A lost generation of Vols fans

#76
#76
butchna said:
Quit narrating what I’m “fine” with. Started fanship in the Bill Battle era. The end of that and the beginning of the Majors era was worse than our current stretch...by far!
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I'm not arguing anything with regards to the OPs topic because I just don't care, but this isn't true.

1974 ----- 7-3
1975 ----- 7-5
1976 ----- 6-5
1977 ----- 4-7
1978 ----- 5-5-1
1979 ----- 7-5
1980 ----- 5-6
1981 ----- 8-4
1982 ----- 6-5
1983 ----- 9-3
1984 ----- 7-4-1
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Total ----- 71-52 (58%)

2006 ----- 9-4
2007 ----- 10-4
2008 ----- 5-7
2009 ----- 7-6
2010 ----- 6-7
2011 ----- 5-7
2012 ----- 5-7
2013 ----- 5-7
2014 ----- 7-6
2015 ----- 9-4
2016 ----- 9-4
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Total ----- 77-63 (55%)
 
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#77
#77
Granted, Tennessee Football has been in decline for a decade or more. Living in Georgia makes it really difficult to watch UT, continue to make bad head coaching decisions, while Georgia goes out and gets their coach and it shows:)
 
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#78
#78
Absolutely. When I was a kid 90+% of the kids in my class were Vol fans. Now? Pretty evenly split between UT, UGA, and Bama. Even see a few Gators fans. Sad.
 
#81
#81
VolGirl81 said:
Well I'm really giving my age here, but my freshman year was Johnny Majors' first year. Some of you might remember, "there has been a MAJOR change at Tennessee!" My point being, we had one winning season during that time, BUT, everyone even with that believed in Tennessee football. On Saturdays, we always went to the game. The thing that bothers me the most is the apathy towards it now. It didn't used to be that way. I check everyday to see if Butch has been fired yet. I have followed Tennessee football for over 40 years and it's sad to see the state of the program and where it's reputation is now.
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Ditto. I am 67. My son is 38. I grew up a diehard Tennessee fan of all sports. My son the same. For the past few years I have gotten the "don't care" attitude too. All of our sport programs have loss the respect of people all over. Tennessee is in my blood but what has happened to our sports program with the exception of the women's softball team is heart breaking. I wonder if I will ever see it great again. Now my son is starting to feel the same. Another generation is being lost. The passion we had is slipping away. SAD.
 
#83
#83
IamScaredOfTrees said:
I'm not arguing anything with regards to the OPs topic because I just don't care, but this isn't true.

1974 ----- 7-3
1975 ----- 7-5
1976 ----- 6-5
1977 ----- 4-7
1978 ----- 5-5-1
1979 ----- 7-5
1980 ----- 5-6
1981 ----- 8-4
1982 ----- 6-5
1983 ----- 9-3
1984 ----- 7-4-1
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Total ----- 71-52 (58%)

2006 ----- 9-4
2007 ----- 10-4
2008 ----- 5-7
2009 ----- 7-6
2010 ----- 6-7
2011 ----- 5-7
2012 ----- 5-7
2013 ----- 5-7
2014 ----- 7-6
2015 ----- 9-4
2016 ----- 9-4
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Total ----- 77-63 (55%)
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Prolly need to live it instead of googling it. :) Battle made out pretty well at the beginning of his tenure with what Dickey left behind, but the overall roster that he left Majors was beyond sad. Can you imagine if Butch had started with a 4 win season and followed that with two more 5 win efforts in his first 4? Or not reach 9 wins until his 7th? Instead we’re firing this guy because he’s lost the team after winning 9 in his 3rd and 4th seasons. Fans were suffering much more back then but it didn’t spread outside of the barber shop. NOW we have an outlet. :lol:
 
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#84
#84
Man you guys will find a new topic to cry over every hour.

Pull your panties up.

Furthermore Butch isn’t to blame for trying (yes he’s failed), nor some guy losing his job without a severance, nor others depression, nor some of your life choices. He did fail but you guys are looking like babies coming on here with your constant comments and troll jobs. I have respect he tried. I have no desire to hate him as a person for trying many hours every week. Everyone fails at some point in life and if you haven’t then you need to. It’s great to be humbled and realize that you should offer Grace to others!
 
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#85
#85
Such hyperbole and melodrama. An entire generation? Seriously? Ridiculous. We're down and have been before. Yes, it's an important hire, but back away from the cliff. Geez.
 
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#86
#86
IamScaredOfTrees said:
I'm not arguing anything with regards to the OPs topic because I just don't care, but this isn't true.

