Saw the espn e60 profile with Arian foster

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sanddune50 said:
What's to get the guy is making millions of dollars and is still whining about being booed on a message board? He needs to grow up and quit being so thin skinned. UT was still the free ride scholarship platform that allowed him to display his skills and play on the next level. You can tell who's entitled and who is not by reading this thread.
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Maybe because the hate directed at him even after he has been long gone, is still a putrid cesspool kept alive by hatemonger fans here. You can hurt a person so bad it will fester for years. And again, I'm saying this isn't just a A. Foster thing. You got ex-Vols who play pro ball but won't acknowledge they come from the UT. You got negative stuff about the fanbase being talked about on TV. People besides us do read posts here. Your venom is costing us and giving free fodder to opposing recruiters. There was a song called, "I can't stop loving you." With too many fans here, they have a song about A. Foster that goes, "I can't stop hating you." And you whine when he gives back a bit of hate he got. Bit one sided don't you think? Naw, Foster haters can't think, too egoistically self-righteous for that.
 
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Just saw the end of it a few minutes ago. He and his father kept saying that there was something the coaches didn't like about him. What was the deal with him and coaches?
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The negative opinions of Foster by UT fans is a perfect illustration of how spoiled the base is. The personal attacks, the booing, the monday morning coaching, and the second guessing all weaken the program. You need to know this.
 
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BigOrangeCrush32 said:
Penn State in the bowl game would disagree with ya....

Didn't he fumble going into the end zone against UCLA....that pretty much cost us the game.....bc he scores there is no need for the field goal attempt or overtime....I may be wrong about this one tho....might have been another player...
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I think that's right. Not positive. Also, I'm thinking there was a fumble or two in that 08 auburn game where there was like 20 total points scored. May have been crompton's fault. I'll have to check the film, as Fulmer says.
 
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From the espn recap...

"Auburn's anemic offense, which only produced 226 yards a week after a last-minute loss to LSU, was bailed out when Ricks recovered a fumble in the end zone for the 14-6 lead in the second quarter after a botched handoff to Arian Foster."

Not sure if this one was crompton's fault or foster's. I think it was credited to Crompton.
 
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omghulkhands said:
If I were him I would be upset too. He played hard in a tough time for the university, returned for his senior season when he didn't have to and ran for a butt ton of yards and get dogged by a lot of our fans.

He ran for more yards than Webb or Cobb or Lewis and all those other RBs that those same fans idolize and gets less than half the praise.

When I think of Arian I am reminded of plays like when he took it 65-70 yards to the house against LSU in the SEC championship game, not some fumble. His fumbles did not decide the outcome of any games....period.
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Word
 
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For those who think his fumbles never impacted the result of a game:

Foster fumbled vs UCLA in the third quarter on first and goal at the 6 yard line in a game that went to overtime.

In the Penn State game, we were up 3-0 when foster fumbled, giving penn state the ball on the UT 24 yard line which led to a fg for Penn State.

Later, in the 4th quarter, with the game tied at 10-10, foster fumbled on 1st and ten from the PSU 14 yard line and it was picked up and returned 87 yards for a TD.

To me, it was never the amount of fumbles he had at UT. It was when and where they were. There's 3 right there that were huge. The one vs UCLA kept us off the board. One from Penn St game gave them an easy fg and the other was a first and goal for us that they took to the house for a 10 to 14 point swing. I think for his entire career, foster only had a couple more fumbles but those three were crucial for sure.

Are our fans too hard on him? Probably. Did he have some incredibly costly fumbles? Absolutely.
 
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I still have hard feelings about the Clawfense too. AF is a better running back in the pro's than he was in college period. The fact that ESPN hates us probably made this look worse than Arian made it out to be.
 
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governmentmule said:
the number 2 all time rushing leader for the Vols

UT University of Tennessee Football Stats Rushing

and all you hear is *****ing about this and that and his mom? I personally like having Fostermom on the board,he is a very good running back,the fumbles were far and few in between,but at bad times when they happened,get over it
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RUSHING YARDS-PLAY:
1 Kelsey Finch* @Florida 10/22/77
99

2 Dick Dodson Transylvania 10/22/27 91

3 LaMarcus Coker Marshall 9/23/06 89
4 LaMarcus Coker @Vanderbilt 11/18/06 87

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man, that sucks. I really liked Coker.

That list also made me want to go back and look at the RBs we had around the mid-2000s, and Fulmer's last hurrah.

