Has there been a more snake-bitten fanbase...

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...over the last 10 years? Think about it...

*We knock out LSU's starting QB and RB in the Sec Championship game with a trip to the BCS national title game on the line, and manage to lose.

*We suffer two losing seasons in four years in football when we had only had one in the previous 20+ years.

*We speed through three head coaches in three years.

*The NCAA hangs its black cloud over the program for more than a year.

*We finally appear to be seeing the light at the end of the football tunnel, and we lose our three best players before the end of the fifth game.

...and that's just football. In basketball, we finally experience some success to soften the blow of the downfall of football, and then...

*The most polarizing figure to step on campus since Ray Mears, betrays an entire fanbase and makes a mountain out of a molehill by lying about a secondary violation.

*Again, the NCAA casts their dark shadow over the hill in no hurry to expidite the process, which in turn was as damaging as the actual sanctions because of the uncertainty.

Throw in baseball and the bang-up job Raleigh did in turning a once proud program into an SEC also-ran, and you have 10 years of intolerable cruelty suffered by UT fans. Here's to hoping for brighter days.
 
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The last 10 years have been rough but I'll take 10 years of pain as a Vol over any amount of success as a fan of another program.
 
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Hang in there, guys. Every program goes through stuff like this, although that is a pretty depressing list. You'll be back.
 
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Going through the bad times is what makes you appreciate the good times! When TN finally gets back on top, the TN fans will really appreciate it!
 
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...over the last 10 years? Think about it...

*We knock out LSU's starting QB and RB in the Sec Championship game with a trip to the BCS national title game on the line, and manage to lose.

*We suffer two losing seasons in four years in football when we had only had one in the previous 20+ years.
*We speed through three head coaches in three years.

*The NCAA hangs its black cloud over the program for more than a year.

*We finally appear to be seeing the light at the end of the football tunnel, and we lose our three best players before the end of the fifth game.

...and that's just football. In basketball, we finally experience some success to soften the blow of the downfall of football, and then...

*The most polarizing figure to step on campus since Ray Mears, betrays an entire fanbase and makes a mountain out of a molehill by lying about a secondary violation.

*Again, the NCAA casts their dark shadow over the hill in no hurry to expidite the process, which in turn was as damaging as the actual sanctions because of the uncertainty.

Throw in baseball and the bang-up job Raleigh did in turning a once proud program into an SEC also-ran, and you have 10 years of intolerable cruelty suffered by UT fans. Here's to hoping for brighter days.

Bad coaching does not = bad luck on the first losing season
 
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Bad coaching does not = bad luck on the first losing season

Well that's fine and everyone is allowed their own opinion on the causes of this 10 year mess, but that's not really what my post was about. It was more about the mess the entire men's athletic program has been for the last ten years as a whole and not so much about the reasons why.
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Well that's fine and everyone is allowed their own opinion on the causes of this 10 year mess, but that's not really what my post was about. It was more about the mess the entire men's athletic program has been for the last ten years as a whole and not so much about the reasons why.
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Fair enough - the rest of your points, while depressing as all get out, were well-made
 
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Bad coaching does not = bad luck on the first losing season



Actually 2005 was a 5 win season! 2008 was a 5 win season! 2010 was a 6 - 7 season, which is a losing season also.
That is 3 losing seasons!!!!!!!

What is more depressing to me is our bowl record in the last 10 years. We lose to K. State, Maryland, Clemson, Va. Tech, Penn State & U.N.C.
We beat Wisconsin and Texas A & M and are not eligible for two other seasons.
 
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We've clearly angered the sporting gods. I thiink we need a sacrifice to appease them. I'm thinking the whole LSU team should work.
 
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And how can you forget the winningest coach in basketball history, who's been around longer than most of the walls on that campus, being diagnosed with early onset dementia? I think what's happening to Pat is the most tragic of all these things, and I am certainly more tied to the football team than the Lady Vols.
 

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