Dear Fair Weather Fans

#26
#26
Orange_Crush said:
Great point! I think a better description would be "Moronic fans with irrationally high expectations for a staff and team that is working around depth problems, injuries and distractions during the first year of rebuilding."

Is that better?
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Yes +1000
 
#27
#27
goidtman said:
I see a team this year that has played well in every game up to this one. Last few years, today would be the norm. I say one game does not judge a team or coach's season. These guys have played their butts off this season, and with everything going on this week give the team and coaches a break.

Yes they are rebuilding...and if you heard what the national media was saying at the begining of the season I think CLK, his staff, and the team have exceeded expectations. Remember how you felt last season at this time.

Greg
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You think they played well against UCLA?
 
#29
#29
This thread doesn't have many post only because there are sooooooo many of the fair weather fans. To come on this thread and try to defend your childish behavior and piss poor attitude isn't going to work. Good someone started this thread already. It's a game. Get over it. Keep your attitudes in check. Be a Vol, win or lose, or puck off.
 
#30
#30
I know one thing, I have placed so many fair weather fans on ignore that the board seems slow. It is refreshing in a way not having to see grown men cry and pitch a hissy fit like a 2 yr old.
 
#31
#31
andrewh said:
Either be a fan through and through, or get off the bus. I don't want to see ya'll in a couple years after we win an SEC Championship saying you never had a doubt in Kiffin. Be a real VOL Fan!!!!
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They are not fans. They are just wagon riders. They seem to know nothing about football. Just let them run their mouth. All boards have posters just like them.
 
#32
#32
It is every bit as pathetic to bash others who actually care that the team lost to feel better about yourselves. Most of the reaction is over the top. That includes this entire thread. I'd say the expectation that Tennessee could hang around and possibly win a game against Ole Miss was not unreasonable at all. That is something the Vols have shown us they can do and most fans have come to expect that from this staff. This is their first blowout loss. It is a major disappointment. Some bash the team, some bash the coaches and some bash other fans. To call any of these groups, as a whole, morons is quite ironic. They all have a point to some degree... I'll stick with the distraction theory. Three arrests can throw off some priorities.
 
#33
#33
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt
 
#34
#34
Correct me if I'm wrong but I get the feeling that some Vol fans think they are "entitled" to watch their team win. NO! The players practice and play and the coaches coach. The fans are only spectators. Those young men are the ones who put in the work, not you. You guys lost. Guess what, half of the teams lost today.
 
#35
#35
andrewh said:
Either be a fan through and through, or get off the bus. I don't want to see ya'll in a couple years after we win an SEC Championship saying you never had a doubt in Kiffin. Be a real VOL Fan!!!!
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I'm on the bus; let's run over somebody.
 
#36
#36
It's easy to say good post, but I really don't think this needs to be said - I really get tired of the 10,000 posts of "get off the train now if you're not fully into it." One should suffice. At the same time, I don't care for fairweather fans but I'd much rather talk about the team than other people who talk about the team.
 
#37
#37
andrewh said:
Either be a fan through and through, or get off the bus. I don't want to see ya'll in a couple years after we win an SEC Championship saying you never had a doubt in Kiffin. Be a real VOL Fan!!!!
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I was just thinking the same thing. You just know that those fans that bash and bail now will be back to enjoy the good years. That's just so wrong.:frown:
 
#39
#39
knucklehead_vol said:
umm....your the idiot. here's two quotes from you

'Someone (other than the fans) should have stood up and done something about this crap earlier in the year---maybe after the UCLA game?????

It took the fans boycotting and threatenting a total boycott to get Hammy to do anything. It is sad. Forget the good of the Tennessee football program--it all came down to $$$$

This year has damaged our recruiting, our fan base, our fundraising, it has hurt local merchants due to less people attending games, and national reputation.

I'm all for giving people 2nd chances, but sometimes you have to cut the cord earlier rather than later.

Hoping for a football coach like Bruce Pearl or Pat Summit.'

So this about the recruiting was incorrect.

'With a QB, we win. With the excpetion of the QB Tennessee played great. A single dimension team hat can keep it within 10 pts on #1 team in country is impressive. Watch out if we ever get a QB!!!'

This quote goes to show you are on the bandwagon when we are winning and a biotch when some things go bad. Do me a effing favor, change your colors you fair weather effing fans, biotch, and stop being a hypocrite and thinking you are some expert when you don't know a damn thing.
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Imagine a fan wanting his team to play well every week.
How dare he?

I am more of a fan than you ever will be.
I bet I have been much longer than you as well.
I have never said anything negative about the coaching and I guarantee I know more than you ever will. I went to school at Tennessee and graduated. Did you even graduate high school? I am also the one who started the we have to get behind Crompton thread after the Auburn loss. I guess you forgot about that one. I've never stopped being a fan and you have no proof otherwise. Go bother someone else.
 
#40
#40
tidefan1 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I get the feeling that some Vol fans think they are "entitled" to watch their team win. NO! The players practice and play and the coaches coach. The fans are only spectators. Those young men are the ones who put in the work, not you. You guys lost. Guess what, half of the teams lost today.
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This is actually not a good post. I can't stand when people start accusing others of being fairweather fans. We root for our team each and every week. Sure we're pissed when we lose, but we get over it and move on. WE don't expect to win but we do expect to be respectable and this week we were not. That is what upsets us.
 
#41
#41
How much respect were you feeling this time last year when we were 3-7? If you bet on the Vols that is your own fault, never bet on your team, it becomes much more personal.
 
#42
#42
i love the Vols in all kind of weather,but it does make me mad when our D plays like it did today.and im sure the players are not happy about it either.and im not going on any forum and bash them over a bad game or season.Go Vols beat Vandy.
 
#43
#43
I have not been a regular very long, but what I get tired of is the people who criticize the coaches. First, it is the easiest thing to do. You are doing it after the game, and they are trying to coach during the game. Hindsight is always 20/20. Second, who knows if they told the players to line up correctly and they just did not do what they were told. I trust Monte to tell them where to be more than I do a MLB that is starting his 2nd game to actually do what he was told. I am not bashing the young man, but if you have to pick one or the other, I'll take coaches over players.
 
#45
#45
The Tall Gguy said:
This is actually not a good post. I can't stand when people start accusing others of being fairweather fans. We root for our team each and every week. Sure we're pissed when we lose, but we get over it and move on. WE don't expect to win but we do expect to be respectable and this week we were not. That is what upsets us.
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Stay in Alabama
 
#47
#47
andrewh said:
Either be a fan through and through, or get off the bus. I don't want to see ya'll in a couple years after we win an SEC Championship saying you never had a doubt in Kiffin. Be a real VOL Fan!!!!
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Im more excited this time this year than I was at this time last year, but I still loved and supported them last year. Im a true big orange fan even when we lose some.
 
#48
#48
Fair Weather? Explain this? We got our asses handed to us yesterday and regardless of who's coaching a loss is a loss.
 
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