Why dont fans support this program no matter how bad the times get?

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Shaming people who are still sticking around to support this team is pitiful. Tennessee has fed us slop for over a decade. The administration has long been pencil pushers and bean counters. Scott Strickland at Florida runs circles around all of the empty suits that have run our athletic department in the past two decades, Fulmer included.
 
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The talent is there to compete in the SEC, we do not have a coach or an AD to win in the SEC . If my employees are not cutting it than it is time to replace them. Mediocrity in this program is unacceptable. Like all of you on here, I love the Vols but how long do we as fans and supporters have to suffer, and what about the student-athletes. I feel for them
 
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Volfan76 said:
Just stop it...there was not a single accusation against Freeze at Briarcrest until after he was fired by Ole Miss in 2017. The school officials have even said there was no accusations made by anyone.
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Read the posts from Deerpark12. I was asking about why Fulmer would not consider Freeze and he provided the history there. That’s my source.
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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Oh, don’t you worry. UT has possibly the most loyal fanbase in the country with the exception of South Carolina. They will give their all for their team no matter how s**** things get, and the atheltic department will collect the funds and keep the status quo.
 
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hog88 said:
WTF are you talking about? UT has the most loyal fanbase in college football. 90k plus still pack the stadium after 12 years of suck, you see people wearing swag all over the world and the most telling sign of how great this fanbase is is that we still care. We still care after the administration has shown they DGAF about championship level football, we still care even though there is no sign of hope for better days, we still care even though we KNOW a POS Gump will still be driving our beloved football program off the cliff next season.

GTF out of here with this "fair weather fan" bull! Few fan bases remain as loyal and caring as ours after over a decade of being fed crap.
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Real Vol fans say no to gumps.
 
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rusty11 said:
Dude, I'm not being defeatist, just stating the truth. We were great in a completely different ERA. Alabama was beatable for awhile there, but they won the conference once during that era anyway. UF was our nemesis and we owned UGA, always finding a way to barely win. The SEC has been ruined by Sabin's success. If you can't beat him you will be fired. If you can beat him, you may still be fired. Malzahn beat him 3 times! We play them and don't even have to, so however many games we play, we start every single year with a loss that also contributes to other losses because of the injuries caused by said juggernaut. No shame in that as everybody else can pretty much say same, but every potential coach also sees this and probably thinks no way in hell am I interested in a job where there are 3 or 4 guaranteed losses the first few years and our fan base! The other thing about Bama is the top recruits from outside a school's sphere of influence will go to another conference if they can't go to Bama because they want to be in the CPF. Ohio State, Clemson, Big 12 schools, even Pac 12. LSU has a lot of fans who become players and they happen to be great athletes. Florida has the same setup. We don't have squat as we've been losers to an entire generation. Our row to hoe is much tougher than other traditionally powerhouse schools at this current point in history. We're just going to have to be patient and give Pruitt or the next guy a longer time period. Fire Pruitt, hire somebody else, but if we do hire a big name and pay him 10 million a year and we're 8-5 most season's, then what? I don't want to be right, I want a Natty, but that Natty really set the bar high. Thing's will change and it's really gonna suck if we keep up this cycle with coaches. We will never be in a position to beat UF or UGA until we have a veteran coach and they get another rookie. It will happen, and it will happen because their fans are just like ours. In their case it will be the next level argument...can't wait for us to get there...looking like my life will be over by then.
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The top 6 high school players from this state just shunned us
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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How do you define “support”? Verbal? Financial? I think we see so many passionate responses on here because Ut fans are tired of seeing the chronic mismanagement of this program. Is it the goal of the football team to merely exist? No. It’s to compete for and win championships. That should be the standard for every P5 football program otherwise what’s the point? There doesn’t seem to be any commitment to either of those two things at UT right now.
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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I do support them and always will, no matter what. But that can't polish the turd that is the 2020 season, unfortunately.
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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I have earned my fan card over the last 20 years, what do you think we have been doing for the last 2 decades? It sure hasn't been just supporting a winning team that's for sure. I'll always support my beloved Vols but enough is enough!
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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As I've said elsewhere, the program is leaning toward becoming Missouri....... just happy to be in the SEC, collecting a nice check, not sucking too bad/not achieving that much, a mid-level P5 school that has a "good year or two" every now and then.

If you're good with that, then keep saying "Support the team and don't complain regardless of the level of the product." If you're good with that, knock yourself out being Missouri fan and dispassionate about the level of competition your team provides.

Why do others choose another path? We believe. We believe we can have better AND we believe we deserve better management and resources from the AD/administration to achieve better. We don't settle for inferior easily because we are UT and we aren't an inferior, second tier P5 program.

GBO means GO Big Orange, not ACCEPT WHATEVER Big Orange.
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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I watched every game from 2008-2016. That is a lot of suffering. In 2017 I decided I have other things that bring me enjoyment I could do on Saturdays instead of watching TN suck. I’m not switching teams or anything (in fact TN sucking makes all of CFB less interesting for me). I will turn the game on if I am around a TV. Until we are truly competitive again I won’t make a point of watching.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I agree with Pulaski.

There are days where I'd guesstimate the troll-to-real-Vol-fan ratio as high as 1:1 (50%). It's probably not really that high, just feels that way frequently. But whatever the actual ratio is, we know for a fact we have a lot of them.

Having said that, there are actual Vols fair-weather fans. I don't know why. It makes no sense to me. The only thing I can figure is that they dont really care about the program so much as they care about themselves and their fan pride (ability to talk smack around the water cooler at work, or even just the dopamine hits that come with winning). Since their loyalty is to themselves rather than the team, they'll turn as soon as the rewards stop flowing.

Sad reality that there are more than one or two of these in Volunteer country.


p.s. Not talking about nega-Vols. They remain faithful to the team even as they gripe and moan. By fair weather, I actually mean those who go off and start cheering for some other team, and won't come back until Tennessee is playing well again. IDK if that's how you meant it, OP, but that's the version I was talking about.

p.p.s. Here's what I mean, separating those groups:

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That’s cute that you believe we’re relevant enough to troll. That’s like trolling Vandy now.
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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I can’t believe I read this post. That’s a dangerous road to take Noggin. I don’t agree with everyone on this site BUT, they ALL are ALL in! No questions there.
 
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Noggin said:
Why do so many fans have to be fair weather fans and only support a program when they are winning? I think if you are a VFL you will support this team and program no matter how many games they win.
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It's been 12+ years since we've done anything of relevance and honestly it's getting extremely old watching us look like a high school team.
 
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