Lets not take it for granted

[MRobVFL]

Is anyone else still kind of shell shocked?

I was 10 years old in 1998. As a kid all I knew was the Vols were one of the premier teams(if not THE premier team)in the country. I was born into an elite culture/community surrounding the Tennessee Vols. And boy, did I take it for granted.

I never in my wildest dreams would've imagined we would spend 12 to 13 years being beaten down and humiliated by the rest of the sec and the media.

When we first started to slide it was a little surreal that it wasn't an "off" year... losing became our identity. We became a bottom dwelling, over looked after thought and a automatic W for some.

What's worse is that I began to believe that we could never again be the mighty team we once were. I thought midling in the sec east was our ceiling with the occasional 9-3 to keep us hoping and feeling that nostalgia.

However just as fast as we fell, it seems we have risen again. I see all the articles and social media posts singing our praises, I see #3 next to TENNESSEE and I get a little emotional because I thought I'd never see a number that high beside Tennessee again. I won't take it for granted this time.

Anybody else feel like youre dreaming still?

 

[LJVol]

We are the same age and I couldn't have said this any better. I will definitely not take it for granted this time.

 

[stevenrich2003]

I may be telling my grand kids about this someday ( in my 30s ). I am going to enjoy ever single second of this!!!

 

[CornDontGrow]

Every morning before my brain fully gets started, behind my eyelids I can still see scenes of Hyatt torching those bama DB’s, the pom-poms flailing in the background, the fans storming the field, the sound of Dixieland Delight playing as they tore down the goalpost, it’s like a dream that I couldn’t have even imagined. What a story book game and ending, I am absolutely still riding the high from TSIO

 

[snarcks]

Been pinching myself every morning since. Loving every minute of it!

 

[Madscientistvol]

I moved to Pittsburgh last year, my fiancé is a from here and a steeler fan. During our early dating she gave me a lot of s$&# about when I move up here I’ll get to watch winning football with her, which I have only it’s not the team she meant. My future in laws and her friends are a bit on the hype wagon with me (her dad and brother went to the UT-Pitt game with me) and I’m not taking a bit of it for granted.
I’m scheduling my Saturday’s around the Vols and she’s just glad it’s Hockey season finally, and I love it (although I do wish the Steelers were doing better, they are my adopted pro team).

 

[Volbrando]

we are playing with house money right now...this season is already amazing.

 

[KoachKrab127]

No matter what happens the rest of this season, October 15, 2022 was the best time I have ever had in Knoxville during a UT football game. I can’t imagine that experience being topped. However, every year when college football starts, I feel like I’ve seen it all when it comes to wild, entertaining games, and every year multiple games still surprise me. This season is no different. There have been multiple amazing, crazy games so far. I hope it continues.

 

[CPVOL]

 

[MAD]

This was all of us.