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#176
#176
GreveHaller said:
You cannot have the football team without the school.
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I understand your point, but I beginning to think this is not true now days. If for some wierd reasoning, the universities decided to outlaw Football in the manner it's currently played, I think you'd see the major teams form a "football club." Face it, Division 1 football has become it's own entity and would find a way to survive even if the schools (as a whole) did not.

In response to your other theories: how hard do you think it is for a student at a different university to get tickets to a UT game? It seems this fan would "bleed orange" more so than the fan who is capable of aquiring student tickets.
 
#179
#179
BJSforVols said:
I understand your point, but I beginning to think this is not true now days. If for some wierd reasoning, the universities decided to outlaw Football in the manner it's currently played, I think you'd see the major teams form a "football club." Face it, Division 1 football has become it's own entity and would find a way to survive even if the schools (as a whole) did not.

In response to your other theories: how hard do you think it is for a student at a different university to get tickets to a UT game? It seems this fan would "bleed orange" more so than the fan who is capable of aquiring student tickets.
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Can you please extrapolate on how, exactly, these teams would be able to function without expressed permission of the school they're a subsidiary of?
 
#183
#183
Does current student count? I need to be in the club!!!!!!!!!


And do I get extra points for being a Senior and a Sports Managment Major?
 
#184
#184
So...after numerous successful and unsuccessful grammar corrections we are still left with the questions:

How does attending a school and ultimately receiving a diploma/degree NOT factor into the basis for the level of one's fandom? If location and family tradition are factors why is attending the university and earning a diploma/degree not a factor? What factors of becoming a fan of a certain UNIVERSITY carry the most weight?

I think attending the actual school and receiving a diploma is at the top of the list. The only factor that can trump this is playing a sport for a school AND obtaining your degree. This eliminates players who leave early for the pros, fail out, transfer, etc...

Others on this board believe: (1) proximity to a school, (2) being raised a fan/family tradition; (3) donating money; (4) attending games; (5) tatoos; (6) knowledge of school sports history; (7) spell checking ability; (8) playing a sport for the university but never graduating and (9) simple freedom of choice all create the same sort of fan as those that actually attended the university and earned a diploma/degree. I disagree.
 
#185
#185
VolGraduate said:
So...after numerous successful and unsuccessful grammar corrections we are still left with the questions:

How does attending a school and ultimately receiving a diploma/degree NOT factor into the basis for the level of one's fandom? If location and family tradition are factors why is attending the university and earning a diploma/degree not a factor? What factors of becoming a fan of a certain UNIVERSITY carry the most weight?

I think attending the actual school and receiving a diploma is at the top of the list. The only factor that can trump this is playing a sport for a school AND obtaining your degree. This eliminates players who leave early for the pros, fail out, transfer, etc...

Others on this board believe: (1) proximity to a school, (2) being raised a fan/family tradition; (3) donating money; (4) attending games; (5) tatoos; (6) knowledge of school sports history; (7) spell checking ability; (8) playing a sport for the university but never graduating and (9) simple freedom of choice all create the same sort of fan as those that actually attended the university and earned a diploma/degree. I disagree.
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I think if I actually own the school, then diploma or not I'm #1. Trumped.
 
#187
#187
VolGraduate said:
So...after numerous successful and unsuccessful grammar corrections we are still left with the questions:

How does attending a school and ultimately receiving a diploma/degree NOT factor into the basis for the level of one's fandom? If location and family tradition are factors why is attending the university and earning a diploma/degree not a factor? What factors of becoming a fan of a certain UNIVERSITY carry the most weight?

I think attending the actual school and receiving a diploma is at the top of the list. The only factor that can trump this is playing a sport for a school AND obtaining your degree. This eliminates players who leave early for the pros, fail out, transfer, etc...

