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#51
#51
kiddiedoc said:
If you think that boycotting the games is somehow going to help the future of UT football, I wish you would change allegiances.
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kiddiedoc said:
IF the staff doesn't succeed, then I will be calling for a change. You have to give them a chance though. Hope that we can keep the recruiting class together and look for improvement. That's all we have right now.
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And how will you express your displeasure? By not going to the games? I know you probably were referring to the post you quoted for boycotting this year.

If the stands are packed and donations are rolling in, no matter the results, there is no reason for the AD to make any changes. That's an AD's or team owner's dream.
 
#53
#53
Vercingetorix said:
So you think the way to ensure that we hire a top-shelf coach next time is to bankrupt the program with a boycott first? Brilliant.
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Yes. Stop paying real money for a counterfeit product, until those in charge are forced by financial constraints to reconsider the mess that they've created and find a booster to finance a bold hire. That's how you affect change. It is.
 
#54
#54
Boca Vol said:
If the stands are packed and donations are rolling in, no matter the results, there is no reason for the AD to make any changes.
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There are people more influential than a few Bubbas scalping $10 tickets. If we don't win, the process takes care of itself. I wIll continue to support the team and university.
 
#55
#55
Boca Vol said:
And how will you express your displeasure? By not going to the games? I know you probably were referring to the post you quoted for boycotting this year.

If the stands are packed and donations are rolling in, no matter the results, there is no reason for the AD to make any changes. That's an AD's or team owner's dream.
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The stands haven't been packed for a decade. Whatever's been going on, it's not because the administration doesn't know that fans are unhappy.

I'm not suggesting that anybody's obliged to spend their money and go to the games. If you don't feel you're getting value for your money, don't go. Nobody cares. But calling for a boycott and suggesting that it'll do anything constructive is just dumb. We already have a billionaire booster willing to spend millions, and we couldn't even hire Louisville's coach. Fans boycotting the games is not going to make Nick Saban fall out of the sky.
 
#56
#56
Volzhsky said:
Yes. Stop paying real money for a counterfeit product, until those in charge are forced by financial constraints to reconsider the mess that they've created and find a booster to finance a bold hire. That's how you affect change. It is.
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Big Jim Haslam is definitely waiting for attendance to fall under 60,000 before he's willing to spend any real money on the program.
 
#58
#58
Vercingetorix said:
Big Jim Haslam is definitely waiting for attendance to fall under 60,000 before he's willing to spend any real money on the program.
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He's not the only booster. I bet there are many who feel completely the same way I do, and would empty their pockets for a great coach. Hell, Dooley was awful and Butch hasn't shown me ANYTHING to prove he'll be a better gameday coach. How do we expect to be good when we can't even hire an average SEC coach?
 
#59
#59
kiddiedoc said:
If you think that boycotting the games is somehow going to help the future of UT football, I wish you would change allegiances.
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Boycotting has nothing to do with it. It has to do with spending hundreds of dollars to see something that I hesitate to call football! It's horrendous.
 
#61
#61
Vercingetorix said:
The stands haven't been packed for a decade. Whatever's been going on, it's not because the administration doesn't know that fans are unhappy.

I'm not suggesting that anybody's obliged to spend their money and go to the games. If you don't feel you're getting value for your money, don't go. Nobody cares. But calling for a boycott and suggesting that it'll do anything constructive is just dumb. We already have a billionaire booster willing to spend millions, and we couldn't even hire Louisville's coach. Fans boycotting the games is not going to make Nick Saban fall out of the sky.
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I wasn't suggesting a boycott. It was to point out the fact that when the person I quoted decided they had had enough then he would voice his displeasure...which was the same thing the person was doing that he quoted.

I hope you got all of that because that made my head spin! :loco:
 
#62
#62
Volzhsky said:
He's not the only booster. I bet there are many who feel completely the same way I do, and would empty their pockets for a great coach. Hell, Dooley was awful and Butch hasn't shown me ANYTHING to prove he'll be a better gameday coach. How do we expect to be good when we can't even hire an average SEC coach?
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I don't know if you've followed our last couple of coaching searches, but lack of money hasn't been the problem.
 
#63
#63
Vercingetorix said:
I don't know if you've followed our last couple of coaching searches, but lack of money hasn't been the problem.
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When the hell have we ever paid a coach, unless you're talking about the $6 million for Fulmer's buyout and the $1 million kiss off we gave to the liar, Bruce Pearl?

Dooley and Jones were dollar bin @ Wal Mart hires in comparison to the rest of the SEC. Good lord, ARKANSAS has had Petrino and now has Brett Bielema. You'd still rather have Butch than Bielema?

Where were you during the searches? Defending them?
 
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#64
#64
Volzhsky said:
When the hell have we ever paid a coach, unless you're talking about the $6 million for Fulmer's buyout and the $1 million kiss off we gave to the liar, Bruce Pearl?

Dooley and Jones were dollar bin @ Wal Mart hires in comparison to the rest of the SEC. Good lord, ARKANSAS has had Petrino and now has Brett Bielema. You'd still rather have Butch than Bielema?

Where were you during the searches? Defending them?
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Uh, I regarded both the Dooley and Jones hires as catastrophic. You're making the wrong assumptions about me.

But did you see the names of coaches who, both times, either turned us down or weren't interested at all? Forget elite coaches; we couldn't even get Troy Calhoun or Kyle Wittingham to talk to us. We have problems that money alone won't fix.
 
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#66
#66
Not any coach can be bought, but we whiffed on THE coach. I doubt he'll have a coaching job by December. Oh, you know who I'm talking about. When we end up 4-8, many, many more will be right where I am now.
 
#67
#67
Volzhsky said:
Not any coach can be bought, but we whiffed on THE coach. I doubt he'll have a coaching job by December. Oh, you know who I'm talking about. When we end up 4-8, many, many more will be right where I am now.
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Well, I can tell you with certainty that the reason had nothing to do with money.
 
#69
#69
Orange And Garnet said:
Also I hope people actually come to the Georgia game. Just because the team is struggling doesn't mean we stay at home. We the fans need to be a factor as much as we can no matter what who or how
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This team has no idea what your talking about. There's been no support for a few years now . We get a fresh start and all you get is doubters .
 
#73
#73
Volzhsky said:
And in 3 years when this coach fails, will you be saying the same thing? I'm sick and tired of the years of excuses. It's been the coach's fault at UT since 2005, and that's being conservative with my blame. We're working on a decade of an endless whiner's list of excuses.
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Biggest troll that I have seen on here.
 
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