I’ll answer that. Vol Twitter and your social media fans were relentless after y’all beat UK. Your fans came into Georgia Facebook groups and trolled the hell out of us. Y’all were going to roll into Athens and lay “fiddy” on us, y’all were going to blow us out, y’all were going to bring 25K fans to Athens, y’all were this, y’all were that.
Then we won. Then the only reason we won was because of of the rain and you “won” the second half. You’d beat us on a neutral field. It was still relentless.
To be frank, the social media fanbase (Twitter, Facebook) is an embarrassment but I’m sure that goes for many fanbases. Up until that loss last night y’all were still trolling our pages.
To top it off, the national media disrespected us leading up to that game with y’all. That’s not a UT issue but still part of it. Herbstreit every time y’all made a good play against UK would say “you watching that Kirby?” and then all of game day picked y’all to beat us in our house where we’ve lost one time since 2017.
So I’d ask the same of this fanbase. We aren’t really rivals but you’d think we were based on that.