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5 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

From what I recall in having attended Vol tailgates and games for 10+ years...

Georgia fans were the worst.

South Carolina fans were, by far, the best.

Vol fans are pretty cool UNLESS you mention Texas.  They are somehow absolutely obsessed with the "real UT" thing.  Which is weird, because I never, not once, thought about them until I moved to Knoxville.

Kentucky football fans - kind of cool.  KY basketball fans, not so much.

Florida fans were pretty cool if only for the fact that they drove my Vol friends crazy.  I was up there when the Gators beat TN just about every year.

I don't recall much about the MIssissippi teams.  I'll give them a pass due to Kiffin and Leach.

I'm not sure I ever met a Vandy fan.  That's Nate Bargatze's school/team, so they're cool in my book.

Arky fans were terrible.  You know it's bad when Vol fans are making fun of the "hillbillies".

Almost forgot.  Aggy did play there before they joined the SEC.  It was funny because I warned my Vol friends about them, and they didn't disappoint.  Effing idiots walking up and down The Strip, wearing those stupid ass overalls, yelling and whooping.  My friends were all, "Ok, we'll root for the Longhorns after this."

Pretty much tracks with my own personal experience. Vandy fans are largely harmless and fine to be around, but they have an unearned entitlement which is odd but I think it comes from the academic aspect. They remind me a bit of a much more sedate CU fan, who are insufferable when their team is good. Trojan Fans are also in this pool to a lesser degree.

The "real" UT isn't limited to just Vols, but they do own it. SEC t-Shirt fans that don't have an overwhelming allegiance think that way in Tennessee. 

Auburn fans care about one thing, do you hate Bama? "Yes, then we're cool." They don't like Georgia either and Tennessee is not well received, but those are all very secondary. That's a proximity and good historical performance issue I believe.

I mentioned it in the Tailgate thread but Kentucky fans are largely cool and pretty whatever when it comes to Texas outside of Basketball where they hate Louisville (in all things) and generally despise everyone else. 

Mississippi State is weird. They just seem to dislike everyone and hate Old Miss. 

I have only know a couple of SC folks, they are very cool and don't seem to have a particular feeling either way about Texas. 

Broadly speaking, Georgia fans are the worst. 

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5 hours ago, Park Gothic said:

I lived in the SE for a long time and agree on all points, except I always thought Vandy fans kinda sucked. Real “ooh, sportsball” types. But they wouldn’t harass you or anything. 

Also, MSU fans fucking suck. Just angry about everything. Starkville has strong Lubbock vibes in terms of people walking around with a chip on their shoulder. 

HAH! Didn't see this post prior to mine. We seem to be on nearly the exact same page. 

It's killing me that my impression of MSU nearly mirrors yours. I had never made the Tech comparison, it's a good one.

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37 minutes ago, sith_horn said:

That was then. What about now that the evil empire has invaded the SEC galaxy and negative propaganda is at full throttle?

Feels like Texas and Tenn have a fun little rivalry over Orange/real UT and they have our former basketball coach and we have their former soccer coach. A lot of mutual respect from the long storied WBB rivalry between Jody and Pat.

Def don’t hate Tenn as much as LSU, aggy, OU, Arky, Georgia 

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The Tennessee grads I know absolutely do the "Real" UT thing, and a better than you attitude. That said, there really isn't hate. Tennessee can't stand Arkansas folk, similar to Texas. They think Aggie is really weird. Mostly there isn't much antimosity towards Texas, but we haven't played the in football yet.. so...

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1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

 

Broadly speaking, Georgia fans are the worst. 

When did this start? It feels like it coincided with the "SEC SEC SEC" banner waving idiots and they took it to 11 with the arrogance of a team that hadn't won shit since the 80s whilst having their chest out SEC annoyance normally reserved for aggies. 

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2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Feels like Texas and Tenn have a fun little rivalry over Orange/real UT and they have our former basketball coach and we have their former soccer coach. A lot of mutual respect from the long storied WBB rivalry between Jody and Pat.

