Northwestern and what they are saying about the Vols

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Falcons02 said:
I came into this thread thinking I have a lot of respect for Fitzgerald their coach, the job he has done there, and the toughness of their team.

After that NW fan post though, I hope we lay a Vandy-level beat down on them.
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If you put that post on a generic background, I would have sworn it came from vandymania
 
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CNCVol88 said:
It's a thinly veiled attempt for someone to call the fans uneducated. I went to Carson Newman and grew up in South Knoxville but apparently it's been deemed I'm not allowed to be a fan. Who knew.
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No kidding! I'm going to University of Arkansas at Monticello. I could never afford UT, but I was raised a Vol fan and I'll never stop. Only garbage school have a majority alumni fanbase because they're garbage teams.
 
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CNCVol88 said:
If you put that post on a generic background, I would have sworn it came from vandymania
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Lol it's actually pissing me off the more I think about it. My 25 years as a Vol fan is marginalised because I only spent a year on The Hill and my degree says ETSU and not UTK?
 
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Someone already kind of said it but they sound like Vandy fans because Northwestern is the Big Ten's Vandy. They just have been a little more competitive in football the last couple of decades than Vandy has.
 
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Falcons02 said:
Lol it's actually pissing me off the more I think about it. My 25 years as a Vol fan is marginalised because I only spent a year on The Hill and my degree says ETSU and not UTK?
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That comment isn't necessarily aimed at people like you and me. It's aimed at people who didn't go to university like they're inferior. It's an elitist attitude and that's what makes me more angry about the comment.
 
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Can't really argue with #1 based on many posters on here.

1. Most UT fans did not attend the university. An amazing number have never even been there. But they consider themselves rabid diehard fans. Until the team loses two games in a row. Then they turn on the coaches, the school, the team, and the individual players. Take the worst of the posters on this board, make it worse by a factor of 10, and then multiply by thousands of fans.
 
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jps2194 said:
Can't really argue with #1 based on many posters on here.

1. Most UT fans did not attend the university. An amazing number have never even been there. But they consider themselves rabid diehard fans. Until the team loses two games in a row. Then they turn on the coaches, the school, the team, and the individual players. Take the worst of the posters on this board, make it worse by a factor of 10, and then multiply by thousands of fans.
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Agreed I never went to UT only because I couldn't move due to family issues. However since I was a toddler I've been a die hard fan. I don't spout garbage unless I have statistics and resources to back it up. I love my Vols. Though I feel like for every one rational football fan l, you have 10 "we gonna win a national title(during the Dooley years)."

I go to at least 2 games a year because that is all I can afford with my Job. But don't judge every fan who never attended UT.
 
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jps2194 said:
Can't really argue with #1 based on many posters on here.

1. Most UT fans did not attend the university. An amazing number have never even been there. But they consider themselves rabid diehard fans. Until the team loses two games in a row. Then they turn on the coaches, the school, the team, and the individual players. Take the worst of the posters on this board, make it worse by a factor of 10, and then multiply by thousands of fans.
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Insinuating that you need to have attended a school (or any school) in order to be a fan of their athletics programs is ignorant, elitist BS and is nothing more than an attempt at talking down to people you see as inferior.

Hope we stomp a mud hole in 'em.
 
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jps2194 said:
Can't really argue with #1 based on many posters on here.

1. Most UT fans did not attend the university. An amazing number have never even been there. But they consider themselves rabid diehard fans. Until the team loses two games in a row. Then they turn on the coaches, the school, the team, and the individual players. Take the worst of the posters on this board, make it worse by a factor of 10, and then multiply by thousands of fans.
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I can. We give way too much credit to those few (probably 10% or less) who talk stupid Sh** on here. If we all just put them on ignore, they would go away. I don't have a problem at all with the fine folks on here who don't necessarily agree with me. Unfortunately, the idiots think they are in that category. They don't understand/believe that they are in fact the idiots.
 
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Falcons02 said:
I came into this thread thinking I have a lot of respect for Fitzgerald their coach, the job he has done there, and the toughness of their team.

After that NW fan post though, I hope we lay a Vandy-level beat down on them.
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Not sure I would let one random fan post influence you so much. The former has nothing to do with the latter in your post.
 
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If they kick or punt to Berry or Sutton, UT has at least 1 big return in this game for a TD.
 
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Hilarious how much the thread linked in the OP reminds me of something you'd read on a Vanderbilt board.

It cracks me up when fans of schools that rank in the upper echelon academically start painting opposing fan bases with EXTREMELY broad (and derogatory) brushes. To me, that is the absolute height of ignorance, but maybe a degree from NU doesn't preclude one from being an idiot. :)
 
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jps2194 said:
Can't really argue with #1 based on many posters on here.

1. Most UT fans did not attend the university.
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When I was a kid growing up, most of our parents didn't go to any college at all. They were just plain old, hard-working blue collar Tennessee fans. Sure, some kids' parents did have degrees, they generally worked out at the Air Force base. But they were uncommon. Most parents were like my folks. True Tennessee fans, not because of any diploma, but because that's who they were. And they passed that along to our generation.

If you were a Tennessean, the Volunteers were your team. That's how it was from early childhood for us.

Has nothing to do with where you ended up going to school, it was in your blood long before you picked a college. You were already bleeding orange.

I'll actually take that perspective as more genuine and true than any elitism this guy can generate.

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Insinuating that you need to have attended a school (or any school) in order to be a fan of their athletics programs is ignorant, elitist BS and is nothing more than an attempt at talking down to people you see as inferior.

Hope we stomp a mud hole in 'em.
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Amen, brother.
 
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