Annual "You should pull for the SEC, it helps Tennessee" debate

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roddo518 said:
The answer to the question would be yes. I would not mark a student wrong on a test that if the answer was $500 and he put 500$. I would however use the $ sign in front in all my instruction. I will consult with Freak on whether or not we will be graded on all our posts. Because if he says we will, I will most certainly pay attention and edit my posts in the future.
If we are to be graded on these posts in this thread, I would most definitely count off on both of your posts regarding staying on topic. The topic is 'you should pull for Sec, it helps Tn'. Don't worry though, I'm not an English teacher.
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I bet you'll never do that again. I also bet you are forever cognizant of the dollar sign from here on out.

Peace out.
 
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roddo518 said:
The answer to the question would be yes. I would not mark a student wrong on a test that if the answer was $500 and he put 500$. I would however use the $ sign in front in all my instruction. I will consult with Freak on whether or not we will be graded on all our posts. Because if he says we will, I will most certainly pay attention and edit my posts in the future.
If we are to be graded on these posts in this thread, I would most definitely count off on both of your posts regarding staying on topic. The topic is 'you should pull for Sec, it helps Tn'. Don't worry though, I'm not an English teacher.
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I don't grade the posts, however, I do subconsciously judge people that can't spell and consistently misuse "they're, their, there, to, too, two, where, were, we're, wear, etc etc.."

No wonder rival posters "thank" we're all retards.
 
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VolAllen said:
I don't grade the posts, however, I do subconsciously judge people that can't spell and consistently misuse "they're, their, there, to, too, two, where, were, we're, wear, etc etc.."

No wonder rival posters "thank" we're all retards.
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You're me! Or maybe I should have said your.
 
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VolAllen said:
I don't grade the posts, however, I do subconsciously judge people that can't spell and consistently misuse "they're, their, there, to, too, two, where, were, we're, wear, etc etc.."

No wonder rival posters "thank" we're all retards.
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No, you don't subconsciously judge people. You post your thoughts about it, sacrificing the thread and detouring it off topic. I would bet 100$ that there are other posts in your past concerning punctuation and diction.lol
 
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Flounder said:
This thread is all about the Southern Inferiority complex. Im a Tennessean. have you every been to Alabama or Mississippi, those places are third world and id just assume to never go to those places. Thus they have no redeeming qualities worth rooting for. Go Vols!
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ridiculously dumb post.

But I still won't cheer on the rest of the SEC.

Butch is why we are recruiting better, not because Alabama is winning. If we are recruiting well because of that, we would've been recruiting so well that we never had to get rid of Fulmer. Go tOSU.
 
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roddo518 said:
No, you don't subconsciously judge people. You post your thoughts about it, sacrificing the thread and detouring it off topic. I would bet 100$ that there are other posts in your past concerning punctuation and diction.lol
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Probably so. In my opinion, this thread was beat to death anyways and why any Tennessee fan would EVER want Alabama to win is beyond me.
 
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roddo518 said:
No, you don't subconsciously judge people. You post your thoughts about it, sacrificing the thread and detouring it off topic. I would bet 100$ that there are other posts in your past concerning punctuation and diction.lol
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We're all good!
 
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I guess what it boils down to, is everyone has their own reasons on what teams they pull for in the bowl season. I was introduced to Tennessee football by my uncle. He died a few years back of pancreatic cancer. He also brought me to my first UT game when I was ten due to the fact that my parents couldnt care less about football. My uncle was always a UT fan, but he always pulled for every SEC team in the bowl games. I grew up with that in mind, and I don't plan on changing. I'm a stubborn individual.
 
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I honestly root for Tennessee despite being in the SEC. I have major SEC fatigue and I'm really ready to see them actually play a bunch of teams not from the B1G (who is down as a conference) in the post season this year. Conference pride is a thing, we did it up north in Big 10 country as well. However, Ohio State and Michigan would rather be caught dead than cheer for each other. Same as Purdue/Indiana. A Hoosier or Irish victory is never ever a good thing... ever, so I completely understand those saying the same about Bama and Florida. Like for me... watching the beat down Alabama put on those fools was a cause for major glee and celebration for me.
 
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And this is my annual " Bull**** if it helps us when al. wins championships or when our main rivals for recruits win."
 
