How to cheer guide

#26
#26
Chris4Vols22 said:
We faced our largest if the season today, and you barely heard a peep from the crowd (relatively speaking) until we pulled it to one point. The crowd gets loud after exciting plays or when there's a bad call on the floor, but the support on defensive possessions is virtually nonexistent. I will give them credit for getting loud in a tight game in the closing minutes, but today was an ugly example of the common UT fan not understanding the ebbs and flows of basketball. That's not to say they're bad fans, but there's an obvious lack of understanding. It's been this way for years.
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I disagree, the crowd was into the game when it started and was in shock when we got down by 12 points early. Once the Vols started making their comeback, the crowd got back into it and stayed in it until it became a blowout. You have to admit today was an ugly game, which is how West VA wanted it. Name me 5 other schools that could put 22,000 in the seats for a game vs. West VA
 
#27
#27
1985Vols said:
I disagree, the crowd was into the game when it started and was in shock when we got down by 12 points early. Once the Vols started making their comeback, the crowd got back into it and stayed in it until it became a blowout. You have to admit today was an ugly game, which is how West VA wanted it. Name me 5 other schools that could put 22,000 in the seats for a game vs. West VA
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Like I said, not bad fans, just ignorant to the ebbs and flows. I can name more than 5 schools with way less capacity that would have been louder than TBA when we were down by 12.
 
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#28
#28
Chris4Vols22 said:
Just one this season, but I only missed a small handful during the 7 years i was student from '06 to '13.

Had to watch the replay today knowing it was sold out, and I was very disappointed with the crowd when we were trailing in the first half.
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You can't always tell on TV how loud the crowd is. I will agree when we got down, it got quite for a few minutes but the crowd got into it once we started our comeback.
 
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#29
#29
Chris4Vols22 said:
Like I said, not bad fans, just ignorant to the ebbs and flows. I can name more than 5 schools with way less capacity that would have been louder than TBA when we were down by 12.
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Again, totally disagree. Watch any other game , besides Duke, where the home team is favored by double digits and gets down by double digits and the crowd is usually quite because they are in shock.
 
#30
#30
1985Vols said:
You can't always tell on TV how loud the crowd is. I will agree when we got down, it got quite for a few minutes but the crowd got into it once we started our comeback.
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This is true; sometimes the mics and acoustics can be deceiving. However, you can get a pretty accurate by comparison after taking samples from loud and quite and segments. I feel like the crowd started to get it by 2010 during Bruce's run. Maybe it will happen again here soon.
 
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#31
#31
1985Vols said:
Again, totally disagree. Watch any other game , besides Duke, where the home team is favored by double digits and gets down by double digits and the crowd is usually quite because they are in shock.
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Agree to disagree on that point.
 
#32
#32
Except for night football games when there are thousands of drunks, we are not a noisy bunch. TBA is usually filled with fans who are spectators, not noisy participants. The only consistent loud noise that is made comes after bad calls from officials. Our 21,000 have no more impact than some school's 5,000.
 
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#33
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I just scanned through it. Seems like a pretty innocuous puff piece. It was kind of interesting and 'cute' to me. Knoxville fans really need to lighten up a bit.
 
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DonDiego said:
I just scanned through it. Seems like a pretty innocuous puff piece. It was kind of interesting and 'cute' to me. Knoxville fans really need to lighten up a bit.
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I get that, I was referring to the perception of our fans and how it was reported on national tv today. Agree with a lot here as well that our 20k+ fans should make for a tougher home court.
 
#36
#36
Chris4Vols22 said:
Like I said, not bad fans, just ignorant to the ebbs and flows. I can name more than 5 schools with way less capacity that would have been louder than TBA when we were down by 12.
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Our fans have become tired of cheering for their team once we start losing because it never works when we are down in football.
 
#37
#37
PeaceCorpsVol said:
That was embarrassing. I want to know what genius thought it was a good idea to print that and to showcase on national television. The blue bloods are looking at us like we just won the Powerball, rolling into the country club shirtless in overalls with a bag of McDonald's.
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They’re still jealous.
 
#38
#38
Chris4Vols22 said:
Just one this season, but I only missed a small handful during the 7 years i was student from '06 to '13.

Had to watch the replay today knowing it was sold out, and I was very disappointed with the crowd when we were trailing in the first half.
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Tennessee fans act the same way when the football team gets behind. Nothing different here. But we're hell when the team's winning...
 
#39
#39
It was embarrassing and totally unnecessary. Whoever thought this was a good idea is a total douche. And anyone who defends it is probably the douche who wrote it.
 
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#41
PeaceCorpsVol said:
That was embarrassing. I want to know what genius thought it was a good idea to print that and to showcase on national television. The blue bloods are looking at us like we just won the Powerball, rolling into the country club shirtless in overalls with a bag of McDonald's.
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I am in marketing. It was a marketing technique. I do not understand their gain in doing that. UT pr failed hard
 
#42
#42
Chris4Vols22 said:
Just one this season, but I only missed a small handful during the 7 years i was student from '06 to '13.

Had to watch the replay today knowing it was sold out, and I was very disappointed with the crowd when we were trailing in the first half.
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What's heard on TV isn't at all representative of the actual crowd noise. The director in the mobile studio truck adjusts the crowd mic levels so that the announcers are clearly heard in the audio mix. It's only close to reality when the crowd goes bonkers and the announcers manage to keep their mouths shut.
 
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#44
Thunder Good-Oil said:
What's heard on TV isn't at all representative of the actual crowd noise. The director in the mobile studio truck adjusts the crowd mic levels so that the announcers are clearly heard in the audio mix. It's only close to reality when the crowd goes bonkers and the announcers manage to keep their mouths shut.
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Also some schools sound a lot louder on TV due to the student section being right behind the announcers. In TBA the student section is at the baseline
 
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#46
#46
K-town Vol Fan said:
Also some schools sound a lot louder on TV due to the student section being right behind the announcers. In TBA the student section is at the baseline
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They don't just sound louder, they are rowdier as a whole. It would help immensely to have the students along the side or at least at both ends, but as has been explained due to seat licenses, that just isn't possible at this time.
 
#47
#47
We have been low key good at basketball since I was a boy. Why does everyone act so shocked?
 
#48
#48
just think that any crowd should be cheering louder when we're behind then when we're ahead....being ahead, it's easy to cheer...:D

GO VOLS...RECRUIT LIKE HECK!
 
#49
#49
PeaceCorpsVol said:
Sounds like my description might have hit a little too close to home. Apologies if you like to sit shirtless in overalls with McDonald's.
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No apology necessary PeaceCorpsVol. It kinda made me sit up and take some pride in myself. After all, it's Sunday. So I pulled the other strap up and snapped it, too.

And FWIW in anyone's cross-cultural education: in my trailer park, Sunday dinner is still a sacred family tradition. No McDonalds here!

Sunday calls for a sack full o' Krystals ...and corn pups if you got yard babies.
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I'm adding this comment 8 hours after my original post--which was intended as a jovial, "no-harm/no-foul, so let's have a laugh at ourselves" sidebar.
Good grief, can't we get a grip on ourselves? Volnation should be a place where Tennessee fans and guests can weigh in on any Vol-related topic, post their own ideas, and inspire either thoughtful examination or mutual support.
Comments here should be in the iron-sharpening-iron tradition. Instead, way too often we regress into an orange-on-orange, attack the person instead of critique the idea, iron-stabbing irony.

Vol nation? Some days I wonder if I've logged onto Vol-Balkans.
 
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