Pearl Painted Up

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lawgator1 said:
Let me put it this way.

If UT was #1 in hog wrestling and it was on TV, would you watch it? How about if they were #1 in use of fabric softener?
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who cares?

some would, i assure you. if it's orange and has a T on it, for many, that's all they need.

your opinion on the matter has no bearing on what they watch or why.

and that does not make the few that would tune in pathetic. it simply means they take pride in their university.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Exactly. Hog wrestling would be about a million times more entertaining to watch than women's basketball.
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but if it had a T on it and they were hog wrestling for a national title..................i'd at least check out the box score.:p
 
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jakez4ut said:
what, taking pride in something your school does well is wrong or something? who are you to decide why someone should or should not root for a particular sport? just because you find it boring, and unwatchable, doesn't mean that someone that doesn't is pathetic....regardless of why they tune in.

and if they truly didn't find some sort of value in attending or watching, i doubt they'd watch regardless of how good they are.

and i'm failing to see what's unrealistic about that.

the whole point in having college sports is to be competitive and drive school pride...regardless of the sport.

so if your women's bball team is good....and that's why you watch...then i'd say that that particular program has done it's job.

and let's be clear, i'm not particularly fond of women's bball either, if they do good, great, if not, oh well, i don't lose sleep, and i also agree that if the lady vols had been historically mediocre, it would rarely, if ever, even be brought up. but i'm not going to call someone pathetic for tuning in because they're good.

i mean is there any room for the consideration that the fact the lady vols are the flagship women's bball program is reason enough to watch for those that choose to?

gimmie a break LG.
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I'm not calling them pathetic for watching it. I'm caling them patheitc for watching IF the reason they watch is simply that UT is good at it. For me, the programs I care about is what drives my taste and desire for success, not the other way around.

I believe my approach to be infinitely more noble than ... well ... read the first one below:

GAVol said:
I'd watch a camel race if one of the camels had a power T branded on its rear end.
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hatvol96 said:
Exactly. Hog wrestling would be about a million times more entertaining to watch than women's basketball.
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I meant no disrespect. Perhaps I should not have compared women bbal players to hogs.

My apoligies to all hogs out there.




j/k on that last one.

At any rate, my point is that you should enjoy what you enjoy. If you like women's college bball, then more power to you. We are not likely to spend many Saturday evenings together because we surely have different tastes in enterinament.

I don't judge that.

What I do judge as absurd is pretending to care about women's bball because your school is good at it. That makes utterly no sense to me. And if you actually do care about it BECAUSE your school is good at it, that's even worse.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I would sit in the top row of section 310 at TBA for hog wrestling before I would sit in the floor seats for a Lady Vol game.
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I don't get the animosity(maybe the wrong term) towards it. It is more about the atmosphere than anything. Soccer is freaking boring as hell to watch, but you drop me over in a stadium in England or Germany, and I know I would have a good time. A UT sporting event with 20,000 people in the arena is enjoyable. UT v. USC, no thanks. But UT v. UConn with 20,000 of my fellow Vol fans, I have defintely enjoyed.
 
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lawgator1 said:
What I do judge as absurd is pretending to care about women's bball because your school is good at it. That makes utterly no sense to me. And if you actually do care about it BECAUSE your school is good at it, that's even worse.
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ok, i'm lost. i give up. how do you pretend to care???? what on earth would be the reasoning for that???? that makes no sense..................... i have no idea how to respond to this anymore............but let's give it one more try..........

it's called school pride...that's all i can say. it's like baseball for me. i could care less. and generally speaking, i don't keep up with it, don't know the records, rankings, players etc....... except on the occaisons that the vols are really good and make it to the post season......i tune in.

and my reson why.......because my school is good at it, and that's enough for me.

so does that make me pathetic?
 
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hatvol96 said:
I would sit in the top row of section 310 at TBA for hog wrestling before I would sit in the floor seats for a Lady Vol game.
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Man, I am going to get in so much trouble on this hog wrestling comparison. This cannot possibly end well for me.
 
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allvol123 said:
I don't get the animosity(maybe the wrong term) towards it. It is more about the atmosphere than anything. Soccer is freaking boring as hell to watch, but you drop me over in a stadium in England or Germany, and I know I would have a good time. A UT sporting event with 20,000 people in the arena is enjoyable. UT v. USC, no thanks. But UT v. UConn with 20,000 of my fellow Vol fans, I have defintely enjoyed.
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Atmosphere. A legitimate reason to go to the game. My hat is off to you. Hope you enjoy it.

I'm not kidding.

jakez4ut said:
ok, i'm lost. i give up. how do you pretend to care???? what on earth would be the reasoning for that???? that makes no sense..................... i have no idea how to respond to this anymore............but let's give it one more try..........

it's called school pride...that's all i can say. it's like baseball for me. i could care less. and generally speaking, i don't keep up with it, don't know the records, rankings, players etc....... except on the occaisons that the vols are really good and make it to the post season......i tune in.

and my reson why.......because my school is good at it, and that's enough for me.

so does that make me pathetic?
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See immediately above on the first point.

On the second point... Pretty much, yes. But that is just my opinion. I still like you for all of your other quirks and the things that just make you, well, you.
 
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lawgator1 said:
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On the second point... Pretty much, yes. But that is just my opinion. I still like you for all of your other quirks and the things that just make you, well, you.
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it's a very narrow and shallow view to judge someone because they simply take pride in whatever sport their university does well. and that my friend, says more about what's pathetic here.
 
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jakez4ut said:
it's a very narrow and shallow view to judge someone because they simply take pride in whatever sport their university does well. and that my friend, says more about what's pathetic here.
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We shall have to agree to disagree.

allvol123 said:
So people don't attend UF events because they happen to be good at the particular event?
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No, no, you have it backwards. I'm not saying its weak to avoid something because your school is good at it. That makes no sense.

I'm saying that just because your school is good at it is a weak reason to go. But, some disagree and that's fine.

Maybe I sohuld not have used the word pathetic. I think that got the ire of some up. But oh, well, can't please all of the people all of the time ...
 
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allvol123 said:
So people don't attend UF events because they happen to be good at the particular event?
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apparently not. they all go because it's just a dandy old time. who cares if they are good or not? apparenlty they'll just show up if they open the doors, because the "atmosphere is good".

actually having a good product to watch is meaningless at florida. they just happen to be lucky that there are actually good teams to watch down there.

there'd apparently be 80,000+ at the swamp to watch the football team if they went 1-11 every year...and that would be fine.......no reason not to go....and it sure as hell isn't school pride.
 
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