DeusExMachina
"I aim to misbehave"
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The 2022 season has ended, and while it may not have ended the way it could have, it was still a gigantic step forward from where we have been in recent years.
Many cultures keep the history of their people alive through oral histories. Elders speak of times past, and pass these lessons down to the next generations, who then repeat the process. While my own time as a supporter of the Orange and White didn't begin until 1993-ish, there are those on here that have been fans far longer than I have, and there are those whose path in Pantone 151 is just beginning.
My plan, during this offseason, is to drop one of these threads every Sunday. A thing to keep in mind is that everyone's experience is different, and one person's recollection may not align with another. Everyone can have a say, nobody's wrong.
This week's thread is about a specific game in history. Others will be about specific players (I've got about the first 15 planned-ish), specific coaches, there may be a couple more about specific games (I have one in mind in particular), but we'll all cross that bridge when we get there. I'm going to try and keep most of them pre-1993, but we'll see where that goes. I know there's a couple mixed in that are post-93.
On January 1, 1986, the 8-1-2 #8 ranked Tennessee Volunteers took on a 10-1 #2 ranked Miami Hurricanes team that, by and large, was expected to dispose of them quite easily. Nobody seemed to want to give the men in Orange and White a chance, but the "Sugar Vols", as we all now know, had their chance to have their say before the game was decided.
Talk to us about that game. Were you there?? Were you a student at that point?? What was it like?? What do you remember??
Many cultures keep the history of their people alive through oral histories. Elders speak of times past, and pass these lessons down to the next generations, who then repeat the process. While my own time as a supporter of the Orange and White didn't begin until 1993-ish, there are those on here that have been fans far longer than I have, and there are those whose path in Pantone 151 is just beginning.
My plan, during this offseason, is to drop one of these threads every Sunday. A thing to keep in mind is that everyone's experience is different, and one person's recollection may not align with another. Everyone can have a say, nobody's wrong.
This week's thread is about a specific game in history. Others will be about specific players (I've got about the first 15 planned-ish), specific coaches, there may be a couple more about specific games (I have one in mind in particular), but we'll all cross that bridge when we get there. I'm going to try and keep most of them pre-1993, but we'll see where that goes. I know there's a couple mixed in that are post-93.
On January 1, 1986, the 8-1-2 #8 ranked Tennessee Volunteers took on a 10-1 #2 ranked Miami Hurricanes team that, by and large, was expected to dispose of them quite easily. Nobody seemed to want to give the men in Orange and White a chance, but the "Sugar Vols", as we all now know, had their chance to have their say before the game was decided.
Talk to us about that game. Were you there?? Were you a student at that point?? What was it like?? What do you remember??
