I'm starting to bounce back, I think a lot of the fanbase is. But just to clarify...

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This has been an example of my recent posts from the week:

chatt-townVOL said:
Lot of "bad days" in the past few years of TN football. In fact, unless the opposing team is DRAMATICALLY less talented than Tennessee, it's a "bad day" everytime minus SC of last year.

I'm done with "bad days". Start finding out how to win.
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chatt-townVOL said:
Good for you guys for being encouraged!!!!

I'm not.
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chatt-townVOL said:
I can see the story unfolding now:

Ole Miss overlooks the Vols. Vols smack Ole Miss in the mouth. Vols are dominant in every category. and Ole Miss is down big with 4 minutes left in the 4th. Tennessee has the game in the bag! Tennessee chokes and comes up with a very creative and inventive way to still lose the game!! Ole Miss wins!!!!
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No we aren't. We are a team at a complete and utter standstill that, just like last year, still finds a way to choke away what should be certain victory. Regardless of the fact that we have upgraded big time in our skill positions. Kentucky is a team on the rise. We are a team with massive potential, but we will be "on the rise" when we can actually beat a couple of decent opponents.
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The sunshine pumpers, a group I have long considered myself a member of, have been out in full force disputing me this week with "x amount of freshmen" and "process" and "Butch is a good coach" and "go cheer for someone else" etc etc.

I think I speak for every "nega-vol", and everyone who has shared my attitude when I say that I am not upset about the loss. We could be ranked #1, and Florida could be having a Vandy-style meltdown, and they are still going to beat us. I have accepted that. I'm upset because this loss changes both the dynamic and the perception of this team. Instead of being encouraged after the fight we brought to Georgia, I'm more upset now, because I now see the Georgia game as yet another example of this team just not knowing how to win, and instead knowing very well how to turn ANY situation into a loss.

Losing doesn't bother me. No one said we were winning the NC this year. Losing when we should win bothers me, and bothers me a lot. And it happens a lot with this program.

That being said, I'm bouncing back now. I feel better about the state of UT football. Again, no one said we were going to win the National Championship this year. We still control our own fate. I'm not saying it will happen, it likely won't, but the opportunity to win out, play for the East, and go to a huge bowl game is stil on the table. Again, it's not likely, but the possibility of it happening still exists. And that possibility will continue to keep me glued to my TV on Saturdays. If we lose a couple more, the possibility of winning 7 plus a bowl game will still keep me glued to the TV.

In the end, UT football will still keep me glued to my TV, and will still keep me off my seat in Neyland. There is still time, and I choose to believe Team 118 is not a team of losers who have no clue how to win.

GBO...... no matter what.
 
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Gotta admit: not sure I've ever seen seen a thread started by the OP quoting himself from previous thread posts -solid.
 
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I've come to terms with it too. It is what it is and at the end of the day I think we all want the same things and that's success on the field. It'll come soon enough we've waited this long, so another year or two won't kill us.
 
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Tennessee lost! I'm going to kill myself!

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chatt-townVOL said:
This has been an example of my recent posts from the week:









The sunshine pumpers, a group I have long considered myself a member of, have been out in full force disputing me this week with "x amount of freshmen" and "process" and "Butch is a good coach" and "go cheer for someone else" etc etc.

I think I speak for every "nega-vol", and everyone who has shared my attitude when I say that I am not upset about the loss. We could be ranked #1, and Florida could be having a Vandy-style meltdown, and they are still going to beat us. I have accepted that. I'm upset because this loss changes both the dynamic and the perception of this team. Instead of being encouraged after the fight we brought to Georgia, I'm more upset now, because I now see the Georgia game as yet another example of this team just not knowing how to win, and instead knowing very well how to turn ANY situation into a loss.

Losing doesn't bother me. No one said we were winning the NC this year. Losing when we should win bothers me, and bothers me a lot. And it happens a lot with this program.

That being said, I'm bouncing back now. I feel better about the state of UT football. Again, no one said we were going to win the National Championship this year. We still control our own fate. I'm not saying it will happen, it likely won't, but the opportunity to win out, play for the East, and go to a huge bowl game is stil on the table. Again, it's not likely, but the possibility of it happening still exists. And that possibility will continue to keep me glued to my TV on Saturdays. If we lose a couple more, the possibility of winning 7 plus a bowl game will still keep me glued to the TV.

In the end, UT football will still keep me glued to my TV, and will still keep me off my seat in Neyland. There is still time, and I choose to believe Team 118 is not a team of losers who have no clue how to win.

GBO...... no matter what.
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This is so untrue. Florida was a 1 point favorite to start the week. It's not like we lost to a vastly inferior foe. Lsu is favored by 1 against Florida this week.
 