Others on this board believe: (1) proximity to a school, (2) being raised a fan/family tradition; (3) donating money; (4) attending games; (5) tatoos; (6) knowledge of school sports history; (7) spell checking ability; (8) playing a sport for the university but never graduating and (9) simple freedom of choice all create the same sort of fan as those that actually attended the university and earned a diploma/degree. I disagree.
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If having a degree from UT makes you feel like more of a fan, then have at it. Obviously, your field of study wasn't common sense. However, you're entitled to feel that way, if it makes you feel better about yourself and your "fandom."
 
#189
#189
VolGraduate said:
So...after numerous successful and unsuccessful grammar corrections we are still left with the questions:

How does attending a school and ultimately receiving a diploma/degree NOT factor into the basis for the level of one's fandom? If location and family tradition are factors why is attending the university and earning a diploma/degree not a factor? What factors of becoming a fan of a certain UNIVERSITY carry the most weight?

I think attending the actual school and receiving a diploma is at the top of the list. The only factor that can trump this is playing a sport for a school AND obtaining your degree. This eliminates players who leave early for the pros, fail out, transfer, etc...

Others on this board believe: (1) proximity to a school, (2) being raised a fan/family tradition; (3) donating money; (4) attending games; (5) tatoos; (6) knowledge of school sports history; (7) spell checking ability; (8) playing a sport for the university but never graduating and (9) simple freedom of choice all create the same sort of fan as those that actually attended the university and earned a diploma/degree. I disagree.
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So, let me get this right... you're a bigger supporter of UT than Eric Berry?

Universities have a prominent and in some cases very pervasive regional impact. To try to disparage a person's appreciation of and support for a school simply because they didn't graduate from that institution is completely asinine to say the least.

Correcting your grammar was simply a message that if you're going to be a patronizing idiot (at best) you should not leave glaring loose ends in your ability to form proper sentences.
 
#191
#191
VolGraduate said:
So...after numerous successful and unsuccessful grammar corrections we are still left with the questions:

How does attending a school and ultimately receiving a diploma/degree NOT factor into the basis for the level of one's fandom? If location and family tradition are factors why is attending the university and earning a diploma/degree not a factor? What factors of becoming a fan of a certain UNIVERSITY carry the most weight?
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Because one chooses a school for educational purposes - not due to being a fan of the school's football team.
 
#192
#192
DC Vol said:
Can you please extrapolate on how, exactly, these teams would be able to function without expressed permission of the school they're a subsidiary of?
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The if (that would never happen) was if the schools ceased to exist.
 
#193
#193
Thank goodness we have those fans who "carry the most weight." Where in the hell would the Vols be without those weighty types. For my money, the seating would be much nicer if we could boot some of you carrying the most weight, but that's just me - a lowly graduate of two other schools.
 
#194
#194
BigPapaVol said:
Thank goodness we have those fans who "carry the most weight." Where in the hell would the Vols be without those weighty types. For my money, the seating would be much nicer if we could boot some of you carrying the most weight, but that's just me - a lowly graduate of two other schools.
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No, you warship a false profit.
 
#195
#195
Coach Grizz said:
Oh I see, well I guess I am a sidewalk alumni neck. I would have loved more than anything in this world to have been an official UT student or alumni. But alot of us never made it off the farm so being just a "dirt road " fan is as close as we can get.
I live and die with UT Football so it's just as important to me as any alumni. It's my escape from the real world. Alot of us in our small corners of our great state with our thick southern accents maybe looked down upon as uneducated hicks but we have love for UT. but we all have a common bond that's why I love it!!
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Amen Brother!
 
#197
#197
IPorange said:
I have no problem with sidewalk alumni, the more the merrier. That is, right up until they start trying to weigh in on how the athletic department spends money or its relationship to the academic side of things.
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What if they didn't attend school but are season ticket holders now, or even just donors.? (Prob a small percentage, given)
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#198
#198
Tennessee technically could fill the stadium with alums, but wouldn't. Wouldn't even be close. I'd venture to say around 70% of the crowd never attended a class at UT.
 
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