What has happened to VolNation and its fans?

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VolFreakJosh

VolFreakJosh

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I've been a Tennessee fan my whole life living in Kentucky. I didn't have that many Vol fans to talk too. I discovered VolNation so I could talk about Tennessee football with other Vol fans around the world. When I first came on here, everyone was so nice and welcomed me like I was family. It was enjoyable to talk about recruiting, coaching, the team, etc. Every since the season as started, it seems like all I see is Vol fans bashing the team, the coaching, or each other. I can understand people getting upset over a stupid play or something like that but it's like there's always someone complaining about something: Butch Jones can't coach, our quarterbacks sucks, our offensive line is overrated, we should just give up the rest of the season, etc.. It's getting to the point where I don't even like to come on VolNation anymore. Im not trying to bash anyone but it's the truth. I didn't expect us to dominate this season, I knew we was going to have a rough time learning the new system and stuff. Sure we might be struggling now, but give Buch Jones a couple of more years and he'll have this team competing in the SEC again. He just doesn't have the horses to compete yet but we shouldn't bash the team just because they're struggling. It just makes us look bad. Again, I believe Butch Jones is the right man for the job. He knew it would be a big challenge to turn this program around and it's going to take him a few years to restore it. Like I said before, we might struggle to win some games this year, but there's no reason for some of you Vol fans bashing the coaches and the whole team. They don't deserve that. You can make fun of this thread all you want too but I'm speaking for everyone, that it's time for some of us Vol fans to act more mature and not act like a bunch of babies everytime something goes wrong. It doesn't make the team better and it sure as heck doesn't make us look better either. We should always have confidence in this football team!
 
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It's just the accumulation of what's been going on over the last several years. Everyone is frustrated and getting mental
 
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And for the record I have seen about a dozen of these threads today. There are very few people actually bashing coaches or players, besides Worley anyway. He gets bashed a lot. :)
 
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Hmmmmm idk what happened. We just went from competing in the SEC every year to competing for a bowl (Which we haven't been to in two years)
 
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Carl Pickens said:
It's just the accumulation of what's been going on over the last several years. Everyone is frustrated and getting mental
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And you can hardly blame them. 5 years in a row of dumpster fire football is just hard to take.
 
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Wow...Massive wall of text.

What did it say? Something about us all being a bunch of negavols, and some more about Butch getting it?
 
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GAVol said:
And you can hardly blame them. 5 years in a row of dumpster fire football is just hard to take.
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Yet...the fans are still around talking about it. People care. I think that says a lot about the tradition of UT football.

Our QB situation is absolutely unprecedented. I remember Crompton short hopping the 15 yard outs with some degree of frequency, but I don't remember it being this bad. We are in uncharted waters five games into the season.
 
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OP...too long...didn't read

As for your title...

"Losing makes you feel like losers" - Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel

10 years of "work in' like heck", hostessing, bamboo watering, and bricks can take their toll when a Team that's been around shorter than my iPhone gives us a game to the wire.
 
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Lexvol said:
Yet...the fans are still around talking about it. People care. I think that says a lot about the tradition of UT football.

Our QB situation is absolutely unprecedented. I remember Crompton short hopping the 15 yard outs with some degree of frequency, but I don't remember it being this bad. We are in uncharted waters five games into the season.
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Simms made me want to stab myself.
 
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Lexvol said:
Yet...the fans are still around talking about it. People care. I think that says a lot about the tradition of UT football.

