dono
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Vol Walk, I've just personally never found it interesting.
It's simple, really.How the hell did someone connect those dots that Nebraska is having to give that up?
But a kid comes to Tennessee and does Vol Walk - can you imagine the feeling ? Recruits come and make that walk - would bet some have been sold after walking through that mass of people.
You don't find interesting - simple - don't go. And to answer so many others - I will WOO until the day I die..........and maybe one time after at the pearly gates
It is actually nothing to do with the color red.Yes the woo. You serious about Nebraska? How stupid of a society. So we can never use red again?
It is actually nothing to do with the color red.
It is rather that helium, despite being the 2nd-most abundant element in the universe, is rare on earth. And becoming more rare as demand has over the past few decades outrun available supply sources.
It comes mostly from the same pockets underground where we find natural gas. Russia is a major player in the worldwide natural gas market. With the West boycotting Russian products, the worldwide demand is even MORE out of sync with other available sources. So the gas is becoming really expensive to buy, and has far more important uses than to fill up balloons to be released at football games. Things like medical procedures and equipment, production of various technologies, etc.
So Nebraska gave up the balloon tradition to save helium for more important stuff.
It's actually a smart move on their part, even if it means the loss of one of their lesser traditions.
Yeah. And in my answer at post #138 or so, I didn't even mention other considerations that contributed to Nebraska's decision.Oh, no. I didn't realize Russia was a big helium manufacturer
.We should give up the tradition of calling the women's teams "Lady Vols." The term is antiquated now--and the LV logo is VERY old and outdated, and looks it.
Lots of colleges/universities used to call their women's teams "Lady INSERT SCHOOL NICKNAME." They've ALL dropped the term and just call their women's teams by the school nickname--all except us. The former "Lady Razorbacks" are now just the Razorbacks--as it should be, as, last I checked, the men and women all attend and play for the same university. We cling to Lady Vols because it's associated with the Pat Summitt era, and the diehards apparently fear that we'll all forget her if we drop the term. That's silly. There are numerous ways to remember PS, and we do most of them--starting with a statute of her outside Thompson-Boling. If PS were alive, she'd probably be the first to say, it's time to retire the LV name and logo. It's not 1980 anymore.
No it’s because the lady vols logo is iconic and it would be STUPID to drop it.We should give up the tradition of calling the women's teams "Lady Vols." The term is antiquated now--and the LV logo is VERY old and outdated, and looks it.
Lots of colleges/universities used to call their women's teams "Lady INSERT SCHOOL NICKNAME." They've ALL dropped the term and just call their women's teams by the school nickname--all except us. The former "Lady Razorbacks" are now just the Razorbacks--as it should be, as, last I checked, the men and women all attend and play for the same university. We cling to Lady Vols because it's associated with the Pat Summitt era, and the diehards apparently fear that we'll all forget her if we drop the term. That's silly. There are numerous ways to remember PS, and we do most of them--starting with a statute of her outside Thompson-Boling. If PS were alive, she'd probably be the first to say, it's time to retire the LV name and logo. It's not 1980 anymore.