Some if not a lot of folks here won't like this and I fully expect to be attacked. Given too much ugliness I've seen from some, perhaps too many fans on this board, it's no surprise Adrian feels as he does. There are people here who damn players who so much as sneeze and it sounds like anchu instead achoo.
I and smarter people than me have said before that more players, recruits, their parents and others watch this board than you realize. That the ugliness here is the best recruiting tool for opposing coaches they could ever hope for. Attitudes here range from the worse forms of ethno-centric conceit to petty whines about practically nothing at all.
Now, to be fair, we got some true fans here who actually know how behave in a mature manner, who can even criticize without being rabid turd tubes. But the amount of noise made by stereotypical sots make us seem like the dumb hicks people elsewhere think we are. That's why certain negative things about the UT fanbase is showing up ESPN and elsewhere now. Better understand something, players leaving the UT feeling as Adrian does, won't be donating back to the university when they're making those millions. You see the signs already, Meachem and some other ex-Vols don't even mention Tennessee when asked what school they're from. They refer to their high schools instead. The sots are killing loyalty and seem to not care. Just look at the putdowns on C. Patterson despite the biased accusation being mere hearsay. This bespeaks an eagerness to stomp players if they so much as look like they might stumble and fall instead of waiting for them to actually hit the ground before stomping him.
