Is your apathy at an all time high???

#76
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volKano said:
The fact that you loved Bray shows you must be young. Kelly, Shuler, Manning and Martin were awesome. Clausen wasn’t the best but man he was tough. Bray was just a bit above average.
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Bray was as talented as they come for sheer passing talent. Only Manning was better. Bray just didn’t have the maturity to be great.
 
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#77
#77
Yes. I blame part of my apathy on getting older and realizing that I can’t control the administration and being angry about it still doesn’t change anything. If I’m the university, i would worry more about the next generations apathy. Raised my son to bleed orange. Over the past few years, I’ve seen him shed tears over one of the many Florida game collapses. Watched him suffer over a loss time and time again. This year, he sat in the same emotionless state as me when we were completely dominated by freakin Kentucky. He shrugged his shoulders afterwards and walked away. I held on from 2002 up until the GSU game last year. He made until the UK game and decided Pruitt was fool’s gold after that monumental 8 game “win streak” in which we beat a bunch of nobodies. It should concern UT that fans under 30 only know the team as also-rans.... too many other things to occupy their time vs watching this debacle year end and year out. Our younger fan base is dying on the vine and is moving on.
 
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Rocky Top Raby said:
Without a doubt, because not only do I have zero faith in our HC but even less than that in the administration to go out a pay the money for anyone else that would be any better.
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Same boat. Pruitt should be fired yesterday but even if he was our bumbling ass administration will put on a clown show in the coaching search that would make a circus envious. Same dumbass movie over again.
 
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#83
Apathy is starting to get familiar. I have flashes of anger, then I remember this is our new reality. It's easier to cope when you stop investing emotionally and monetarily. We are becoming Vandy with a stadium and fan base.
 
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I'm ready to put UT football on the shelf and just kinda keep up with it from a distance until they give me something to watch, something to get excited about, something to make me believe that we might be competent and competitive again. I'm not watching something that is as disappointing as UT football.

Life is good, and I'm going to enjoy it, with or without UT football.
 
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I had the stroke of sheer fortune to take one of my closest friends to a UT-Florida game back in the 90s - smack dab on the 50, lower deck. We were young college brats who couldn't begin to appreciate our luck, but that day became one of the best memories of my life- and my friend's been a Vol ever since. I couldn't count the number of games we went to over the next fifteen years (along with other friends, family, all that). No matter how strange life got, or how far apart we were, we always found our way back to Neyland. Out in the sun, pads popping, crowd rocking. No matter how old we got, we had a few days each year to feel as young as we were that first game.

Well, we haven't gone to a home game in 9 years, save the Battle at Bristol. I regret that. I regret that Tennessee football has been so historically crappy that we hardly even talk about going to a game anymore. I regret that one of my most life-changing gifts to him was to become a fan of one of the most overhyped and dysfunctional college programs of the modern era. Oh sure, we do other things, but Tennessee football was _our_ thing. Well. Was our thing. Now it's a thing we chat about online. By halftime, there's often not much left to say about the day's game. And we go about our business.

That, right there, is my apathy.

Is it at an all-time high? I don't know how it could get much higher. Even when I go, because I'm an idiot and will bleed orange until they call it, I don't tend to believe too much. I hope. I certainly do. But I've learned not to hope too much.

Except Oklahoma in 2015. I was damn certain we would blow the stupid doors off stupid Oklahoma. Stupid field goal. Stupid Baker Mayfield. Anyway.
 
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preacherwebb said:
I'm ready to put UT football on the shelf and just kinda keep up with it from a distance until they give me something to watch, something to get excited about, something to make me believe that we might be competent and competitive again. I'm not watching something that is as disappointing as UT football.

Life is good, and I'm going to enjoy it, with or without UT football.
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That’s what I did in 2017. Just stepped back for most of the year and waited until Butch was let go and then I joined VN and got back into it again. Now we are back to the same spot again. I’ll step back again soon unless a Qb change gives us more optimism.
 
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I came into this season excited. Now, I can’t even keep up with who we play next. That’s how disinterested I’ve become. There’s just no excitement or anything to look forward to. The same team is going to trot out on the field with the same play calling and the same results. I defended Pruitt for a while, even after Ga State last year. Can’t do it anymore. We don’t just lose, we get blown out. No excuse for the product on the field at this point. We don’t lose to Arkansas and Kentucky like we just did... ever. Pruitt is gone if this continues. Florida and TAM will embarrass us. We are staring at a 2-3 win season; 4 if we are lucky.

How did we beat Missouri and South Carolina?
 
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Honestly the highest excitement has come to frivolous talk about our next HC hire. And I have no confidence this Administration has the balls to go get someone that isn’t a bargain bin hire again.
 
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#93
#93
I'm not ready to let go of my bitter anger yet. Apathy is the final destination. I just can't understand how we can suck this bad. I'm convinced it is a curse from on high. We aren't the worst fans in football. Don't run the dirtiest program. There are lots of reasons that UT should attract top talent both on the field and the sidelines, but the fact is we don't. If we do bring in talent, they come to rot.

I am sick and tired of UT being a non-factor in the SEC. Once pure apathy sets in I think it is over. Right now I care enough to be frustrated.

For the love of God, somebody please make UT football great again.
 
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volKano said:
The fact that you loved Bray shows you must be young. Kelly, Shuler, Manning and Martin were awesome. Clausen wasn’t the best but man he was tough. Bray was just a bit above average.
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Martin was awesome?? Far from it. He was below average. Martin couldnt hold Brays shoelaces. If Bray would have had the team Martin did, he would have likely done much better than Martin ever thought about. As far as arm talent goes, Martin doesnt belong in the same category as Manning, Bray, Shuler or Kelly.
 
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