2004 - Riggs Jr, Houston
2005 - Foster, Riggs Jr, Hardesty
2006 - Coker, Hardesty, Foster
2007 - Foster, Hardesty, Coker, Creer
2008 - Foster, Hardesty, Creer, Poole
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GAVol said:
Truth . . . A lot of it also was that Arian has an offbeat sense of humor that just didn't play well with some fans. instead of the typical canned athlete responses about "one game at a time" and team and giving 110%, he talked about opening a philosophy store and spoke pterodactyl in response to cliched questions. It's a well known fact that the pterodactyl language cannot be translated to redneckanese.
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This...and I never met a hillbilly who could savvy the first word of pterodactyl. They just do not want to hear any of that pterodactyl! Personally, I always thought that Arian Foster played like an NFL running back, and expected to see him on Sundays and Mondays if he learned to keep his elbow down.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Maybe because the hate directed at him even after he has been long gone, is still a putrid cesspool kept alive by hatemonger fans here. You can hurt a person so bad it will fester for years. And again, I'm saying this isn't just a A. Foster thing. You got ex-Vols who play pro ball but won't acknowledge they come from the UT. You got negative stuff about the fanbase being talked about on TV. People besides us do read posts here. Your venom is costing us and giving free fodder to opposing recruiters. There was a song called, "I can't stop loving you." With too many fans here, they have a song about A. Foster that goes, "I can't stop hating you." And you whine when he gives back a bit of hate he got. Bit one sided don't you think? Naw, Foster haters can't think, too egoistically self-righteous for that.
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You're just excusing poor behavior nothing more. Best way to handle what you feel as unjustified booing, verbal attacks, etc. is to not acknowledge it. Like a poster said earlier in the thread Crompton experienced way worse than what Foster did and he doesn't harbor any ill will.

And please share with me examples of this putrid venom from the UT cesspool as you refer to it as in reference to Foster. I noticed you included my comments which kills a lot of your credibility if you think that is worthy of holding a 4 year grudge at a university. Like it or not fans are part of the game, always have been and always will be. Hate to tip my ace here, but do you really think we are the first fanbase to boo a player? If so, you need to look outside of that bubble that you apparently live in.

Trying to sound intelligent and philosphical in a post doesn't change That some people, Arian included need to put their big boy pants on and move forward.
 
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I agree with every opinion stated here as well as Arians' & his Mother's thoughts.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
From the espn recap...

"Auburn's anemic offense, which only produced 226 yards a week after a last-minute loss to LSU, was bailed out when Ricks recovered a fumble in the end zone for the 14-6 lead in the second quarter after a botched handoff to Arian Foster."

Not sure if this one was crompton's fault or foster's. I think it was credited to Crompton.
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Crompton had the ball at fosters hip
 
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sanddune50 said:
You're just excusing poor behavior nothing more. Best way to handle what you feel as unjustified booing, verbal attacks, etc. is to not acknowledge it. Like a poster said earlier in the thread Crompton experienced way worse than what Foster did and he doesn't harbor any ill will.

And please share with me examples of this putrid venom from the UT cesspool as you refer to it as in reference to Foster. I noticed you included my comments which kills a lot of your credibility if you think that is worthy of holding a 4 year grudge at a university. Like it or not fans are part of the game, always have been and always will be. Hate to tip my ace here, but do you really think we are the first fanbase to boo a player? If so, you need to look outside of that bubble that you apparently live in.

Trying to sound intelligent and philosphical in a post doesn't change That some people, Arian included need to put their big boy pants on and move forward.
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You do a good job of twisting comments into something incomprehensible while justifying your on-going hatreds. Carry on, son.
 
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funny perception of foster on this board is
some say he never fumbled and it never cost us one game
others blame every loss between 2005 - 2008 was because he fumbled every single game.

Think eventually we will all agree he was a good RB who f'ed up a few times really bad at really bad times.
 
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I watched it. Dude seems a bit off but appears to be a decent person. I don't think it really showed UT in a bad light.
 
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BigOrangeCrush32 said:
Penn State in the bowl game would disagree with ya....

Didn't he fumble going into the end zone against UCLA....that pretty much cost us the game.....bc he scores there is no need for the field goal attempt or overtime....I may be wrong about this one tho....might have been another player...
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The game was tied with freaking 10 minutes in the game left how the heck did he lose that game?
 
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BigZiti09 said:
For those who think his fumbles never impacted the result of a game:

Foster fumbled vs UCLA in the third quarter on first and goal at the 6 yard line in a game that went to overtime.

In the Penn State game, we were up 3-0 when foster fumbled, giving penn state the ball on the UT 24 yard line which led to a fg for Penn State.

Later, in the 4th quarter, with the game tied at 10-10, foster fumbled on 1st and ten from the PSU 14 yard line and it was picked up and returned 87 yards for a TD.

To me, it was never the amount of fumbles he had at UT. It was when and where they were. There's 3 right there that were huge. The one vs UCLA kept us off the board. One from Penn St game gave them an easy fg and the other was a first and goal for us that they took to the house for a 10 to 14 point swing. I think for his entire career, foster only had a couple more fumbles but those three were crucial for sure.

Are our fans too hard on him? Probably. Did he have some incredibly costly fumbles? Absolutely.
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Dude its dumb to say "it impacted the game". 90% of turnovers impact the game lol. I will say that the Penn State is the one (and only) that made a difference. But the team had TEN MINUTES left and couldn't muster a fg. People act like he is the only one to have had "costly" fumbles when in fact only 1 was worth noting. One was Ainges fault another was Cromptons and the others were really early in the game. Just a normal fumble.
 
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