The fans wrote a check that the team could not cash

[Spawn]

Take what you give. Period!

 

[stolitonic]

No

I might have agreed with you 20 years ago.

Once players start getting paid legally, then I am truly sorry-receiving top pay means top results are expected. That is the case in every field in the world

The "They're just college kids" arguments is dead. This is the world the players wanted.

 

[MAD]

We went up to Ohio State and made da## fools of ourselves. It wasn't just the performance on the field, though. Our fan base talked too much trash and now we look even worse as a program. I think we motivated them to play the game of their lives against us. By all means, cheer on the team and believe in our players. Don't change the name of their stadium to Neyland north online and give the other team bulletin board material.

Shaming our loyal fans is not cool. I’m proud of every single UT fan that showed out in Columbus. Y’all made us proud.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

No

I might have agreed with you 20 years ago.

Once players start getting paid legally, then I am truly sorry-receiving top pay means top results are expected. That is the case in every field in the world

The "They're just college kids" arguments is dead. This is the world the players wanted.

This is the world the fans and the gamblers wanted. Now let's get rid of the meaningless bowls that apparently nobody cares about any more. While we are at it, let's get rid of about 90% of the college football programs that are wasting our time.

 

[AthensVol2007]

We went up to Ohio State and made da## fools of ourselves. It wasn't just the performance on the field, though. Our fan base talked too much trash and now we look even worse as a program. I think we motivated them to play the game of their lives against us. By all means, cheer on the team and believe in our players. Don't change the name of their stadium to Neyland north online and give the other team bulletin board material.

What affect did the fans have on the game? What trash did we talk? The trash talk leading up was about how we were going to invade their town and stadium, show them what a passionate fan base really looks like. I dont recall any outlandish twitter shenanigans having anything to do with the play on the field. And we did invade their campus and stadium like NOBODY has ever done.

I’m anxious to see overhead views cause I was on the 5th row and you couldn’t even see the upper deck behind us because it slopes so far back. What I could see in the stadium was a ridiculous amount of orange and I know there was more and I know that black jackets were likely Vol fans as well. The bar we were in was 70/30 Vols and bar/restaurant lines around town were 50/50 almost everywhere. I heard OSU fans asking other OSU fans who might have more fans pre-game cause that was the scene around town. Seeing bar lines of fans in red, in a 1 in 1 out basis while the inside was flooded with orange was glorious and hilarious. This fanbase put on a mother ****ing display of support rarely, if ever, seen before. Dominating a neutral site crowd is cool, pulling 40k people out of their own stadium is untouchable. The fans are the only ones who can puff out our chest’s this morning because we’re the ones who did exactly what we said we’d do and what all the naysayers said couldn’t and wouldn’t be done.

 

[TENNESSEESLIM]

We should never feel bad about trolling a bunch whiny football blue bloods who sell their tickets and cry when they win 11 games every year in a soft conference while having a 20million dollar roster. Truth is they are just better than us this year. We are getting closer, and it will happen. I just hope we don’t act like that, but I’m not sure after seeing all the “far hople” threads today. That’s what we should stop doing if anything.

 

[stolitonic]

This is the world the fans and the gamblers wanted. Now let's get rid of the meaningless bowls that apparently nobody cares about any more. While we are at it, let's get rid of about 90% of the college football programs that are wasting our time

What? As a fan, this is diametrically opposed to what I wanted lol. Who wanted this chaos?

I do agree that about 75% of the remaining bowls could be done away with without anyone being very disappointed. Honestly though, if the committees are making enough to put them on and want to do so, then more power to them I suppose?

Perhaps there does need to be a bit of a separation that needs to happen. Let's be honest with ourselves-there's only about 10 teams out there who are ever going to win a NC in this day and age. We are not in that club. We haven't been in that club for a long, long time. We're the middle aged guy wearing his Lettermans jacket to a high school football game.

 

[njvols]

May have talked trash, but no more than any other fan base. All are CFB fans of their teams. When ESPN gameday crew says they've been doing games for 35+ years and we had the most fans they've ever seen at an away game, that's just legitimate fandom that no other team can pull off...maybe a few fan bases if they were hungry enough and hadn't been winning much, like a LSU or UGA or Bama.

 

[volfan102455]

All teams talk and there has been talk and banter amongst SEC teams has happened forever.

