2 consecutive weeks of Vol Call disasters = bad 1st impressions

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#101
Rasputin_Vol said:
Guys, let me make it clear. I don't have an issue with the southern accent or anything. I guess I was just more annoyed by the reluctance by some to embrace new ideas/new blood. Plus, the idiotic "ticks and chiggers" comment. I don't care how you saw "ticks and chiggers"... I don't care if you have a country accent or a New Englander accent... I just can't wrap my mind around what that is supposed to mean. I'm sorry... I love country colloquialisms as much as anybody. But that was just ignorance right there.
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The caller who said the ticks and chiggers comment was implying that CLK needed to be bitten by ticks and chiggers so he would be infused with some Southern blood....
 
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#106
TennTradition said:
So, what I would like to know is whether a group of 'Linebacker Alumni' put the sign up, or if a 'Linebacker Alumnus' screwed up his sign.
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Ask and receive kind sir. It is good to see you back on the main board though I am not quit used to the new avatar yet.

The coach was asked about the anonymous message displayed on a billboard across the street from campus – “Best wishes to Charlie Weis in the fifth year of his college coaching internship.” (That billboard has since been attributed to former player Tom Reynolds, a seldom-used reserve linebacker in the late 1960s under Ara Parseghian.)

“Everything was great until the last word, so tell them thanks a lot for wishing me best wishes,” Weis said with a laugh. “I heard about it, I haven’t seen it, and we’ll just leave it at that. But it sounded pretty good – just take that last word out and we’re all set.”


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#107
#107
VolDad said:
Ask and receive kind sir. It is good to see you back on the main board though I am not quit used to the new avatar yet.

The coach was asked about the anonymous message displayed on a billboard across the street from campus – “Best wishes to Charlie Weis in the fifth year of his college coaching internship.” (That billboard has since been attributed to former player Tom Reynolds, a seldom-used reserve linebacker in the late 1960s under Ara Parseghian.)

“Everything was great until the last word, so tell them thanks a lot for wishing me best wishes,” Weis said with a laugh. “I heard about it, I haven’t seen it, and we’ll just leave it at that. But it sounded pretty good – just take that last word out and we’re all set.”


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:hi: I have emerged from the politics forum. :)

I'm not sure I'm going to keep the new avatar...but I wanted something new for the season and decided to make something...we'll see.

So, is Charlie talking about the word 'Alumni' or 'Internship'? I'm assuming internship. It's pretty funny that they guy paid to put up a mistake....and that no one caught it.
 
#108
#108
I am just wondering if the caller on Monday's Vol Calls was super fond of 3rd and Chavis? I know I was as glad to see him go as Fulmer himself. What a pathetic group of Assistant Coaches we had for all these year. Lane Kiffin and his entourage of coaches kick Fulmer and his cronies arse up and down the field.
 
#110
#110
Vols71 said:
There are stupid people everywhere, not just here. Its not like that's the only time he gets to talk to fans of Tennessee. I'm sure he gets to be around people that are actually intelligent and a good sample from our fan base. No matter where you go though, you are gonna find stupid people.
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exactly, look at what saban has to deal with.
 
#111
#111
volanatic said:
Um, I know that the caller was a complete moron but it had nothing to do with his accent. I have a southern accent and am proud of it. I also have a degree in mechanical engineering so I don't consider myself to be a moron. But my wife might!
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There is nothing wrong with a southern accent .... one of my favorite sawings after a big meal is "Im as full as a tick on a dogs neck." I am from Binfield Tennessee .... pretty country, but as you pointed out southerners arent mononic by birth. You can tell the difference between someone that can articulate a thought and someone who cant, no matter what the accent.
 
#112
#112
Rasputin_Vol said:
I'm really steaming about this guy that called last night on Vol Calls for obvious reasons. It wasn't forward looking, it wasn't uplifting, it wasn't optimistic. Not saying everybody has to be a kool-aid sipper or anything, but it really brought home to me just how backwards and "good ole boy-ish" some people in this state can be. I'm sorry... hate to say it, but it is true. We just don't embrace change well. I'm venting a little and may be overreacting, but the combination of that guy's call last night and the "ticks and chiggers" call last week could not have left a good first impression of how most people are in Tennessee... or sadly, maybe it actually did.

