Goodness, that Tennessee fan base is one beat down group. Not that they don’t have their reasons for it.
“I probably shouldn’t say this,” began the 59-year-old Miller as she and her husband Norman entered Neyland Stadium on Saturday morning for the Volunteers’ first public practice under new coach Josh Heupel. “But I’ve got four kids and a bunch of grandkids, and the night we won the national championship is the happiest day of my life.”
There haven’t been a lot of happy days for any member of the Big Orange Nation over the past decade or so. The arrival of Heupel in January after UT brass fired Jeremy Pruitt for alleged NCAA violations marked the fifth Vols head coach since Phillip Fulmer — who won that aforementioned natty to cap the 1998 season — was let go near the end of the 2008 season.
“I remember them all,” Angie said. “I got on that Lane (Kiffin) Train. That was a joke. Then (Derek) Dooley. Then the whole ‘Brick by Brick’ thing (Butch Jones). Then this last guy. The last couple of years you could just see the desire go out of the kids on the sideline. You need a leader, and they haven’t had one.”
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“But I’ve got four kids and a bunch of grandkids, and the night we won the national championship is the happiest day of my life.”
This is the shittiest thing I’ve ever read.
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No freakin’ kidding. If the happiest day of your life invovles something that you had no input on or control over….I simply don’t know what to say.
This is why, as I age, I care less and less about sports and more about things that directly impact me (family, career, hobbies, etc.)
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If I hit $150M powerball it might be the happiest day of my life, with no input or control over, lol.
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You’re literally comparing apples to space shuttles. Winning 150m – and what you can then do with said monies – is a far cry from a UGA Saturday night win over, say, South Carolina.
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lighten up dude. its just joshing.
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Agree, sad.
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I repeat my sentiments about Tennessee. Other SEC schools suffering from long term mediocrity have fundamental problems the school can’t help, primarily low state population* and recruiting base. Tennessee is the glaring example of mediocrity caused by long term mismanagement. It ought to be better. Not that I’m hoping for that.
*In Alabama, everything is rigged for Tahd Football. Alabama and Auburn have a thieves agreement not to rat each other out as long as Auburn doesn’t get too uppity.
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Tennessee also has a recruiting base problem. GA, NC, SC are closed off from them. They can’t recruit nationally now bc they suck. They are in BFE East Tennessee.
They basically are where they should be when UGA, Clemson, UNC, Alabama, and Ole Miss aren’t shitting the bed.
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In other words, this isn’t shaping out to be a good century for the Vlols
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Basically. It isn’t the 90s anymore. Give fat man credit: he made hay while the sun was shining. But those days are over.
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NC is closed off? Because all the NC schools are so good?
Mainly it was shutting down the Atlanta pipeline, as we all know, that caused their talent well to dry up. The rise of Alabama had something to do with that too.
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No, bc TN used to raid the Carolinas just like they did Georgia. It has nothing to do with the NC schools being good. It has to do with Clemson and UNC getting the kids that Tennessee used to.
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And Georgia too.
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Yup. Richt closing off that Atlanta pipeline was the fatal blow.
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Never mind the Carolinas, Dabo has put a knife in them with TN kids as badly as we have. Back in Fulmer times, Trevor Lawrence, Tee Higgins, and Amari Rodgers would have likely been Vol locks. Swinney’s run up the ladder started with former Vol commit Tajh Boyd at QB.
Everybody has money, facilities, and television contracts so TN doesn’t really have anything to sell that kids can’t get elsewhere.
Location, Location, Location
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The NC schools are better than UT.
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Correct. There is not enough talent in tenn alone. And the top talent is being poached annually by the successful schools nearby.
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“Then this last guy.” Damn, he can’t even be bothered to mention Pruitt by name. At least he remembered Butch’s catch phrase.
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Angie made that statement.
That’s even worse considering the remark about the happiest day of her life.
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Wow, I guess I skimmed right over that part. I thought it was the husband saying that. I stand corrected. Double damn.
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I’m guessing Mr. Angie doesn’t wear the urnge pants in that family.
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Easy to do because the statement did sound like it would have been made by a male. (If anyone thinks that’s sexist of me, IDRC).
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Get ready josh, she don’t even know you exist…unless you got a 5 star brick in your pocket…
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They are so deserving of all the shit they are in and all the shit coming their way. Ha fucking ha. FTMF
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Those disgusting inbred, butt chugging, fool ass dirtbags celebrated Chubb’s injury.
Zero Bad Word Sympathy for them, ever
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Took the dumbest fan base of the SEC title away from South Carolina a couple of years back and show no sign of giving it up anytime soon.
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It’s been a while:
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Hey man, help a brother out with directions on posting an actual video instead of a link.
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I use the WordPress mobile app for reading and commenting. I assume the WordPress editor knows what to do when it sees the file type.
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C&P the video URL right into the reply box…
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“The Soft Parade” is such a great Doors deep cut; I love it.
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Agreed.
‘All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say
Somehow to defend this place
Everything must be this way
Everything must be this way, yeah
The Soft Parade has now begun
Listen to the engines hum
People out to have some fun
A cobra on my left
Leopard on my right, yeah!’
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“A cobra on my left
Leopard on my right”
A precursor to clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, then this last guy
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The misery of Nothing Sucks Like a Big Orange Nation will never be anything but hilarious to me.
I want MOAHR!!!!
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They say that college football is more fun when Tennessee is good. But damned if I’m not still managing to have fun somehow with them being terrible.
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It’s at it’s best when UGA is good IMO.
CFB can live without Tennessee, thanks.
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‘They’ are wrong. Better this way.
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not to mention all the AD’s. Would have been better off to have stuck with Fulmer as a coach….would have saved them some money too.
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FTMF2
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I like that, DD!
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I can’t argue with Dave. I do love to see it.
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LOL. Vols.
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May the Bird of Paradise fly up Huepel’s nose.
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hmm..spelled his name wrong. It’s “e before u except after q”.
May the Bird of Paradise flu up Heupel’s nose.
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And let us not forget:
Through all this misery, THIS is where Nine-Fingered Daddy wanted Baby Mays to be.
Couldn’t have happened to a better family.
The schadenfreude is real, folks. Real AND spectacular.
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He could have been a starting lineman for a team with rings this year. Heck, he may could have really locked down LT maybe even, and we needed him. So, no, I don’t feel bad. lol
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