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Ulysees E. McGill said:
It's already ruined, or as us real rednecks say.."rurnt"..
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That's what bums me out more than anything. I think Tennessee can get good at football again, but it feels like it's turning into something different than the sport it was. And like I said in an earlier post, I know things change -- there's no leather helmets anymore, for example. But I don't see the point in turning college football into an NFL lite. If I wanted to watch overproduced corporate garbage that entirely about individuals and not at all about the team I already had a great option. Now they're going to take my favorite sport and turn it into the same thing.

I liked the debates over who was the "real" national champion. I liked the pageantry around the bowl games. I liked how each conference had a unique identity. And now they're going to blow it all up and there's nothing I can do to stop it, because this is what's going to make money.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
That's what bums me out more than anything. I think Tennessee can get good at football again, but it feels like it's turning into something different than the sport it was. And like I said in an earlier post, I know things change -- there's no leather helmets anymore, for example. But I don't see the point in turning college football into an NFL lite. If I wanted to watch overproduced corporate garbage that entirely about individuals and not at all about the team I already had a great option. Now they're going to take my favorite sport and turn it into the same thing.

I liked the debates over who was the "real" national champion. I liked the pageantry around the bowl games. I liked how each conference had a unique identity. And now they're going to blow it all up and there's nothing I can do to stop it, because this is what's going to make money.
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It is what it is...as long as the Tennessee Volunteers play...I will care.
 
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Essential the SEC is simply making the early play to be the new NCAA. I mean if you have 20-24 teams you won’t play half or more of the league in football.

If I was the UT Martins of the world that get huge payouts from playing UT or Bama etc and fund their athletic departments are going to face the biggest brunt of this when scheduling changes.

League title games will go away because you’ll play your schedule and then the top 12 or 16 or whatever will play for the title while the others might play some bowl games.

The teams like Cincinnati etc need to be pounding the door of the big 10 to become one of the super conferences and keep Ohio State and Michigan and add others like Kansas (for bball) and Kansas St etc
 
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Type Orange+ said:
They're taking this too far.
It will ruin college football.
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Damn straight!
It sucks......and it’s only going to suck more.

I’ve said it before.....just because I can do something and make more money, doesn’t mean it’s the best thing to do.

It’s going to kill the smaller schools.......schools like Martin, Peay, MTSU, are going to lose tons of money not being able to play the big boys for pay days. That loss of revenue will not only kill their football programs, it will do the same to the non revenue sports.

Those that say this is great for the sport, need to think long term.
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
Nope, was captured and tortured before dying. Crockett would not give up.
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No idea what the actual truth is, but a journal from a Mexican officer that was supposedly at the Alamo claims he surrendered and was executed because Santa Anna said take no prisoners. But there are certainly other accounts as to how it happened as well. One of the fascinating things about history is we're never quite certain how exactly it all went down.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Gotta love revisionist history..the aholes want to tear everybody down.
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lmao, I wasn't revising anything. The only thing known with any certainty is that Davy Crockett died at the Alamo. How he died is up for debate, and varies from different reports. We always want to believe the most heroic accounts, but we have no idea if they are true. Look up the journal I referenced to Doc. It exists. Doesn't mean it's accurate either, but it does give a different account of how Crockett died.
 
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