road or not, including us. And is that because the conference didn't really have any elite offenses?

Bama's QB is a head case. Tennessee--we saw that all year. Texas doesn't scare anyone deep. Ole Miss can get going at times but didn't light the scoreboard up all year. LSU had major OL issues. UGA is philosophically opposed to scoring in the first half. UF has a freshman QB who throws a pretty deep ball to go along with pretty interceptions over the middle

It seems like with every SEC team this year, you can take their strength away and make them one-dimensional. All of those teams are still good enough, that on a given week, they can give you trouble, but there just isn't a dominant offense throughout the league. And perhaps that explains why Tennessee struggled so much, because they haven't played against a very good and balanced offense all season?

The other thing that struck me is that Tennessee did not make very good adjustments. Ohio State scored three TDs in each half, and almost all of them were the product of moving the ball down field, not turnovers by Tennessee.

We have a lot more speed at LB, so I'm somewhat hopeful that we could squelch some of these easy access throws, but at the same time, if we play as undisciplined as we did against Tech, Ohio State's misdirection would give us a lot of problems as well. None of that matters if we don't beat Notre Dame, but Ohio State is the team I want to play the least.

This nutball entered Bourbon Street from Canal Street. The team hotel (Marriott) and media hotel (Sheraton) are across the street from each other on Canal, like three or four blocks away.
This one scene they keep showing, you can barely see the restaurant Patrick and I ate the other night.
Really odd walking around. Everyone almost like they are in a daze.

I mean, we have taken in zero players right? I would have thought we would have found a few depth pieces that were in the “bargain bin” category?

Maybe it is because of the playoffs and not enough time?

Maybe we are good with current roster, but with what we were claiming we were thin in certain areas we would have found at least some depth like pieces?

Maybe the Jake Pope situation scared us some?

I just find it weird we have not taken in anyone.

"The greatest football team we've played since 1997 Nebraska" Vol:
You bought into the hype of this game.
Most fans would, but OSU was the only team we’ve played all year that pure talent advantage and coaching advantage. UGA is not as talented as this Ohio State team.
The talent on that OSU team- should not have lost twice this season. The feeling I had watching that game was similar to Nebraska 1997 vs Tennessee.

"The had all of the advantages. Close game on a neutral field in a dome" Vol: Tonight every single thing was in OSUs favor. The venue, the weather, injuries, our freshmen QB, the refs, the talent gap. even every bounce in punts and kickoffs. We had almost every break go to them all night. Day was fighting for his job and OSU was fighting against the shame of losing to Michigan.

Jim Nantz Vol: So many uncalled holding and flagrant PIs. Didn’t matter since we sucked but was still glaring.




"I remember when Gen. Neyland first said 'Charge the Checkerboard'" Vol: Look, I’m not disrespecting heupel at all for the job he’s done in the position we were in. But we are too prestigious a program to not be looking to improve when we can. We are in a position now where we can convince a proven head coach to take the job. Heupel has been paid well and been given every resource. And we just got embarrassed so badly that we should be questioning our coach. If I’m Danny White, I start putting out some feelers now. It’s been 2 years since our offense has been worth a ****. Flame away, I just think we could convince a good HC to take this job.


Is Josh James Franklin minus a playoff win? Vol: Are we Penn State? Good program that will win 9-10 games a year but can't beat the elite programs in big games?

Matthew McConaughey Vol:
We Are! Marshall!
Playoffs every year some coach replacements once a while

Truth Vol: We beat elite teams but they are coincidentally not elite when we do it.

"We are Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers" Vol: OSU 38- Indy 15 and we were 42-17 so basically we’re Indiana.

"Mike Bobo beat us again." Vol:
Early Ohio St did to the Vol defense what Georgia showed-
- quick passes in the flat to the RB's
- short crossing routes by the WR's
-dump offs to the TE
- some counter run game
All discourage the pass rush, their QB builds confidence with the wide open easy short throws and the deep shots and perfect dimes soon follow. Only Ohio St has better skill players than UGA but it looked very similar. LB's especially get exposed.

Rose Dewitt Bukater Vol: We're getting there, slow but sure. Have some patience. Keep demanding championships, but have patience about it.

And the strong red shift to Trump is even more staggering than you probably realized. A few examples:

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In DC so planning ahead to travel down next season.

Seeing prices for tickets to Bama and Texas between 500-1k each. Are those normal prices for those types of games or are they severely inflated?

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while we're prepping for the Sugar Bowl

we haven't been to a non-CFP or BCS bowl since 2016

Alabama's been twice the last six years.

I'm in Knoxville for some work meetings and would be interested in going to the basketball game tonight if anyone has an extra ticket in the Dawgs section.

Go Dawgs Sic'Em!!!

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Looking for suggestions.
Not the hotel buffets but something different.
Maybe even an uber ride off the strip…