After a Tennessee loss

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Living in California is tough after a Tennessee loss. I am usually the only Tennessee fan that my friends or colleagues know.

So I have heard all about the Oakland loss today in the office.

A guy at lunch was like hey man did you see your team lose last night? My reply to that question was, "Oh really? I didn't notice that it's been the lead story on ESPN, or that people having been talking crap all day, but thank you for the heads up."

It gets really annnoying.
 
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Good thing is most of the people I work with just follow college football....
 
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I feel ya. I'm in UNC/Duke/NCst territory. They take their bball VERY seriously. I had more crap talked to me today than I have about the UNC/UT bowl game.

There is a silver lining though. Any Tennessee loss, particularly to an unranked team is now a "big deal" and worthy of smack talk. Wasn't long ago that no one here knew or cared if UT lost a bball game to anybody. Reguardless of what the rest of this year holds for us, I take this as a good thing. If people on tobacco road know and care enough about UT bball to give me a hard time after a loss then to me that means we have finally "arrived".
 
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Very true. Lots of sports nuts in my office and the ones who follow cbb, knew Oakland was solid.

bofa said:
I feel ya. I'm in UNC/Duke/NCst territory. They take their bball VERY seriously. I had more crap talked to me today than I have about the UNC/UT bowl game.

There is a silver lining though. Any Tennessee loss, particularly to an unranked team is now a "big deal" and worthy of smack talk. Wasn't long ago that no one here knew or cared if UT lost a bball game to anybody. Reguardless of what the rest of this year holds for us, I take this as a good thing. If people on tobacco road know and care enough about UT bball to give me a hard time after a loss then to me that means we have finally "arrived".
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Actually, they are nicely pointing out that UTK hasn't arrived as an elite team.


bofa said:
I feel ya. I'm in UNC/Duke/NCst territory. They take their bball VERY seriously. I had more crap talked to me today than I have about the UNC/UT bowl game.

There is a silver lining though. Any Tennessee loss, particularly to an unranked team is now a "big deal" and worthy of smack talk. Wasn't long ago that no one here knew or cared if UT lost a bball game to anybody. Reguardless of what the rest of this year holds for us, I take this as a good thing. If people on tobacco road know and care enough about UT bball to give me a hard time after a loss then to me that means we have finally "arrived".
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Both losses hurt last night, especially the men losing to Oakland (Mich). Am also told the Lady Vols are okay and they'll bounce back. I sure hope they do against #2 Stanford on Sunday. Otherwise, this will be loss #3 in the early season. If they lose and I hope they don't, I hope they don't fall out of the top 10.
As far as the men's team, they'll bounce back. It will get more interesting once SEC play starts.
GO VOLS!
I support Pat Summitt and Bruce Pearl. Don't want to hear anything bad against Bruce. His best interest is with this team.
 
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bofa said:
I feel ya. I'm in UNC/Duke/NCst territory. They take their bball VERY seriously. I had more crap talked to me today than I have about the UNC/UT bowl game.

There is a silver lining though. Any Tennessee loss, particularly to an unranked team is now a "big deal" and worthy of smack talk. Wasn't long ago that no one here knew or cared if UT lost a bball game to anybody. Reguardless of what the rest of this year holds for us, I take this as a good thing. If people on tobacco road know and care enough about UT bball to give me a hard time after a loss then to me that means we have finally "arrived".
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I hear you bro. I live in Charlotte, and attend UNCC. Losing to Oakland has been tough, but I am going to our game against UNCC on Friday night. If we find a way to lose to that team, I will never hear the end of it.

BTW, for those of you going to the Charlotte game, CBP is making an appearance at Blackfinn at around 5:00 Friday before the game.
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It's a good thing that some snow fell through some roof somewhere and some old guy didn't play football or this would be an even bigger story
 
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brian.kluever said:
I hear you bro. I live in Charlotte, and attend UNCC. Losing to Oakland has been tough, but I am going to our game against UNCC on Friday night. If we find a way to lose to that team, I will never hear the end of it.

BTW, for those of you going to the Charlotte game, CBP is making an appearance at Blackfinn at around 5:00 Friday before the game.
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I lived in Charlotte for 7 years and got my MBA at UNCC. I consider them a secondary team that I root for. I used to go to alot of games before the move to the A-10. Back when they were winning shares of Conf. USA titles along with Cinci, Louisville, Memphis etc.. When Huggins came to town it was a BIG deal and the grad student section was rocking. I hear its a FAR cry from that these days. There is no way that UT should even be challenged in this game beyond the first 10 minutes. If we are..I'll start to get a little worried about this season.
 
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