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#26
#26
Volizona said:
Respectfully, I think he’s right. The younger generation needs to step up their game and maybe quit texting for a few minutes so they can yell for our team. When I was a student, the entire student section was always loud and they hardly ever sat down. It was always the other side - the country clubbers and older folks that were quiet. Sounds like a reversal of roles.
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Yep. When I was a student in DD we took it as an honor when we stomped our feet enough to make the section feel as if it was swaying. We do know the noise was very loud.
 
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#29
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Rocky Top T said:
The reason I mentioned my age is because I see a lot of young people around me just standing but no hollering. I beg them to holler but many won't. If, at my age I can give my All, they can too. Go Vols!
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So RockyTop T are you saying you're a Blue hair trying to encourage the younger Blue Hairs to get off their duffs and stand the whole game.
 
#30
#30
Have y'all seen the student section? It is consistently the loudest section at every game. While everyone else in the stadium is sitting down, the students are standing 80% of the time (100% if it's a close game) and ALWAYS have something to say. The bleachers in their sections are literally concave because they aren't meant to be stood on every game and yet they are. Credit the beer or shooters or whatever else, but the students are the most into it, and they're all 18-24 years old.

The only thing I fault the students for is leaving halfway through the game if it's not close. I have never understood why---you pay to go see your Vols play another team, a spectacle that only happens a few times a year in Neyland. And yet, they leave once the half hits and the bars start calling. Granted, it is mostly Greek life folks who leave just because most of the time they are essentially required to attend the first half if they can, but even so, I don't think anyone should be leaving early. Students especially.
 
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Volizona said:
Respectfully, I think he’s right. The younger generation needs to step up their game and maybe quit texting for a few minutes so they can yell for our team. When I was a student, the entire student section was always loud and they hardly ever sat down. It was always the other side - the country clubbers and older folks that were quiet. Sounds like a reversal of roles.
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Last time you boomers asked for this, there was the great mustard and golf ball revolution.....
 
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BigOrangeutan said:
Have y'all seen the student section? It is consistently the loudest section at every game. While everyone else in the stadium is sitting down, the students are standing 80% of the time (100% if it's a close game) and ALWAYS have something to say. The bleachers in their sections are literally concave because they aren't meant to be stood on every game and yet they are. Credit the beer or shooters or whatever else, but the students are the most into it, and they're all 18-24 years old.

The only thing I fault the students for is leaving halfway through the game if it's not close. I have never understood why---you pay to go see your Vols play another team, a spectacle that only happens a few times a year in Neyland. And yet, they leave once the half hits and the bars start calling. Granted, it is mostly Greek life folks who leave just because most of the time they are essentially required to attend the first half if they can, but even so, I don't think anyone should be leaving early. Students especially.
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I wasn't talking about the student section. There are young people that come that are not students. My seats are in the East side of North end zone
 
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#36
#36
Nationdom said:
It will get worse with the addition of Wi-Fi, seat backs, less seats , “lounges”, better bathrooms. All of these things make life more comfortable and people less irritable, making Neyland less intimidating
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Well, they used to have mandatory floggings before the game to get everyone angry, but they stopped that practice around the Dooley era and have figured since then that we've suffered enough.
 
#37
#37
Rocky Top T said:
I wasn't talking about the student section. There are young people that come that are not students. My seats are in the East side of North end zone
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Yeah, I know you in particular weren't going after students. Other people in this thread have been talking about the younger generations and whatnot, so I felt it was pertinent to mention.
 
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#39
#39
Rocky Top T said:
I'm about 6 weeks from being 61 years old. I will be there Saturday and like I always do, I will give my All for Tennessee. The last 2 years I couldn't talk good for about 3-4 days. I'm asking all my Vol friends to join me and give their All, whose with me?
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I’m going to be so damn loud in Neyland on Saturday that Beamer will be questioning life.
 
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#43
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Volizona said:
Respectfully, I think he’s right. The younger generation needs to step up their game and maybe quit texting for a few minutes so they can yell for our team. When I was a student, the entire student section was always loud and they hardly ever sat down. It was always the other side - the country clubbers and older folks that were quiet. Sounds like a reversal of roles.
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LittleVol at it again.
 
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#45
#45
Rocky Top T said:
I understand. Go Vols!
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@BigOrangeutan I definitely agree with the young people needing to be there the whole game (or at least till it's much more in the bag). I do think the attributing to a Greek student policy of only requiring 1 half of attendance is a bit of a common misnomer, however. When I was a student (during some real bad years too), none of the fraternities had such a policy. Also wasn't needed either as everyone I knew was at the games the whole time. Maybe that's something new I don't know about? I don't live in Knoxville anymore, so admittedly I'm out of touch on those things. I think it's just more of a generational thing, but I could of course be wrong, as I am frequently.

All that (and the parsing of hairs lol) to say, let's be loud and Go Big Orange!
 
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53 Yrs old and like the rest of my life....Gotcha back...The gamecocks don't suck, while I do think we are better...Only fools come to Neyland @night...
 
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