Tennessee boots Alabama group out of UT building...

#52
#52
They will complain, as they always do but if the shoe was on the other foot they would have kicked UT alum out a long time ago. I have no tolerance for those people.
 
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#56
I've noticed a tater digger infestation in lower East Tennessee. Looks like it's spreading north.
 
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volboy81 said:
I totally agree. These little bummer people don't even need to be in our state let alone in our city much less on our campus!! there's plenty of places for them to meet. I can't believe we allowed them on our campus for 40 years before they got thrown out!
GO VOLS or GO HOME!
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Ok, time for a lesson. Before you and others start crying your young little hearts out on how much of a travesty this has been for so long :rolleyes:, you need to look into why and fully read the article.

First off, they have met in a place called The Faculty Club. This was a building at the far west side of campus that was a club with the prerequisite for members being faculty or employees of UT. There was a club house with rooms for meetings, they had a sunday brunch, even had a swimming pool. A country club without a golf course. They even had a bar upstairs (the only stipulation since it was a 'dry campus' was the member brought in their own bottle and checked it into a bin in the bar then had the drinks poured by staff with a set up charge for mixers. Lets just say that there were many bottles that were forgotten but used by staff ie students). Members paid dues and one perk was that a member could book a meeting there.

If you bothered to read the article it plainly says "The group first started meeting in the building in the early 1970s, when Col. Joe Shepherd, a former Alabama football player and later a UT ROTC professor .....". Yeah, real shocker. But if you'd look up the current faculty of UT you'd plainly see that the vast, vast majority of staff did not go to UT so if a member of any alumni group, friend or foe, needed a meeting space they had a resource instead of Shoneys or much more expensive Cherokee CC/Deane Hill/Holston Hills/etc...Plus it was revenue for the location and school. For 40 years they were quietly tucked away semi off campus just a probably many UT alum could do at other schools. Over these years the sponsor probably shifted from the Col to another UT staff member with a toliet paper degree from UA.

Fast foward to today and why such the outrage finally. As stated in the article while it was the Faculty Club, this is now the admissions office. Two totally different purposes. One is a social gathering place for people who work together while the other is the first impression of a new student and future alumni. While a rousing "roll tide" might be acceptable in the old Faculty Club where no large amount of students are there, their ill time and failure of forethough in their chant raised some eyebrows resulting in their departure.

But can you blame them? I know that if I attended a UT alum meeting and it happened to be on another campus, I would expect the program to end with a chorus of Rocky Top. With the little chuckle that we did it on their campus.
 
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GreveHaller said:
Ok, time for a lesson. Before you and others start crying your young little hearts out on how much of a travesty this has been for so long :rolleyes:, you need to look into why and fully read the article.

First off, they have met in a place called The Faculty Club. This was a building at the far west side of campus that was a club with the prerequisite for members being faculty or employees of UT. There was a club house with rooms for meetings, they had a sunday brunch, even had a swimming pool. A country club without a golf course. They even had a bar upstairs (the only stipulation since it was a 'dry campus' was the member brought in their own bottle and checked it into a bin in the bar then had the drinks poured by staff with a set up charge for mixers. Lets just say that there were many bottles that were forgotten but used by staff ie students). Members paid dues and one perk was that a member could book a meeting there.

If you bothered to read the article it plainly says "The group first started meeting in the building in the early 1970s, when Col. Joe Shepherd, a former Alabama football player and later a UT ROTC professor .....". Yeah, real shocker. But if you'd look up the current faculty of UT you'd plainly see that the vast, vast majority of staff did not go to UT so if a member of any alumni group, friend or foe, needed a meeting space they had a resource instead of Shoneys or much more expensive Cherokee CC/Deane Hill/Holston Hills/etc...Plus it was revenue for the location and school. For 40 years they were quietly tucked away semi off campus just a probably many UT alum could do at other schools. Over these years the sponsor probably shifted from the Col to another UT staff member with a toliet paper degree from UA.

Fast foward to today and why such the outrage finally. As stated in the article while it was the Faculty Club, this is now the admissions office. Two totally different purposes. One is a social gathering place for people who work together while the other is the first impression of a new student and future alumni. While a rousing "roll tide" might be acceptable in the old Faculty Club where no large amount of students are there, their ill time and failure of forethough in their chant raised some eyebrows resulting in their departure.

But can you blame them? I know that if I attended a UT alum meeting and it happened to be on another campus, I would expect the program to end with a chorus of Rocky Top. With the little chuckle that we did it on their campus.
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Nice post..... To hell with them sister lovin mofo's, I don't care if it was a "semi off campus facility" or what ever do that communist heathern bear Bryant worship service somewhere else!! Period.
 
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#63
#63
Bout time. I wouldn't let anyone cept orange people around if you don't wear orange every day your not a vol so stay out go home. Bleed it.
 
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TangledGnat said:
Bout time. I wouldn't let anyone cept orange people around if you don't wear orange every day your not a vol so stay out go home. Bleed it.
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Your spectacular grammar and punctuation make you a shining example for true vols everywhere.
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bamawriter said:
Your spectacular grammar and punctuation make you a shining example for true vols everywhere.
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Thats right know it you do I guess huh. I even wear orange to work even though I go suit n tie I have a power t lapel pin so take that bama off you name or go walk on back to guntersville why don't ya!
 
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Bluetic said:
:) Im glad to see the bammer haters are still alive and well in Tennessee. I thought we were losin it for a while...
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oh no, theres only one team my daddy taught me tuh hate. the monicre says ugahater1, but it should read tahdhater1
 
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#71
Haha! I passed all my English classes but this is the Internet I didn't know we were getting graded lol. Good to see some orange bleeders I'm here though!
 
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