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#103
#103
LA Vol said:
Dooley is something like 0-20 in winning a game where the Vols trail at halftime. I'm sure fans who left early figured it wasn't much of a risk, and yes, they started streaming out after Worley threw that goal line INT early in the 3rd. I would have loved to have been wrong, but I knew the team would pack it in then.

People have a right to leave whenever they want, for whatever reason they deem appropriate, and it doesn't make them any less of a fan.
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Take a minute and really think about that stat. I'll give you a hint: Dooley hasn't even lost 20 games as the vol's coach yet.

You should stop believing made up stats. UT is on a 7 game losing streak in the SEC. Didn't you read the stat on ESPN? Vandy and UK don't count.
 
#104
#104
Col_Cathcart said:
Take a minute and really think about that stat. I'll give you a hint: Dooley hasn't even lost 20 games as the vol's coach yet.

You should stop believing made up stats. UT is on a 7 game losing streak in the SEC. Didn't you read the stat on ESPN? Vandy and UK don't count.
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It's not my stat. I'll repeat that. It's. Not. My. Stat. It's ESPN's. E. S. P. N. Call them and tell them what they should do. I'll give you a hint: It's 1-800-WHO-CARES. :crazy:
 
#106
#106
lots of teams have this problem, i'm just sick of hearing "do something to cheer about and i'll stay and cheer" fair-weather fans disgust me...if you're offeded by this post, you're the problem.
now is when these young men need cheered on more than ever.
win or lose, Go Big Orange!!
 
#107
#107
17Vols said:
lots of teams have this problem, i'm just sick of hearing "do something to cheer about and i'll stay and cheer" fair-weather fans disgust me...if you're offeded by this post, you're the problem.
now is when these young men need cheered on more than ever.
win or lose, Go Big Orange!!
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17vols,out of curiosity, how many games have you been to this year?
 
#108
#108
brianlsanders said:
17vols,out of curiosity, how many games have you been to this year?
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None, i've been station'd out of state for the last 12 years and deployed the last 3 football seasons. so i have to find creative ways to get the game online. so far i've been lucky and haven't missed any. I'll tell you this though, i'd crawl from here to knoxville and sit through the worst ass beating in Vols history...and not bail out early.
 
#109
#109
17Vols said:
None, i've been station'd out of state for the last 12 years and deployed the last 3 football seasons. so i have to find creative ways to get the game online. so far i've been lucky and haven't missed any. I'll tell you this though, i'd crawl from here to knoxville and sit through the worst ass beating in Vols history...and not bail out early.
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Well, ive been to 5 home games this year and drive over 300 hundred miles round trip for each game. Not to mention planning my whole weekend around the game and spending a ton of cash. If the team is playing like crap,then i have the right to leave when i want so i can get back to Nashville before 3a.m. This does not make me any less of a fan.
 
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#110
#110
brianlsanders said:
Well, ive been to 5 home games this year and drive over 300 hundred miles round trip for each game. Not to mention planning my whole weekend around the game and spending a ton of cash. If the team is playing like crap,then i have the right to leave when i want so i can get back to Nashville before 3a.m. This does not make me any less of a fan.
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yep
 
#111
#111
Vercingetorix said:
Rooting significantly for a sports team to begin with requires a suspension of disbelief: you're investing money and time and a ton of emotional capital in what everybody understands is meaningless action. When you start seeing empty seats, and you start seeing fans give up on a game too early because it's cold and they really ought to be headed home anyway, what you're seeing is the breakdown of that suspension of disbelief. It's a splintering of the thing that makes fandom possible.

Wow this is really true. THe minute I have a thought like "I should be doing some paperwork, or I could get the grandkids home earlier" I'm toast. Never thought about it like that but it's true.
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#112
#112
kiddiedoc said:
I am in section D, and in fairness, it was the least enthusiasm I remember seeing out of the crowd for an SEC night game. Almost everyone was sitting and quiet, and we were asked to sit down while on a big defensive down.
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I was in section D also and we had many people leaving before the fourth quarter began.
 
