Ah, my apologies, then. I misunderstood your motivation.
So then, here's my theory: we need something to talk about.
It's a board in which only two things happen. Just two. People read. And people write. We can call it "talking" as a shorthand.
So there being absolutely NOTHING else to do here, we talk. And we need things to talk about. Some are utterly stoopid, like bringing up economics or politics, or religion, or stuff like that. The good stuff is related to football. Specifically Tennessee football.
And surprisingly, there aren't that many topics to discuss. About three-fourths of our roster is rarely going to get a thread devoted to them. And of the one-quarter that do, most will almost never have more than one thread running about them. Boo Carter and our quarterbacks are obvious exceptions to that rule. There are a few others. Even our coaches don't all regularly get threads. The head coach will (and the AD), so will the coordinators from time to time, and someone always wants to Fahr Willie Martinez. Or praise Rodney Garner. Or praise AND fire Glen Elarbee. Heh. There's usually a thread running about the stadium and improvements. Another going about what's the time announced for the upcoming game. Another for what uniform changes are coming. And what uniform are we wearing this weekend. There are the obligatory (and fun) countdown threads, the stat-tracking thread or two, the Night Before Off-Topic and Game Day Threads, the practice reports during spring and fall camp, the Look-Alike thread...and that pretty much wraps it up. I'm forgetting a few, I know. My apologies.
That sounds like a lot. It's not. Not on a forum where the front page has 25 threads, with three or four more pages of 25 behind them, sometimes all 100-125 threads still being read and responded to with some regularity.
This is a beast. And it has to be fed.
So a former QB is gonna stay alive here for a while. A while.
That's my theory, anyway.
Go Vols!
