Team 120 in community outreach

[Grand Vol]

Working their fourth Habitat for Humanity project. Forty Vols helped out over the weekend:

Vols help build Habitat for Humanity home in Knoxville

This June, the team will help construct a home for a family of seven in the Knoxville area. Antone Davis, VFL program coordinator, says that it's important to teach the new players that volunteering is part of playing football at UT.

"Not only are we giving back we're hands on in the job site helping build an actual home," Davis says, "that's very gratifying."

I love what Antone Davis is doing with the VFL Program.

Also, the video shows another familiar face with the Vols program. Ms. Sara Mitchell that did a lot of work with the program while as a student has stayed in the local Knoxville area with a local CBS affiliate.

 

[joevol33]

That's cool.

 

[Biopsyman]

How much will each player make?

 

[RibFeast]

Whole team together could probably build an entire neighborhood in a week

 

[FLVOL_79]

Working their fourth Habitat for Humanity project. Forty Vols helped out over the weekend:

Vols help build Habitat for Humanity home in Knoxville



I love what Antone Davis is doing with the VFL Program.

Also, the video shows another familiar face with the Vols program. Ms. Sara Mitchell that did a lot of work with the program while as a student has stayed in the local Knoxville area with a local CBS affiliate.

Miss her practice reports..

 

[volfan102455]

How much will each player make?

Seriously?

 

[Biopsyman]

Seriously?

Yes... Nobody works for free

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Love that the guys are doing things like this.

We wouldn't need so much government in our lives if folks just pitched in and helped each other as the Vols are doing. Proud of them for character.

 

[Biopsyman]

Love that the guys are doing things like this.

We wouldn't need so much government in our lives if folks just pitched in and helped each other as the Vols are doing. Proud of them for character.

When I calll a contractor or a repairman they never "pitch in"

 

[VFL-82-JP]

When I calll a contractor or a repairman they never "pitch in"

Yeah but you're rich, man.

 

[chargervol]

When I calll a contractor or a repairman they never "pitch in"

You seem stuck on this.
I've helped on 2 different H4H houses over the years.
I understand this world can make a person jaded but sometimes people still volunteer.
But to your point, it's not like we don't hear about this.
Even if the players don't reap a materialistic reward, the AD makes sure that they get the publicity.
I love so many people receive help and people in the hospital get visited but let's be honest, it's not like they don't already have the camera crews waiting for every one of these events.

 

[volfan102455]

Yes... Nobody works for free

Actually some do help others for free. That happens a lot in the community where I live (both high school and college kids helping out in the community) so I guess I can still envision those that can help, helping others and not expect to be paid.

 

[volfan102455]

You seem stuck on this.
I've helped on 2 different H4H houses over the years.
I understand this world can make a person jaded but sometimes people still volunteer.
But to your point, it's not like we don't hear about this.
Even if the players don't reap a materialistic reward, the AD makes sure that they get the publicity.
I love so many people receive help and people in the hospital get visited but let's be honest, it's not like they don't already have the camera crews waiting for every one of these events.

Yes there is the publicity and personally I am okay with that. While I understand there is the intent to showcase the positive things the players do - it also provides a positive experience for the players and sets an example that hopefully other young kids can learn from.

 

[Biopsyman]

Yes there is the publicity and personally I am okay with that. While I understand there is the intent to showcase the positive things the players do - it also provides a positive experience for the players and sets an example that hopefully other young kids can learn from.

Only if this can post pictures on Instagram of their "hard work"

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Only if this can post pictures on Instagram of their "hard work"

Every year, the Christian school my wife works at goes out to an impoverished town in Appalachia at Thanksgiving, and donates not only enough food for every family in town to enjoy the day at home, but enough for them to live on for weeks. Some years they find a car to donate to a person who really needs one. Clothes. Home repairs. Things like that. Every year.

Every year, they take a team down to Honduras to help with water wells, and food and clothing, and so on.

Several times a year, they volunteer down at the Green Street shelter in Nashville.

On a monthly basis, they help out at old folks' homes, shelters, and similar places in our home town.

You never heard of any of this because no one outside the school community has. It's not advertised, and they don't seek out recognition. They just do it.

There's a lot of that in America, and it's all good. It's the way America used to be all over, before some folks started thinking "the government can just do it for us, so we don't have to bother." But that's politics, and I don't mean this to be about politics.

Back to the point:

I bet our young men don't care about the recognition, the cameras or the press. They're just willing to help folks out who could use a hand.

I applaud them for it. You should lose a little of your cynicism and do the same.

 

[chargervol]

And to clarify my point, I meant the AD pushes for the publicity, not the players.
Which is ok because we hire them to promote the university.
Cameras or not, people in need receive a helping hand.