This doesn't feel like Tennessee anymore

#26
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Firebirdparts said:
I thought it felt like Tennessee when Phil Fulmer was the coach, but everybody hated him, right from the beginning. People here in Kingsport were ready to fire him the first day. Hated Johnny Majors too. He seemed like Tennessee to me.
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I have a real soft spot for Majors. I worked in Gibbs serving at the training table in the 70s. I used to study in there when the cafeteria was locked up because I could get in through the kitchen with the other help. Great place to study- could spread my books out, and go get a chocolate milk out of the cooler.

One day I was absorbed in my books and I noticed someone had sat down across from me. I looked up and it was Majors. He asked me "Hows it going?" I said "OK", he then slapped the table hard and said, "I don't want to hear that it's just OK......How's it going?" I said, "It's going GREAT coach". He smiled and said, "Good....now go back in the kitchen and bring me an apple". I did and he and I had a nice conservation as he was eating it. Then he went on about his business. Pretty memorable for me.
 
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Doberman said:
The fans that gave us these traditions never suffered through Kiffin, Dooley, and Butch .... back to back to back.

And then had Greg Schiano trotted out as the next in line.

Get off the high horse.

We’re rightly pissed off.
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they suffered through Dickey leaving , The last years of Bill Battle and the rebuild that took so long under Majors that today it wouldn’t even happen. Some pretty slim pickings from 74-83. Not as bad as now but still bad enough that it took some loyalty to stick through
 
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Jravol78 said:
they suffered through Dickey leaving , The last years of Bill Battle and the rebuild that took so long under Majors that today it wouldn’t even happen. Some pretty slim pickings from 74-83. Not as bad as now but still bad enough that it took some loyalty to stick through
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Yet, even though our run is worse.....here we all are, still.
 
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ptcarter said:
I have a real soft spot for Majors. I worked in Gibbs serving at the training table in the 70s. I used to study in there when the cafeteria was locked up because I could get in through the kitchen with the other help. Great place to study- could spread my books out, and go get a chocolate milk out of the cooler.

One day I was absorbed in my books and I noticed someone had sat down across from me. I looked up and it was Majors. He asked me "Hows it going?" I said "OK", he then slapped the table hard and said, "I don't want to hear that it's just OK......How's it going?" I said, "It's going GREAT coach". He smiled and said, "Good....now go back in the kitchen and bring me an apple". I did and he and I had a nice conservation as he was eating it. Then he went on about his business. Pretty memorable for me.
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fantastic! I think a lot of coach Majors too! If you couldn’t tell from my avi 😀
 
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Doberman said:
Yet, even though our run is worse.....here we all are, still.
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I have too many hours invested to make a U turn at this juncture. I'm stuck with the Vols. I just hope, that maybe by accident, someone really good is hired. The old "Blind Sow sometimes gets an acorn" theory.
 
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ptcarter said:
I have too many hours invested to make a U turn at this juncture. I'm stuck with the Vols. I just hope, that maybe by accident, someone really good is hired. The old "Blind Sow sometimes gets an acorn" theory.
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Let’s hope, brother.

That’s all that’s left.
 
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Jravol78 said:
fantastic! I think a lot of coach Majors too! If you couldn’t tell from my avi 😀
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I saw him about every day at Gibbs. For some reason, people want to say he was drunk all the time. I never saw it. They said that about Bear too.
 
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Don't despair folks, Currie & Co. are going to be bringing Derek Dooley Pt. 2, oh sorry I mean Chad Morris, into Knoxville to make shower discipline great again!
 
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Firebirdparts said:
I thought it felt like Tennessee when Phil Fulmer was the coach, but everybody hated him, right from the beginning. People here in Kingsport were ready to fire him the first day. Hated Johnny Majors too. He seemed like Tennessee to me.
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Not true. The loudest complainers hated both. True Vol fans loved both.
 
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Doberman said:
The fans that gave us these traditions never suffered through Kiffin, Dooley, and Butch .... back to back to back.

