Question for long time Vol fans

What's your excitement level for this season?

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#102
#102
volfannbama said:
Someone trying to stay out of it wouldnt post anything. Its cool he admitted he didnt understand. Though its odd coming from a person who says we should neber misunderstand anything written on here.
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Yep, as usual you are correct. I'll pay more attention to my responses. I appreciate your guidance.
 
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#103
#103
volfannbama said:
Im in as well, just helps shape my expectations of the season.
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Done have any!!! Hope for undefeated but just enjoy the ride. Roller coasters ain't no fun without the ups and downs.

That's the beauty of college football. You can experience EVERY emotion during a game. Euphoria, anger, confusion, frustration, sadness, happiness, all of them. And when it's over you can just lay it down and not carry it with you if you want to... Just enjoy the experience.
 
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#104
#104
buckfama said:
Why worry about things that you have no say in, not one little iota of input other than your dollars. If they want to screw things up it won't stop me supporting the team in the slightest. 12-0 or 0-12 I'm in.. ride or die brotha!!
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A lot of Vol fans suffer from "battered wife syndrome." After so many years of football ranging from bad to mediocre, naturally some fans are choosing to guard themselves from too much hype. Especially after last year with so much pre season media hype and high expectations. I get it.
 
#105
#105
buckfama said:
Done have any!!! Hope for undefeated but just enjoy the ride. Roller coasters ain't no fun without the ups and downs.

That's the beauty of college football. You can experience EVERY emotion during a game. Euphoria, anger, confusion, frustration, sadness, happiness, all of them. And when it's over you can just lay it down and not carry it with you if you want to... Just enjoy the experience.
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I tend to obsess for long periods of time after a loss over ifs and buts. Usually after the next win I can let the loss go.

I don't like losing our bowl games for that reason. Too long till the next win.
 
#106
#106
I'm always at 11 on a 1 out of 10 scale preseason.

By October its usually dialed back to a 7..
 
#107
#107
Iam4utalways said:
I tend to obsess for long periods of time after a loss over ifs and buts. Usually after the next win I can let the loss go.

I don't like losing our bowl games for that reason. Too long till the next win.
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I might pick a loss apart for a little bit, but other than that it's on to the next for me. I got too many other burdens to carry to add another to the pile. I do understand where you're coming from though.
 
#108
#108
buckfama said:
I might pick a loss apart for a little bit, but other than that it's on to the next for me. I got too many other burdens to carry to add another to the pile. I do understand where you're coming from though.
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I'm way better now than compared to back in the day. At some point I realized or was told how silly I was behaving. I'm sure I had to be told.

The 26-26 Auburn tie is what did it for me. I haven't been the same.
 
#113
#113
Game time is when all the emotions come on. The rest of the time is war planning. I find it fun to be analytical. Every season I usually have two prognosis, what can happen and what's likely to happen.

In all my years of sizing up a team in pre-season, I've never seen a team have a ceiling and their floor so far apart.
 
#114
#114
VFL-82-JP said:
I'd thank Phil for being part of the entertainment industry (which he is) and for coaching our lads through a national championship and two SEC championships.

And I'd still be a fan who is NOT inside the sausage factory, and happy not to be. :)

My EDIT in post #46 is the full answer to your question.
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I don't think Phil would agree with you about being in the entertainment industry. And although I didn't always like CPF or agree with him...there has never been a sliver of a DOUBT in my mind that that he didn't care about the young men he coached at the University of Tennessee!...They weren't entertainment to him, nor a bunch of sausages in a factory.

It was a career to him...and a mission, too! Just look at the list of former players who love him like a father.

He was working with living, breathing human beings who truly looked up to him for guidance. And he had earned their respect by being a man of integrity...He believed in them and had to live and suffer the heartache of having to discipline many of them.

Ask the mothers and fathers of those players who played for him all of those years--you think they will call him an entertainer? Stupid!

Honestly--I find your statement offensive and insulting to the entire coaching (and teaching) profession. IT takes some kind of willful ignorance to refuse to acknowledge the impact the men and women who coach for a living have on the lives of college athletes. SHAME ON YOU for thinking that it's all just entertainment.

I'm a sports fan...and primarily a football fan! However, I don't watch it for entertainment...like a fictional movie...

I love to watch excellent coaches lead young men onto the field who are prepared to play excellent football. I love to see players improve and mature on the field over their careers. I love the guys who play with passion and for the pure love of the game.

I loved watching JJ go up and with sheer will catch that ball last year at UGA.

My favorite UT game of all time was the '91 Notre Dame game....because even though ND had the better team and the huge first half lead....the UT Volunteers led by Johnny Majors just wouldn't QUIT! They never gave up...all the way to the finish! And that is inspiring, not entertaining...

