So How Did The Rock Get on Campus?...

[PowerSweep]

Been trying to determine this and all I can find from a story about its movement is that it was maybe from the 1960's, weighs a couple hundred thousand lbs, and is dolomite rock...anyone know the story on this UT tradition and why/how it came to be right there at the corner?

 

[AJeray4TN]

In before Rod Wilks passed a kidney stone...

 

[UTFanForLife]

I'm guessing it came from the ground in the area.

 

[volinca]

Ancient Aliens.

 

[Nerd-Vol]

I thought they built the school around it?

 

[5KEEPERS]

:lolabove:

In before Rod Wilks passed a kidney stone...

priceless

 

[JuggernaUT_VOL]

In before Rod Wilks passed a kidney stone...

End thread!!!

Well done sir, well done..

 

[me410ec]

They actually moved it to that corner just a few years ago, it was across the street.

 

[AJeray4TN]

They actually moved it to that corner just a few years ago, it was across the street.

Whew...now that that's cleared up...

 

[Thrasher865]

They actually moved it to that corner just a few years ago, it was across the street.

That's not the question that was posed. He wants to know where it came from originally.

 

[TTownVOL90]

I'm going with a stork dropped it there.

 

[BearCat204]

Came over on the Mayflower

 

[madbamahater]

Unearthed in 1960s. Was across the street diagonal from where it is now. Was much smaller back in the day but looks so big because of so much paint.........

 

[utknate]

quick search showed it was unearthed in the 60's. It doesn't say exactly where from though.

 

[utvolpj]

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil.Then...

 

[Thrasher865]

Probably came up when they were excavating for a building foundation and they were too lazy to haul it off.

 

[volsfansince4387]

Came from the ground dawg.

Unearthed in the 1960s, the Rock soon thereafter became a “canvas” for student messages. For years the university sandblasted away the messages but eventually deferred to students’ artistic endeavors. The Daily Beacon has editorialized: “Originally a smaller rock, The Rock has grown in prestige and size while thousands of coats of paint have been thrown on its jagged face. Really, its function is as an open forum for students.”

 

[utknate]

A little more digging shows it was unearthed when there was a church built where the current fiji island (Frat Row) is.

 

[DocVOLiday]

Unearthed in 1960s. Was across the street diagonal from where it is now. Was much smaller back in the day but looks so big because of so much paint.........

Yup. Read that they found it when building the frat houses on frat row

 

[DD4ME]

A little more digging shows it was unearthed when there was a church built where the current fiji island (Frat Row) is.

Cornerstone?

 

[Coach Punk]

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil.Then...

Beat me to it...

 

[5KEEPERS]

speaking of RW, where has he been? I haven't seen him in either game this year?

 

[Coach Punk]

speaking of RW, where has he been? I haven't seen him in either game this year?

Played at the end of the GStU game directing traffic with all the Freshman DBs.

 

[Nerd-Vol]

Any guesses on how much larger the rock is now with 50 odd years of paint layering up on it?

 

[BigVOLFAN1]

speaking of RW, where has he been? I haven't seen him in either game this year?[/QUOT

Heard he was getting ready to pass another kidney stone.