volfannbama
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You are absolutely right . My point is that he was on this thread earlier talking about passing up a Vol game to go watch navy play. YET he is here badgering people who now choose not to got to a vol game for reason that they feel are important.
I attend vols games every single year with my family. This year i was granted a once in a lifetime (hopefully not) trip to watch Navy/Army. I am not rich. I work two jobs. So i cant afford to attend the vols/titans games i normally attend with my kids so im passing them up this year so i can take my son to philly.
My points earlier were more toward principle. I think its stupid, if you dont great. You are free to call the reason i cant attend this year stupid as well.
Both, been a vols fan my whole life. Became a Navy fan throught my 22 years in the Marine Corps. I put up that avi before the game last year and never took it down.
I attend vols games every single year with my family. This year i was granted a once in a lifetime (hopefully not) trip to watch Navy/Army. I am not rich. I work two jobs. So i cant afford to attend the vols/titans games i normally attend with my kids so im passing them up this year so i can take my son to philly.
My points earlier were more toward principle. I think its stupid, if you dont great. You are free to call the reason i cant attend this year stupid as well.
the only thing that matters is who's hired next.You are incorrect about customers and fans being different. You are asked pay money for a product, that makes you are a customer. Bottom line.
UT asks people for hundreds or thousands of dollars for the product on the field, merchandise, food etc.. Don't be surprised when the customers they seek choose other outlets in which to spend their large sums of money when they can simply half-heartedly watch on tv.
Saying "go find another team" is the same as saying "let them eat cake". It ends poorly for the people in charge.
As for decreasing the laughingstock factor, John Currie can end it any time he chooses. I've actually seen a number of articles about it, none chastising the fans. We were raked over the coals when Fulmer was fired. This time the AD is raked over the coals by national media on the daily for retaining Butch Jones.
I attend vols games every single year with my family. This year i was granted a once in a lifetime (hopefully not) trip to watch Navy/Army. I am not rich. I work two jobs. So i cant afford to attend the vols/titans games i normally attend with my kids so im passing them up this year so i can take my son to philly.
My points earlier were more toward principle. I think its stupid, if you dont great. You are free to call the reason i cant attend this year stupid as well.
the only thing that matters is who's hired next.
the only think being considered here is a certain segment of fans that feel they have been wronged in some way by not having some formal announcement that he's been fired.
that's really it. not that he should be fired, not that so and so should be hired.
just that it hasn't been announced. that's it. it's a "movement" to make some people feel better, and feel involved.
and it has zero affect on anything.
and i siap, but do you really want an athletic director that is going to get bullied by a social media "movement" in to making a decision he may fundamentally not think is necessary at the moment?
especially if the actual decision is probably made, and it's just not made public?
if that's who we have as our AD, then he's a thin skinned coward that doesn't deserve the position he's in.
the only thing that matters is who's hired next.
the only think being considered here is a certain segment of fans that feel they have been wronged in some way by not having some formal announcement that he's been fired.
that's really it. not that he should be fired, not that so and so should be hired.
just that it hasn't been announced. that's it. it's a "movement" to make some people feel better, and feel involved.
and it has zero affect on anything.
and i siap, but do you really want an athletic director that is going to get bullied by a social media "movement" in to making a decision he may fundamentally not think is necessary at the moment?
especially if the actual decision is probably made, and it's just not made public?
if that's who we have as our AD, then he's a thin skinned coward that doesn't deserve the position he's in.
i haven't seen anything. and no one has come out and said anything officially from the UTAD as a response to it that i'm aware of. and they're probably not going to.It's directly effecting things already. We're seeing AD sources trying to put a stop to it. This has gone beyond what he expected when he told Hyams he'd be willing to take a little heat. The little heat has morphed into a volcano that's erupting. This isn't a little movement. This is potentially a multi-million dollar issue for UT athletics. Even people like Will West have professed bafflement about there being no statements. If Butch is fired or has been, it needs to be announced.
i haven't seen anything. and no one has come out and said anything officially from the UTAD as a response to it that i'm aware of. and they're probably not going to.
It's been put out through from the AD via local media that this will effect the coaching search and other things like that.
There are 0, zilch, zip, nada positives for Currie not to come out and say that Butch is gone, if he is gone as has been widely speculated. If somehow he's not gone, that makes it even worse.
It's been put out through from the AD via local media that this will effect the coaching search and other things like that.
There are 0, zilch, zip, nada positives for Currie not to come out and say that Butch is gone, if he is gone as has been widely speculated. If somehow he's not gone, that makes it even worse.
what, exactly, are the positives of him announcing it? i mean, besides the obvious "it makes us feel better" thing?
Meh, all light hearted fun amougnst friends, we are all vols fans. I dont mean to offend anyone.