My second favorite is the 1986 Sugar Bowl win over Miami...again because our team was allegedly outmatched against the mighty Hurricanes of Miami...and there was no way they would win...

But our team was better prepared, better coached, and played with passion and a self-less love for each other and their coaches....and the game...and that game was inspiring, not entertainment!

Why? Because a bunch of nobodies took on the somebodies in the world and actually WON!

I dare you to watch these videos...and then try to tell me that it's all just entertainment....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPgI08DDJg

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...d463d4fd0127ff029413251e72c6098b&action=click
 
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#116
#116
Mike, you gotta stop mouth breathing.

Sports are entertainment. There's no debate, it's a fact. Sports exist to entertain, just like the theater, and musical artists, and magic shows. It's all entertainment.

Do those inside the entertainment industry take their jobs seriously? Sure. Absolutely they do, and they should. They take themselves seriously, and care greatly about their fellows in the industry, their teammates, the players and coaches around them. Just as the cast of Hamilton take themselves and their profession seriously, and care deeply about their fellows.

But at the end of the day, they'll all tell you, yeah, it's just entertainment. It's not war, or politics, or policing, or nursing, or teaching (some will talk about the educational benefits of their entertainment, maybe, but none will equate themselves to school teachers). It's not life-critical like medicine. It's not fundamental to economic well-being like the marketplace, or farming, or crafting goods.

It's entertainment. It has value, yes, but that value is ethereal, rarely tangible, and secondary. Way up high in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, not down there near the bottom with food, shelter, safety, and health.

You think Phil Fulmer doesn't understand that? Doesn't understand where football and other forms of entertainment fit in our society?
 
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#120
#120
To much perspective here. On the outside it is entertainment and not of the more noble type. The Sporting News Networks, especially the national sports news are for the most part, prostitutes. But the deeper you go the more real it gets. You get to regional and it's liable to be about state pride or regional pride. Until you get all the way down to the locker room. There you're at the field of dreams. It's not that a football game is that important. It's a time in life when they have come in as boys and are now trying to determine what kind of men they will become. The goal setting is actually more important than what the goal is. The determination to achieve is more important than what is achieved.

So I don't understand those that get so down on the team as a whole because of what administrators or boosters do. Just think of the magical seasons that we've seen. Johnny Majors didn't become a super genius in 1985 and 1989 to go back to being typical the rest of the time. Fulmer didn't become a super genius in 98 to suddenly turn stupid in 08. The determination, the comradery and the love of their team are the greatest determining factors as to how well a team can be coached. So if John Kelly, Juann Jennings, Jack Jones etc.., have bought in and believe in their coaches and program, then that settles it , so do I.

So when we consider the talking heads, the bettors, sports talk provocateurs that think they are the Howard Sterns of sports. They are all about entertainment and don't matter at all. But when you get to the heart of the matter on those fields of dreams and the practice fields and locker rooms that facilitates them, these boys trying to become men are what matters,...they're all that matters
 
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#121
#121
Vfl2407 said:
Want to gauge your level of interest.
If you have been a staunch Vol fan for over 20 years, tell me your level of interest with 10 being the most excited you've ever been for a season and 1 being the least interested and excited.
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So, since there hasn't been a poll in a day or two, this is what you came up with? I get it.
 
#122
#122
46yrvol said:
To much perspective here. On the outside it is entertainment and not of the more noble type. The Sporting News Networks, especially the national sports news are for the most part, prostitutes. But the deeper you go the more real it gets. You get to regional and it's liable to be about state pride or regional pride. Until you get all the way down to the locker room. There you're at the field of dreams. It's not that a football game is that important. It's a time in life when they have come in as boys and are now trying to determine what kind of men they will become. The goal setting is actually more important than what the goal is. The determination to achieve is more important than what is achieved.

So I don't understand those that get so down on the team as a whole because of what administrators or boosters do. Just think of the magical seasons that we've seen. Johnny Majors didn't become a super genius in 1985 and 1989 to go back to being typical the rest of the time. Fulmer didn't become a super genius in 98 to suddenly turn stupid in 08. The determination, the comradery and the love of their team are the greatest determining factors as to how well a team can be coached. So if John Kelly, Juann Jennings, Jack Jones etc.., have bought in and believe in their coaches and program, then that settles it , so do I.

So when we consider the talking heads, the bettors, sports talk provocateurs that think they are the Howard Sterns of sports. They are all about entertainment and don't matter at all. But when you get to the heart of the matter on those fields of dreams and the practice fields and locker rooms that facilitates them, these boys trying to become men are what matters,...they're all that matters
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winner
 
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#124
#124
LWSVOL said:
But today's feel is like the athletics programs are just other school activities happening on campus. Not the desire there to make champions. JMO
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And as a Vol fan that should bother anyone.

No different than a player or coach not doing everything they are capable of in helping their team win.
 
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