Def don’t hate Tenn as much as LSU, aggy, OU, Arky, Georgia 

I have never thought about Tennessee when I'm not actively watching them on TV, which makes the "real UT" thing feel odd. Nice enough people when I've met them at social functions.

28 minutes ago, Butch Had Not said:

When did this start? It feels like it coincided with the "SEC SEC SEC" banner waving idiots and they took it to 11 with the arrogance of a team that hadn't won shit since the 80s whilst having their chest out SEC annoyance normally reserved for aggies. 

Their alums are mostly fine but the t-shirt fans are a problem. Same crowd as the Lakers/Yankees/Duke/Bama people.

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We may get more hate from Tennessee fans if Sark can get Marshall Manning to come play for us.  
 

Speaking of which, someone start the class of 2030 thread.

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42 minutes ago, texifornia said:

I have never thought about Tennessee when I'm not actively watching them on TV, which makes the "real UT" thing feel odd. Nice enough people when I've met them at social functions.

Their alums are mostly fine but the t-shirt fans are a problem. Same crowd as the Raiders/OSU/ND/Bama people.

Slight fix for more football specific examples but yeah... I will say Georgia grads are also annoying just not to the Tshirt fan level.

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wut? why do they have any sense of entitlement to a manning?

they already got one

the family is nawlins

dad was klan

if anything klan and corndog have state/legacy dibs on mannings

sds article from 16:

Spoiler

 saturdaydownsouth.com
How Peyton Manning came to choose Tennessee over Ole Miss
Chris Wuensch
5–6 minutes

The final moments of Super Bowl 50 are winding down and, some 2,500 miles east of Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium, the town of Knoxville kicks its celebration up a notch. Adopted son Peyton Manning has just won another Super Bowl.

Vol for life.

Manning finally won another “big one” in what will likely be his final game as the Denver Broncos dismantled Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers between Super Bowl commercials. It’s a fitting end for the NFL’s all-time passing leader, if indeed he’s pulled off the pads for the last time.

Manning is still very much revered in the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, thanks to a seismic decision he made as a senior at New Orleans Isidore Newman High School. Rather than follow in father Archie’s legendary giant footsteps at Ole Miss, Manning was heading to Tennessee.

That Archie and Peyton’s homecoming-queen mother were both Ole Miss royalty made the choice all the more bewildering to those on the outside of the decision looking on with a skeptical, if not critical, eye.

Michigan and Florida also unsuccessfully courted the services of Manning. The Gators repaid him by beating him all four years he was at Rocky Top, thus planting the first seeds of the doubt that Manning “couldn’t win the big game.” He disproved that theory in Super Bowl 50, as well as in Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears.

Michigan, not Tennessee nor Ole Miss, was a strong contender for Manning early on in the recruiting process.

“At one time I thought he was going to Michigan,” Archie Manning said via MassLive.com — who shared a charming story about how Manning would kick out the rock that held open the locked door to the UT football facilities, locking out Branndon Stewart, the other freshman Peyton was competing with for the Vols’ job.

“I thought the Ole Miss thing was weighing really heavy on him, and he’s thinking, ‘Alright, if I don’t go to Ole Miss, I don’t want to play against Ole Miss,” Archie continued. “I’m getting away from the whole thing.’ And I really think (Michigan) was his getaway. At some point, the (Tennessee) coaches convinced him or he convinced himself that by going to the other side of the conference, he wouldn’t have to play (Ole Miss) every year.”

Cam Cameron was a big factor in Manning’s proclivity toward signing with the Wolverines, but when the offensive coordinator split for the NFL’s Washington Redskins, an opening was created for David Cutcliffe at Tennessee — whom Manning was also particularly fond of. Eventually, the new staff at Michigan had other quarterbacks, including a year later adding a kid from Junípero Serra (Calif.) High School named Tom Brady.

Manning’s famous meticulous nature wasn’t something that developed in college or later in life with maturation. The quarterback is famous for organizing his peers from the 1994 recruiting class in a network — which included Hines Ward of Forest Park, Ga.— of fellow recruits who could share notes and thoughts on the often-times grueling, fast-paced process.
Eventually, Manning became comfortable with his choice.