And then had Greg Schiano trotted out as the next in line.

Get off the high horse.

We’re rightly pissed off.
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Some of us remember and suffered through the 6 years of Bowden Wyatt and Jim McDonald before Dickey came and his first year. Those 7 years, we never won over 6 games out of the 10 we played then.

As previously mentioned, we suffered under for another 7 from the 1974 through 1980 seasons under Battle and Majors, when we never won over 7 games in a season out of the 11 or 12 we played.

That is 14 years of barely over .500 football. I realize this year was really bad, but the team quit for whatever reason. There are probably some untold inside stories.
 
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ptcarter said:
Is this wearing you out? It is me. Just look at these thread titles. We are down to pin the tail on the donkey.

I went to LSU and Vandy games. Interim coach would rather recieve a kick in a typhoon than wait a few minutes, just to get it over with. If the coach quits, you can't expect the team to keep going. I saw two games with little effort and it crossed my mind, "Why am I here?" I'm paying for a Ruth's Chris steak and getting a Waffle House steak instead. Alabama/Auburn is playing real football on TV and I'm being served up hot garbage in Neyland Stadium.

I dunno.. I'll probably be back. Maybe it can't get worse. 99Gator gets it.

Somebody cheer me up.
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I live in Alabama so this past weekend while watching both games I had the same thoughts. Hang in there PTCarter. This **** show has to end at some point.. Meanwhile enjoy the gif
 

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1972 Grad said:
There are probably some untold inside stories.
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I am not sure I really want to know. Jones is gone. I actually liked Guarantano's statement about changing the culture and those want/need to leave can go. That screams of having a "lost locker room".

Whoever is hired, I hope he has a strong enough constitution to not let the inmates run the asylum, and get what's left of this team into good enough shape - both mentally and physically, to hit the field in the fall with a whole new attitude. Jones promised that, but didn't deliver.
 
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ptcarter said:
I saw him about every day at Gibbs. For some reason, people want to say he was drunk all the time. I never saw it. They said that about Bear too.
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i remember being a kid and seeing him at functions (my grandparents were mid level boosters ) and it was obvious even to a kid that he was having a good time, but I never saw him slobbering drunk as people always are so quick to imply. I think coach Majors was your classic old school work hard/ play hard type of coach. Just like the Bear. I read the definitive bio of BearBryant and he did drink a lot , but never during practices or games. I am almost certain the same could be said for coach Majors
 
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Denton'sGhostGBO said:
I live in Alabama so this past weekend while watching both games I had the same thoughts. Hang in there PTCarter. This **** show has to end at some point.. Meanwhile enjoy the gif
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Hopefully this thread will provide some mental therapy. I keep seeing the word 'battered'. It's true, and national media doesn't get it, nor are they trying. 99gator put together a thread together that was amazing. He summed it up quite nicely. If you haven't read it, find it. It's good. It's titled: I get it.
 
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ptcarter said:
Hopefully this thread will provide some mental therapy. I keep seeing the word 'battered'. It's true, and national media doesn't get it, nor are they trying. 99gator put together a thread together that was amazing. He summed it up quite nicely. If you haven't read it, find it. It's good. It's titled: I get it.
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it was a good post . 99 seems like a stand up guy for the most part. The fact that our voice of reason is a Gators fan speaks volume about the state of the program 😭😭
 
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ptcarter said:
Hopefully this thread will provide some mental therapy. I keep seeing the word 'battered'. It's true, and national media doesn't get it, nor are they trying. 99gator put together a thread together that was amazing. He summed it up quite nicely. If you haven't read it, find it. It's good. It's titled: I get it.
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Yeah I read it, it was exceptional. I keep telling myself tge law of averages have to kick in at some point, and they will. Hell who knows something great could be a brewing and we just don't know it.
 
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I def the agree the good UT football I grew up with as a kid in the 80’s and 90’s now seems to be dead and buried sadly.
 
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