Recent content by ut93vol

I’ll call BS on this post. You obviously don’t work for a university.

I would say roughly the same thing about any R1 school. These schools rarely produce faculty who teach as well as smaller schools. Smaller schools tend to offer more personal attention and value the classroom more. In contrast, UTK is publish or perish. Bad teachers who research well will remain...

UTC has pockets of Vols fans but many UTC grads do not cheer for UTK. I see just as many Bama and UGA caps and shirts as UTK. UTC is not a satellite of UTC. UT does a pretty terrible job of operating as a system. Each campus is very different and there are very few connections beyond the name...

If folks are interested then there is a body of literature that works to define fandom. My favorite model defines fans at a relatively low level. Fans represent an audience segment who are largely disconnected and unorganized, but reliable consumers. Cultists are the next step up. Cultists...

Actually, the team name is just Mocs. The mascots are a mockingbird and a train. The UTC website offers the following definition, “In the simplest term, a Moc is a champion in the classroom, in competition and, most importantly, in life.” Y’all have fun with this UT gold. I’m a professor at...

FYI, Maxwell is Southern. That said, you are correct that the South is much more diverse than those characteristics suggest. That said, these are characteristics of the region’s dominant ideology — regardless of how much you might convince yourself otherwise. The South is all of these things...

According Angie Maxwell’s “The Long Southern Strategy”, survey data reveals that the characteristics that most to define Southern ideology are Christian fundamentalism, anti-feminist views, and racial resentment. The way SEC coaches tend to operate seems to reinforce at least two out of three...

We wouldn't have ended up with Pruitt had they not tried to hire Schiano. This onion had layers.

UTK - BS in Journalism '93 UTK - MS in Mass Communication '01 Bama - PhD in Mass Communication '05 My immediate family holds a combined eight degrees from UTK and my son is currently a student. I also work for the UT system, but not UTK.

Born in 1971. My grandfather was a UTK administrator. He started taking me to games around 1977.

Roland James

Kiffin has left a trainwreck everywhere he has been, including here. Rehiring him will simply reinforce the national narrative that we are stupid and crazy. Tee is one of our own and will value our traditions.

There is a big difference between telling another coach and reporting a crime.

Out of curiosity, since when does suggesting that one arm of a free market corporation should funnel cash to another arm of that same free market corporation represent a Marxist worldview?