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Most Hated SEC Rival?
What SEC team do you love to hate, and why?
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Texas A&M...hahaha, jk. kinda
I'd have to go with Florida. For some reason I love to hate them. I watch them in hopes of seeing them lose.
It was Tennessee, Pearl and his orange blazer made me want to craw my eye out at times. Now that Bruce is gone I'm not sure. I like the rivalry with Florida and look forward to those games. Vandy gets my vote!
Yeah, now that Pearl is gone Tennessee will struggle. Their fans make it easy to hate them though.
Vandy easily my most hated followed by Fla. Mostly because of fans and Stallings. He should of been T'eed up and thrown out for grabbing the ball and not letting UK inbounds at the very least. Low down move for a coach IMO
I agree about Florida. I can't stand some of their fans. I don't mind Vandy that much, but like you, I can't stand Kevin Stallings either.Originally Posted by tcattn
TN hands down.... Their fans make them easy to hate. I know people say UK fans can be rough at times, but we have class when we need to lol. UT fans are downright mean, dirty and classless.
I agree with this.
A rival indicates someone on your level with similarqualifications, consistently competing for the same goal. While there are manyteams in the SEC that I can’t stand, Florida, Alabama, Vandy, and Tenn. I don’tthink there is one I would consider a real rival. While I am sure that many of thoseteams consider UK their rival. It’s hard to consider one team our rival in a conferencethat we have totally dominated.
I guess at best it changes from time to time depending onwho is giving us the most competition. Right now I guess that would Florida butI can’t stand the thought of considering them even close to being on the samelevel as the Cats. They have no tradition, no fan support and what fans they dohave are annoying not to mention have no clue about the game. So I refuse to givethem the pleasure of considering them a rival!
I'll go for Florida.
As a student at the University of Tennessee, I know the climate of what people in this region of the country think about its biggest rivals. When it comes to men's AND women's basketball, no doubt, it's Kentucky and Vanderbilt, and it's been that way for years. Ever since the days when Ray Mears coached here at UT in the 1960s and 1970s, coaches have traditionally worn the orange blazer during the Kentucky and Vanderbilt games; the tradition died after Mears was forced to resign due to medical reasons unless something weird happened and Don DeVoe wore the blazer during games, and was reinstituted by Bruce Pearl and now Cuonzo Martin.
You have to understand one thing: as much as Tennessee fans dislike Kentucky in basketball, it's small potatoes compared to the level of hatred for Alabama and Florida in football. For starters, the Alabama rivalry goes all the way back to the 1890s, and it became a nationally-significant game in 1927, when the Vols upset the Crimson Tide and won what was then the Southern Conference Championship on its way to a 9-0-1 record. The Florida rivalry is much more recent, as it started to heat up around early 1990s when Steve Spurrier took over the job and started running his mouth, plus Florida started beating the Vols pretty regularly.
Another thing, too, that Kentucky fans (of which I'm a proud Kentucky basketball fan) don't realize is that in the state of Tennessee, few people care about the game of basketball outside the city of Memphis. Here, it is all about football and women's basketball and what the head coach can do to beat Alabama and Florida in football and whether or not Pat Summitt is going to win another National Championship in women's basketball. Right now, the football program is hurting, and that has a lot of people around the area searching for answers and wondering what will be done to rectify the issue. Most people are calling for head coach Derek Dooley's head, and I'm one of them because he cannot recruit worth a s**t and his level of respect for his players is less than admirable. One of the UT football players is in my Geography lab class, and when he was asked about Derek Dooley, of whether he like him or not, he kind of gave the look that made people wonder if he really believed as a head coach. As a result of Dooley's poor handling of the team, Tennessee nearly lost to Vanderbilt and did lose to Kentucky, which infuriated me and most of Big Orange Country. If he doesn't win at least eight or night games in 2012, he won't have a job. The schedule is favorable; Alabama and Florida play here in Knoxville, and Georgia is not likely to be that good since Mark Richt is a total dimwit of a football coach.
But that's the gist of it. Even though Kentucky is Tennessee's biggest "rival" in men's basketball, it doesn't compare to what the rivalries in football are like simply because football is king in the state of Tennessee except for in the city of Memphis, which is why the University of Memphis always produces competitive basketball teams. In football, Tennessee considers Kentucky to be an also-ran on the schedule that was merely a formality that they suit up, go play the game, and come away with because for years, Kentucky's been a terrible football program. Now, Tennessee is as bad as Kentucky is in football, and it really leaves Big Orange Country at a loss for words when it comes to showing pride in the football program. After all, when Vanderbilt out-recruits Tennessee in football as they did this year according to some media outlets, you know something is up. Tennessee is a top ten football tradition, but right now, it's at the bottom of the food chain. The men's basketball team failed to make it to the NCAA Tournament this year for the first time in seven years, and women's basketball failed to advance to the Final Four. All in all, things are not good here, and I have never seen the university's athletic program outlook be so bleak as it is right now. Hopefully, something will change.
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