Monday, November 21, 2011
Sports Locker Room Trash Talk: Vols Celebrate Victory over Vandy
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Derek Dooley: "The one thing Tennessee always does is kick the shit out of Vanderbilt."
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Same old Vandy.
Same old Vandy.
Same old Vandy.
Same old Vandy.
Sorry, Coach. Sorry you were brought here under the false pretense of thinking you could ever get the support or resources you would need to make Vanderbilt competitive in football. Or that they can ever overcome their inferiority-instilled complex that has led to their never-to-be-overcome compulsion to lose on the field. Sorry that you are headed to the same dustheap of coaching history that has claimed so many Vanderbilt head coaches before you (not one of whom, not one, who has been a success in Nashville or anywhere else in coaching football.) I will seek you out in a few years, when you are selling aluminum blinds or insurance or cars, and buy something from you. And I truly am sorry for you.
Same old Vandy.
Same old Vandy.
Same old Vandy.
Same old Vandy.
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Not competitive? Wasn't this game fought to the death in overtime? And I'd hardly call the Vols' near-miss with hell freezing over "kicking the shit out of Vanderbilt."
I'm a Vols fan, but I respect Coach Franklin. Fact is, he has his team playing really hard this year and against common opponents, Vanderbilt has played a hell of a lot better than Tennessee has. The question has been asked, has the Tennessee program fallen so far that a victory over Vanderbilt calls for a championship-like celebration? The answer is yes. Yes, it has. First conference victory this year, victory over an in-state rival, and a victory over a team that quite frankly is better than the Vols this year? Sure, that is a cause for celebration. It's been a tough year for ol' Derek Dooley.
I'd say "act like you've been there before" but seeing as this is UT's first SEC victory this season, that'd be asking a bit much.
As Dooley says, that team "grew up" after an OT victory over Vandy. Proud moment for all Vols fans, I'm sure.
I think it's curious that Vanderbilt fans are mocking the fact that UT is celebrating this win. It's almost as if to say "Wow, our team sucks, of course you should have won." Because I'm sure if Vandy would have come out on top over one of the worst Tennessee teams in 25 years, they would not have cheered at all.
Ryan,
I'm not a Vandy fan. And I'm sure Vandy would have celebrated a victory over UT. I thought your first comment was perfectly reasonable, so I'm surprised to see you implying that UT's victory is equal to a hypothetical Vandy victory as an achievement. Unless you're saying that this is a rivalry between two equal programs. If that's the case, then I'd say UT should probably start giving a damn about the whole school of Vanderbilt.
Wow! What a great win for an up-and-coming program!!!! Look out SEC bottomdwellers-- UT is catching up fast!!!!
We barely accomplished something that should have come easily to us! Woo-hoo!
I thought UT fans and coaches didn't consider Vanderbilt to be a rivalry game.
IF both Tennessee and Vanderbilt win this coming Saturday AND both end up with 6-6 records making them bowl-eligible, THEN how about a rematch at the Music City Bowl? There would not be an empty seat in the stadium.
How about it, Music City mavens? If you have to, call UT an ACC team for this bowl game (since they play like one). Or call Vandy an ACC team (since they educate like two of 'em -- Duke and UNC.)
Do whatever you need to do to achieve a rematch. THAT would be worth seeing (as would both locker rooms after the game.)
If there's anything Derek Dooley knows about, it's shit. He looks at a pile of it every morning in the mirror.
I am clearly in the minority, but this leaked footage from a football locker room does not shock me. The ballyhoo that has taken shape as a reaction is much overblown.
Vandy fans should not be sore that a program that didn't think twice about them for the entire modern era is legitimately excited to procure a win against them at home. Franklin and kids handed this one to the Vols in spectacular SOV fashion and one can assume that VU will bring better squads in the future than the 2-10 team Franklin inherited and turned around in 2011. The man is changing the losing culture at VU and this video is actually evidence of that. Get revenge in Nashville in 2012.
Vols fans can choose to view this as a low mark in the trough of the Vols trajectory [I'll hold out until after next week's potential shaming] but this is hands down the biggest victory in Dooley's career [pause]. Vandy was favored and had the better team; the Tennessee kids and their still-unproven coach deserved the right to celebrate. None of them were in Knoxville for the countless molliwhoppings former Vols gave former Dores. I'm sure nobody expected the footage to be leaked and they regret it getting out as it gives credit to Vanderbilt as worthy rivals. I promise that Dooley regrets his opinion going public that a poorly played, skin-of-the-teeth, overtime win is tantamount to "kick[ing] the shit" out of an opponent.
I'm not sure if the reaction to this is more evidence of a hyper-sensitive fanbase or naivete of the nature of conversation that often occurs in football locker rooms.
Y'all do know that this song is a tradition in the Tennessee locker room? I saw video with Peyton's teams in the 90s singing this after beating Alabama, Auburn, and Kentucky. The team won as underdogs in an exciting game on senior day.
Two new coaches struggling for identity, one bragging and one whining
and screaming the familiar "wait till next yr."! Haven't we all heard this
before on many occasions? One coach had nothing to brag about and
the other shouldn't be so thin skinned to be whining or mad about!