Manning was unrefined at first at Tennessee, but his famous preparation stood out from the onset and any rawness quickly went out the window. When starting quarterback Jerry Colquitt and back-up Todd Helton went down with injuries, Manning had an opening as a freshman.

The irony being that one of the reasons why he chose the Vols was because he could absorb the offense as a freshman and learn, according to knoxnews.com. Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer also gave Stewart a look under center, but it was Manning who finished his freshman season in 1994 with a team-high 1,141 yards and 11 touchdowns.

He finished his career in Tennessee with 11,201 passing yards, 89 touchdowns and just about every passing record in Vols history. Manning also guided the Volunteers to their first SEC title in the divisional age. The success spilled over into a Hall of Fame career that now appears to be coming to a close.

Manning goes out on top playing for Denver Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak, a man that Manning also spurned on the recruiting trail in 1994 when the coach was at Texas A&M. Some 21 years later, Kubiak finally got his man.

 

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Kind of weird.  My wife attended TN when Peyton was QB; my son begins his college career at Texas in 2 weeks w/ Arch as the QB.

I think TN not having a viable QB is kind of funny considering almost every one of them called the Nico/Aguilar trade a win.  

@texifornia hit the nail on the head.  Most of the SEC grads are actually pretty cool.  In not having a plethora of professional sports in the SE, a lot of folks tied themselves to the state college team.  Those are the fuckwads.

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1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

The Tennessee grads I know absolutely do the "Real" UT thing, and a better than you attitude. That said, there really isn't hate. Tennessee can't stand Arkansas folk, similar to Texas. They think Aggie is really weird. Mostly there isn't much antimosity towards Texas, but we haven't played the in football yet.. so...

Tennessee fans have a bizarre inferiority complex about their school when it comes to Texas. When I am in Tennessee with UT hat or shirt on, inevitably people feel compelled to come up to me and tell they’re “the real UT”. I just look at them and say “good for you”, which usually causes them to look bewildered and move on. It happens multiple times, every time I am there. I’ve had it happen in other parts of the south as well. 

Has anyone here ever walked up to a Tennessee fan and told them anything similar? I’ve never heard of such. 

They may not hate us now, but I assume they’ll be on the schedule next year. They’ll hate us plenty by then. 

1 hour ago, Butch Had Not said:

When did this start? It feels like it coincided with the "SEC SEC SEC" banner waving idiots and they took it to 11 with the arrogance of a team that hadn't won shit since the 80s whilst having their chest out SEC annoyance normally reserved for aggies. 

I started disliking Georgia fans after the 2019 Sugar Bowl when throngs of them felt the need to tell any UT fan who would listen while walking out of the stadium or at the hotel that the Georgia team just didn’t want to be there. I’ve gotten to where I realize them after paying more attention since then. Talk about nouveau riche trash who got there in the dirtiest way possible and act like they’re the only ones who have earned anything. 

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4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Tennessee fans have a bizarre inferiority complex about their school when it comes to Texas. When I am in Tennessee with UT hat or shirt on, inevitably people feel compelled to come up to me and tell they’re “the real UT”. I just look at them and say “good for you”, which usually causes them to look bewildered and move on. It happens multiple times, every time I am there. I’ve had it happen in other parts of the south as well. 

Has anyone here ever walked up to a Tennessee fan and told them anything similar? I’ve never heard of such. 

They may not hate us now, but I assume they’ll be on the schedule next year. They’ll hate us plenty by then. 

I started disliking Georgia fans after the 2019 Sugar Bowl when throngs of them felt the need to tell any UT fan who would listen while walking out of the stadium or at the hotel that the Georgia team just didn’t want to be there. I’ve gotten to where I realize them after paying more attention since then. Talk about nouveau riche trash who got there in the dirtiest way possible and act like they’re the only ones who have earned anything. 

Yeah an odd inferiority complex is a really good way to describe it. I don't always get "The Real" UT comment but I absolutely get some side eyes pretty frequently at places like the grocery store.

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When it comes to Tennessee and Georgia I don’t have as much fan reflux when it comes to the other UT for some reason. On the other hand, with regard to Georgia, the more shit they encounter the more satisfaction I experience. 

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