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OGbabyaviVol said:
We say this all the time when we look terrible against an inferior opponent...my question is when we are in a struggle to even win, why can’t the playcalling change from vanilla to more aggressive??? Once you install the game plan for the week, can you not change it and make in-game adjustments to call it more aggressively? You would rather stay vanilla and lose versus become aggressive and win??? I just don’t get it.
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The 2 minute offense was very efficient. I still do not understand why we only called plays in that manner at the end of each half
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
The gross majority of fans do what exactly to "give their all" to UT?

Very few actually spend or put in anywhere near the same amount of effort as the players. So many players go on to do big things in the NFL and then donate money back to the university, in amounts the average fan couldn't reach in their lifetime. There is a small group that actually put in real time/money/effort to the program, most buy cheap knock off UT apparel at Wal-Mart or Wal-Greens and watch the games on TV their whole life.

I get your point, but 3+ years as a player if you tracked the time invested it wouldn't even be close. UT's got too many entitled fans is what VolTwitter has shown me in the last decade.
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"Entitled fans"??? You have lost your damn mind...Without US little pissants that spend our time amd money...scholarship football at big time programs as it is now for these guys would not exist, and they would be stuck trying to prove themselves playing for next to nothing in some horrid world of crappy minor league football. I can't speak for Sam, but Im not taking this horsecrap from you, the players, media, coaching staff or anybody else.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
The point still went over your head. Fans who stick through the miserable years don't deserve to be pissed on by a kid who has been a Vol for ten minutes. That's all. Not a comparison of who has bled more orange or who buys knockoff Tennessee gear VS officially licensed. Not about who makes it to the NFL and who lives in a trailer. Fans are fans. And our fans are particularly loyal and have been through a lot. DWA may go on to be the ultimate UT alum and donate millions to the university. It still wouldn't give him a right to piss on fans who have stuck around through the worst years in Tennessee history.
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Amen! Amen! Amen!
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
"Entitled fans"??? You have lost your damn mind...Without US little pissants that spend our time amd money...scholarship football at big time programs as it is now for these guys would not exist, and they would be stuck trying to prove themselves playing for next to nothing in some horrid world of crappy minor league football. I can't speak for Sam, but Im not taking this horsecrap from you, the players, media, coaching staff or anybody else.
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Exactly. Over the last 15 years the coaches, players, ADs, and university leadership has come and gone. They are getting their millions of dollars and scholarships. The local media have relished in the bad news and drama.

The only ones that have been a constant is the fans. I guarantee any player or coach that has been here through the suffering that long wouldn’t be so fast to pass judgment. We as a fan base are tired of losing and being embarrassed to even talk about football on Mondays at work. Especially for those of us that live and work in Bama, GA, and FLA.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
You should move...I mean someday when you can. That sucks when you actually enjoy entertainment. And before any of you Popes jump on me...I absolutely agree that it is a whiny first world problem, but being stuck in the stone age does suck.
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Honestly, the best answer is for my utility company to stop being pieces of crap. They started the plan in like 2012 and have even since, qualified and took the Federal grant money to run the fiber optic cable.
Yet, not a single line laid.
 
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To Be entitled one would actually have been GIVEN something over the past 10-12 years. I view entitled fans as those who are winning 10 games a year and mad because they can’t crack the playoffs. That does describe us in 90’s. Definitely not describing us now.

We are still here. We get our hearts ripped from our chest each week and yet I’m up drinking coffee from my UT mug. Wearing my orange.

We are the worst entitled people on Earth. We are Tennessee fans. It’s tough but we love it. We talk a mean game but we will be right here next Saturday no matter the outcome tonight. Now I’m going to lose my damn mind on folks if we lose though. That’s not entitled. That’s love.
 
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volatil said:
To Be entitled one would actually have been GIVEN something over the past 10-12 years. I view entitled fans as those who are winning 10 games a year and mad because they can’t crack the playoffs. That does describe us in 90’s. Definitely not describing us now.

We are still here. We get our hearts ripped from our chest each week and yet I’m up drinking coffee from my UT mug. Wearing my orange.

We are the worst entitled people on Earth. We are Tennessee fans. It’s tough but we love it. We talk a mean game but we will be right here next Saturday no matter the outcome tonight. Now I’m going to lose my damn mind on folks if we lose though. That’s not entitled. That’s love.
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Preach.
 
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Headed For Home said:
The 2 minute offense was very efficient. I still do not understand why we only called plays in that manner at the end of each half
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I think the 2-minute offense we saw for Ga. St. is way more close to our normal offense than the other stuff we saw. The coaches just game planned for BYU and UF during Ga. St. week which you DO NOT do and then the game plan was too vanilla because they thought they could win with just that. This team can't overlook other teams. We have the talent, but a lot of the players who still play a good bit of the snaps do not have the mental strength to do that.
 
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millst987 said:
My bold prediction is Eric Gray becomes a household name tonight
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When we had our starting 5 OL in the game they played pretty well. It's when they rotated people in and out when the OL was not good. If we keep at least 4 of the starting 5 in all game then I see this happening. Rotate like last week and it'll be another meh performance from them.
 
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