The Reason Kids feel disrespected...

#51
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volsgrad89 said:
You are obviously another person with the IQ of a rock. In Nashville, 'the inner city kids' are much more likely to be UT fans than Vandy. Vandy is considered the rich kid school, not UT.
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Well, thank you for your insight, but I believe my growing up in Inglewood, living literally 30 seconds away from Maplewood and going to Stratford for high school would give me a slight idea of the inner workings of inner city kids over some sales man.

Hell, what do I know, I have the IQ of a rock.
 
#52
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hibbs said:
Well, thank you for your insight, but I believe my growing up in Inglewood, living literally 30 seconds away from Maplewood and going to Stratford for high school would give me a slight idea of the inner workings of inner city kids over some sales man.

Hell, what do I know, I have the IQ of a rock.
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If, the inner city kids at Stratford don't support UT. Who do they support? I would like an educated answer to that question.

You must not know what you are saying! You are basing your information on Inglewood. Inglewood is a very small part of Nashville. Maybe Maplewood and Stratford have a lot of fans of other colleges. But, there are over 120 schools in metro. You are basing your information on 2 schools.

By the way, I use to work with educators in schools on their insurance all over middle Tennessee. And, I substituted at schools all over middle Tennessee. I have also been in a lot of metro schools. Since, my mother and aunt have worked in them for more than 20 years. So, I know much more about what goes on in the metro school system than yourself. The majority of the tshirts worn in all schools has been and still is UT!!!

By the way, you are showing your ignorance. You don't even know that salesman is one word. And, you don't know when to use a comma nor a period. So, you can quit trying to debate with me over this issue.
 
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#53
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volsgrad89 said:
If, the inner city kids at Stratford don't support UT. Who do they support? I would like an educated answer to that question.

You must not know what you are saying! You are basing your information on Inglewood. Inglewood is a very small part of Nashville. Maybe Maplewood and Stratford have a lot of fans of other colleges. But, there are over 120 schools in metro. You are basing your information on 2 schools.

By the way, I use to work with educators in schools on their insurance all over middle Tennessee. And, I substituted at schools all over middle Tennessee. I have also been in a lot of metro schools. Since, my mother and aunt have worked in them for more than 20 years. So, I know much more about what goes on in the metro school system than yourself. The majority of the tshirts worn in all schools was UT!!!
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Haha, ok my man, I give up, you have it all figured out.

Graduating in 02', having played football,baseball, and wrestling totally puts me at a disadvantage at knowing what the current crop of high school aged kids are into.

Having cousins currently going to Mcgavock, Hunters Lane, and Pearl Cohn right now and tell me about other kids they play sports with should not count as well.
 
#55
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hibbs said:
Haha, ok my man, I give up, you have it all figured out.

Graduating in 02', having played football,baseball, and wrestling totally puts me at a disadvantage at knowing what the current crop of high school aged kids are into.

Having cousins currently going to Mcgavock, Hunters Lane, and Pearl Cohn right now and tell me about other kids they play sports with should not count as well.
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Dude, you don't have a clue! There you go again naming off a short list of schools. I have coached baseball for over seven years. I have coached boys from all over Davidson County for seven years. The majority of them and their families are UT fans. For the last time, don't base Nashville on your little part of the world.
 
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BeecherVol said:
How did this discussion get to just the Metro Nashville school system?
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Mr. Know-It-All Hibbs from Inglewood is basing information on two metro schools, LOL. I have been in the majority of the schools for more years than he has been alive. Yet, he knows what goes on in the entire Nashville area based on Inglewood.
 
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BeecherVol said:
How did this discussion get to just the Metro Nashville school system?
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No clue, I just made a personal observation based upon the area I grew up in and salesman extraordinaire took it and ran with it, throwing personal attacks along the way.

It's okay though, he is obviously all knowing with the current high school population, you know selling insurance and all at the various schools.
 
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volsgrad89 said:
Dude, you don't have a clue! There you go again naming off a short list of schools. I have coached baseball for over seven years. I have coached boys from all over Davidson County for seven years. The majority of them and their families are UT fans. For the last time, don't base Nashville on your little part of the world.
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Again, please tell me how many more Metro high schools there are. I could care less about the other 100 elementary and middle schools seeing as how we will not be recruiting them any time soon.

It's okay, I am having fun, we can just agree to disagree.
 
#60
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hibbs said:
Again, please tell me how many more Metro high schools there are. I could care less about the other 100 elementary and middle schools seeing as how we will not be recruiting them any time soon.

It's okay, I am having fun, we can just agree to disagree.
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I am all for having fun. But, if you are going to debate facts. It would be better to base your information on more than a few schools.