#113
#113
AstonRoyal said:
Watching the Locker Room right now with Erik Ainge on it and he made a pretty good point. When you're down by two scores with 13 minutes left in the game and half the stadium is full, how do you expect to succeed. You've got a team filled with freshman and sophomores and they look up to see that the fans have given up on them how do you expect them to perform?
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Bad football = apathy.....
 
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#115
#115
in all fairness....the 20 play 45 minute drive in the 3rd qtr. could bring even the biggest fan to question the meaning of life...much less the state of UT football.
 
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#117
#117
AstonRoyal said:
Watching the Locker Room right now with Erik Ainge on it and he made a pretty good point. When you're down by two scores with 13 minutes left in the game and half the stadium is full, how do you expect to succeed. You've got a team filled with freshman and sophomores and they look up to see that the fans have given up on them how do you expect them to perform?
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Fans filled the seats they cheered that's there job winning games that's the coaches and players jobs.I don't expect to win every game just be competitive which we were till SC's long TD drive. The play on the field and lack of game planning are why the fan leave early its like a bad dream you just cant wake from. Winning is the cure for this illness. I don't want to be known as a negavol but the team not winning has nothing to do with the fans wanting to spare themselves the agony of see the clock read zero. I didn't make this game but I did watch it and I did turn the channel on SC's last drive.
 
#118
#118
Vercingetorix said:
Took about 30 seconds on a gambling site to find a game that he won after trailing at halftime as coach at LA Tech. Nov 1, 2008. Trailed Fresno 21-14 at halftime as a 4.5 point dog; won 38-35 after two fourth-quarter TDs.

Speaking of the gambling site, I still find it fairly amazing that Dooley has never, in 4.5 years as head coach, lost a game that he was favored to win.
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dingdingding here is our winner.

This years team and last years team did lose games they trailed at halftime.. that being said the teams that lead us at halftime were teams that were clearly better than us. His teams have had the weird problem of never really coming up against teams in their own range of talent. For the past 2 years we have only really played one game where the 2 teams were fairly evenly matched (Cincy) every other game we were either totally out classed or totally outclassed the other guys. A really hard pill to swallow i know but it is true.

Our starting 22 (with bray/hunter) would stack up favorably with almost anyone in the country outside the top 10. The problem happens when we start having to substitute guys. Most teams are operating at maybe 70-80% when they go to second team and have maybe 1 or 2 spots where they are seriously hurt if they have to sub. We have guys in the 2 deep that should be scout teamers/redshirts. Heck we have guys starting this year and those who started last that should have redshirted.

We flat out don't have upperclassmen that can play and that is a killer. Seriously, even the upper classmen we have that start mostly platoon. Dooley id literally playing with the last 2 recruiting classes for all intents and purposes and not because that's what he would prefer to do.

Thing is end of season we lose maybe 5 players from the 2 deep and everyone already has his replacement on campus. Next year we will have Dooleys Jr's and this team will start to win games it should not and get back in the polls. Then in year 4 with Dooley's Sr's they start to compete to be a top 10 team again.
 
#121
#121
brianlsanders said:
Well, ive been to 5 home games this year and drive over 300 hundred miles round trip for each game. Not to mention planning my whole weekend around the game and spending a ton of cash. If the team is playing like crap,then i have the right to leave when i want so i can get back to Nashville before 3a.m. This does not make me any less of a fan.
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Yes, you have the right to be a fair weather fan. That is correct. Just don't expect any respect for it.
 
#122
#122
StlCardinals2618 said:
It got so much colder when everybody started leaving too lol. They should of stayed out of respect to keep everybody warm.

I was behind the recruits and i had a couple of USCjr fans and they were calling us the worse fanbase in the SEC for leaving. It made me sick to my stomach.
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those bastards have seen so much losing in their history that they actully think that's what's supposed to happen....they're immune...you should have told them as much
 
#123
#123
Ashevolle said:
Yes, you have the right to be a fair weather fan. That is correct. Just don't expect any respect for it.
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youre a moron. if i was a fair weather fan i would have stopped spending my money to get to the games afew years ago. let me guess you go to every game and stay till the clock hits zero. youre a real superfan. and by superfan i mean superdouche
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