Fan Initiative to Improve/Increase Value of Fanbase?

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Just a thought. I recently got into a debate with some embarrassing fans who unfortunately have some clout on social media. Yet they scoffed at the idea that fan behavior has any real impact on a recruits choice. I am reading that the fans have a growing impact on the recruiting process. Part of that has to do with the experience of players after they choose a school. Not just their experience during recruiting.

I have recently turned a corner and started taking more pride in myself, my faith and my city and beyond. I look forward to representing many things with class and dignity. That includes my city, my friends, family, University, the players, etc. That is only part of the motivation for this would-be effort. These discussions and my research have led me to what I believe to be an untapped value that we can add to our fan-base and beyond.

That said, the idea is to create a movement to display a positive culture within our fan base and beyond. Hopefully it would bleed over into creating a better fan experience, player experience, coaching experience and even impact the business community.

Right now, I am just garnering interest. If someone likes the idea and wants to run with it, by all means do it. I just want to be involved in making a local impact. I can bring some things to the table that can be discussed at a later date.
 
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vegasvolfan said:
Just a thought. I recently got into a debate with some embarrassing fans who unfortunately have some clout on social media. Yet they scoffed at the idea that fan behavior has any real impact on a recruits choice. I am reading that the fans have a growing impact on the recruiting process. Part of that has to do with the experience of players after they choose a school. Not just their experience during recruiting.

I have recently turned a corner and started taking more pride in myself, my faith and my city and beyond. I look forward to representing many things with class and dignity. That includes my city, my friends, family, University, the players, etc. That is only part of the motivation for this would-be effort. These discussions and my research have shown what I believe to be an untapped value that we can add to our fan-base and beyond.

That said, the idea is to create a movement to display a positive culture within our fan base and beyond. Hopefully it would bleed over into creating a better fan experience, player experience, coaching experience and even impact the business community.

Right now, I am just garnering interest. If someone likes the idea and wants to run with it, by all means do it. I just want to be involved in making a local impact. I can bring some things to the table that can be discussed at a later date.
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Curious what you have in mind...
 
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vegasvolfan said:
Just a thought. I recently got into a debate with some embarrassing fans who unfortunately have some clout on social media. Yet they scoffed at the idea that fan behavior has any real impact on a recruits choice. I am reading that the fans have a growing impact on the recruiting process. Part of that has to do with the experience of players after they choose a school. Not just their experience during recruiting.

I have recently turned a corner and started taking more pride in myself, my faith and my city and beyond. I look forward to representing many things with class and dignity. That includes my city, my friends, family, University, the players, etc. That is only part of the motivation for this would-be effort. These discussions and my research have shown what I believe to be an untapped value that we can add to our fan-base and beyond.

That said, the idea is to create a movement to display a positive culture within our fan base and beyond. Hopefully it would bleed over into creating a better fan experience, player experience, coaching experience and even impact the business community.

Right now, I am just garnering interest. If someone likes the idea and wants to run with it, by all means do it. I just want to be involved in making a local impact. I can bring some things to the table that can be discussed at a later date.
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Lets just be fans. This could get too close to weird too many ways.
 
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SweetasSoda said:
Curious what you have in mind...
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Well, initially I was thinking of first establishing a code of ethics as a fan for anyone who is a part of it. Nothing as deep as theology, but something more along the lines of core values for the group.

Then there would be sort of a volunteer aspect where people who belonged to it would donate some of their time to put out a positive and welcoming vibe on social media and publicly holding individuals who are misrepresenting our University accountable. Perhaps even documenting tweets, sending written letters to individuals who do not represent our university well.

Additionally, conducting research on changing culture, cumulative effects and influence of fan participation making the push known to the business communities, the coaches, wherever. Could be done by polling existing players with consent of University and coaches. Then presenting findings back to these figures to create buy-in, exposure and create legs for future strategies and action plans.

I just see a lot of pushback on negativity and I think rather than fight it, a collective impact that demonstrates the efficacy of a positive initiative could turn some heads especially if it wasn’t a closed door movement that left out varying demographics. It could change the landscape of recruiting and what better place could it start than at a heavy research based University like Tennessee?
 
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bignewt said:
Lets just be fans. This could get too close to weird too many ways.
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It’s an anthropological concept if you think about it. I am curious as to how you think it could be weird?
 