After the first two weeks of Vol Calls, I would not be surprised if Kiffin finds the first opportunity to leave for some other location (provided he is successful here) and moves on to some other spot just to get away from people like that. And that is just what we were able to hear on Vol Calls... heaven only knows what this guy has had said to him on the street or but some Fulmerite or hillbilly somewhere. I'm sorry, but that is the truth. I don't like having to go there, but seriously, we did not put on our best face in the last two weeks.

I really want this program to move into the 21st Century and move out of the 1960's. Hopefully, this will be the last time I feel this negatively about my state and the people around me, but these were very sterotypical calls made by my fellow Vol fans and it just doesn't sit well with me.
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Hmmm...
 
#114
#114
KCVolLaw said:
You weren't exactly going out on a limb or anything. And he didn't leave bc we are all hillbillies.
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Nor did he leave bc he had success...he left bc SC wanted Monte's D and EO, & LK's recruiting.
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#116
#116
He was accepted quite well here though. As much as Dooley has been accepted if not more. But was he a cultural fit? No. But we all could have gotten over that. He just left for an easier job.
 
#117
#117
KCVolLaw said:
He was accepted quite well here though. As much as Dooley has been accepted if not more. But was he a cultural fit? No. But we all could have gotten over that. He just left for an easier job.
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Yea, I think we had all gotten over that. He was much more accepted than Dooley is today. But the point is, I'm not sure that Kiffin got over not being a cultural fit. He did leave for an easier job, but I kind of get the feeling he was going to jump at the first job he could get. He just happened to luck out and get a great one.
 
#118
#118
LawVol13 said:
Yea, I think we had all gotten over that. He was much more accepted than Dooley is today. But the point is, I'm not sure that Kiffin got over not being a cultural fit. He did leave for an easier job, but I kind of get the feeling he was going to jump at the first job he could get. He just happened to luck out and get a great one.
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I would agree with you to a certain point. I don't think he would have left for any job but a west coast job that was anywhere close to being as good as the UT job definitely. As soon as Carroll left I knew he was gone if they offered it to him. I just didn't think they'd actually offer it to him.
 
#119
#119
KCVolLaw said:
I would agree with you to a certain point. I don't think he would have left for any job but a west coast job that was anywhere close to being as good as the UT job definitely. As soon as Carroll left I knew he was gone if they offered it to him. I just didn't think they'd actually offer it to him.
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Me either. I definitely think he'll be successful there though.
 
#120
#120
KCVolLaw said:
I would agree with you to a certain point. I don't think he would have left for any job but a west coast job that was anywhere close to being as good as the UT job definitely. As soon as Carroll left I knew he was gone if they offered it to him. I just didn't think they'd actually offer it to him.
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They wouldn't have except for the fact that no heavyweights wanted it, so they gave it to an unproven, unknown really, to stop any further image bleeding.
 
#121
#121
I listen to Vol Calls all the time, and it's pretty painful. It has never been as painful as those first two Kiffin weeks. I could see him just rollin' his eyes at every call. Even during the worst of the Fulmer era, you could tell Phil "fit". I must say Dooley seems to be handling that part of the job quite well.
 
#122
#122
vol66 said:
I listen to Vol Calls all the time, and it's pretty painful. It has never been as painful as those first two Kiffin weeks. I could see him just rollin' his eyes at every call. Even during the worst of the Fulmer era, you could tell Phil "fit". I must say Dooley seems to be handling that part of the job quite well.
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PF was a good old boy though. Some of the callers you allude to spoke their own version of the King's English, unintelligible even to locals.
 
#123
#123
sjrobert said:
PF was a good old boy though. Some of the callers you allude to spoke their own version of the King's English, unintelligible even to locals.
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Honestly some of it has to do with my own perception of what it would be like for Kiffin. I mean, you don't WANT him to hate the experience. My perception was that the callers might not, um...represent the whole of Vol country but that Kiffin would believe those are THE Vol fans.
 
#124
#124
vol66 said:
Honestly some of it has to do with my own perception of what it would be like for Kiffin. I mean, you don't WANT him to hate the experience. My perception was that the callers might not, um...represent the whole of Vol country but that Kiffin would believe those are THE Vol fans.
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Who gives a rats _$$ what Kiffin thinks. That guy was going to be bad news for us. I don't know how we do over the next five years but I bet one thing. we will not have the NCAA up our backside because our head coach is breaking rules. Had Lame stayed we would not be in a bowl game of SEC championship anyway. They don't let you play in those while on probabtion, and we wolud have been.
 
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