The problem is OSU fans, not Tennessee fans. OSU does NOT know how to handle the trolling. I get the impression that they take everything too seriously and expect all teams that play them to "bow down" to them. And if you don't bow down, they get their feelings hurt. They don't know how to 'troll' and so they don't know the difference between that and reality.

OSU also did not handle the amount of Tennessee fans that made the trip - it was embarrassing to them to have that much orange in the stands and for a team to not accept the measly 3500 seats they offered.

They also obviously do NOT understand what 'LOUD' means as they definitely tried to show they could be just as loud. But they use piped in sound and music to feed that meter, if they were truly using a meter. And they did not stop the music when they were supposed to because it wasn't very loud when they did. What they don't understand because they never played at a LOUD SEC school, is that SEC Loud, in particular with NEYLAND loud, the fans in the stands (1) cannot hear anything piped in at all and (2) cannot carry a conversation on with the person next to them when it is that loud.

 

[IUGradVol]

We went up to Ohio State and made da## fools of ourselves. It wasn't just the performance on the field, though. Our fan base talked too much trash and now we look even worse as a program. I think we motivated them to play the game of their lives against us. By all means, cheer on the team and believe in our players. Don't change the name of their stadium to Neyland north online and give the other team bulletin board material.

100% agreed. Probably plays a part in all of today’s negativity too.

 

[brewinvol]

I have no problem with the trash talk. There was some epic trolling this week. But you also have to be big enough to take it on the other side when it doesn’t come out your way. There was a reason to be excited this week, Ohio state just came out way more prepared last night. They play like that 3 more games they will be hard to stop.

 

[brockytop]

We went up to Ohio State and made da## fools of ourselves. It wasn't just the performance on the field, though. Our fan base talked too much trash and now we look even worse as a program. I think we motivated them to play the game of their lives against us. By all means, cheer on the team and believe in our players. Don't change the name of their stadium to Neyland north online and give the other team bulletin board material.

Our fans showed up in an amazing way. Blaming them in any way for that on the field fiasco is ridiculous.

 

[volfan102455]

Tennessee fans can either slink away from what happened Saturday, act humbled, be contrite, act like they're supposed to, OR Tennessee fans can say "that's right, that's HOW WE ROLL" and be proud of raising such a stink that it became a talking point for the game.

Oh I know, people want us to be embarrassed. Screw that. I'm willing to bet every single program would kill to have fans as rabid as ours. Our fans brought it, in ways no other fans have done this year.

We shouldn't be worried about Tennessee fans talking loud and raising the stakes. Don't be. We should only be worried if we reach the day when Tennessee fans don't invest anymore.

This. We are real fans and get behind our team. We support them. We show up. We expect to win as we should. We don't BOW DOWN to any team. And when we don't win, we still support our team.

Those of you who have a problem with the Tennessee fans, do what the OSU Fans told a group of us Tennessee fans we needed to do as we were walking out - they yelled and I quote " you all need to find another team to support". It was also apparent that if they had had to travel, they would not have because they thought we were crazy for doing so.

That is the type of arrogance you are supporting by speaking out against our fan base.

 

[njvols]

Our fans showed up in an amazing way. Blaming them in any way for that on the field fiasco is ridiculous.

It's what separates CFB from NFL. If things happened to have turned out differently and Vols won, our fans would be getting the most epic credit ever...that stadium would have been Neyland North, for sure. If there were 30 Vol fans @ OSU or 30,000, it doesn't matter either way. We weren't winning that game, and I'd argue that no other team in America would have won against that version of OSU last night.

What's going to get interesting is if, for some unknown reason, the Michigan game version of OSU appears vs Oregon. This season may be the craziest and most unexplainable season I've ever seen.

 

[brockytop]

It's what separates CFB from NFL. If things happened to have turned out differently and Vols won, our fans would be getting the most epic credit ever...that stadium would have been Neyland North, for sure. If there were 30 Vol fans @ OSU or 30,000, it doesn't matter either way. We weren't winning that game, and I'd argue that no other team in America would have won against that version of OSU last night.

What's going to get interesting is if, for some unknown reason, the Michigan game version of OSU appears vs Oregon. This season may be the craziest and most unexplainable season I've ever seen.

OSU has better talent for sure, but I was worried all along having to hear about Michigan for a month would have them dialed in last night. They were.