The clown!

[BigBadVol]

Pat “The Clown” Forde is at it again. Man that guy is butt hurt.
National college football reporter takes unnecessary shot at Tennessee Vols

 

[Hacksaw]

Why give him the clicks?

 

[FlyFishnVol]

Pat “The Clown” Ford is at it again. Man that guy is butt hurt.
National college football reporter takes unnecessary shot at Tennessee Vols

Pat Ford is trying to lure UT fans into a click battle to get his tired style of writing some kind of adreline shot. It's sad to see this type of behavior from a aging dry piece of toast. I feel sorry for Pat, he is really desperate for ratings.

 

[BigBadVol]

Why give him the clicks?

You’re right! I didn’t think about that.

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

Anti-Rat Poison!

Keep it up Forde!

 

[TAF]

 

[overseasorange2]

Never heard of him!

 

[franklinboy]

Pat “The Clown” Forde is at it again. Man that guy is butt hurt.
National college football reporter takes unnecessary shot at Tennessee Vols

I'm really not being a smart a$$ but he's not the only one out there imo

 

[bigorangepoppa]

I will give my opinion in this: I believe he must be a Schiano fan who is angry over that deal. Being linked with Sandusky is not a good look, and we all know the media can spin whatever narrative they choose. Did he know about it, did he not know? we may never know the real answer to that question. The fans are the ones who pay for tickets, concessions, contribute to the Vol funds, make large donations to the university. I don't believe it had anything to do with whether or not he could win in the SEC. It was all related to the Sandusky problem.

 

[Tman44]

You can't spell pathetic without pat.

 

[number1volfanfrom76]

Is he a Gator guy?

 

[butchna]

He’s a miffed talking head who got sideways when we didn’t accept what was being shoved down our throats. Continuing progress and ghosting him is the way.

 

[Ashevillevol]

So he doesn’t like us. I’m good with that. He can write whatever he wants. When the games get played, we’ll see how it works out.

 

[TNRazor]

We're living rent free in his head, have been for a long time now

 

[jcvols24]

Why give him the clicks?

The article linked wasn't written by Patty, just about him/her/it.

 

[Chad F]

Those outraged by Tennessee NOT wanting Schiano are imbeciles. You can disagree with the spurious assertions that Schiano was directly culpable in the Sandusky scandal, but the fact remains that NO ONE else was even considering that fool to be a HC besides us and (I guess) Rutgers.

Even the charlatan Urban Meyer (who expressed so much indignation that Schiano was rejected) never even thought about recommending Schiano as a serious candidate to replace him at Ohio State. Nobody wanted that guy. Period. We ended up with Pruitt, which was no better, but at least we went with an unknown quantity rather than a known loser.

I just threw up a little at the thought that this last point sounds a lot like something of a defense of the Pruitt hire. It’s not . . . because if Schiano HAD been hired, and IF he had even a mediocre 7 win kind of track record (likely the best he would have managed), we probably wouldn’t have gotten to Josh Heupel. Hell, Schiano might still be here and Fulmer might still be the AD. Terrible possibilities to contemplate . . .

Forde is a self-righteous D-bag.

 

[Putbacks]

A$$hats are “B” reporters.

 

[JCHateSteve]

You can tell we are moving in the right direction because we're collecting haters. Brush it off.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Ford is an edsel.

 

[youcancallmeAl]

Who the hell is Pat Ford?

 

[SpookyAction]

I thought the Group A and Group B teams were determined by conference win-loss records over the previous 10 years.
That fact makes the AtoZ article stupid and moot.
Forde is a hack, but call him out when he hacks, and not when he is accurate.

Ten year conference record makes UT a Group B. It sucks for the teams that draw UT as a Group B opponent.
And good news for teams drawing UF and Auburn as Group A opponents. Looking at our schedule knowing this makes me feel better about it.

I dislike Forde, but I see the AtoZ article is clickbait of the worst sort. Manufacturing outrage is boring and weak. It makes our fanbase look worse than Forde ever could, because we are attacking him irrationally. Being angry based on the rationale of this article makes Forde's Schiano-based attack look substantiated.

 

[OrangeTsar]

I refuse to read any article that will not display in my browser but that instead wants me to download their app in order to read. A web page is a web page is a web page

 

[orange54]

Looks like to me that we are doing better without the Rutgers retread.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Quoted for Truth:

I don't know who hurt Forde's feelings in Knoxville, but they must have really did a number on that man.

We live in Forde's head. He's trying to live in ours, in return. But we don't give a rat scat about him or his thoughts.

Go Vols!

 

[orangebloodgmc]

Is he a Gator guy?

He went to Mizzou, his wife was athlete at a Big 10 school that we clobbered in a bowl, his kids go to Mizzou and Georgia, he lives in Kentucky, he worked at ESPN ... nope, not coming up with any reasons why he would have ever rooted against the Vols.