A common theme from our current recruits

[Tokeup69]

Only left one game early was the vandy game last year can you blame me???

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

There are appropriate reasons to leave a game early. When you're up 30-40 points on Austin Peay, you have an 1.5 hour drive back home to relieve a babysitter you're paying $15-$20 an hour and if you leave early you may have a chance to see your kids before they get put to bed, well I guess I just don't feel bad leaving at that point.

I know, I know, I'm not a true fan, I'm a negavol, yada, yada. Go ahead and lay it on me.

Forget negavol, I want you to hire me to be your childrens baby sitter being paid that kinda money.

 

[Shakinthefat]

I prefer to show up at halftime and stay till the end and look for pocket change in the empty stands.

 

[garbear]

Hey Im new to this board. Let me get this straight- I have 4 season tickets and had them for many many years. You all think if I boo you would rather me not renew my tickets pay the gas to ktown stay over night buy food in Knoxville then? I thought I had to right to do what I wanted not that we have to act the way you think we should act. Well I almost gave my tickets up this year and ticket office called and almost begged me to renew but they left out the part that I had to act like YOU said I should.

 

[alaVOL]

Have to say that I have left a few games early when we were beating someone to death. Even when I left early tough it was maybe <10 mins left. I've never left when the Vols were losing and some of those loses were pitiful. GBO always!

 

[VolBraniac]

Sitting in Neyland last year to the very end of the Alabama game...

I stay until the ushers toss us out. Rather sit in the stands than in traffic.

 

[Capt Straight]

Been to a lot of college games at various stadiums and fans rarely stay the entire game.

It is what it is.

This has always been the case even in our winning days. And, I am sure it happens at their high school games also.

 

[Capt Straight]

I'm the kind of fan that is tired of losing. The kind of fan who buys UT stuff every weekend only to have that team disappoint me week after week. I watched this same team lay down last year against CANDY. Almost lost to S.Alabama and get blown out against Oregon, but I keep buying UT stuff and supporting my team. Sports apparel is not cheap and neither are tickets and gas. I have sat in the stands for the past 5 years and watched our mediocre teams get destroyed. I'm guessing you are a recent fan who has never experienced winning at Neyland, right. I experienced it in the 80's, 90's, and the 00's. I don't care who you are, when we BARELY beat S.Alabama you gonna get booed in this stadium. Every time. If the recruits don't like it, oh well.. Find another team to cry too. Either you're a VFL or you aren't. I don'y hear hurd, kelly jr, bates, etc crying about the booing. The booing will continue until we get back to our winning ways or until we are atleast COMPETITIVE with the top SEC teams. We have not been competitive with Bama, Uga, Usc, Fla, Lsu, in a while.

Yes, you are correct, but we are booing the players, and it is not their fault in many cases. We are not at the talent level of the 1990's, and poor coaches are the cause of this. You cannot expect bUTch to correct this in 5 games!