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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 2073460, member: 6620"] This is an athletically talented team that has obviously played up or down to the level of competition and/or the moment. That was admitted by the players in the press conference (see Margo's tape a few entries above). R: Alabama, how could you underplay a team that has beaten you two -- now three -- times in a row? We all know of a number or coaches that would be having a SWAT team planning out strategies on how to rectify those losses while reminding players what not to do in the next game and what is expected of them in the next game. Preparation. Still, the Vols can rise to the moment during the regular season, as Stanford and the Irish can attest to this season. And the NCAA is a big stage with bright lights, so I could see them making another run again (depending on the match-ups). However, that run maybe a bad cha-cha...one step forward to go two steps back. Why? Everyone will think it was an uneven but ultimately AOK season, and agree to try again next year because there's another load of fresh talent coming into Knoxville. Pretty sure that Ms. DeShields will take the next train out of Dodge. On one hand, I think that will help because she has steadfastly refused to take part in any system that does not have three options: 1) I; 2) Me; 3) Try I again. And I'm hoping that Holly can take it to the next step coaching wise with the next group of recruits, but I've seen nothing in her DNA and her coaching track record to show she'll have a more pointed direction, regardless of personnel. Maybe that will become apparent around the same time her contract is starting to wind down. By then, it may be too late to pull the shiny orange car out of the swamp. Sad for most of Volnation, as Husky Nan pointed out. But it feels inevitable at this point. [/QUOTE]

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