The anger that we had as UT fans stems from three things and none of them was because we thought Kiffin was the next Lombardi!
1. We had the potential to add four top offensive lineman (Chaz Green, Torian Wilson, John Cullen, and Damien Robinson) to a class that included some standout defensive players like Brandon Willis, Ahmad Dixon, Ralph Williams, and the kid that picked the Gators. Then we see all of what we could have had and what we did have crumbling before our eyes, because a coach put his personal dream situation ahead of the dreams and hopes of a passionate fan base that threw their arms around that whole coaching staff and brought them in like family. That's what we are in the south and that is what's great about the South! We have our bad folks, but generally speaking, we open our hearts and accept people as family (especially hard working people like Kiffin's staff as been described) and we aren't impersonal! You want that you go to NY or Cali!
2. I actually made it part of no.1. I grew up a military brat and was a Florida State fan, because of their cool tomahawk chop. Then after graduating HS I came to TN and a year later I was cheering as UT demolished Vandy like 65-0!! I never have understood Vandy fans, because you can't spend any significant time around the hardworking folks that reside in the VOLUNTEER state and not get infected VOL FEVER, VOLMANIA, VOLSALLTHETIME!! It's not that we don't have anything better to do (music, fish, hunt, work, work around the house, etc.)! It's just that we have so much pride in what our state stands for and UT Football is what we choose as the foremost representative of our great state! It may be misguided, but it is what it is! So when X can come to OUR school and be bathed in all that makes up the VOL Nation and simply discard it like USC is 2X better than us, it's going to be cause for an emotional reaction!
3. No one told X to make promises! He made promises, Orgeron made promises, and Papa X could not be quiet about how much he loved UT over every other place he'd been. I remember my HS coach made an empty promise to me and I was angry then and don't respect him to this day, because no one made you make a promise! When you don't do your absolute best to live up to your promises, people are going to be angry whether in politics, family life, or UT football!
If Colin Cowherd or the X gang don't understand that then it's only because they must not be as superior intellectually than us as they've convinced themselves. I don't know how us Po Country Folk win so many games and National Championships down here in the SEC when we should obviously be going to the game samply wine and cheese and realizing how there are so many other things that important other than football! X should use that in his next motivational speech to the team by the way! There is so much more to life than football!!! Maybe he'll use that in recruiting?!
Maybe I should move to California and pay $1000 per month to rent a 1200 sq. foot apartment with 3 other people. That's what's going on out there! If you're not rich or high, you're miserable!
