Tennessee fans embarrass themselves following tweet regarding Vols' interest in elite high school prospect
If you ever find yourself with your phone in your hands about to tweet something negative at a recruit, stop, reconsider your life, and delete that tweet.
A few Tennessee fans forgot that simple rule recently, when Tennessee’s 247Sports site tweeted that the school was giving 3-star 2020 OC Cooper Mays a lot of attention.
Mays, the younger brother of 2018 5-star OL Cade Mays, received a lot of negative feedback from the tweet. Cade, obviously, went to Georgia, spurning the school that his father played at under Phillip Fulmer:
Local OL, #Tennessee legacy @CooperMays getting attention from #Vols: (VIP) https://t.co/iKYFZn9wjQ via @GoVols247 pic.twitter.com/TPRdZrgfII
— Ryan Callahan (@RyanCallahan247) December 7, 2018
Per the 247Sports composite, Cooper Mays is the No. 5 center in the class of 2020 and the No. 20 overall recruit from the state of Tennessee.
The responses to the tweet were not a good look for Vol Nation, though it’s important to note that this seemingly is only a small portion of the fanbase:
Maybe the Dawgs could use him… pic.twitter.com/TEZRgjC5IJ
— 💀The_Punisher💀 (@punishment4real) December 7, 2018
Oh yeah for sure
— Cooper Mays (@CooperMays) December 7, 2018
— Big Daddy Vol (@daddy_vol) December 7, 2018
If he’s anything like his brother we don’t want him
— Drake Hickman (@HickmanDrake) December 7, 2018
— 🦅🇺🇸Vol Force One🍊🍊🚁 (@michael_parmley) December 7, 2018
Pretty sure his brother burned that legacy line
— Ryan Jennings (@Utrocky) December 8, 2018
No thanks
— Tyler West (@Brotylerwest) December 7, 2018
Mays is sure to have plenty of big-name schools that would love to have him, so we’ll see if this negative reaction from the Vols influences his decision. Perhaps he’ll join his brother at Georgia instead — Kirby Smart would be excited to have another Mays along the offensive line.
Generally these people are purged when the team sucks. No excuses for such stupidity and it’s embarrassing. I wish the best for this young man, regardless of where he lands. Not sure how this is newsworthy, Adam, but I guess you’ll include my well-wishes comment in the next article covering fans who said nice things? Oh wait-that article’s not clickbait. You’re Pulitzer material Adam! Don’t let anyone tell you any different.
“If you ever find yourself with your phone in your hands about to tweet something negative at a recruit, stop, reconsider your life, and delete that twee
If you’re “about” to tweet it, that insinuates you haven’t done it yet, so what’s there to delete?
Adam, your condescending elementary teacher tone is waning.
My Life “IS” tweeting at recruits!
You type out a stupid post. You re-read it and than hit send. The “about” to refers to hitting the send button. Type all you want but it isn’t a tweet or post until you send it. You should have read your post and realized it was wrong and not hit send. Thanks for the perfect example of what the writer was talking about.
Don’t worry Tennessee, he would never pick u anyway. So say what ever.
Please don’t compare us to your sex life…
Good one. That one hurt…
Tennessee fans embarrassing themselves is not breaking news. Stupidity runs deep and they all get it honest.
Ha ha! I’m sure Gator Nation just loves you representing them with your intelligent post. Oh by the way, why don’t you look at the recruiting rankings and see where the we stand compared to your gators.
You need to get a life and stop trying to put down everyone just because they don’t like your team. Do us all a favor and either stay on uf boards only or delete your profile and find a new hobby. Classless POS.
The brother is not nearly as good as the Traitor to his home. So it not a big deal if we don’t take him.
How is that embarrassing? His brother says Fu&k Tennessee and we are supposed to turn a blind eye and accept and hope he comes UT?
Cade showed immaturity that he’ll either have to overcome or he can enjoy his future as the next Richie Incognito. That being said-his brother has nothing to do with his actions and the best fan base in college football should continue to take the high road. Go Vols.
I see what you’re saying but I’m sure we can find another 3 star center that won’t pull our strings. To also say we are embarrassing ourselves is just a ridiculous statement. He spurned us for a in conference rival. I think we should be able to stick up for ourselves without so much backlash…
Yes-he’s not integral to UT’s future success but that’s beside the point. We should have higher class than a teenager. As stated earlier, the NFL garbage bin is stacked high with talented man children who couldn’t control their emotions. Adam makes a logical fallacy in that he’s saying this behavior is an indictment on the Vol nation, which it isn’t. He just has to rely on clickbait bc his writing is abysmal. I feel quite sorry for the man. Imagine getting a worthless journalism degeee from BLM U and realizing you’re so talentless that you have to write clickbait for a job. That you’ll never reach anywhere close to the top of your field. Must truly be a sad existence.
Problem is Ga isn’t taking many 3* so Cooper may not be an option there even if big brother is. Big brother is the one that there is NO LOVE LOST with. Coop should be able to write his own story and I for one would like to see him in a Vol uniform. Gatorboy14 is exactly that 14 teen ! GBO
Adam Spencer is another media idiot.
Who is embarrassed? I’m not. None of us are. We don’t want the guy. He sucks.
The media seems to want to keep TN at the bottom. Stick us with crap players. Suck it Spencer
Not sure how I feel… it is a FACT that his brother, and Father dissed his Home state, it’s people, and it’s flagship University in a really derogatory manner, in public… several times. This is not a case of choosing another out of state school, but the way he and his father did it is what I have a problem with. Personally I am very surprised the family still resides in this state, as they have nothing but disdain for the people here, and the state itself.
What did Cade’s dad do? I’m well aware of the video he shot, but not aware of anything the Dad did. Apart from maybe not disciplining his son, as evidenced by his behavior.
Other school’s fans faking Vol ties.