I'm a Believer, ESPN Really Does Hate Us

[OrangeMagic]

Lulz. Morning.

I'm glad you're not one of those Volgators, they're the worst. Been reading their trash this morning and I'm gonna hafta go to the Alter this morning for my thoughts.

What the hell is a Volgator? Sounds like blasphemy to me.....

 

[OrangeMagic]

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.

You're right! The story of college football can not be told without Tennessee and Neyland.....and the undefeated, un-scored upon season that will never be repeated.

 

[VolInNW]

It’s a culture thing. The 1997 heisman fiasco soured UT fans to the woodson hype machine known as ESPN. Fowler replied with the trailer trash comment.

At this point it’s institutional that UT fans despise ESPN, and ESPN has a disparaging attitude toward UT. Conspiracy.? Nah. Just a subtle bias in reporting that is now part of the ESPN culture.

Let’s face it: UT fans rebelled against an incompetent AD, being manipulated by a family of clueless control nuts, trying to hire a 2nd tier coordinator in the Urban Meyer Rehab Program who allegedly turned a blind eye to child abuse while at penn state.

And ESPN made UT fans out as the unreasonable bad guy.

Nuff said.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

 

[Chilmonty]

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<<<Just saying!!

 

[Mccage]

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

I've said for years ESPN orchestrates to a team that gets them ratings. Networks today
are all about manipulation. They influence everything from rankings to recruiting to fit their agenda. To get on the ESPN's band wagon you have to start winning.Simple as that.

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

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!

I watched it. It was basically about 4 schools: Alabama, Notre Dame, OhioState, and USC. OK, Tex and Boise State also got air time.

It took Archie Manning to mention Tennessee and Peyton had one sentence.

Any show without General Neyland is garbage. Also not mentioning the Army teams that dominated for several decades wasn't cool either. No Paterno either. I don't even remember them talking about Nebraska.

 

[ConantheVolbarian]

Lets just be real honest.................we are getting the recognition that we have earned for many many years now.

The documentary focused on historically great programs and coaches, and Neyland wasn't mentioned one single time. They talked about Grambling for God's sake. You're missing the point.

 

[landscapingvol]

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!

It’s not a lie if you believe it

 

[Iam4utalways]

There’s plenty of reasons to hate UT. We have a way of getting under the skin of so many, usually by beating a highly ranked team when we aren’t ranked and it’s a big surprise and they hate that. Then we go 13-0 winning it all, the haters had even more reason for their hate.

When the wheels came off, that made so many so happy. What did any of us expect?

Now that we are decade deep into the wilderness the haters are still in love with our plight, even more in love with how it happened and how some Vol fans aren’t handling it very well at all.

I blame it all on jealousy. We have Neyland a great HC and Venue. We have Smokey a great mascot and hunting dog. We have Vol Navy, Rocky Top, Running Thru the T and even Checker Neyland is awesome.

We’ll get back to our winning ways and then they will show their teeth for real. Now they just leave us out of stuff that we should be included in just because they can.

For the record, it’s not really ESPN that feels this way, it’s the people that work for that company that feel that way. We probably embarrassed their team or them once upon a time and they have never recovered. Life can be a bitter place when you can’t get over something. A good example of that bitterness is Spurrier. He was rejected by the Vols and has lived his life to try to put us down and keep us down. Being a very good coach he has been successfully at that at several programs.

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

For the record, it’s not really ESPN that feels this way, it’s the people that work for that company that feel that way. We probably embarrassed their team or them once upon a time and they have never recovered. Life can be a bitter place when you can’t get over something. A good example of that bitterness is Spurrier. He was rejected by the Vols and has lived his life to try to put us down and keep us down. Being a very good coach he has been successfully at that at several programs.

Actually Spurrier rejected Tennessee because he didn't want the Single Wing style offense.

 

[Iam4utalways]

Actually Spurrier rejected Tennessee because he didn't want the Single Wing style offense.

He wasn’t recruited by the Vols for that very reason. He wasn’t a good match for what we were trying to do at the time. It was kind of like when Kiffen told Boyd to look wale wear since he wouldn’t be a good match for his system. Resulting in Boyd going to Clemson making them better instead of us.

 

[bamawriter]

I think some folks are missing the point of that particular episode. It wasn't about the entire history of football. It was about the development of the sport within a greater societal context. A lot of grest programs, players, and personalities went unmentioned or barely mentioned.

 

[rockytop36]

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!

Where are you in Nebraska? Look to be moving that way here in late November lol

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

I do think they should have included Condrege Holloway when they were showing the part about black FB players finally integrating southern teams since Condrege was the first black QB to start in the SEC. TN should have been mentioned for that. But I don't think ESPN hates us. That's silly.

 

[GetEmVols]

Yeah, ESPN hates us. I’ve seen Bryce Thompson news in their ticker all day. The most they have talked about us.

If it was an Alabama player than the ticket would read, “Crazy lady runs into Alabama player’s fist”

 

[Jravol78]

Actually Spurrier rejected Tennessee because he didn't want the Single Wing style offense.

 

[Hunerwadel]

Lets just be real honest.................we are getting the recognition that we have earned for many many years now.

Very true. We'll be back though. Except for one great year under Danny Ford Clemson wandered around blindly in the desert for abut fifty years.

 

[Hunerwadel]

Actually Spurrier rejected Tennessee because he didn't want the Single Wing style offense.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/steve-spurrier-explains-went-florida-tennessee/

 

[AM64]

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.

Current doesn't matter when the topic is 150 years of football. Tennessee is 13th when ranked by all time wins and by all time W/L percentage. Without the stupidity starting with Hamilton we were and would remain higher, but consider that Harvard, Yale, and Penn all rank higher because of the good ole days before football was really the game we play now ... that's what history means ... not what have you done for us lately.

 

[DeerPark12]

There is no dumber take out there than "ESPN hates us."

 

[VolInNW]

There is no dumber take out there than "ESPN hates us."

It is a bit more nuanced than that, but as I stated above, it is hard not to see a cultural bias against us at ESPN, and vice versa. Hate? Naah. I don't even think we come up that often anymore. But when we do, and if there is a negative slant to take, they seem to take it.

 

[Goalpost]

Where are you in Nebraska? Look to be moving that way here in late November lol

Nice. I am in Omaha.

 

[FranklinVFL]

Just dont watch. I haven't watched ESPN programming in years. Other than college basketball and football gamed

Exactly. That is me. I watch the games I have to for live TV. Other than live games, I have not watched SportsCenter or any other programming from ESPN in years.

 

[DeerPark12]

For the record, it’s not really ESPN that feels this way, it’s the people that work for that company that feel that way. We probably embarrassed their team or them once upon a time and they have never recovered. Life can be a bitter place when you can’t get over something. A good example of that bitterness is Spurrier. He was rejected by the Vols and has lived his life to try to put us down and keep us down. Being a very good coach he has been successfully at that at several programs.

Never mind the fact that there are more than 30 Tennessee grads that work on air or in production for ESPN.