Vol Twitter strikes again: Peter Burns blames social media for Tennessee's troubles
There are plenty of reasons to go around to explain Tennessee’s struggles that have resulted in an 0-2 start. SEC Network host Peter Burns has identified social media as a main problem.
“I’m a huge golfer and one of the things about golf is committing to a shot and having positive thoughts,” Burns said Monday on SEC This Morning, according to 247 Sports. “All sports is a mental game. At this point, the Tennessee team has been kicked so many times while they’re down, from their fan base to people running idiotic social media mobs about the hiring search to where all of the sudden doubt starts to creep in.”
This is the Vols first 0-2 start since 1988, and Tennessee is 6-16 over its last 22 games. The Vols play Chattanooga on Saturday.
“It’s not, ‘Hey, we’re going to win this game.’ It’s ‘How are we going to lose this game?’ And that’s exactly what eventually happened (against BYU),” Burns said. “They’re playing prevent defense and there was this feeling amongst a lot of fans there like, ‘Hey listen, we’re bouncing back.’ I love the Vols fans. It sounded so loud in that crowd. They showed up with passion. But again, don’t underestimate all the trash talk that’s been done online.”
Burns also threw water on the theory that former coach and current athletics director Phil Fulmer would take over at some point this season.
“Jeremy Pruitt is going to be the coach this year and he’s going to at least be the coach until 2020,” Burns said. “Now after that, there’s a whole lot of work to be done. But putting all this stuff out there about Philip Fulmer taking the job, shut up. That does not to help this program. It does nothing to help this school or Jeremy Pruitt. If you haven’t learned your lesson about social media and what all this outside stupid noise can do to a program, every single college program should look at this as a case study as how all the social media garbage out there and see that it can virtually destroy a team from the inside.”
Yet another MORONIC take on Tennessee’s struggles.
They’re losing because of poor coaching. Plain and simple. Lay the blame where it belongs. Twitter or Facebook or Instagram have absolutely NOTHING to do with their performance.
Exactly. This is the same team from last year. Same team that beat Auburn. Coaching is their only flaw. Chaney tries to formation you to death and Ansley is just over his head. This is one of Tennessee’s worst defenses I have seen in a long time, included Sal Sunseri’s horrible D back few years ago.
Burns is right. Players hear the noise.
I don’t know this first hand, but I agree they have to hear at least some of the noise. I’m sure it takes it’s toll, but you know, if there want to stop hearing negativity they need to step it up.
Kids now days are so glued to Social that it invades everything they do. They may not tell you but they are. I know first hand.
This article is spot on.
This article is BS.
They lost because they weren’t ready to play.
Plain and simple. People need to start facing reality instead of worrying who’s talking about them.
Pitter patter…
Thin Skin is a direct result of ‘Everybody gets a Trophy’.
Doesn’t seem as though VolTwitter struck again but that it was referenced again…
Tougher all the time to remove yourself from the noise on social media but if you can’t differentiate between that & the real world you’re probably not cut out to be a football player at UT. Or a coach. Or a fan.
“VolNation is falling apart” next headline at SDS
Falling? What year is that from 2012?
These losers always have someone to blame…ran fat Phil outta town cause he sucked, got played by kiffin (and half these idiots want him back lol), Dooley hahaha, then butch had the talent but couldn’t coach it, then JP had no talent year one (lol) – this is the most delusional bunch of idiot fans known to man, you can’t make it up, it’s sad, true disgrace to the SEC
Now half will tell u urban is coming and the other half says they wouldn’t take him hahahahaha Pruitt was your 1642722 choice! RIP ROCKY BOTTOM
Oh yah and get ready for another ass beating after u get your one and only win of the season rocky FLOP
Imagine getting turned down by low level Ac coaches and recruits, Jesus Christ, vandy is laughing at you
You have problems. I hope you can figure it out. Poor fella…
No wonder your fanbase is universally despised; this guy is a straight up punk.
What happens when you’ve had incompetent big-wigs running the program. Never-ending strings of bad decisions ran it into the ground. Count yourself lucky this didn’t happen to you. Label them excuses if you like, but I guarantee you’d be singing the same tune if the shoe was on the other foot. Go troll another page. We already know we suck.
So all that said and you’re still a trashy, unintelligent, loser.
You feel any better? Nope. You need to get a job, probably a woman–or guy if that works for you–and stop picking your nose so much.
You’ll have a new life if you do those things and who knows, maybe in two or three years you’ll be able to move out of Mom’s basement.
Burns just called out Vol Twitter. “I’ll show me!”
Have fun with that, mmmkay?