Can Georgia fans really checker Neyland Stadium red and black? Jeremy Pruitt doesn't think so
The Tennessee program has reached record lows in recent seasons, there’s no denying that fact.
However, as bad as some of the football has been on Rocky Top over the last decade, the Tennesee fan base has never given up on their Vols and continue to support their program as it struggles to get off the mat.
Tennessee is facing a monumental challenge this weekend as No. 3 Georgia comes to town looking to improve to 5-0 on the season. The point spread is well over 20 points early in the week and no one will likely be predicting Tennessee to pull off the upset come Saturday.
Things are so bad on the surface that some Bulldog fans are trying to rally support to checker Neyland Stadium. Not orange and white, as has been done in previous seasons, but red and black for a Bulldog invasion this weekend.
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Pruitt was asked two questions by one reporter with the second question regarding the attempt by some Georgia fans to checker Neyland Stadium red and black Saturday night.
“I have a hard time believing that – that other question you asked me – would happen,” Pruitt responded to the thought that Georgia could even accomplish such a feat in Neyland Stadium.
Have things really gotten so bad on Rocky Top that opposing fans can come into General Neyland’s house and checker the stadium? That’s doubtful. If anything, this move will only encourage more Tennessee fans to show up louder and prouder on Saturday night in the hopes of rooting their school into a monumental upset.
No. Sure if I was an opposing fan base I would probably troll too. There still is one thing that is just about always true the worst games in Neyland still draw more people than the best game at Sanford. Even though TN fans are currently jaded they still show up.
You haven’t been paying attention lately have you?
I don’t think you have. We stick by our team thru good and bad. Unlike most fanbases.
Y’all haven’t even started scratching the surface bud.
Uga has sold out every game but 1 since 2001. Tennessee hasnt sold out their season a single time in that period. Most years they sell out 1 or 2 games tops. Last year none. This year none.
So whos fan base isnt showing up?
Lol so because you sellout your cracker jack box that makes you more loyal?? Look at our seasons since 2001 and look at yours. We have had more down times than up and yet we still are one of the top revenue schools in the country. No other school with such a long down time can say the same.
Dawgs are coming to town. We’re gonna own Neyland after this week just like Bama does in October. Going to change the stadium name from Neyland to Sanford North… #DAWGSONTOP
Haha, whatever nerd.
And you spelled dogs incorrectly.
Nerd.
Dawgs will kick the Vawls
@volzdeep22…very true, Neyland holds 100,000 plus and Sanford holds just under 93,000. Although at the end of Butch Jones era, a lot of empty seats. Vol nation is very proud and will show up when called upon. Expect Big Orange to show out Programs go through cycles and amazed at how the Vols are still caught in serious down cycle. Love it! Go Dawgs.
Yo you been watching the games this season bro?
Attendance in 2018. Virtually identical except Ga was 100% capacity. Tenn about 90%.
Ga fans had 100% better time, too
8.Tennessee 7 650,887 92,984
9. Georgia 7 649,222 92,746
You are smoking some special kind of crack if you honestly believe that. You guys NEVER sell out, maybe twice a year.
As goodgodafresman put it … “Uga has sold out every game but 1 since 2001. Tennessee hasnt sold out their season a single time in that period. Most years they sell out 1 or 2 games tops. Last year none. This year none. So whos fan base isnt showing up?”
No one travels better than Georgia fans.
If Tennessee fans are putting their tickets up for sale because they can’t stand the thought of watching another Bulldog beatdown of their sorry team in their own stadium, DawgNation will buy those tickets.
Will it be like Vandy on opening weekend, where 90% of the people in the stands were Dawg fans? No, likely not, but could 20-30K of those 100K seats be filled with Bulldog fans?
I think that’s a definite possibility.
Our community will gladly take your money.
And we’ll take your self-respect.
Haha, its already long gone buddy.
But we’ll still take your money.
I love capitalism.
Ok . Who are you and where is the real ransom note writing Corch? He may be an idiot but he is our idiot. Bring him back and his f d up keyboard too.
:-)
We’re doing our part. Black t-shirts for me and the fam!
If Georgia is better than Georgia State we are in trouble.
@ jtw1984…Vols are in trouble as Dawgs are better that GA State! However, I expect the Vols to put up a good fight…these coaching staffs are very close. I could easily see a 28- 17 score line.
I just spit coke out my nose! Thanks jtw
One thing for sure, UGA will checker that cow field of a playing by surface hillbillies.
And yes, UGA fans will take over Neyland. Just like we did in 2017 when thousands of Dawg fans sang Rocky top after the game.
… of a playing surface with hillbillies.
Maybe try harder next time.
Sounds like what the Georgia St coach told Pruitt after the game. Or was it the BYU coach?
For someone whose username is “lesstalkmorevol” you sure do talk a bunch of crap.
KirbyShart understands irony
Maybe you should stick to barking at children. English obviously isn’t your thing.
So, the butt hurt doesn’t diminish after all those loses, that’s got to sux
Yo War Dog, you need a towel, dumbass is dribbling all down your chin. Fact is UT and UGA are all tied up over their entire history. If you keep your yapp shut no one will know just how ignorant you really are. Facts hurt, huh? Now be a good dog and go fetch my slippers
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Butch Jones
How does it feel to be the first SEC team to lose to GEORGIA STATE. Georgia State just starting playing football 9-10 years ago – now they own UT.
What is Vandy going for this season – is it 4 in a row against UT????
Now those are some facts.
Talk to me Monday hillbilly.
Good grief what a stupid suggestion. How in the world could ga checker neyland. maybe they can checker the corner of the end zone they will have. I expect they will have more fans than normal, buying some disgruntled fans tickets but if you think they will have 20-30000 there then you are dumb as the ga idiot who said that.
fellow vol posters trying to have rational conversations with idiots like corch, doggiewars, uglyarmy and all the other uga trolls is a waste of time,. they only know one way to post and that is with trolling insulting posts. they do it to everyone. there are a few rational posters but they are few and far between on SDS.
Awe, somebody needs their diapher changed.
That’s rich considering you post your fair share of insults
Only to a$$-wipe trolls like you.
I just graduated from UT in August. I lived through a 4-8 season where there was a torrential downpour against LSU and the crowd still stood firm. We put 85,000 in the seats against an FCS team after starting 0-2. Georgia won’t be able to fill the stadium. Its 102,455 seats of die hard fans living through the worst 10 years in the history of the program. Those people are crazy and there is no quit in crazy
But even if Georgia has the numbers they won’t be smart enough to organize checkering it.
Night games in Neyland are special even if the team stinks. I am driving 6 hours and finishing up my law school work half a week in advance just to be in the stadium for it. There is no shot that Georgia pulls it off. But they will still win the game 60-3