The Official #1 Tennessee vs Florida SEC Tourney Championship Game Thread (Sunday May 29 3PM EST ESPN2)

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vol66 said:
Nothing could make me not support the team which I did for a few days. However, it’s a bit intimidating to be sitting around people ya don’t wanna bother while knowing they only showed up because we’re winning.
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You mean they’re bothered by your cheering? I’m glad new folks are showing up. No one was priced out in Hoover with $18 GA tix—not discounting gas and travel costs. Heck, I give props to any fan who supported the team in Hoover. It’s all good but Kind of shocked by your take.
 
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taylorvol said:
You mean they’re bothered by your cheering? I’m glad new folks are showing up. No one was priced out in Hoover with $18 GA tix—not discounting gas and travel costs. Heck, I give props to any fan who supported the team in Hoover. It’s all good but Kind of shocked by your take.
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Me too. From this seat, it was loud on Sunday. MVP Drew even had a quote that his heart was racing due to the crowd noise. We probably had 10,000+ Vols in Hoover.

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taylorvol said:
You mean they’re bothered by your cheering? I’m glad new folks are showing up. No one was priced out in Hoover with $18 GA tix—not discounting gas and travel costs. Heck, I give props to any fan who supported the team in Hoover. It’s all good but Kind of shocked by your take.
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The first sentence in my post was regarding how many people showed up. How Orange the crowd was. My post won’t make sense if you weren’t there for VU, LSU or UK. Again, I appreciate folks showing up, I do.

My post is specifically about energy not quantity of people. The crowds for the other games were smaller but louder. The Go BIG ORANGE chants, the V-O-L-S go vols go chants, being all over the umps, the Whistler, etc…

The priced out part is specifically about regionals. In my post I’m referring to having to make a choice between the two.

GBO!!!
 
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vol66 said:
The first sentence in my post was regarding how many people showed up. How Orange the crowd was. My post won’t make sense if you weren’t there for VU, LSU or UK. Again, I appreciate folks showing up, I do.

My post is specifically about energy not quantity of people. The crowds for the other games were smaller but louder. The Go BIG ORANGE chants, the V-O-L-S go vols go chants, being all over the umps, the Whistler, etc…

The priced out part is specifically about regionals. In my post I’m referring to having to make a choice between the two.

GBO!!!
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Maybe there were a lot of football fans there and they were shocked to see us beating Florida lol
 
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youcancallmeAl said:
Maybe being up til 2 am two nights in a row had the fans a little off their game.
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It wore me out. I haven’t stayed up that late on back to back nights in a LONG time! I think those 2 late “Ibiza nightclub hours” combined with the heat of a mid afternoon Sunday game had to zap some of the fans energy. Either way, the national media are gushing over Volnation taking over Hoover Met. Phenomenal fan support but I expect nothing less.
 
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biscuitbilly said:
I’ve enjoyed reading/lurking so here are my impressions of Hoover and the tournament.
* GREAT EXPERIENCE. And I wasn’t there for final/watched on TV. LATE nights gutted this old dude. Seeing Vandyboys almost run ruled, LSU fans quieted and Kentucky spanked was awesome.
* My first time to Hoover. They do it right. Bad that Birmingham is in belly of beast but prob the best centrally located place to have it. Write this one down/when Whorns join SEC they will be pu$hing hard for venue to “rotate” ie, be in Austin every other year.
* $7 for a hot dog a bit much but kudos to SEC/Hoover for free parking. They could have made a boatload of $$ at $10/car.
* Ate at Walk-Ons just off the Hoover exit. Really good sports bar set up. Duck/anduille sausage and poboy very good. Didn’t realize we had one in Knoxville.
* Met a couple of players families at hotel. Great folks!
* Everybody has pretty much summed up the team and what it has done for University and fans. They are fun to watch! They are so good but have lots of pressure on them to go to Omaha and win. It’s baseball/anything can happen but hard to imagine another future TENN team like this that is stacked with pitching, solid hitting 1-9 and plays good D. I want it all but regardless of what happens we as fans need to FULLY appreciate what this team is/has done.
* Maybe it’s because I played CF back in the days of the wooden bat and being taught to catch with two hands—Drew Gilbert is my man. Leader, clutch hitter, intense and PATROLS the outfield like a Marine on a mission!
* Didn’t have one negative experience with opposing team fans. Had great chats with A&M, LSU, Bama, and Ole Miss fan(s). Though you could tell the LSU folks were a bit resentful that we have our hands around their necks!
* Ok that’s my diatribe/back in the weeds.
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Nice recap. Love your overall description of Drew but specifically “patrolling the outfield like a Marine on a mission”! Well stated!
 
