'21 GA OLB Smael Mondon (georgia commit)

[VolForLife83]

The whole staff and wives.

Megan Mullen style?

 

[WBO]

Oh.. They're a rival. There's still a bunch of us still old enough to remember hating Auburn.. more than UGA and Florida.

Divisions did what they did to it and I get that.

But I hated Auburn. Bama was 1. Auburn 2. Everybody else was a distant 3rd.

I hate Auburn with a deep orange passion. Coming out of HS I had been accepted into both the Naval Academy and Air Force Academy and rather ironically had accepted Air Force (ironic since I eventually became a Naval Aviator and now consider all other forms of pilots to be inferior). But I decided to do a little snow skiing over Christmas and blew out my knee. Got the cast off in mid-March, 10 weeks before my report date for plebe summer. By mid-April it's clear I can't rehab the knee in time so I'm not going to Air Force and I don't have any other colleges lined up. Start throwing out last minute applications and got accepted to Auburn where my best friend and roommate was going to go. So I joined him there. That should tell you a little something about their academics at the time, 3 weeks from sending in a late application to acceptance.

This is 1971 and I'm surprised they didn't graze cattle on the campus. What a hole, and yet they thought they were so special. They were in some 1950's time warp with an inferiority complex about being poor trash compared to Alabama's elitism. Think about that for a minute, Alabama was their version of high society.

After one year I transferred to Tennessee but Bill Battle kept losing to Auburn every year despite having better teams and I had to keep listening to my old roommate and other friends just rant about it. We finally beat them in the rain in Knoxville (we even quick-kicked a 78 yard punt on first down during the heaviest part of the storm). The classless Shug Jordan refused to shake Battle's hand after the ass whipping. My roommate who had come up for the game (after I had sat with him so many times while we lost) refused to even stay for dinner.

But while we had a short three year run, they dominated us in the 70's, We ended the 70's and started the 80's with a 3 year winning streak but Pat Dye takes over and they start spreading the cash. So the first half of the 80's was grim until that beautiful 1985 game. The 90's were good to Tennessee, especially beating them at the SEC championship, even though there were a couple of tough losses (I was at the tie game where we just gave it away)

But Auburn is always going to cut corners (Cam Newton) and it's paid off for them since they had a 6 game winning streak going against us until the big win in 2018. That's why going into Alabama and Georgia (a lot of people from Georgia, especially the Atlanta area go to Auburn, it's only 50 miles from the Georgia border) and taking away players that Auburn would normally recruit feels so good.

 

[govols1717]

I hate Auburn so bad . As much as every other rival. They are the biggest cheaters in college athletics

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

I hate Auburn so bad . As much as every other rival. They are the biggest cheaters in college athletics

Pruitt is still 1 - 0 against them. How bout that.

 

[UTK]

At first I didnt mind Auburn because of the mutual hatred for Bama but when I started following recruiting, I definitely have developed a distain for them. Too many recruits they had no business getting. But this cycle we have whooped that ass, the way it should be.

 

[tnutater]

I hate Auburn so bad . As much as every other rival. They are the biggest cheaters in college athletics

2nd biggest.
They learned from their stepdaddy, bama.

 

[tn4elvis]

2nd biggest.
They learned from their stepdaddy, bama.

Both do it very well because the other one is watching 24/7 365.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Both do it very well because the other one is watching 24/7 365.

No...it is actually more of a mutually assured destruction detente. They have so much dirt on each other that if one goes down, they both go down.

 

[tn4elvis]

No...it is actually more of a mutually assured destruction detente. They have so much dirt on each other that if one goes down, they both go down.

Sad but true.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Sad but true.

Bubbas and Barners down there don't even try to argue when you call them the dirtiest programs in CFB. They just shrug and laugh at you and say "If you ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin". That is why I don't care if we do it too. We have to do it better than them to get back to where we want.

 

[Dudleys87]

Bubbas and Barners down there don't even try to argue when you call them the dirtiest programs in CFB. They just shrug and laugh at you and say "If you ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin". That is why I don't care if we do it too. We have to do it better than them to get back to where we want.

Everybody cheats it’s just how good you are at it and how careless you get with it.

 

[RiseToTheTop]

I hate Auburn so bad . As much as every other rival. They are the biggest cheaters in college athletics

they do all that cheating and still cant win big consistently.

 

[OldVolMan]

Must be Bama then. They have their own tailor on staff.

just not advertised but we have our own tailor that they can relate to, sort of under the radar tailor

 

[wrangler]

This guy plus our social network/graphic design guys are a match made in heaven.

Oh, and vol Twitter can get just about anything of the ground when they want to. Ask John Currie... Or this kid...He was bullied for his homemade University of Tennessee T-shirt. The school just made it an official design - CNN

Absolutely loved that.

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Aren’t we supposed to get a mystery commit today? That still happening? Since you know he cancelled yesterday?

 

[Brick_By_Brick]

This? Looks like their only interaction from last night, outside of a standard question about linebackers.

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Is it too much to ask that a website dedicated to a certain university’s athletics not hire an employee that can barely hide his contempt for said university?

At least be ambivalent, Jesse.

 

[Volnatic]

Is it too much to ask that a website dedicated to a certain university’s athletics not hire an employee that can barely hide his contempt for said university?

At least be ambivalent, Jesse.

I often wonder what kind of money those guys make. I mean surely it’s decent enough that Brent could find someone who actually likes the Vols to cover them in Jesse’s place...

 

[Smokeytom]

I often wonder what kind of money those guys make. I mean surely it’s decent enough that Brent could find someone who actually likes the Vols to cover them in Jesse’s place...

Sign me up I’ll at least buy a Grammarly subscription so all the articles are free of the silly typos.

 

[Volnatic]

Sign me up I’ll at least buy a Grammarly subscription so all the articles are free of the silly typos.

Anyone have Brent’s email? We’ve got a guy ready, willing and able right here. Mr. @Smokeytom

 

[Brick_By_Brick]

Sign me up I’ll at least buy a Grammarly subscription so all the articles are free of the silly typos.

Haha, yes! It’s amazing how poorly edited the articles are in that site.

 

[Smokeytom]

Haha, yes! It’s amazing how poorly edited the articles are in that site.

And amazing how EASY it is to have an “editor” these days! Grammarly catches everythingggg

 

[Illinoisvolfan2]

 

[walkenvol]

Everybody cheats it’s just how good you are at it and how careless you get with it.

TWSS?

 

[Dudleys87]

TWSS?

Women, like men, will go to extremes to cheat.

 

[Kristy*]

Women, like men, will go to extremes to cheat.

Not good women. Or good men.