from VolFanHenry in the 2nd half when Baker was making them miss:
"sweet baby Tebow they cannot tackle"
"sweet baby Tebow they cannot tackle"
My favorite comment tonight from VolNation...
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and from NorthDallas40:
"Wow that was a gift on the no fumball call.
Hearing that damn Boomer Sooner way too much right now"
"Wow that was a gift on the no fumball call.
Hearing that damn Boomer Sooner way too much right now"
and from armchair:
"our offensive line is being destroyed. Throw short passes. You can't lose yardage on first down! We have squandered great field position all night."
"our offensive line is being destroyed. Throw short passes. You can't lose yardage on first down! We have squandered great field position all night."
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You're quite right...I don't recall any Sooner team in 40 years so beset with bad field position for pretty much an entire game, come back from 17 points down and win in such an unexpected, uncanny way as this 2015 team did against Tennessee.
We may not see that again for a long damn time.
If it is a long damn time, that's fine with me...geez, brutal.
On the subject of checkering the stadium....
Vol poster commented, yeah we were playing checkers the Sooners played chess in the 4th quarter.
Disclaimer: May not be the exact words.......
Vol poster commented, yeah we were playing checkers the Sooners played chess in the 4th quarter.
Disclaimer: May not be the exact words.......
On the subject of checkering the stadium....
Vol poster commented, yeah we were playing checkers the Sooners played chess in the 4th quarter.
Disclaimer: May not be the exact words.......
Ha ha that is funny, I give them credit on the stadium done in checkers, too bad we were playing chess in the 4th and figured out how to win. Reading some of their posts they are really upset with that loss. Better them than us.
I have posted this on another thread, so please excuse the repetitious rhetoric, but its just too good. My favorite Vol comment was texted to me immediately after the game from my good friend and Vol fan in response to my "Great game" text I sent to him. "Felt when we didn't go for the TD in the first quarter (our) coach blew it". Really. That's the reason Tennessee lost! I LMAO for about an hour without responding. I guess Tennessee's play, or for that matter, OU's defensive play during the entire second half wasn't a factor. I will give him a pass since he was at the game and was probably still in shock. But it's still funny.
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For all the visual highlights respective to the checkerboard effect that stadium is a dump. They need a major renovation project. The ingress/egress is terrible as are the concessions and restrooms. Your packed in like a sardine, not just from side to side but front to back. There audio/ visual presentation is very amateurish and something I have never seen before....while we are at Tha LOS the PA announcer would be repeatedly announcing the down and distance while Mayfield called signals.
I read this on another board. Apparently they pipe in a bass drum? sound until the last second, then the announcer took over with what you mentioned. makes the win even sweeter..........
BTW, the pre-game showed a couple of house boats flying the OU flag. They were parked on the river side by side. Would that have been you?
My oldest sister went to a game there a few years back and compared it to a rickety old wooden rollercoaster.
We were the third houseboat in. There were 5 lined up there, along with a 100 or so cabin cruisers. The first three right to left had Sooners, including us in #3. The last 2 right to left were Vol fans. That whole area where the boats are tied off next to each other is simply one big cocktail party with people hopping from boat to boat. The stadium is just to the right of that photo shot in the background.......about a 100 yds away. We were treated extremely well and Knoxville is beautiful. I didn't get to see much of the campus but what I saw made me think of A&M or UT-Austin. More like a downtown full of buildings rather than a college campus feel. The fan base was really up for this game and it was a devastating loss for them. we were treated royally and a cool front came so it was perfect football weather. it actually was down in the 50's at the end of the game.
The favorite quote I read was "Mayfield must have vasoline on his ankles, nobody can bring him down!"
The comments about the stadium, jumbotron, announcer, etc., are all accurate, I'm sad to say.
The gameday experience in Knoxville is great -- until you have to sit in the stadium. It is an extremely difficult place to watch a game. Very uncomfortable. I usually stay until the band plays at halftime, and then we leave. There are some sections that are more comfortable than others, but most of the stadium is terrible. I think seats average 17 inches wide. Ridiculous. Someone said that Michigan's are smaller, but they probably have more knee room at least. The north end zone upper seating has individual seats, as does the upper side on the west section. Other than these sections and the luxury boxes, it is bad.
Most people hate that jumbotron and all of the crap they run on it. It is embarrassing. But you give something like to the geniuses in the SID, and this is what you get. You would think we'd have someone with some class overseeing the production, but we don't.
I wish I could argue this, but I can't. I've been saying the same thing forever on our boards. Does no good. "The kids like it," is the response. We have sold our souls to get the kids. Our problem at Tennessee is we have no good leadership. From the U president, to the trustees, and on down, everybody is gutless.
P.S.: The stadium is in the process of being renovated. Part of that includes improving the moving of people in and out. We'll see how that works. Another part should be widening seats, but that will not happen as long as people are buying tickets.
Also, since we gave the concessions contract to Sodexo, prices have gone up and quality has gone down. Which the U could not care less about.
One more P.S.: How do they do the jumbotron at your stadium? Is the seating comfortable? What are some good things and bad things?
The gameday experience in Knoxville is great -- until you have to sit in the stadium. It is an extremely difficult place to watch a game. Very uncomfortable. I usually stay until the band plays at halftime, and then we leave. There are some sections that are more comfortable than others, but most of the stadium is terrible. I think seats average 17 inches wide. Ridiculous. Someone said that Michigan's are smaller, but they probably have more knee room at least. The north end zone upper seating has individual seats, as does the upper side on the west section. Other than these sections and the luxury boxes, it is bad.
Most people hate that jumbotron and all of the crap they run on it. It is embarrassing. But you give something like to the geniuses in the SID, and this is what you get. You would think we'd have someone with some class overseeing the production, but we don't.
I wish I could argue this, but I can't. I've been saying the same thing forever on our boards. Does no good. "The kids like it," is the response. We have sold our souls to get the kids. Our problem at Tennessee is we have no good leadership. From the U president, to the trustees, and on down, everybody is gutless.
P.S.: The stadium is in the process of being renovated. Part of that includes improving the moving of people in and out. We'll see how that works. Another part should be widening seats, but that will not happen as long as people are buying tickets.
Also, since we gave the concessions contract to Sodexo, prices have gone up and quality has gone down. Which the U could not care less about.
One more P.S.: How do they do the jumbotron at your stadium? Is the seating comfortable? What are some good things and bad things?
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