Our QB situation is absolutely unprecedented. I remember Crompton short hopping the 15 yard outs with some degree of frequency, but I don't remember it being this bad. We are in uncharted waters five games into the season.
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I think the receiver situation is more unprecedented. I can't remember ever having to play this many young and inexperienced guys.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
I've been a Tennessee fan my whole life living in Kentucky. I didn't have that many Vol fans to talk too. I discovered VolNation so I could talk about Tennessee football with other Vol fans around the world. When I first came on here, everyone was so nice and welcomed me like I was family. It was enjoyable to talk about recruiting, coaching, the team, etc. Every since the season as started, it seems like all I see is Vol fans bashing the team, the coaching, or each other. I can understand people getting upset over a stupid play or something like that but it's like there's always someone complaining about something: Butch Jones can't coach, our quarterbacks sucks, our offensive line is overrated, we should just give up the rest of the season, etc.. It's getting to the point where I don't even like to come on VolNation anymore. Im not trying to bash anyone but it's the truth. I didn't expect us to dominate this season, I knew we was going to have a rough time learning the new system and stuff. Sure we might be struggling now, but give Buch Jones a couple of more years and he'll have this team competing in the SEC again. He just doesn't have the horses to compete yet but we shouldn't bash the team just because they're struggling. It just makes us look bad. Again, I believe Butch Jones is the right man for the job. He knew it would be a big challenge to turn this program around and it's going to take him a few years to restore it. Like I said before, we might struggle to win some games this year, but there's no reason for some of you Vol fans bashing the coaches and the whole team. They don't deserve that. You can make fun of this thread all you want too but I'm speaking for everyone, that it's time for some of us Vol fans to act more mature and not act like a bunch of babies everytime something goes wrong. It doesn't make the team better and it sure as heck doesn't make us look better either. We should always have confidence in this football team!
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All of Volnation is on suicide watch imo
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
I've been a Tennessee fan my whole life living in Kentucky. I didn't have that many Vol fans to talk too. I discovered VolNation so I could talk about Tennessee football with other Vol fans around the world. When I first came on here, everyone was so nice and welcomed me like I was family. It was enjoyable to talk about recruiting, coaching, the team, etc. Every since the season as started, it seems like all I see is Vol fans bashing the team, the coaching, or each other. I can understand people getting upset over a stupid play or something like that but it's like there's always someone complaining about something: Butch Jones can't coach, our quarterbacks sucks, our offensive line is overrated, we should just give up the rest of the season, etc.. It's getting to the point where I don't even like to come on VolNation anymore. Im not trying to bash anyone but it's the truth. I didn't expect us to dominate this season, I knew we was going to have a rough time learning the new system and stuff. Sure we might be struggling now, but give Buch Jones a couple of more years and he'll have this team competing in the SEC again. He just doesn't have the horses to compete yet but we shouldn't bash the team just because they're struggling. It just makes us look bad. Again, I believe Butch Jones is the right man for the job. He knew it would be a big challenge to turn this program around and it's going to take him a few years to restore it. Like I said before, we might struggle to win some games this year, but there's no reason for some of you Vol fans bashing the coaches and the whole team. They don't deserve that. You can make fun of this thread all you want too but I'm speaking for everyone, that it's time for some of us Vol fans to act more mature and not act like a bunch of babies everytime something goes wrong. It doesn't make the team better and it sure as heck doesn't make us look better either. We should always have confidence in this football team!
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Obviously your first football season on VN. All of this is natural. You want nice, move to the pub forum for the duration of fb season.
 
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Its an internet forum josh, try not to take it too serious. As for the unhappiness of the fans, Tennessee football has become a joke. What else do you expect? At this point, we can only hope it gets better sooner than later.
 
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Freak said:
I think the receiver situation is more unprecedented. I can't remember ever having to play this many young and inexperienced guys.
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You have a point...and that is exactly why Butch doesn't want to start a freshman QB.
 
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Freak said:
Welcome to the Internet. The rudeness factor is increasing.
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Some of you all seriously need to lighten up. As the poster above pointed out, the OP put out a massive tome that basically said, "Stop being Negavols, give Butch a chance."

This is only like the 100th thread of the last week or 2 with the same theme, and it seems unnecessarily long. Hence the cliff notes comment.
 
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I'm behind Coach Jones all the way! Are the players putting forth for him? The QB situation isn't the greatest, but hopefully get better over the years. It's got too for UT to go places. However, the QB isn't the main problem. I just hope the Univrsity has patience with this coach. I do, as I know he has the utmost best for this university to get back to prominence- i.e. top 20.
 
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