VOL_Lyfe
8-track guy in a digital world
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They don't believe in realism on VN.
They believe you can fire 3 coaches "with cause" for paying players, that your Chancellor and President can say they were "shocked by the extent and number of people involved" in paying players...... and the NCAA won't respond with bowl sanctions and scholarship sanctions.
Apparently, they've no idea that "Institutional Control" means keeping things from getting to the point where your President and Chancellor are "shocked by the extent and the number of people involved."
It's utterly ridiculous not to expect the NCAA to HAMMER us because we self reported a large number of violations and it seems...... I've no direct knowledge, only what I've seen rumored..... that more and more interviews are yielding more and more violations. We can all assume, given how the SEC works..... if the lid has come completely off...... we're screwed front, back, and twice.
Appeal to Authority can be a logical error. True.
But that's a coin with two sides. Ignoring the authority of subject matter experts is perhaps an even more common and costly logical fallacy. It is what happens when a person who doesn't know what they're talking about believes they know as much about a subject as an actual authority figure with experience in the field.
For instance, a guy named Bearded believing he knows more about football than Jeremy Pruitt just because Pruitt failed as a head coach in his first go. Or trying to convince another person that they shouldn't give any credence to the AD's experience and knowledge, simply because a thing out there exists called "appeal to authority logical fallacy."
Playing the logical fallacy card every single time you see a person defer to the experience and knowledge of a person in authority, well, that's just idiocy trying to masquerade as insightfulness.
But you be you, Bearded.
Great.
Another psychobabble BS OP thinking people can't differentiate between the fortunes of a football program and their everyday lives.
Right now i am just thrilled that the Vols are in Omaha for the first time in 16 years.
Unfortunately UT football has "learned to lose". Vandy had that distinction for decades. The teams in Mississippi did too. South Carolina did as well. It was always UT, Ala, Fla and Aub at the top of the pack of 12 or so. Now....not so much.
Game has changed, UT's administration has changed, coaches have changed, players commitment has changed...... all this while UT keeps getting beaten on live TV and the coaching carousel continues. The past 20 years hasn't been a period of time when uncertainty in almost every level of UT football was/is tolerated. Fans feel it. "Nega-Vols" rise up.
I call it like I see it. With ️ and , I'm really positive. When it comes to talking about our prior administration and our incompetent football hires, then I call it like I see it (and that is largely negative).
Even with Pruitt, I wasnt negative with recruiting. With his in game coaching and staff choices, I was critical since he did a poor job there.
Appeal to Authority
Jeremy Pruitt was paid to be the head football coach at Tennessee, did that make his consistently poor coaching decisions, not actually poor coaching decisions?
Deference to authority, and Appeal to Authority, aren't interchangeable. @Cenlavol didn't state that given the choice, one would defer to an authority, but rather that because no one on this site is paid to be a coach, then their statement on the issue, is automatically invalidated.
Its sofa coaches verses people who understand they arent paid to coach for a reason.
By their statement, Pruitt's poor coaching decisions couldn't be evaluated by anyone on this site, as they are not "paid to coach"; Pruitt is correct in his decisions by sheer fact that he is.
It's a classic 'appeal to authority', but you know all about that JP.
Great.
Another psychobabble BS OP thinking people can't differentiate between the fortunes of a football program and their everyday lives.
Right now i am just thrilled that the Vols are in Omaha for the first time in 16 years.
Dear NegaVols and Sunshine Pumpers,
While you are arguing over whether or not the glass is half empty or half pull, I drank it.
Yours truly,
The opportunist.