Classless...period

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#477
PNW Huskie said:
Anyone marginalizing this not caring what the media says is being extremely short sighted. My wife’s an MBA grad from UT and a VP at a Fortune 500 company. She was aghast and humiliated as her phone blew up with many from coworkers. Think she’s going to proudly claim her UT loyalties anytime soon? NO! This infamous event will smolder for a while. I hope we don’t get a bunch of idiots on the call in shows making it worse.
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You and your wife are “special”
 
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Pride85 said:
You know the irony in this. This fanbase loves to poke fun at Alabama fans and other schools located more Southern than us for being unintelligent hicks that can't read and look like something from one of the wrong turn movies. What do you think those fanbases are going to do with this act of high brow intellectual brilliance, huh? We will be the laughing stock of every chat room of every team in the country. ALL of the sports networks will be playing this FOREVER. The idiots involved should never be allowed on campus again. No justification for this crap EVER.
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Im not excusing those select number of fans. They should be arrested and barred from UT. But let’s not act like this hasn’t happened in every other league.

Oh look.

Ole Miss fans shower court with trash after controversial last-second loss to No. 7 Tennessee
 
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PNW Huskie said:
Anyone marginalizing this not caring what the media says is being extremely short sighted. My wife’s an MBA grad from UT and a VP at a Fortune 500 company. She was aghast and humiliated as her phone blew up with many from coworkers. Think she’s going to proudly claim her UT loyalties anytime soon? NO! This infamous event will smolder for a while. I hope we don’t get a bunch of idiots on the call in shows making it worse.
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Let me tell you what my wife thinks about the game…
 
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I agree, no place for what happened in sports of any kind. What’s also classless were the 750 fake injuries, the horrible officiating, and easily the worst call ever to be made in Neyland with the fumble, score, and “his forward progress was stopped” bull chit.

Send Plowman and White out and torch the place. But those two need to put the PC chit aside afterwards, look straight into the camera, and call it like it is. UT got totally ass raped by the refs and Ole Miss fake injuries and someone other than the people on this message board ought to stand up and grow a set
 
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Shouldn't be throwing anything on the field....period. My son was there and about got hit with a water bottle thrown from the upper deck. That can really hurt someone and I'm willing to bet a few people got injured because of this incident. This is an embarrassment for the University beyond anything I've seen and I've been around a while. Being passionate is great but what happened last night is totally different. There is no place in any sport to throw things onto a field, court, or anywhere athletes are competing. No matter what an opposing coach says or does, what the opposing players say or do, what calls the refs missed or got wrong, the actions last not from the classless fans that threw anything is inexcusable, childish, harmful, and disgusting. I really hope they can locate of few of these idiots and ban them from any future events, or at least ban them for a couple years. An example has to be made or it'll happen again. So much more to life than a football game and at no time is it ever justified to throw ANYTHING!!! If you participated and threw something, when you turn on the TV and see the negative headlines across the country, I really hope you reevaluate this classless action.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey issued a statement condemning the actions of Tennessee's fans:
"The Conference has established expectations for behavior and sportsmanship, and the actions of fans at Saturday night’s game were unacceptable under any circumstances. We are accustomed to intense competition every week, but under no circumstances is it acceptable to endanger the content participants and disrupt a game. We will review existing Conference policies and the Commissioner’s authority to impose penalties and communicate with the leadership at the University of Tennessee—and all of the SEC’s member universities—to make certain this situation is not repeated."​
To Kiffin's credit, he did seem to have a good sense of humor about the situation after the game:
Source: Bleacher Report
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I’m sure Sankey will punish us and rightfully so. No excuse for what happened. But again, I understand why it happened. Corral and other players taunting the crowd all night, strip sack TD taken away, the ridiculous stream of fake injuries (coached by Kiffin), etc. Add that to a number of drunks and thousands of fans that despise Kiffin and it’s not surprising to me. The spot (which I believe was correct) touched off the powder keg. Personally it’s one reason why I stopped going to games. Can’t put up with the immature rubes and rednecks in the stands anymore. Over the last 10 years, it has gotten worse.
 
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FlyFishnVol said:
Don't judge the whole fan base on a few. This is not the first time fans have stepped outside rational reactions. I remember a beer bottle incident at LSU. Florida fans keying my friend's car in Gainsville etc.
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Who's judging the whole fanbase? Sounds like you are taking a giant leap.
 
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#493
Will say this first that what some small percentage of fans was should NOT be tolerated at any point in time no matter what happens on the field. He didn’t get a first down, maybe a little different if he clearly got the first down by a yard or two…..

BUT….. just for thought, if Tennessee was 2-4 and ole miss was favored by 18.5 points do you think that fans would have given two craps about a call?? I understand the reasoning for being upset, I get why they are mad, BUT you should not do that regardless 7 hours of tailgating for the first big game since Tennessee Florida back in what ‘16??? Checker neyland and lane coming ranked team we could beat??? Just throwing that out there
 
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Delmar said:
I’m sure Sankey will punish us and rightfully so. No excuse for what happened. But again, I understand why it happened. Corral and other players taunting the crowd all night, strip sack TD taken away, the ridiculous stream of fake injuries (coached by Kiffin), etc. Add that to a number of drunks and thousands of fans that despise Kiffin and it’s not surprising to me. The spot (which I believe was correct) touched off the powder keg. Personally it’s one reason why I stopped going to games. Can’t put up with the immature rubes and rednecks in the stands anymore. Over the last 10 years, it has gotten worse.
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I don’t think the spot was correct. I don’t think he quite made the first, but it was closer than they marked it. Feels like we are averaging being placed about eight inches shy of actual forward progress all year. Doesn’t help that there was no ref anywhere in the vicinity of the line to gain and they basically guessed.
 
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West Vol said:
I don’t think the spot was correct. I don’t think he quite made the first, but it was closer than they marked it. Feels like we are averaging being placed about eight inches shy of actual forward progress all year. Doesn’t help that there was no ref anywhere in the vicinity of the line to gain and they basically guessed.
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. You are correct. The spot was poor but it was still short of the first down. One yard short or one inch short doesn’t matter. If he had extended the ball with his right hand instead of having the ball at his hip, it probably would have been a first down.
 
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Longshank said:
I have no problem with fans throwing crap like bottles and cans on THE FIELD in disgust. Even if it hits someone, its nothing.
Throwing it at players? Not so classy but still its not unheard of and happens a little at many games.
Coming to a game with ammo that will hurt someone is unacceptable.
Having said that it always a small minority of fans that would do something like that so i dont find the whole fan base in anyway of that low level.
Stay classy knoxville....
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By your rationale, is it ok if your in row 15 or closer to throw objects on"the field" but if you're in row 16 or back, it's not? Maybe row 20 can throw stuff but not row 21? That way if someone gets hit, it's ok and all part of the game because the object was thrown from a close distance? I would really like to know if you have studied the affects of how weight, velocity, and distance of an object and it's impact on the body, what the outcome might be?

My son was there and about got hit with a water bottle, thrown from the upper deck and I'm sure whomever was throwing it was aiming for "the field".
The entire incident was classless and damaged the image of the University. We are so much better than this and it's truly ashame anyone tries to justify what is ok and not ok to throw.
 
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