GoVols15
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You don't lose to Kentucky or Vanderbilt or you lose fans and questions should be asked.
Some would say melodrama while others would call reality! Time to see the Vols like the rest of America does! Truth hurts!
Attendance is down all around.If you look at attendance, this is a lot worse than people want to acknowledge. You can bitch about negavols on a forum but the empty seats don’t lie. Fan apathy is the worst I’ve seen it in my lifetime.
Pruitt is not an engaging personality so it would be better if he and his staff had done a guru like coaching job. Losing by the same score at home that you did on the road last year, by Derek Freaking Dooley tells me all I need to know. This thing is in the shitter.
I know there are talent deficiencies but I’d think you’d have an Oline able to properly line up and not continue getting procedure penalties. Or, still be clueless about who to block. It’s one thing to get physically beat. It’s another to just not block, which has happened on many occasions.
A loss to Vandy will hurt recruiting. It will hurt fan interest. It will hurt donations. The stadium renovations were put on hold. It’s money. It ain’t coming in like it was or should. A loss will erase any momentum you picked up from beating UK. A win will set people at ease, and give us a bowl to focus on.
That is not my point that I made perfectly clear! It won't change how the coaches coach but the "good" coaches may and have looked elsewhere. Yes it won't change the schedule but the more Ls put on the schedule keeps sinking us lower down to Minnesota football level, we are currently a lower tier program in the SEC and no person can argue with this fact. It's been since 1998 that we have even smelled anything like a SEC Championship. You are so wrong, losing breeds losing just like wining breeds winning. How you play impacts EVERYTHING from the quality of coaches you can get, to the players and to the fan base. GET MY POINT!Except that it isn't reality. It won't change how the the team prepares for next season. It won't change how the coaches coach and recruit. It won't change who's on the schedule next year and the years to come. It changes nothing about the future except what volnation complains about all winter.
Maybe because they've beat us 4 out of the last 6 games??? This isn't the 90s and we've been through 5 coaches in 10 years so this isn't the gimmie game it used to be.Agree. In my mind the Vandy game was the most important game this year going into the season. I don't know why everyone thinks Vandy is Alabama North now. We should be expecting to win and prepared to win. Anything else and there will be a pall of "blind squirrel picks up an acorn" on the Auburn and KY wins for this coaching staff and doubts will be raised.
Let's BE REAL, very few have said Coach Pruitt has failed, in fact I still hope Coach Pruitt succeeds! The reality is we are currently seen, by the majority of sports fans, as a lower tier program that has some but not anywhere near recent tradition. All the hype videos, articles from UT and comments by fans not in REALITY will change this reality until, and if, the Vol program begins winning again on the field. It is what it is. Maybe not forever but time will tell, and even if we start winning we are in a hole that will take us years to recover! Truth hurts but it is truth! Please keep it real!Its salt and peppered with people pretending season is already over, coach has failed and there is zero hope for Tennessee football. Ever.
Just keeping it real.
Let's BE REAL, very few have said Coach Pruitt has failed, in fact I still hope Coach Pruitt succeeds! The reality is we are currently seen, by the majority of sports fans, as a lower tier program that has some but not anywhere near recent tradition. All the hype videos, articles from UT and comments by fans not in REALITY will change this reality until, and if, the Vol program begins winning again on the field. It is what it is. Maybe not forever but time will tell, and even if we start winning we are in a hole that will take us years to recover! Truth hurts but it is truth!
That is not my point that I made perfectly clear! It won't change how the coaches coach but the "good" coaches may and have looked elsewhere. Yes it won't change the schedule but the more Ls put on the schedule keeps sinking us lower down to Minnesota football level, we are currently a lower tier program in the SEC and no person can argue with this fact. It's been since 1998 that we have even smelled anything like a SEC Championship. You are so wrong, losing breeds losing just like wining breeds winning. How you play impacts EVERYTHING from the quality of coaches you can get, to the players and to the fan base. GET MY POINT!
Can we change it, absolutely, but the damage that has been done to our team, even with the best of luck, is going to take years to recover. So far, at least, very little improvement has occurred over the last decade. Still a VFL, and always will be, but my expectations for the program has definitely turned for the worse. I will believe it when I see it. In the meantime my financial support is definitely slowing down. GO VOLS!
Ever year we play like a lower tier program just diminishes the T image more and more, both internally and externally. You need to take your orange colored glasses off and look at REALITY!
Haha.Try reading my post!
We agree, I think! It's all good! We all want the Vols to win!Haha.
Seriously though, I really didn't see your point. I understand you seem to be worried about what other fan bases think about us. I understand you think that won't change until we start winning again.
I mean, I can't do anything about what others think of us, don't really care either. If they think its my fault, lol, they gots problems.
I can't do anything about winning games either, we have Pruitt for that. The long term future of this program will not be decided by a win or a loss Saturday to Vanderbilt. That's getting real. Obviously we want a win and the extra practices for going to a bowl would be great, but its far from throwing in the towel if we lose.
That said, its gonna suck if we lose and I'll be discouraged for a day or two. Is what it is.