{"id":117,"date":"2003-11-02T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2003-11-02T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/putting_the_cart_before_the_ho\/"},"modified":"2003-11-02T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2003-11-02T18:06:14","slug":"putting_the_cart_before_the_ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/putting_the_cart_before_the_ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Cart Before the Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t see Tennessee’s inspiring 23-6 victory over Duke yesterday<\/a>. But if I had, it merely would have been further confirmation to me of what should be obvious to everyone: UT’s offense is horrible. This isn’t a problem that can be fixed with a hammer and a few nails; this one warrants a wrecking ball. I don’t know if the replacement of three or more offensive coaches will cure things or not, but it’s a start.<\/p>\n

One entertaining way to cope with a disappointing game is to listen to post game sports call-in show, and last night’s didn’t disappoint. I was especially amused by two recurring themes: <\/p>\n

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  1. The typical, Kool Aid-drinking, everything is peachy caller.  “Come on guys, we just beat Duke<\/em>.  Go Vols.”  Apparently the import of a 30-game A.C.C. losing streak isn’t fully understood by these people.<\/li>\n

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  2. The SEC athletic director vote controversy.  Yes, it’s possible that the SEC East race could boil down to a decision by the conference athletic directors.  But that’s several games down the road.  Already a number of fans and pundits<\/a> talk as if the possible<\/em> vote is the most significant issue facing the UT football. It’s not. The fact that it took UT took almost 50 minutes to score a touchdown against Duke is the isue that needs to be tackled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I didn’t see Tennessee’s inspiring 23-6 victory over Duke yesterday. But if I had, it merely would have been further confirmation to me of what should be obvious to everyone: UT’s offense is horrible. This isn’t a problem that can be fixed with a hammer and a few nails; this one warrants a wrecking ball. […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}