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Being a Vol fan for over 40 + years I have seen worse. The 0-6 season (1988 I believe)was probably as bad as it gets. You had Johnny Majors almost equivalent to Peyton, second runner up in Heisman, had just won a National Championship at Pitt and low and behold we start 0-6, disc jockeys were climbing billboards and not coming down till the VOLS won a game but we won the next 5 and the next year went 11-1 so everyone relax. YES that lost pisses me off but I bet Bruce is more pist. I believe in him and if you want a bright spot, think of this, you know Michigan is gonna get a new coach this year and Butch is from Michigan so maybe this is a blessing. Don't want him going somewhere else so think about it! Butch is all VOL, back him and Believe
 
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VFLinbama said:
Being a Vol fan for over 40 + years I have seen worse. The 0-6 season (1988 I believe)was probably as bad as it gets. You had Johnny Majors almost equivalent to Peyton, second runner up in Heisman, had just won a National Championship at Pitt and low and behold we start 0-6, disc jockeys were climbing billboards and not coming down till the VOLS won a game but we won the next 5 and the next year went 11-1 so everyone relax. YES that lost pisses me off but I bet Bruce is more pist. I believe in him and if you want a bright spot, think of this, you know Michigan is gonna get a new coach this year and Butch is from Michigan so maybe this is a blessing. Don't want him going somewhere else so think about it! Butch is all VOL, back him and Believe
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Bruce?
 
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Yup, VFLinBama, and they don't EVEN want to know how it was in the latter Bill Battle years, transitioning into Johnny Majors trying to get some order restored.
 
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Its one game... no reason to abandon ship after two very encouraging performances against ramked teams.
 
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VFLinbama said:
Being a Vol fan for over 40 + years I have seen worse. The 0-6 season (1988 I believe)was probably as bad as it gets. You had Johnny Majors almost equivalent to Peyton, second runner up in Heisman, had just won a National Championship at Pitt and low and behold we start 0-6, disc jockeys were climbing billboards and not coming down till the VOLS won a game but we won the next 5 and the next year went 11-1 so everyone relax. YES that lost pisses me off but I bet Bruce is more pist. I believe in him and if you want a bright spot, think of this, you know Michigan is gonna get a new coach this year and Butch is from Michigan so maybe this is a blessing. Don't want him going somewhere else so think about it! Butch is all VOL, back him and Believe
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Remember that season well.
 
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Sorry, I'm still not over this one. And seeing how Florida has become the laughing stock of the CFB world since the weekend it's just salt in the wound. We could go on to win every other game this year (which there is no way in hell that will happen) and I would still see this loss as unacceptable.

For the first time in a long time, we were the better team, and we still lost. And the way we lost makes it even harder to get over.

You have to win games against your rivals (Georgia, Florida, & Alabama), and we're 0-2 so far with an Alabama beating looming.
 
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VolFan_N_NC said:
Sorry, I'm still not over this one. And seeing how Florida has become the laughing stock of the CFB world since the weekend it's just salt in the wound. We could go on to win every other game this year (which there is no way in hell that will happen) and I would still see this loss as unacceptable.

For the first time in a long time, we were the better team, and we still lost. And the way we lost makes it even harder to get over.

You have to win games against your rivals (Georgia, Florida, & Alabama), and we're 0-2 so far with an Alabama beating looming.
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I said that at first too. then I remembered 2013 Vandy in Neyland.
 
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VFLinbama said:
Being a Vol fan for over 40 + years I have seen worse. The 0-6 season (1988 I believe)was probably as bad as it gets. You had Johnny Majors almost equivalent to Peyton, second runner up in Heisman, had just won a National Championship at Pitt and low and behold we start 0-6, disc jockeys were climbing billboards and not coming down till the VOLS won a game but we won the next 5 and the next year went 11-1 so everyone relax. YES that lost pisses me off but I bet Bruce is more pist. I believe in him and if you want a bright spot, think of this, you know Michigan is gonna get a new coach this year and Butch is from Michigan so maybe this is a blessing. Don't want him going somewhere else so think about it! Butch is all VOL, back him and Believe
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im giving this a "like" just because you got our coaches name wrong.

jk

not really
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
I said that at first too. then I remembered 2013 Vandy in Neyland.
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Reverend Bubba Flavel said:
And Florida last year.
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Yeah, but I'll give a pass to a HC in his first year.

But Butch has been the coach of this football team for almost 2 calendar years. I saw improvement out of this team during the first 4 games of the season, and on Saturday I saw a team that was lost. I saw a team that lets poor teams beat them bc they don't know how to win. And I saw a team that showed no leadership when the game was on the line and there for the taking.

That's the part that's hard to get over.
 
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im bouncing back.. i almost feel guilty about tweeting this picture to Bajakian... almost it was still kind of funny and still is,

 
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I've bounced back so far I created a "we will beat Ole Miss" thread. Maybe I need to cool the jets a bit. lol
 
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Mason72 said:
im bouncing back.. i almost feel guilty about tweeting this picture to Bajakian... almost it was still kind of funny and still is,

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Can someone get this to Freak. I think we need to make this required reading prior to posting on VN.:)
 
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VFLinbama said:
Being a Vol fan for over 40 + years I have seen worse. The 0-6 season (1988 I believe)was probably as bad as it gets. You had Johnny Majors almost equivalent to Peyton, second runner up in Heisman, had just won a National Championship at Pitt and low and behold we start 0-6, disc jockeys were climbing billboards and not coming down till the VOLS won a game but we won the next 5 and the next year went 11-1 so everyone relax. YES that lost pisses me off but I bet Bruce is more pist. I believe in him and if you want a bright spot, think of this, you know Michigan is gonna get a new coach this year and Butch is from Michigan so maybe this is a blessing. Don't want him going somewhere else so think about it! Butch is all VOL, back him and Believe
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That was my freshman year and yes, it was rough.
 
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