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I have three rules with Football. Never cheer for Bama, Florida, or Florida state. Had TCU made it to the playoffs thats who I would cheer for. As long as Bama don't win it IDC who does. If they win it will go from 15 NT to 25 NT, thats just how it works down there.

As for the other SEC schools I would like to see them win, but wont hurt my feelings if they don't.
 
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You just don't pull for BAMA and the Gators, if you do then deep deep down you are not a true VFL, you just cant do it and call yourself a VOL fan, if you do you need to find another team to root for. GO BIG ORANGE and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF the rest of the SEC.
 
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must not be much to debate. why who someone wants to pull for in other games has always baffled me as far as why anyone else cares. I could care less who someone else pulls for or why.

I would pull for who my money was on. :)
 
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Honestly I'd rather hear the B1G fans get a year of trashing the SEC over hearing the media continue to hype up a team that manages to lose at least 1 game most years and giving them every excuse in the world to lose and still get a free pass to a championship. I mean the SEC West, while not bad, gets way over-hyped because of Bama and the fact that the team that usually beats them comes from the SECW. I mean Ole Miss closes the year losing 3 or their last 5 games, including being shutout by an Ark team that has all of 2 SEC wins in the last 2 years and still stays in the Top 10. Why, because they are the team that beat Bama this year and rather than say Bama may not be the greatest thing since sliced bread, they instead hype up the mediocre team that beats them and the rest of their division.

So while UT may be in the SEC that doesn't mean I will cheer for any other team to win their bowl game besides UT. I will however hope, cheer and pray that both Bama and Florida get embarrassed in their bowl games and worry about any reprecusions from that, if any, later.
I figure while it may not make the SEC look like NFL-lite but if bowl wins or loses really do effect recruiting then that means all the 4-5* from Bama and the state of florida will look at other schools besides them meaning UT will have a better shot at those kids and the kids from florida that weren't interested in UT will go to another Florida school that isn't in the SEC. Either way I see that as a better thing for UT than every team in the SEC winning their bowls, Bama continues to stock pile talent, kids from Florida go to UF to stay in state and play in the SEC and the rest of the SEC loads up on talent equal to ours while they have a solid roster and ours doesn't go to deep for at least another year
 
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I will pull for the rest of the SEC in bowl games with the exceptions of Bama and UF. I have heard all the arguments for why I should pull for them. And if i am being honest they are logical. But as a life long UT fan I simply don't have it in me to pull for either of those two teams.
 
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VolAllen said:
Can you enlighten me on why a lot of people put the $ after the figure? I see "500$" all the time, and I'm about 1000% sure it's wrong. Just curious...
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There are several reasons, vodka, whiskey, rum, beer, etc.
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
With bowl season coming up, I figured why not.

Reasons why you should pull for your conference:

1. You want a strong strength of schedule. Just ask the 2007 Hawaii Warriors what happens when you are undefeated in a sissy conference.

2. Recruits like Josh Malone, who are trying to decide who to pick between Tennessee and Clemson, want to play in the best conference. Hence Malone went to Tennessee.

3. To further support point #2, five of the Top Ten current recruiting classes are SEC. In 2014, seven of the Top Ten were SEC. Being in the best conference helps with recruiting.

4. To me it's a Southern pride thing. I believe the best football is played in the south, the strength of the SEC supports my argument.

There's more to my argument, but that'll do. Go SEC!!!!! Let's go undefeated this bowl season!!!!
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Looks like the vast majority is against you on this OP, but I agree with your every point here. With me it is a Southern pride thing as well.

Yes, and that includes Bama. As much as I hate them, when it comes to bowl season, I hate the arrogant urban types that dominate the national media much more.

I now live in Eugene, OR, home of the Ducks, and I can tell you first hand that many of these people think folks from East Tennessee and the rest of the South recently emerged from caves and regularly marry close family members.
 
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Until this year I would have fallen on the side of rooting for any SEC team in a major bowl, but after enduring 4 hours of the most obnoxious and boorish behavior from redneck bama fans at this years game I will never root for them, Even if they were to play the golden domers of ND. Florida also will fall into that category now but I do root for the other in the SEC as long as they are not playing UT. :bad:
 
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