Are NegaVols for real?

#153
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Vol-cano said:
I am new to posting here, yet have watched for a long time. This thread, in particular, is what prompted me to register in order to participate in the conversation in some small way.

Negavol may be broken down, in my estimation, into four distinct categories, all of which are real:

1. Junior Samples: A small number of kids who don't really know shinola about sports at this level, or how to act in a public forum with respect. Small group with outsized numbers of posts.

2. Bitter alumni: A much larger, yet still minority number of posters who are unhappy with their ****ty lives, day-drink on a regular basis, and attack their school as a self-medication for their personal problems (they seem to show up after 6:00 pm every day and blast diatribes after every difficult play during games, indicating they have few friends).

3. Anti-UT troll/never attended: Some of these are clever, after a fashion. They don't usually last here, but they are real. Some have been persistent. (See type 4 for the persistent variety)

4. The combo-package: By FAR the largest group. You hear them on the radio and they post everywhere - Never went to college, generally unhappy with their life, drunken blue-collar a*****s. Most of this variety of "negavol" are Tennesseans. Some, however, are not. The jackasses who fouled The Rock on campus this year prior to Alabama certainly weren't Tennesseans (although they probably live here), yet they belong in this category. What none of them are, are VOLUNTEERS in the strictest sense of the word; meaning University of Tennessee students, alumni, parents of alumni, serious donors, volunteers (with a lower-case "v") to the program, or any type of serious participant in the University. Yet they claim a right to be vile to the program, usually on bizarre pretexts, often described as something like "...I have always <insert non-sequitur...something, something> TENNESSEE!...."

(Bless your heart, son, but if you never went to UT, inheriting season tickets from your wife's grandpap doesn't give you the standing you seem to think it does. And going to a game or two once in a while via company/buddy/scalp tickets doesn't buy you a pass to be a constant downer either.)

There. Might be off base on some of that. Might not be too far off, either.
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I think you put way too much time and thought into this.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
So what should we call those who come and post nothing but negative trash about all aspects of the program?
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Yeah, cause one vocal expression about a single problem, such as the OL and Mahoney = negative trash about EVERYTHING. Pfffft. At Ease with that noise.
 
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KBVol said:
There are a very few on here are actually "negavols", guys you don't hear anything from when things are going well and only come alive to criticize and call for firings, etc when the team is struggling/things are going poorly. I would say you could count those guys easily on one hand.

Most of the other posters on here who will honestly critique and criticize various aspects of the program, coaching, play are expressing legitimate opinions and that are more often than not valid.....and they love the team and program as much as anybody else.
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Correct I agree with u brother..
 
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KBVol said:
There are a very few on here are actually "negavols", guys you don't hear anything from when things are going well and only come alive to criticize and call for firings, etc when the team is struggling/things are going poorly. I would say you could count those guys easily on one hand.

Most of the other posters on here who will honestly critique and criticize various aspects of the program, coaching, play are expressing legitimate opinions and that are more often than not valid.....and they love the team and program as much as anybody else.
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This is so true. Its just easier to accuse someone of being a negavol, when they don't agree or have a differing opinion, than it is to actually engage in a constructive debate/conversation.
 
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I find it funny how fans get labeled. Most "negavols" would consider themselves realists. I know I don't get too up or down based on 1 performance by the team.

Look at this season when Dobbs entered the picture and how the fans reacted. After the Bama game, there was tremendous excitement on here...and following the USC comeback the sky was the limit. All of a sudden the OL was considerably better and anyone who cautioned this was told they're a miserable person that can't be happy with anything in life, and so on.

Also, look at the predictions prior to the Mizzou and Vandy games. Some people were predicting a triple digit victory over Vandy. So what happened? The OL suddenly regressed, again? The excuses have been coming out of the woodwork since the Mizzou loss.

Prior to the Mizzou game: their coach was over-rated, they hadn't beaten anyone, they pretty much sucked.

After the game: They are well coached, the DL is the best on the planet, they could beat the Packers.

It's been similar since the Vandy game...well, they always play UT tough, etc.

As UT fans, we haven't had much to cheer about lately and it's only natural to grasp at anything positive. The problem or issue that I see is when those tiny positives become over-inflated to something they really aren't. The OL didn't really improve. Dobbs just found a way to work with it. Against a decent OL, even Dobbs wasn't effective. That's ok. It'll get better.

Vandy didn't become a good team all of a sudden. They suck. Maybe they played a little above their norm and UT certainly played below it's potential...thus evening the matc-up.
 
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Negavol is a term invented by those on VolNaton that over value their own knowledge and opinions vs others to make themselves feel better.
 
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"Oh they're real, and they're spectacular."
 
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Alumnus, never called in to the radio shows, not a fan of the current staff but have loved the Vols almost 40 years. Tried the positive sandwich thing for a while, but still referred to as a negavol and not a true fan.
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
Alumnus, never called in to the radio shows, not a fan of the current staff but have loved the Vols almost 40 years. Tried the positive sandwich thing for a while, but still referred to as a negavol and not a true fan.
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Prayers sent. :cray:
 
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FLSTF-VOL said:
This is so true. Its just easier to accuse someone of being a negavol, when they don't agree or have a differing opinion, than it is to actually engage in a constructive debate/conversation.
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Pretty much spot on.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
So what should we call those who come and post nothing but negative trash about all aspects of the program?
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Nothing, why do you have to call them anything? Just ignore them. This is what I just don't get, you have control of your own keyboard and you don't have to respond. Try having some self-control and ignore it.

There is no rule that says that you are required to read each and every thread started, or post made. Its not a requirement.

I suggest that if you and the other members that continually complain about "negavols" lack the self- control to ignore them on your own to simply put them on "ignore" and let the forum do it for you.
 
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FLSTF-VOL said:
You joined just so you could post that? A little judgemental are we? I know, your probably just calling it the way you see it.

By the way which one of those categories do you fall in? let me guess...........none of them right? Because your a true VFL and by default, that gives you the right to pass judgement. Hey look Volnation we have a new fan police, judge and jury member!

Oh, don't get me wrong because there are gonna be several greater than thou riding their high horse members that are gonna like the hell outta your post.
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Like I said, I've lurked this place a very long time. Old graduates don't care for what's become to be called "nega" at all. The motivations for those who do it have very little to do with boosting their school, which is, after all, the entire reason for college sports in the first place. The Titans exist. The "negas" should move on to NFL griping and leave the school out of their misery.

If there's a problem with the program, as identified by people who actually know what they are talking about, comment about it reasonably. That's not too much to ask of polite society. I don't condone the other extreme either; so-called "sunshine pumping", which is also counter-productive, albeit in a different way, but moaning and predicting disaster about every single aspect of a program trying to get on its feet, making up garbage along the way, is totally wrong. Nobody who does it can ever justify it. Who does that? I made my case for who does that. The answers were rather predictable.
 
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