Top 10 Reasons Tennessee Is Superior To Cal.

[hatvol96]

Furthermore, Why hasn't Ron Mexico been officially suspended yet?

He was barred from attending camp. Call that what you will, it's a de facto suspension.

 

[duckman398686]

Have you ever even met Adam before? Or Peyton Manning for that matter? Let me know the next time your angelic Peyton donates 50,000 to a police charity. And the last time I checked, Adam Jones has yet to be convicted of a single crime since his arrival in Nashville.

I have to ask since your one of a very small minority. What do you have against Manning?

 

[StunnA N' Orange]

He was barred from attending camp. Call that what you will, it's a de facto suspension.

I realize he wasn't permitted to participate in camp, but he has yet to be suspended for the entire season like Adam was. It would be nice to see some consistency in Roger's penalties.

 

[Vercingetorix]

I realize he wasn't permitted to participate in camp, but he has yet to be suspended for the entire season like Adam.

The team had already suspended Vick for four games, the maximum that they are allowed to on their own, giving the league time to wait and see how the legal situation played out. Vick's formal suspension by the league will no doubt come along shortly.

That may not be entirely fair, since Goodell did not wait to see how Jones's case played out, but Michael Vick was far more important to the league and its sponsors than a nonentity like Adam Jones.

 

[StunnA N' Orange]

That may not be entirely fair, since Goodell did not wait to see how Jones's case played out, but Michael Vick was far more important to the league and its sponsors than a nonentity like Adam Jones.

Exactly. I would also add that public relations and sponsorship should have no influence in Goondell's decision.

 

[Vercingetorix]

If you don't think that "public relations and sponsorship" -- i.e., money -- should influence the decisions of the commissioner of the most profitable sports league in the world, then you're living in a fantasy land.

Adam Jones doesn't drive television ratings; nobody outside of Old Hickory and environs buys Pacman jerseys; nobody buys tickets to see him play that wouldn't be going to the game anyway. He's a good football player, but in the eyes of the NFL, he's disposable. Vick, on the other hand, is a cash cow. Whether his play has warranted it or not -- and as a Falcons fan, I would say emphatically that it hasn't in a long time -- Vick sells jerseys, he sells tickets, and he drives TV ratings (c.f. the Falcons' Thanksgiving night game against the Colts this season.) Of course Goodell waited to see how the Vick thing played out. It's a business decision, not justice. You juggle all the variables and decicde what's likely to be most profitable in the long term.

 

[StunnA N' Orange]

If you don't think that "public relations and sponsorship" -- i.e., money -- should influence the decisions of the commissioner of the most profitable sports league in the world, then you're living in a fantasy land.
-- Vick sells jerseys,


1. No, I'm impartial.

2. I guess that's why Nike pulled his jerseys off the shelves several weeks ago. Michael won't be selling any "goods" until he enters the big house.

 

[Teddyhead]

Top Ten reasons Tennessee is better than Cal you say? Well, looks like this fellow didn’t agree. He didn’t agree at all! How sad we are able to steal someone from right under your nose!!! I love it! Oh, and spare me the comebacks proclaiming, ‘but he wasn’t good enough for UT!’ Aaaah, yeeeaaaah, riiiiiiiiiight!

GO BEARS!:rock:

Player Bio: Ernest Owusu :: Football

Even though it appears he will not play in this game. He is undoubtedly giving us valuable intel on many issues. Down the road when he matures, he will be an invaluable member of our National Championship team. Thank you Tennessee.:thumbsup:

 

[f1ip]

Top Ten reasons Tennessee is better than Cal you say? Well, looks like this fellow didn’t agree. He didn’t agree at all! How sad we are able to steal someone from right under your nose!!! I love it! Oh, and spare me the comebacks proclaiming, ‘but he wasn’t good enough for UT!’ Aaaah, yeeeaaaah, riiiiiiiiiight!

GO BEARS!:rock:

Player Bio: Ernest Owusu :: Football

Even though it appears he will not play in this game. He is undoubtedly giving us valuable intel on many issues. Down the road when he matures, he will be an invaluable member of our National Championship team. Thank you Tennessee.:thumbsup:

Was there an SEC school interested in this guy?

