Lawrence Wright
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I am older than you Larry. Actually, that dude is right. We never even considered Florida to be any type of rival until the mid-90's. I was there when we drilled them 45-10 in 1990 and it just seemed like another game. So for the over 40 crowd, most consider Alabama to be our rival. The under 30 crowd tend to lean toward one of the teams in our division. More of a mixed bag in the 30-40 group.
And Florida does have the most bandwagon fans in the conference. The love of college football is a southern thing. Our roots are deep. Florida is full of transplanted yankees and therefore your root structure is shallow.
Blame it on the beaches...Florida fans are bandwagon front runners. Most recently, you had an 11-1 team in the Sugar Bowl run out of the tunnel to see a sea of Louisville red. 7000 fans going to New Orleans for New Years eve...hard to explain, right?
Urban stated that messing with that fanbase for six years was the equivilant of twenty years at another similar size school. That is why there are so many guys like you over here on a vols chatboard. You don't understand & are fasinated by the Vols spirit. U jelli...
Right on cue...and it's no surprise I disagree with most everything you said.
The 1990 score was 45-3, thanks for the extra TD. And that game, in my opinion, is what got this rivalry going. UT's student section mocked UF's students and UF's band about the Gainesville student murders that took place just as the fall semester started. Word got back to Gainesville following that beat down, and UT's had our full attention ever since.
I have no comeback about our Sugar Bowl attendance. It was poor, as was our team's performance. Meaningless game in the middle of the work week following NYD, against a team who wanted to be there more than we did.
Gainesville isn't exactly close to the beach, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. We can agree to disagree about the whole frontrunner status. It's a coping mechanism at best. If UF fans were all frontrunners we would have had more fans at the Sugar Bowl. Frontrunners only show up when the team is winning, unlike UT fans this past fall. Noon kickoffs and HDTV are killing CFB attendance everywhere.
Also, please don't confuse the demographics of our state population with UF having one of largest alumni bases in the Southeast.
As for why I'm here, the mods should pin the thread in this link to the top of the football forum. It has all the answers you're looking for.
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-football/186356-non-ut-fans-site-2.html
If life were only as simple as posting on one and only message board...some people like to understand and gain the perspective of people who share different opinions.
Have a nice day.
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