Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[GojiraVol17]

First game: 1997? The game Peyton led the band, iirc. Dad really lit the spark on my Tennessee fandom with this.
First night game: 2004 win against Florida. 30 rows up behind the goal post with my dad. Very cool memory. (Believe I was a sophomore in high school and had just survived a near fatal car crash the year before)
Loudest game/best atmosphere: Tie between the 2014-15? Georgia comeback win & the Oklahoma loss at home against Baker Mayfield. The OU game was my wife’s first live Tennessee game. Great memory.
(Dates are fuzzy on these but somehow I managed to just so happen be at some big ones, and with being born in 89 I’ve gotten to watch a lot of really amazing things l)

 

[Kingston Vol]

That just crazy talk! Seriously, 12.7% of the U.S. population is African-American. According to the article, 10.8% of FBS coaches are African-American which is pretty dang close unless one is just looking to make some kind of woke statement.

Comparing to general population isn't the number worth discussing, in my opinion.

61% of college football players are black. 10.8% of college head coaches are black.

 

[RiotVol]

I haven’t been to a lot of “big” games we have won but the 98 Arkansas game when Stoerner fumbled was the loudest I have heard. Went from virtual silence to an explosion.

I was watching that game in a holler in Greene County on satellite dish in a trailer. It was the kind of place where the cops would only show up if they were 5-10 cars deep. The trailer belonged to my step-dad's dealer, and his nephew and I were so mad that the game appeared lost, that we left and were driving down the road listening to the very end of the game on the radio in my car. When John Ward yelled "he stumbled and fumbled" I literally stood on the brakes and we fishtailed in the gravel. We sat in stunned silence in the middle of a gravel road as Travis Henry ran it down their throats. My friend was like, "I think they're not gonna fool around with throwing the ball and they're going to win this damned thing." I'll never forget it.

 

[Ace]

In the 90’s and early 2000’s every game at Neyland was loud. Pre- cell phone too!
Good times

 

[Kingston Vol]

I was watching that game in a holler in Greene County on satellite dish in a trailer. It was the kind of place where the cops would only show up if they were 5-10 cars deep. The trailer belonged to my step-dad's dealer, and his nephew and I were so mad that the game appeared lost, that we left and were driving down the road listening to the very end of the game on the radio in my car. When John Ward yelled "he stumbled and fumbled" I literally stood on the brakes and we fishtailed in the gravel. We sat in stunned silence in the middle of a gravel road as Travis Henry ran it down their throats. My friend was like, "I think they're not gonna fool around with throwing the ball and they're going to win this damned thing." I'll never forget it.

Tougher than government cheese.

 

[Cactus Jack]

Comparing to general population isn't the number worth discussing, in my opinion.

61% of college football players are black. 10.8% of college head coaches are black.

While this is definitely true and i see your point, you also have to consider why 61% of college players are black. African American men are just flat out more naturally athletically gifted so you get a skewed number compared to US demographics. When you're talking about coaching and it has nothing to do with athletic ability it would make more sense that the percentage falls back down to a percentage more representative of the US population demographics. just my 2 cents though, i see merit in what you're saying as well.

 

[MarcoVol]

If anyone is curious, I spoke with a surgeon in Columbia who supposedly is loosely “connected” to USCe decision makers.

His “guess” was:

Shane Beamer HC
Garrett Riley OC
Charlie Strong DC

 

[mr.checkerboards]

I'll play loudest ive ever heard Neyland was 18 UF after we got the stop on their first drive it got pretty loud. And then we'll you know how that went.

Now if you want to play quietest moments ive got a good list.
18 against UF popes fumble into the end zone
12 against UF Burtons long TD run
15 against Arky. Second half after a butch blew another lead.

 

[drvenner]

Now that’s a Vol story worth telling

Thank you sir for your service!

Thank you, Bruin. It was indeed a very happy night.

 

[GojiraVol17]

I'll play loudest ive ever heard Neyland was 18 UF after we got the stop on their first drive it got pretty loud. And then we'll you know how that went.