 

[vols kick balls]

Top Ten reasons Tennessee is better than Cal you say? Well, looks like this fellow didn’t agree. He didn’t agree at all! How sad we are able to steal someone from right under your nose!!! I love it! Oh, and spare me the comebacks proclaiming, ‘but he wasn’t good enough for UT!’ Aaaah, yeeeaaaah, riiiiiiiiiight!

GO BEARS!:rock:

Player Bio: Ernest Owusu :: Football

Even though it appears he will not play in this game. He is undoubtedly giving us valuable intel on many issues. Down the road when he matures, he will be an invaluable member of our National Championship team. Thank you Tennessee.:thumbsup:

Thats awesome that Cal got an undersized, slow and not very talented DE. The #97 DE in the country by scout and not even ranked by rivals. Looked like you got a stud right there no doubt. He must have been awesome to not even get looked at by UT. Cal is really lucky. I would rather have Chirs Walker or Ben Martin any day. Id definitely rather have him than Rae Sykes, Cory Hall, or Rufus Williams when the qualify.:crazy:


Way to go Cal on picking up a player Vandy didnt want!!!!!

 

[vols kick balls]

Top Ten reasons Tennessee is better than Cal you say? Well, looks like this fellow didn’t agree. He didn’t agree at all! How sad we are able to steal someone from right under your nose!!! I love it! Oh, and spare me the comebacks proclaiming, ‘but he wasn’t good enough for UT!’ Aaaah, yeeeaaaah, riiiiiiiiiight!

GO BEARS!:rock:

Player Bio: Ernest Owusu :: Football

Even though it appears he will not play in this game. He is undoubtedly giving us valuable intel on many issues. Down the road when he matures, he will be an invaluable member of our National Championship team. Thank you Tennessee.:thumbsup:

And we got 5 star JUCO Kenny O'Neal from CA. We also got 4 star JUCO from CA. They will be invaluable members to kicking Cals ass.

 

[utvolpj]

Way to go Cal on picking up a player Vandy didnt want!!!!!

He actually got offered by Vandy Good fight Cal, you got him.

 

[utvolpj]

How sad we are able to steal someone from right under your nose!!! I love it! Oh, and spare me the comebacks proclaiming, ‘but he wasn’t good enough for UT!

Even though it appears he will not play in this game. He is undoubtedly giving us valuable intel on many issues.

He was not offered by UT. TN is not a hotbed for national recruiting so I'm very confident our coaches knew who he was.

What "intel" will he be able to provide? The posters on this board know more about UT than this 1 recruit who may/may not have ever been to campus.

Getting more desperate as the clock ticks down teddy? :dance2:

 

[GAVol]

Top Ten reasons Tennessee is better than Cal you say? Well, looks like this fellow didn’t agree. He didn’t agree at all! How sad we are able to steal someone from right under your nose!!! I love it! Oh, and spare me the comebacks proclaiming, ‘but he wasn’t good enough for UT!’ Aaaah, yeeeaaaah, riiiiiiiiiight!

GO BEARS!:rock:

Player Bio: Ernest Owusu :: Football

Even though it appears he will not play in this game. He is undoubtedly giving us valuable intel on many issues. Down the road when he matures, he will be an invaluable member of our National Championship team. Thank you Tennessee.:thumbsup:

Quite possibly your worst attempt at smack talk yet . . . which is really saying something.

 

[Fine Vol]

OK CAL fans forget all the hype here are the facts.

1. We played last year and you know what happened.
2. We have both lost great players in the offseason so no real advantage either way.
3. Didn't Desean play last year also? How can you use his name to scare us if we already smoked him?
4. Why all of the sudden are you goin to beat us when you were not even close last year? Your field does not scare us so you home field advantage is little.
thoughts?

 

[droski]

I'm not criticizing him at all. I was just pointing out that I'm not surprised he was well received and treated well in San Francisco. It's one of America's great cities. I am confident that if he had had to interact with the radical Berkeley crowd on a regular basis, his experience would have been different.

ummm maybe. I can't tell you how many native san franciscians I know who will tell me they have never met a single person that has voted for bush. And whatever you may have to say about bush, positive or negative, that says a lot about how close minded and delusion a good 70% of the population of San Francisco is. It never occurs to a lot of these people that any person with a brain might disagree with them. And I would like to point out that the citizens of berkeley are the wackjobs, not the students. At least not since after the war. The average Cal student these days could care less about politics (which i'm not saying is a good thing btw). The fact of the matter is Berkeley AND San Francisco are full of wackjobs. The ones in san francisco are just richer wackjobs.