1974 ----- 7-3
1975 ----- 7-5
1976 ----- 6-5
1977 ----- 4-7
1978 ----- 5-5-1
1979 ----- 7-5
1980 ----- 5-6
1981 ----- 8-4
1982 ----- 6-5
1983 ----- 9-3
1984 ----- 7-4-1
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Total ----- 71-52 (58%)

2006 ----- 9-4
2007 ----- 10-4
2008 ----- 5-7
2009 ----- 7-6
2010 ----- 6-7
2011 ----- 5-7
2012 ----- 5-7
2013 ----- 5-7
2014 ----- 7-6
2015 ----- 9-4
2016 ----- 9-4
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Total ----- 77-63 (55%)
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Thanks gawd....someone with some perpective and reason. This isn't some anomaly that hasn't visited our program before. Doubt the playstation generation will even consider your post. Instead, they'll continue their gloom and doom/UT sports is nearing the end....for all time....if Butch remains the coach come Monday morning.
 
#87
#87
butchna said:
Prolly need to live it instead of googling it. :) Battle made out pretty well at the beginning of his tenure with what Dickey left behind, but the overall roster that he left Majors was beyond sad. Can you imagine if Butch had started with a 4 win season and followed that with two more 5 win efforts in his first 4? Or not reach 9 wins until his 7th? Instead we’re firing this guy because he’s lost the team after winning 9 in his 3rd and 4th seasons. Fans were suffering much more back then but it didn’t spread outside of the barber shop. NOW we have an outlet. :lol:
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Thanks to a Tennessean, who invented the internet:crazy:
 
#88
#88
photovol said:
Thanks to a Tennessean politician’s kid that lived in the Washington DC area most of his life and couldn’t carry his (supposedly) own state or he would’ve been President, who invented the internet:crazy:
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fyp :)
 
#89
#89
Football has gotten way too big for its britches over the years. It needs a good solid humbling so people don?t bank major aspects of their life on a game. NFL is doing a great job of beginning the downfall with its over commercialization, over regulating, and self promoting. Heck, I can?t make it through even one quarter of an NFL game these days, and I was a football addict for 40+ years. College football is going to start crumbling through the demand by the university followers to be elite. Chasing that has taking its toll on the Nebraska?s, Tennessee?s and Texas?s, etc. There is no hope for Alabama, though. They decided at all governing levels that the most important product their state should invest in is the football team. Probably why they are in the bottom 5 of just about every intellectual and social category.



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#90
#90
butchna said:
Prolly need to live it instead of googling it. :) Battle made out pretty well at the beginning of his tenure with what Dickey left behind, but the overall roster that he left Majors was beyond sad. Can you imagine if Butch had started with a 4 win season and followed that with two more 5 win efforts in his first 4? Or not reach 9 wins until his 7th? Instead we’re firing this guy because he’s lost the team after winning 9 in his 3rd and 4th seasons. Fans were suffering much more back then but it didn’t spread outside of the barber shop. NOW we have an outlet. :lol:
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photovol said:
Thanks to a Tennessean, who invented the internet:crazy:
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Poor guy's still counting chads:popcorn:
 
#91
#91
I can throw a rock from my front porch and hit the Alabama line.I can walk around the side of the house and see
Georgia. I go back 4 generations and I'm lost.
 
#93
#93
ZZ13 said:
Football has gotten way too big for its britches over the years. It needs a good solid humbling so people don?t bank major aspects of their life on a game. NFL is doing a great job of beginning the downfall with its over commercialization, over regulating, and self promoting. Heck, I can?t make it through even one quarter of an NFL game these days, and I was a football addict for 40+ years. College football is going to start crumbling through the demand by the university followers to be elite. Chasing that has taking its toll on the Nebraska?s, Tennessee?s and Texas?s, etc. There is no hope for Alabama, though. They decided at all governing levels that the most important product their state should invest in is the football team. Probably why they are in the bottom 5 of just about every intellectual and social category.
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I completely agree with you, but I think we are in a very small minority. You can look at racing and see where this is going - a sport that went from actual competition on the track to something resembling the absurdity of professional wrestling. There was something pure about things when the first driver to complete the required number of laps won the race, when points were allocated by finishing position, and at the end of the year the guy with the most points won whatever trophy.

We've gone from a few bowls like the Rose, Sugar, Orange, and Cotton and the fact that the few bowl participants were actually deserving of bowl play to Joe's Diner and Storm Door Tidy Bowl hosting teams with losing records. Renaming respected bowls for the sponsors is disgustingly trashy. One day, football uniforms will look like NASCAR billboards if commercialism continues.

If we keep up the pace expecting immediate wins from replacement coaches, no coach will be allotted the time to put a winning team on the field, and the whole mess will simply collapse into the well of instant gratification.
 
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