Now if you want to play quietest moments ive got a good list.
18 against UF popes fumble into the end zone
12 against UF Burtons long TD run
15 against Arky. Second half after a butch blew another lead.

 

[yourstruly23]

Comparing to general population isn't the number worth discussing, in my opinion.

61% of college football players are black. 10.8% of college head coaches are black.

Valid point/argument

 

[Batman1948]

Pipe dreams and nightmares are the only kinds of dreams Vol fans have.

No wet dreams?

 

[SSVol]

You were sitting down to pee when you typed this, weren’t you

Well yeah. It's much easier to post when you aren't peeing on your shoes. Duh.

 

[HankHill]

Comparing to general population isn't the number worth discussing, in my opinion.

61% of college football players are black. 10.8% of college head coaches are black.

This. It’s ever more important to look at the minority coaches in MLB and NFL

 

[GojiraVol17]

You were sitting down to pee when you typed this, weren’t you

Inb4 LittleVol asks us what’s wrong with that

 

[Ten_Titans]

Comparing to general population isn't the number worth discussing, in my opinion.

61% of college football players are black. 10.8% of college head coaches are black.

If course it isn't. Because if you do compare the numbers to the general population, the fact that 61% of college football players are black seems extremely racist.

Somehow not only is it okay to ignore that racism, all other careers in the field should be equally racist.

If we go down this road, let's do it correctly. 13% of football coaches to be black. 13% of football players to be black. Mandatory.

 

[Jackcrevol]

This. It’s ever more important to look at the minority coaches in MLB and NFL

Hows that?

 

[HankHill]

I'll play loudest ive ever heard Neyland was 18 UF after we got the stop on their first drive it got pretty loud. And then we'll you know how that went.

Now if you want to play quietest moments ive got a good list.
18 against UF popes fumble into the end zone
12 against UF Burtons long TD run
15 against Arky. Second half after a butch blew another lead.

Burton’s long TD run took a chunk of my heart. I don’t think it’s possible for me to ever get back to that level of emotional investment.

 

[yourstruly23]

If anyone is curious, I spoke with a surgeon in Columbia who supposedly is loosely “connected” to USCe decision makers.

His “guess” was:

Shane Beamer HC
Garrett Riley OC
Charlie Strong DC

I'd take that and run to the house

 

[Kingston Vol]

If course it isn't. Because if you do compare the numbers to the general population, the fact that 61% of college football players are black seems extremely racist.

Somehow not only is it okay to ignore that racism, all other careers in the field should be equally racist.

Yikes.

 

[Kingston Vol]

Burton’s long TD run took a chunk of my heart. I don’t think it’s possible for me to ever get back to that level of emotional investment.

Johnny's jersey retirement set the mood that night - everyone was jacked up.

I'll never forget the feeling of that stadium emptying out between the third and fourth quarters.

 

[HankHill]

Hows that?

Think dusty baker is the only black manager. There’s like 4 Latino.

 

[Ten_Titans]

Yikes.

Feel free to explain. And don't dare tell me black people and white people have different traits. That's racist.

 

[HankHill]

Johnny's jersey retirement set the mood that night - everyone was jacked up.

I'll never forget the feeling of that stadium emptying out between the third and fourth quarters.

Everyone on the planet besides our dumbass coaches new what that offense was about to do as soon as burton was leading.

 

[bleedsUTorange]

Since we're all playing the game, 3 loudest games I've attended.

1. 2006 Florida 106,919 att. The only time in my life I've experienced visible white noise.

2. 2013 Georgia (Pig fumble) 102,455 att. Wow that place exploded on that play. What a terrible loss for such an atmosphere that evening.

3. 2015 Oklahoma 102,455 att. 4th and 1 foot to score a td with a 240lb tailback and that game never goes to OT. Butch Jones kicks a 15 yard field goal. He was dead to me that night. Took my nephew to his first game in Neyland. He was 10. Poor kid, he sat around studying UT history, former players, watched old games all the time. He's 15 now and tells me the other day "face it, we are a basketball school".