 

[hatvol96]

ummm maybe. I can't tell you how many native san franciscians I know who will tell me they have never met a single person that has voted for bush. And whatever you may have to say about bush, positive or negative, that says a lot about how close minded and delusion a good 70% of the population of San Francisco is. It never occurs to a lot of these people that any person with a brain might disagree with them.

Actually, it shows they have a sense of geopolitical dynamics more nuanced than Bush voters, most of whom think Kurt Russell and Harrison Ford were great presidents. It never occurs to them that anyone would disagree that George Bush is an ignorant, anti-science, pro fairy tale warmonger because the evidence in support of that proposition is so overwhelming that it strains logic to believe anyone would dissent.

 

[droski]

Actually, it shows they have a sense of geopolitical dynamics more nuanced than Bush voters, most of whom think Kurt Russell and Harrison Ford were great presidents. It never occurs to them that anyone would disagree that George Bush is an ignorant, anti-science, pro fairy tale warmonger because the evidence in support of that proposition is so overwhelming that it strains logic to believe anyone would dissent.

:lolabove:. :thumbsup:

I just find it funny that a group who considers themselves the most openminded people in the world would assume that everyone thinks exactly the way they do. I've never met more closeminded people than I have in san francisco.

 

[VarmintCong]

By the same token, i.e., using the same logic, I'd say these are just as appropriate......if not just as lame, on the social/political spectrum of the original observation:

1. Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter don't consider our students allies.
2. Cal fans can tell their grandchildren about the wonderful advancements they helped develop in medicine, science and math. Vol fans can tell their children how they're actually related to the boy who played the banjo in Deliverance.

1. Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales don't consider our students their allies.
8. Tennessee fans tell their grandchildren about the historic efforts of great Vols of yesteryear. Cal fans regale their grandchildren with stories of spitting on Vietnam vets with Tom Hayden.

See you in 13 days, Bear fans.

 

[hatvol96]

:lolabove:. :thumbsup:

I just find it funny that a group who considers themselves the most openminded people in the world would assume that everyone thinks exactly the way they do. I've never met more closeminded people than I have in san francisco.

Being dismissive of abject stupidity isn't being closeminded, it's being sane.

 

[tvolsfan]

By the same token, i.e., using the same logic, I'd say these are just as appropriate......if not just as lame, on the social/political spectrum of the original observation:

1. Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter don't consider our students allies.
2. Cal fans can tell their grandchildren about the wonderful advancements they helped develop in medicine, science and math. Vol fans can tell their children how they're actually related to the boy who played the banjo in Deliverance.

Make some football comments. Oh that's right you can't because that would involve success every now and then.

 

[Jewbaccah]

"Val fans" well Vol fans still speak and write in English.

 

[CABVOL]

By the same token, i.e., using the same logic, I'd say these are just as appropriate......if not just as lame, on the social/political spectrum of the original observation:

1. Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter don't consider our students allies.
2. Cal fans can tell their grandchildren about the wonderful advancements they helped develop in medicine, science and math. Vol fans can tell their children how they're actually related to the boy who played the banjo in Deliverance.

Go hat, go...opcorn:

 

[hatvol96]

By the same token, i.e., using the same logic, I'd say these are just as appropriate......if not just as lame, on the social/political spectrum of the original observation:

1. Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter don't consider our students allies.
2. Cal fans can tell their grandchildren about the wonderful advancements they helped develop in medicine, science and math. Vol fans can tell their children how they're actually related to the boy who played the banjo in Deliverance.

Yet again, a Cal fan referencing a 30+ year old movie that has absolutely nothing to do with the state of Tennessee. I would ask what the Deliverance fixation among Cal fans is all about, but we all know that the Ned Beatty "squealing" scene is reenacted in Berkeley frat houses on a nightly basis.

 

[hatvol96]

if not just as lame

Don't worry. You win the battle. The mental abortion you just subjected this forum to reaches a level of lameness previously reserved for Paulie Shorie movies and songs by Eddie Murphy.