My brethren!! (and sist....ren).
The offseason was as brutal as ever. I had some serious, good life changing events happen this offseason, and at no point did it ever buffer or curb my cravings for Tennessee football. But the offseason is over now, and the Big Orange is ready to take the field against a mid-tier ACC Team that thinks very highly of themselves.
They have certainly been chatty. Their handling of 3 SEC-E teams last year has them refusing in any way to see this game as a loss, though losing their starting RB changed some tunes about the relative ease of our matchup.
Without further ado.... here's what the Tech faithful are saying about Monday's match in Atlanta:
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-To start off.... some trash talk'ish (admittedly funny) responses to the rumored suspensions of our players. For context: the original tweet said "Could possibly be bad news coming from Knoxville"
-They seem to really dislike us. This is from a thread titled "Attention dip**** Tennessee fans":
-On their starting RB being dismissed:
-General discussion on our program as a whole:
-On the game itself:
-In further discussing the suspensions, apparently Butch has a reputation for being dirty and running a dirty program.......
-I came across this comment, responding to comparisons between our game and the 48-20 pounding they received from UNC last year:
-In a thread titled "Who is the dumbest fan base we face this year (besides UGA)?" Tennessee got almost half of the votes.
-They have ZERO respect for Butch Jones. A quick surf across all of their boards will reveal ample amounts of Butch bashing. "Moral victories, 5-star hearts, Life Champs, blah blah etc etc". I suspect the repeating of these terms will be a weekly occurrence this season.
-I couldn't help but laugh. A poster started a thread saying "What RB do you start against UT?".... the first post was just a crying/tears gif.
-General score predictions have them winning an intermediate-scoring affair. GT 31-34 with UT 24-28. I struggled to find any GT fan predicting a GT loss.
-In regards to fan seating, they don't seem to know anything about the rumored "gold out" or "white out" for this game. They are doing a "gold out" the following week for Jacksonville State
-From surfing their boards I discovered vegas has their over/under win total for the season at 6. Naturally, they aren't happy about it
-They frequently refer to themselves as "SEC East Champs" after bringing down 2016 powerhouses Vandy, KY, and UGA
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UT is back. VN is able to focus 100% on football. It's about to cool down and leaves are about to start falling again. The best time of the year is here. Let's show up to the GA Tech game and blow some ear drums!!
GBO!!! ITS FOOTBALL TIME!!!!