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Sleegro said:
It's easy. Don't tweet at the recruits or players and don't talk ish about them or take personal shots at them? Seems like common decency to me.
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It’s an anthropological concept if you think about it. I am curious as to how you think it could be weird?
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Really any interaction with recruits is weird and i could see that happening.
 
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Let me preface this by saying I mean ZERO disrespect...

This is not a good idea for people that frequent a message board. And I can tell you from experience the university and the football program would not only not support this but would probably be proactive in shutting it down. A fan base as passionate as ours is unfortunately never going to be a good representation of our university. How many times in the last 12 months have you witnessed message board arguments, player bashing, coach shaming, rumor spreading, etc.

I get your concept and desire to help. But pass on this idea. There are already too many borderline “Sabs” out there that would take a literal dump on this.
 
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Sleegro said:
It's easy. Don't tweet at the recruits or players and don't talk ish about them or take personal shots at them? Seems like common decency to me.
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The overall level of common decency in our society is on a downward slope. Take a look at our Twitter President and the rest of his DC cohorts (both dems and Republicans)
 
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vegasvolfan said:
Just a thought. I recently got into a debate with some embarrassing fans who unfortunately have some clout on social media. Yet they scoffed at the idea that fan behavior has any real impact on a recruits choice. I am reading that the fans have a growing impact on the recruiting process. Part of that has to do with the experience of players after they choose a school. Not just their experience during recruiting.

I have recently turned a corner and started taking more pride in myself, my faith and my city and beyond. I look forward to representing many things with class and dignity. That includes my city, my friends, family, University, the players, etc. That is only part of the motivation for this would-be effort. These discussions and my research have shown what I believe to be an untapped value that we can add to our fan-base and beyond.

That said, the idea is to create a movement to display a positive culture within our fan base and beyond. Hopefully it would bleed over into creating a better fan experience, player experience, coaching experience and even impact the business community.

Right now, I am just garnering interest. If someone likes the idea and wants to run with it, by all means do it. I just want to be involved in making a local impact. I can bring some things to the table that can be discussed at a later date.
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I'm going pass...…………..
 
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NotoriousRPP said:
Let me preface this by saying I mean ZERO disrespect...

This is not a good idea for people that frequent a message board. And I can tell you from experience the university and the football program would not only not support this but would probably be proactive in shutting it down. A fan base as passionate as ours is unfortunately never going to be a good representation of our university. How many times in the last 12 months have you witnessed message board arguments, player bashing, coach shaming, rumor spreading, etc.

I get your concept and desire to help. But pass on this idea. There are already too many borderline “Sabs” out there that would take a literal dump on this.
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Well I get it. I figures that would be our response. Not sure the University could legally stop the effort, it would depend. But the U not endorsing it is bad enough.

This is why I thought I would share on here. Zero positive response to it which gives me a good indication of the level of support there might be. I take no offense. I was looking for honest feedback and thank you for the time and consideration.

I’m just sick of the negavols, the hate, the narcissism and the embarrassment off the field outweighs the embarrassment on the field that frankly was post Dobbs for me.

We have a good thing going here and I want to enjoy it. We have a nice city here and I want people to respect it. I think it takes more than winning and I think we would see more winning if we had more of that. I still hear people saying this is Pruitt’s make or break year. I mean... really?

Purge.

Hey, anybody see we got Cooper!?!
 
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vegasvolfan said:
Just a thought. I recently got into a debate with some embarrassing fans who unfortunately have some clout on social media. Yet they scoffed at the idea that fan behavior has any real impact on a recruits choice. I am reading that the fans have a growing impact on the recruiting process. Part of that has to do with the experience of players after they choose a school. Not just their experience during recruiting.

I have recently turned a corner and started taking more pride in myself, my faith and my city and beyond. I look forward to representing many things with class and dignity. That includes my city, my friends, family, University, the players, etc. That is only part of the motivation for this would-be effort. These discussions and my research have shown what I believe to be an untapped value that we can add to our fan-base and beyond.

That said, the idea is to create a movement to display a positive culture within our fan base and beyond. Hopefully it would bleed over into creating a better fan experience, player experience, coaching experience and even impact the business community.

Right now, I am just garnering interest. If someone likes the idea and wants to run with it, by all means do it. I just want to be involved in making a local impact. I can bring some things to the table that can be discussed at a later date.
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Just don’t do stupid things after a loss that reflect poorly on the fan base. That will be enough
 
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