Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Jackcrevol]

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Ok. I laughed.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

The real fanbase sits and rolls with it. The others will be there when we win.

Real fans still follow, but it does not mean after over a decade that people will want to spend their hard earned money to watch crap. You can see the attendance numbers dropping every year. It will be terrible next year. Everyone on here is a big fan otherwise they wouldn’t post on a message board. And yet many are saying they won’t go to games so it shows how bad things are getting.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

FREEZE WANTS THE JOB WHAT THE HECK ARE WE DOING?!?!?!?

 

[appyvol]

Who’s LWS?

The negative Tennessee Nostradamus.

 

[Jackcrevol]

Thats just it, we will be here long after the Brian Maurers of the world have moved on into the professional world

Wish him nothing but the best. Kid has had some hills to climb. Spouting off doesn't help anything. If he wants to become a professional, he'll have to learn.

 

[TrippieRedd]

What was last week’s attendance numbers with Covid and Pruitt?

Why are you talking about last week? This is only going to get worse.

 

[UTK]

I just hate it for the younger generations of fans. Look, I’ve got a lifetime of great UT football memories, and our incompetent administration can’t take those away from me.

But for a lot of the younger fans, all they have is this clown show that we’ve been running for the past 15 years. What a shame. They deserve better.

Thanks I appreciate that. The best season I've seen us have live is 2007. All down hill since with just a couple of ups. It's brutal. Apathy is at an all time high. I just let the UF game play in the background while doing other stuff.

 

[TheRain]

FREEZE WANTS THE JOB WHAT THE HECK ARE WE DOING?!?!?!?

Working like heck.

 

[Kingston Vol]

Honestly, VolNation is the only place I frequent where anyone wants to talk about the Vols. My friend group has moved on - the posts on Facebook from people who were once very animated after each win and loss are now less frequent.

They're bringing him back - that's the way this is headed. And they better hope he turns this thing around because next year is the last chance. You want to see apathy? 70k in Neyland and 6 losses will do it. And then no one will be around to care when they hire the next loser.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

 

[butchna]

Real fans still follow, but it does not mean after over a decade that people will want to spend their hard earned money to watch crap. You can see the attendance numbers dropping every year. It will be terrible next year. Everyone on here is a big fan otherwise they wouldn’t post on a message board. And yet many are saying they won’t go to games so it shows how bad things are getting.

Ask the twerp with a Bama sweatshirt who the backup QB is and there’s a good glimpse of the “fanbase” you’re worried about. They’ll always flock to who’s winning. Noticed that Clemson Crazies from the 80’s were way scarcer and less devout in the 90’s. If it remains a bad product, I hope the attendance dawdles to serve as a spur Our history has me doubting that dynamic tho. Our stadium would be packed without the Covid restrictions. EMPTY NEYLAND didn’t work in Butch’s last season...the higher up’s somehow knew it wasn’t going to get better and we moved on.

 

[RikidyBones]

If Pruitt stays, we need to

Staff:
Keep Chaney
New QB coach
New OL coach
Keep Tee and Graham, obvi

Need a DL coach
Move on from Nieds or Osovet. We need an elite LB coach in there and we have options

Pruitt needs to
Back off of play calls and let the coordinators do their job. Manage the macro. Ed Orgeron style.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

Working like heck.

Apparently Phil forgot how to “go back and watch the film”.

 

[snowvols]

Since the Big 10 is doing everything they can to get OSU into the playoff, the ACC should site Covid and cancel the ACC championship to ensure Clemson and Notre Dame both get in.

 

[SLICKYINC]

Why are you talking about last week? This is only going to get worse.

We all know how this is going to go. But let’s be real. If there’s a game being played in Neyland, there will be fans in the seats.

 

[butchna]

Honestly, VolNation is the only place I frequent where anyone wants to talk about the Vols. My friend group has moved on - the posts on Facebook from people who were once very animated after each win and loss are now less frequent.

They're bringing him back - that's the way this is headed. And they better hope he turns this thing around because next year is the last chance. You want to see apathy? 70k in Neyland and 6 losses will do it. And then no one will be around to care when they hire the next loser.

Heard this song before...without the Facebook chorus of course.

 

[butchna]

Since the Big 10 is doing everything they can to get OSU into the playoff, the ACC should site Covid and cancel the ACC championship to ensure Clemson and Notre Dame both get in.

They won’t. Clemson’s only chance is to beat Notre Dame in a rematch.

 

[Kingston Vol]

Heard this song before...without the Facebook chorus of course.

How old are you?

 

[pierce60]

It's ironic how about this time 3 years ago this board was dog cussing the Haslam family for all the harm they'd done to the university/AD and blah, blah, blah.....but now this board is practically BEGGING the Haslam family to come bail the AD out so they can move on from Pruitt.

I guess it's just the Volnation way.

 

[butchna]

How old are you?

If you were 8 when we won the NC? Two decades older than you.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

We all know how this is going to go. But let’s be real. If there’s a game being played in Neyland, there will be fans in the seats.

It’ll be a slow, slow bleed. The fans going will grow into the ones that can’t donate what the school needs thus slowly choking the life out of this football program. We’ve now officially moved into Vandy status I’m afraid.

 

[Weezer]

Heard this song before...without the Facebook chorus of course.

The die hards will sit and suffer no matter what. If and when we start winning again, the band wagon will fill back up.

 

[butchna]

The die hards will sit and suffer no matter what. If and when we start winning again, the band wagon will fill back up.

Zackly! Still enjoy hearing how the real world works from posters who voted for the first time.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Thanks I appreciate that. The best season I've seen us have live is 2007. All down hill since with just a couple of ups. It's brutal. Apathy is at an all time high. I just let the UF game play in the background while doing other stuff.

No problem. Glad you’ve stuck with us here. I don’t know if I would have in your shoes.

On the plus side, this has been somewhat of a golden age for UT basketball, so there’s that.

 

[SLICKYINC]

It’ll be a slow, slow bleed. The fans going will grow into the ones that can’t donate what the school needs thus slowly choking the life out of this football program. We’ve now officially moved into Vandy status I’m afraid.