SyracuseVol
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Hey all. I know I don't post here all that much especially during basketball season. For those who don't know I am a born and raised Jersey boy, recent graduate of the 'Cuse whose mom is a '70ish grad of UT (went to school with Fulmer, but dated some guy on the track team, she often says) mainly because we had and still have family down in Knoxville. I've been there for a couple of games, and identify with UT football as my team, obviously there are no other candidates in the area and with my dreadful alma mater. (For those, myself included who are looking for any reason to get rid of Phil, imagine having Greg Robinson as your coach!)
To the point, before I went to school at the Cuse in 02 I generally didn't have a favorite team, but when I did in the mid-late 90s and early 00s, it was the Vols. I loved those teams with great potential, with Tony Harris chucking up NBA 3's, John Higgins, Vince Yarbrough, etc. (How do you let Joe Forte play practically the whole 2nd half with 4 fouls?? How?!?!)
Obviously I jumped onto the Cuse when I started going there, and, lookie what happened my freshman year, a national championship, complete with me seeing them cut down the nets in Albany, and an undefeated home season capped with the insane 3-time-court-storming win over then #2 Pitt. I've stayed with the Cuse ever since, watching Gerry McNamara be hero more times than not. Now he's gone and left in his wake a collection of generally underachieving and overrated bums, I'm looking at you Terrence Roberts/Darryl Watkins.
So now I have a dillema. The 'Cuse bubble has shockingly burst. The committee obviously had some bad pretzels at a Big East venue, as every BE team to be considered for the field with the exception of Pitt/GTown either got screwed with their seeding, or was left out in favor of teams with shoddy resumes from average conferences (Stanford, Arkansas considering that SEC West, Xavier). I didn't expect a team without a true point guard and an often disappearing post prescence to do anything special in the Tourney, but I of course wanted to see them go.
This being said, I am asking you the good people of VolNation for a temporary Bandwagon Jumper Pass so I can adopt the Vols as my team for this tourney. I have plenty of experience with Yankee fans here who generally pick and choose when they want to be Yankee fans, so I know the right ways and wrong ways to be a bandwagon fan. I of course won't have the same passion as you all, but I'll at least have some history with the team, and I have cheers in reserve I was hoping to use for the Cuse.
So the question... can I hop on the bandwagon?
To the point, before I went to school at the Cuse in 02 I generally didn't have a favorite team, but when I did in the mid-late 90s and early 00s, it was the Vols. I loved those teams with great potential, with Tony Harris chucking up NBA 3's, John Higgins, Vince Yarbrough, etc. (How do you let Joe Forte play practically the whole 2nd half with 4 fouls?? How?!?!)
Obviously I jumped onto the Cuse when I started going there, and, lookie what happened my freshman year, a national championship, complete with me seeing them cut down the nets in Albany, and an undefeated home season capped with the insane 3-time-court-storming win over then #2 Pitt. I've stayed with the Cuse ever since, watching Gerry McNamara be hero more times than not. Now he's gone and left in his wake a collection of generally underachieving and overrated bums, I'm looking at you Terrence Roberts/Darryl Watkins.
So now I have a dillema. The 'Cuse bubble has shockingly burst. The committee obviously had some bad pretzels at a Big East venue, as every BE team to be considered for the field with the exception of Pitt/GTown either got screwed with their seeding, or was left out in favor of teams with shoddy resumes from average conferences (Stanford, Arkansas considering that SEC West, Xavier). I didn't expect a team without a true point guard and an often disappearing post prescence to do anything special in the Tourney, but I of course wanted to see them go.
This being said, I am asking you the good people of VolNation for a temporary Bandwagon Jumper Pass so I can adopt the Vols as my team for this tourney. I have plenty of experience with Yankee fans here who generally pick and choose when they want to be Yankee fans, so I know the right ways and wrong ways to be a bandwagon fan. I of course won't have the same passion as you all, but I'll at least have some history with the team, and I have cheers in reserve I was hoping to use for the Cuse.
So the question... can I hop on the bandwagon?
