okiprince07
11-09-2007, 09:11 PM
Can Kentucky Do It? :thumbdown:
Now that Navy (30) has beaten The Program Ruined by the Scourge of Humanity, Ty Willingham, (31) (more on that later, as you might have guessed) for the first time since the Kennedy Administration, we have a new poster program for futility within a rivalry.
Step up and own it, Kentucky (32).
The Wildcats have lost 22 straight to Tennessee (33), :thumbup: the new longest active losing streak in an annual series. Sure, that's an eye-blink of misery compared to what the Midshipmen endured -- but try telling that to Wildcats fans.
Last victory was in 1984. The last Kentucky coach to beat the Volunteers, Jerry Claiborne, has gone to the Great Locker Room in the Sky. Since then, Bill Curry, Hal Mumme, Guy Morriss and Rich Brooks have all gone oh-for-Big Orange.
Along the way have been multiple moments of memorable misery:
Tennessee 24, Kentucky 22, 1987. Losing coach: Claiborne. Down 24-20, Wildcats run Mark Higgs into the line four times from inside the 5-yard line in the final minutes, fail to score. Volunteers take safety on final play. Kentucky misses bowl game.
Tennessee 34, Kentucky 31, 1995. Losing coach: Curry. Cats cough up 15-point third-quarter lead.
Tennessee 38, Kentucky 35, 2001. Losing coach: Morriss. Cats blow 21-0 lead and fumble away potential game-winning drive in Tennessee territory late in the fourth quarter.
Tennessee 37, Kentucky 31, 2004. Losing coach: Brooks. Vols score 15 fourth-quarter points to pull out comeback victory, including the winning touchdown with 38 seconds left.
Tennessee 17, Kentucky 12, 2006. Losing coach: Brooks. Cats win the game in first downs, total yards, time of possession and turnover margin but not on scoreboard. Potential winning drive scuttled inside Tennessee 5 by delay of game penalty.
Between those heartbreakers have been many blowouts. Curry's teams were outscored 100-0 in 1993 and '94. Mumme never held Tennessee to fewer than 56 points in four tries. But Kentucky has managed to keep the Vols under 40 for six years in a row, so that's progress of a sort.
This season's game: Nov. 24, in Lexington. If not this year, the streak might reach Navy-Notre Dame standards.
Until then, let's get back to the mockery that has become the Fighting Irish.
The Scourge might be the world's worst recruiter. And he's believed to be responsible for the Hollywood Writers Guild strike. And it was probably his idea for Scott Boras and A-Rod to hijack Game 4 of the World Series.
ND going for it on fourth made Dashette Veronica Varekova chuckle.
But even a knucklehead like The Scourge would have tried to kick the winning 41-yard field goal instead of asking the miserable Notre Dame offense to convert a fourth-and-8 with 45 seconds left from the Navy 24. Hell, Dashette Veronica Varekova (34) would have sent out the field-goal unit with a snap of her well-manicured fingers.
Charlie Weis (35) -- whom i hear is one helluva recruiter -- blew off the field goal. And when 5-foot-9, 196-pound sophomore linebacker Ram Vela (36) -- what was his recruiting ranking coming out of high school? -- launched himself over a blocker to help take down Evan Sharpley … well, it was time to second-guess that decision.
Or, if that option proves unpalatable, Notre Dame fans can go back to blaming it all on The Scourge. Who beat Navy three times. And whose intolerable 21-15 record in South Bend is now just .003 percentage points worse than the guy with the 10-year, $30-million-plus contract.
Now that Navy (30) has beaten The Program Ruined by the Scourge of Humanity, Ty Willingham, (31) (more on that later, as you might have guessed) for the first time since the Kennedy Administration, we have a new poster program for futility within a rivalry.
Step up and own it, Kentucky (32).
The Wildcats have lost 22 straight to Tennessee (33), :thumbup: the new longest active losing streak in an annual series. Sure, that's an eye-blink of misery compared to what the Midshipmen endured -- but try telling that to Wildcats fans.
Last victory was in 1984. The last Kentucky coach to beat the Volunteers, Jerry Claiborne, has gone to the Great Locker Room in the Sky. Since then, Bill Curry, Hal Mumme, Guy Morriss and Rich Brooks have all gone oh-for-Big Orange.
Along the way have been multiple moments of memorable misery:
Tennessee 24, Kentucky 22, 1987. Losing coach: Claiborne. Down 24-20, Wildcats run Mark Higgs into the line four times from inside the 5-yard line in the final minutes, fail to score. Volunteers take safety on final play. Kentucky misses bowl game.
Tennessee 34, Kentucky 31, 1995. Losing coach: Curry. Cats cough up 15-point third-quarter lead.
Tennessee 38, Kentucky 35, 2001. Losing coach: Morriss. Cats blow 21-0 lead and fumble away potential game-winning drive in Tennessee territory late in the fourth quarter.
Tennessee 37, Kentucky 31, 2004. Losing coach: Brooks. Vols score 15 fourth-quarter points to pull out comeback victory, including the winning touchdown with 38 seconds left.
Tennessee 17, Kentucky 12, 2006. Losing coach: Brooks. Cats win the game in first downs, total yards, time of possession and turnover margin but not on scoreboard. Potential winning drive scuttled inside Tennessee 5 by delay of game penalty.
Between those heartbreakers have been many blowouts. Curry's teams were outscored 100-0 in 1993 and '94. Mumme never held Tennessee to fewer than 56 points in four tries. But Kentucky has managed to keep the Vols under 40 for six years in a row, so that's progress of a sort.
This season's game: Nov. 24, in Lexington. If not this year, the streak might reach Navy-Notre Dame standards.
Until then, let's get back to the mockery that has become the Fighting Irish.
The Scourge might be the world's worst recruiter. And he's believed to be responsible for the Hollywood Writers Guild strike. And it was probably his idea for Scott Boras and A-Rod to hijack Game 4 of the World Series.
ND going for it on fourth made Dashette Veronica Varekova chuckle.
But even a knucklehead like The Scourge would have tried to kick the winning 41-yard field goal instead of asking the miserable Notre Dame offense to convert a fourth-and-8 with 45 seconds left from the Navy 24. Hell, Dashette Veronica Varekova (34) would have sent out the field-goal unit with a snap of her well-manicured fingers.
Charlie Weis (35) -- whom i hear is one helluva recruiter -- blew off the field goal. And when 5-foot-9, 196-pound sophomore linebacker Ram Vela (36) -- what was his recruiting ranking coming out of high school? -- launched himself over a blocker to help take down Evan Sharpley … well, it was time to second-guess that decision.
Or, if that option proves unpalatable, Notre Dame fans can go back to blaming it all on The Scourge. Who beat Navy three times. And whose intolerable 21-15 record in South Bend is now just .003 percentage points worse than the guy with the 10-year, $30-million-plus contract.