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I havent posted in a while. But ive been giving some thought to past players at UT. Our VFL's. But there is always a few less than outstanding model players. So my question is. Who is the most hated of the former Vols?
 
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cwbytruckers said:
I havent posted in a while. But ive been giving some thought to past players at UT. Our VFL's. But there is always a few less than outstanding model players. So my question is. Who is the most hated of the former Vols?
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Kelley Washington is the first name that came to mind.
 
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cwbytruckers said:
I havent posted in a while. But ive been giving some thought to past players at UT. Our VFL's. But there is always a few less than outstanding model players. So my question is. Who is the most hated of the former Vols?
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I’m definitely going to go with a flute playing, cliche speaking former Vol.
 
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cwbytruckers said:
I havent posted in a while. But ive been giving some thought to past players at UT. Our VFL's. But there is always a few less than outstanding model players. So my question is. Who is the most hated of the former Vols?
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Steve Kiner was very hated in the late 1960s. His most famous moment was calling Ole Miss mules during the 1969 SEC Media Days and Ole Miss beat Tennessee 38-0. A reporter asked Steve Kiner what he thought of Ole Miss saying that Ole Miss had a lot of horses. Steve Kiner then said you don't know the difference between a horse and a mule. Ole Miss had a mule on campus the week of the game.
 
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I hope to get a lot of comments from this. We always here about the beloved Vols. Just curious to the hated ones. Something to kill time until Gameday. Feel free to name your most hated coach as well.
 
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Notorious B.E.N said:
Why?
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I just really never cared for him from the get go. Always thought the job was too big for him. Tried to be hopeful he would learn and get better, but it never happened. And most of the fact that we did have the athletes to be so much more even with him as our coach, but his lying to the players, making false promises and literally making us the laughingstock of the country. And I pretty much absolutely love everyone that has made this university what it is today.
 
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Meh, hate is too strong a word, but I was disappointed with the turn Arian Foster's attitude took, like when he started talking pterodactyl. And Hurd quitting on his team was a hard fail. Being pissed at the coach is one thing, quitting on your teammates is another.

And a more significant disappointment, Leonard Little for his DUI killing a woman, then getting another DUI. Not to mention Dwayne Goodrich and his hit and run, which IIRC, killed two people.
 
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Steve Kiner was very hated in the late 1960s. His most famous moment was calling Ole Miss mules during the 1969 SEC Media Days and Ole Miss beat Tennessee 38-0. A reporter asked Steve Kiner what he thought of Ole Miss saying that Ole Miss had a lot of horses. Steve Kiner then said you don't know the difference between a horse and a mule. Ole Miss had a mule on campus the week of the game.
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I was at that game, what a miserable trip that was.

Most hated...Fulmer.
 
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zqvol said:
Are the ones that we hate (not hated by other teams or fan bases) really VFLs?

Kelly Washington comes to mind as a cancer in the locker room. I don't think any Vol fan hated Kiner.
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The bad image that comes to mind when I think of Washington is when he was not the # 1 receiver but was the # 2 receiver. He made a pact with Stallworth for them both to declare for the NFL together
Stallworth declared and when Washington decided not to do so, Stallworth wanted to withdraw his NFL papers and remain at U T also
Washington never had any intent on leaving for the NFL, he wanted to get rid of Stallworth so he could be the # 1 receiver and up his NFL stock
What a horrible person
 
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cwbytruckers said:
I havent posted in a while. But ive been giving some thought to past players at UT. Our VFL's. But there is always a few less than outstanding model players. So my question is. Who is the most hated of the former Vols?
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Not happy with A Foster talking smack about. U T once he was in NFL
I truly understand him though. After junior season, he would have been drafted but Fulmer convinced him to stay for senior year
His stock went from A Good draft pick to a free agent. He lost huge amounts of money by trying to help Fulmer and the team
 
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I could name at least three former coaches pretty easily, but no ill will to any former vols who wore the orange and white, unless they caused problems/drama while on campus, so, for me, Foster is down the list some. I'd say some of Kiffen's clowns...Bryce Brown probably #1 and Nuke Richardson, to name a few. Kelley Washington on the list for causing drama, but at least he actually did some good things on the field for us.
 
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All the hate carried over from Kiffin to Dooley then Butch. We've shouldered a lot over these past few years.
We don't ever talk about it, but we had another coach rain on our parade. We were on top of the sec--even the world and then bang, it was over!

I'm talking about Doug Dickey! He was the man who took us straight to the top. Then he left. I was there and following every game! When he left, we settled for a young inexperienced guy from Alabama that no one had ever heard of! And Battle worked out fine for a couple of years riding the train that Dickey had built.

After Battle, remember it took years--years, for Majors to get it back on track

So, my vote for the Vol who caused the most serious problems for Tennessee football was the guy who never received the hate given Lane Kiffin (and I don't understand why) and that would have to be Doug Dickey. He was a hellava coach and had Tennessee at the top of the college football world, then dropped us for a return to his roots. He put one of those national championship years on the walls in Neyland in 1967 and I saw the Vols play UCLA in the Colosseum and Oklahoma in the Orange bowl that year! (Of course he helped Fulmer put on up in 1998 too--so we forgave him)

I still wonder where the boosters who had the deep pockets were when Florida came in and snatched him away.
 
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"Hate" is too strong a word IMO. But it's a coin flip between The Truth Washington from when he was on The Hill or Arian Foster after he left The Hill and his infamous disparagement of the institution and living on tacos.
 
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I remember the Ole Miss game well, I listened to it on the radio and felt like pounding of heavy rain on my head and
heart. Kiner was a good one, but it was a stupid and bone-headed thing to say about the Rebels, the papers carried that
comment in their promos up to that game day. I don't like the "hate" of anyone but dislike is ok - but as a kid I remembered
well the disappointment Vol nation felt when Dickey left for Florida - but I got to see the payback when I saw the Florida game when he returned to Knoxville with his gators.
 
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Rudy123 said:
Not happy with A Foster talking smack about. U T once he was in NFL
I truly understand him though. After junior season, he would have been drafted but Fulmer convinced him to stay for senior year
His stock went from A Good draft pick to a free agent. He lost huge amounts of money by trying to help Fulmer and the team
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Goes to show that there are 2 sides to every story, No?
 
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