The answer to your question is 66, plus or minus a few. The number 66 includes private schools in Nashville. So, you can't base your facts on less than 10% of the Nashville area schools!
 
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volsgrad89 said:
The answer to your question is 66, plus or minus a few. The number 66 includes private schools in Nashville. So, you can't base your facts on less than 10% of the Nashville area schools!
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Sorry, but, there are not 66 inner city Metro Nashville schools, and that was all my original point was about.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
And I'd be willing to bet there are more non-UT fans (not just Bama fans) in Nashville - quite a lot more. And of course we're going to fill up Vandy's stadium - but not only UT fans from Nashville come to that game.. UT fans from all over the state do.

Point is - go to Alabama and its really nothing like it is here and they have Auburn to deal with. I never said there weren't a lot of UT fans - but there are tons cheer against the Vols in most major cities in Tennessee excluding Knoxville.

And I don't see anywhere that I posted "there are more people cheering for the team UT is playing".
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Exactly. Midfielder10 did. Which is why I said, "That's absurd and a lie."
 
#63
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BigOrangePredsFan said:
In the Nashville area, UT has a majority of the fans. However, I think most of you are missing the point. The percentage of non-UT fans, though not a majority, is way too high. It is not hard to find Bama, Auburn, Georgia, and Kentucky fans all over the midstate. It is a problem. If you think that it is not, take a look at Birmingham for fans of out of state schools. The same can be said for Baton Rouge, Lexington, Little Rock/Fayetteville, Columbia, etc. These cities are dominated by the local team. Nashville is not.
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Those towns all have the colleges IN them. That just might have something to do with it.
 
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volsgrad89 said:
You are obviously another person with the IQ of a rock. In Nashville, 'the inner city kids' are much more likely to be UT fans than Vandy. Vandy is considered the rich kid school, not UT.
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hibbs, I'm not someone who thinks you have the "IQ of a rock," but this seems like a good point to me. If Tennessee is the "rich" school, what's the popular one? MTSU? Alabama seems like it would have just as many rich kids as Tennessee does.
 
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Midfielder10 said:
Ill tell you I don't really give a damn what you think because you don't have a clue what this area is like.
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Yeah, it's not like I've lived in Nashville my whole life and been everywhere in it. And it's not like every other poster here seems to agree with me...
 
#69
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Excellent post NYC... welcome

Do you think this new staff is making any progress reversing this epic disaster?


On game day sit on the side of I-40 and watch the orange shakers and flags going east.
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I will take your word, thanks

more than likely mostly bandwagoners.
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Hilarious

Memphis is further away from Knoxville than Canada so why would they pull for Tennessee?
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For real?? Naw...

I wish all the UT fans would move up to Tennessee frankly.
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Trust me... I and a few others here in GA wish our government would blow all bridges and roads connected Alabama. I dont even know why they have signs announcing that you have entered Alabama, because all of a sudden the road is bumpy, there are weeds growing everywhere, and you cant figure out what in gods name is that smell.
 
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hibbs said:
Depends on the neighborhood you live in, here in East Nashville where I live its the total truth. Inner city kids around here feel as if UT is for the rich kids that go to the various private schools and the bigger schools that are in what they considered the "better" areas of the town.

Metro is not crawling with talent like other big cities (namely Memphis) but there is normally a handful of kids who can play at the D-1 level and a lot of times they simply do not care for UT and never grew up wanting to always play for UT.

Hopefully the new staff will turn this around, starting out with Stone from Maplewood for this coming up class.
A pipeline into Maplewood,Hillsboro, Hunters Lane, and others would be a good thing for the future.
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I find it hard to believe that UT is the "rich kid" school. Still waiting for an answer on which schools aren't.
 
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Nice post NYC, our old staff was lazy when it comes to recruiting. I can see that now with the way this staff works.

As far as UT fans go, I'm not worried. Here in the tri-cities it is Big Orange or nothing. On I81 during saturday in the fall you can count on at least 50% of the south-bound cars are gonna be sporting a Power T flag. The fan base was, is, and will be just fine. Alot of CFB fans are fickle. I had a roommate in Ohio that was a huge FSU fan, then after two years of OSU success, he dropped the Seminoles and picked up the Buckeyes just like that. These people will always be around.

With UT success will come more UT fans, but the true UT fan BASE will never go away.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
There's also tons of kids around the state that just grow up hating Tennessee for whatever reason - and not just a small number - happens here way more than in Bama or Georgia... and this starts before high school too so that's not the answer to it all. For whatever reason it's the "cool" thing to do to cheer against Tennessee in areas outside Knoxville. I can't imagine what it's like in the Nashville and Memphis areas - Chattanooga is bad enough.
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so true...i was a rare fan of the VOLS in my elementary school and high school. once half the graduating class went to UT is when they became actual fans.
 
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