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For anyone that wants to pass the time and watch some great tennis today, Nadal-Djokovic in the quarterfinals at the French Open is at 2:45pm. This will be their 59th meeting and 10th at Roland Garros.
 
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vol66 said:
The first sentence in my post was regarding how many people showed up. How Orange the crowd was. My post won’t make sense if you weren’t there for VU, LSU or UK. Again, I appreciate folks showing up, I do.

My post is specifically about energy not quantity of people. The crowds for the other games were smaller but louder. The Go BIG ORANGE chants, the V-O-L-S go vols go chants, being all over the umps, the Whistler, etc…

The priced out part is specifically about regionals. In my post I’m referring to having to make a choice between the two.

GBO!!!
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I respect your opinion but just surprised by it. Especially the part in quotes below. I’m there to enjoy baseball and support my team. The crowd is part of the experience but the main thing is the main thing. Just my 2 cents. GBO!

“If the crowd that shows up for the final game in LNS is the same that showed up for the last game at the Met…I don’t wanna be there.”
 
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taylorvol said:
It wore me out. I haven’t stayed up that late on back to back nights in a LONG time! I think those 2 late “Ibiza nightclub hours” combined with the heat of a mid afternoon Sunday game had to zap some of the fans energy. Either way, the national media are gushing over Volnation taking over Hoover Met. Phenomenal fan support but I expect nothing less.
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Nearly 24 hours later and we are still the 5th top headline on ESPN.com so there’s that!
 
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vol66 said:
Right behind the Tennessee dugout, looks like. I specifically mentioned that section.
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Yes, I give you credit for that observation. We were jumping around there.

Sounds like you were in section 202 or 204. Sorry, I never really looked over there to see the crowd reactions.

With that said, LNS will be rocking this weekend. I promise!!
 
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taylorvol said:
I respect your opinion but just surprised by it. Especially the part in quotes below. I’m there to enjoy baseball and support my team. The crowd is part of the experience but the main thing is the main thing. Just my 2 cents. GBO!

“If the crowd that shows up for the final game in LNS is the same that showed up for the last game at the Met…I don’t wanna be there.”
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I can appreciate that, as I said, I fully expected some folks to take issue with the post. Supporting the team is through good and bad, giving energy to the team for them to feed off of. It is picking nits, we won, when the team did something the crowd responded, maybe I was expecting LSU and maybe it’s just to new for that.

One final note. For a long time this day was predicted. We will expand. Baseball will grow. The days of walking up to get a ticket for 5 bucks is gonna come to an end. Every game will be televised. The potential for baseball to at least break even if not generate money is coming. Nobody is happier about the direction of things than me. I’m also not surprised that season ticket holders get first dibs on regional books. Ya gotta take the good with the bad.

GBO!!!
 
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Also I think the heat may have played a role in the atmosphere. I was walking along the concourse to get a drink and an LSU fan was sitting on the ground feeling lightheaded with an officer and other people surrounding him.
 
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VolPack22 said:
They will probably never see those jerseys again unfortunately.
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They wore them on Friday night in Starkville. Since the team went directly to Hoover, assuming they had the uniforms cleaned thru the Hyatt. Since most Alabama graduates work in dry cleaning, I'm guessing some punks in Tuskaloserville are walking around in real men jerseys,

Ain't no one wearing Bama jersey's, because they aren't good enough make the NCAA tournament.

L-O-S-E-R-S!

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