I'm a Believer, ESPN Really Does Hate Us

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ESPN has been been celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football. The Vols have received very little, if any love...

- In their documentary of the 150 years of college football "Football is Us," Tennessee is not mentioned once... No video of the Vols and definitely not by name... The majority of other teams, SEC and otherwise, were documented, but not the Volunteers. The love fest for Ohio State and Alabama almost made me puke... I did learn that Bear Bryant was a racist though.

- In their "The 50 Best College Football Programs Over 150 Years" article the Vols were 14/50. Not great, but not bad either until you look at Yale, North Dakota State, Princeton, and Harvard that are ahead of us... Come on... I get it... American football started out as an ivy league school game that only the elite played, but to say that they are the best "teams" over the 150 years of football is way off. They were the founding teams, but definitely not the best...

- You read further into the "The 50 Best College Football Programs Over 150 Years" article and they talk crap about us. Its like they know that we are an iconic and historic team (otherwise they would not have ranked us 14/50) but they can't get past their bias to say it.
"The Volunteers ruled the Southeastern Conference for the second 50 years of college football, mainly because Gen. Robert Neyland knew how to beat Frank Thomas at Alabama and Bear Bryant at Kentucky. Neyland coached from 1926 through 1952, taking a year or two off here and there to serve in the Army. Since Neyland, the Volunteers have spent considerable time as a second fiddle behind Bryant at Alabama and Steve Spurrier at Florida, with the glorious exception of 1998."
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The 50 best college football programs over 150 years

I'll get off my soap box... Thanks for listening VolNation. It can be lonely up here in Nebraska for a man who bleeds orange... Go Vols!
 
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OneVolNation said:
"Glorious exception" doesn't sound too hateful. If we want to earn praise we need to do it on the field.
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Sounds like sarcasm to me...

I’m all for earning it on the field... We have. You don’t get to a 838–390–53 (.675) record without earning it on the field.

This is 150 years we are talking about. No doubt we are in a slump right now though.
 
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Goalpost said:
Sounds like sarcasm to me...

I’m all for earning it on the field... We have. You don’t get to a 838–390–53 (.675) record without earning it on the field.

This is 150 years we are talking about. No doubt we are in a slump right now though.
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I'm with you bro. I tried harder than usual to be anything but a homer at first blush, but you're right, the numbers don't lie.
 
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ReelfootVol said:
Lets just be real honest.................we are getting the recognition that we have earned for many many years now.
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Agree based on " recent" history, but of all the clips they show of different stadiums and plays, they somehow omitted Neyland stadium and the only glimpse I saw of UT was Herschel Walker running over Bill Bates. I think in the past 150 years we have earned and deserve a little more respect than that. I hate ESPN bias
 
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The Vols opener will have a crap game run over into it on ESPN U - no way MSU and Louisiana will be over in 3 hours
 
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Acuna_Matata said:
Just dont watch. I haven't watched ESPN programming in years. Other than college basketball and football gamed
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The same here. If there is not a game on ESPN I never watch it. Just another insignificant channel. I probably would have never known about this if someone had not posted this on Volnation.
 
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Goalpost said:
ESPN has been been celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football. The Vols have received very little, if any love...

- In their documentary of the 150 years of college football "Football is Us," Tennessee is not mentioned once... No video of the Vols and definitely not by name... The majority of other teams, SEC and otherwise, were documented, but not the Volunteers. The love fest for Ohio State and Alabama almost made me puke... I did learn that Bear Bryant was a racist though.

- In their "The 50 Best College Football Programs Over 150 Years" article the Vols were 14/50. Not great, but not bad either until you look at Yale, North Dakota State, Princeton, and Harvard that are ahead of us... Come on... I get it... American football started out as an ivy league school game that only the elite played, but to say that they are the best "teams" over the 150 years of football is way off. They were the founding teams, but definitely not the best...

- You read further into the "The 50 Best College Football Programs Over 150 Years" article and they talk crap about us. Its like they know that we are an iconic and historic team (otherwise they would not have ranked us 14/50) but they can't get past their bias to say it.


The 50 best college football programs over 150 years

I'll get off my soap box... Thanks for listening VolNation. It can be lonely up here in Nebraska for a man who bleeds orange... Go Vols!
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Yeah, they showed Walker running on us lol
 
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It’s unfair, because as one of the top 10-15 alltime programs our history deserves more coverage. The truth is, we’d get that coverage if we were relevant right now, and we just aren’t. For the most part, we haven’t been for a decade now. We’re historically a better alltime program than Georgia is, but they’ll be on there more because they’re a playoff contender right now and the media today is a “what-have-you-done-for-me-lately” type of business. The only way to make people nationally care about our history again is getting back to the top.
 
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GBO97 said:
It’s unfair, because as one of the top 10-15 alltime programs our history deserves more coverage. The truth is, we’d get that coverage if we were relevant right now, and we just aren’t. For the most part, we haven’t been for a decade now. We’re historically a better alltime program than Georgia is, but they’ll be on there more because they’re a playoff contender right now and the media today is a “what-have-you-done-for-me-lately” type of business. The only way to make people nationally care about our history again is getting back to the top.
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CJP will change that, and I hope UT makes it known to ESPN and others.
 
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1985Vols said:
Agree based on " recent" history, but of all the clips they show of different stadiums and plays, they somehow omitted Neyland stadium and the only glimpse I saw of UT was Herschel Walker running over Bill Bates. I think in the past 150 years we have earned and deserve a little more respect than that. I hate ESPN bias
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The ESPN bias: It may have been there all the time, but I think it really started to show itself with Pat and Gigolo. The recruiting of Moore(?) with the trip to ESPN and what seemed to be an offer of a co-op job that was exposed that caused the break in the UT - UCONN games seemed to have "stung" ESPN badly. The way I see it, things have never been the same with them, where UT us concerned.
 
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Goalpost said:
ESPN has been been celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football. The Vols have received very little, if any love...

- In their documentary of the 150 years of college football "Football is Us," Tennessee is not mentioned once... No video of the Vols and definitely not by name... The majority of other teams, SEC and otherwise, were documented, but not the Volunteers. The love fest for Ohio State and Alabama almost made me puke... I did learn that Bear Bryant was a racist though.

- In their "The 50 Best College Football Programs Over 150 Years" article the Vols were 14/50. Not great, but not bad either until you look at Yale, North Dakota State, Princeton, and Harvard that are ahead of us... Come on... I get it... American football started out as an ivy league school game that only the elite played, but to say that they are the best "teams" over the 150 years of football is way off. They were the founding teams, but definitely not the best...

- You read further into the "The 50 Best College Football Programs Over 150 Years" article and they talk crap about us. Its like they know that we are an iconic and historic team (otherwise they would not have ranked us 14/50) but they can't get past their bias to say it.


The 50 best college football programs over 150 years

I'll get off my soap box... Thanks for listening VolNation. It can be lonely up here in Nebraska for a man who bleeds orange... Go Vols!
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Thanks for the update. I recorded it last night, but now I know I can just delete it. It is unfathomable that Tennessee and General Neyland are not even mentioned.
 
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