(11-12-2014 07:27 AM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote:  The UT athletic department is/was $200 million in debt.
Think that is something I want our athletic department to emulate?
No thanks.
Bring on the same shades of blue we've been seeing.
I think you should concentrate less on the colors...and cheer harder for the players who agree to suit up for our programs.

What?

Consistency is, without question, a key pillar of UTK's process.

They have consistently had their asses handed to them on the recruiting trail and the field by the likes of Bama, Florida, Georgia, LSU, etc... with no end in sight.

(11-12-2014 02:24 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  

(11-12-2014 07:27 AM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote:  The UT athletic department is/was $200 million in debt.
Think that is something I want our athletic department to emulate?
No thanks.
Bring on the same shades of blue we've been seeing.
I think you should concentrate less on the colors...and cheer harder for the players who agree to suit up for our programs.

What?

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-footbal...-dave-hart

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/201...s/1873421/

http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=42824

(11-12-2014 01:25 PM)Tigeer Wrote:  

(11-12-2014 04:38 AM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(11-11-2014 11:35 PM)Claw Wrote:  I bet not a single one of you know where the UT orange actually originates. It is steeped in history older than our War Between the States' Blue and Gray.

I would guess the Scots-Irish of Northern Ireland, aka the Prods, the Orangemen, a group that is heavily represented in Appalachia culture--the orange part of the Irish Republic's flag.

This is what I always thought as well, but:

The school colors of orange & white date to April 12,1889, when Charles Moore, president of the University's athletic association, chose the colors for the first field day. His inspiration came from the orange and white daisies which grew profusely on the Hill. In 1891, students again wore orange and white to the Sewanee football game. In 1892 students endorsed the colors at a special meeting called for the purpose, but two years later were dissatisfied with the choice and voted to drop the colors. After a heated one-day debate no other colors proved satisfactory, so the students returned to orange and white.

But really, who gives a flip.

I knew Sewanee had something to do with it.

(11-11-2014 11:35 PM)Claw Wrote:  I bet not a single one of you know where the UT orange actually originates. It is steeped in history older than our War Between the States' Blue and Gray.

its not that orange.....its that throwup orange, that puke inside a pumpkin orange, and i dont like pumpkins

(11-12-2014 05:23 PM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(11-12-2014 01:25 PM)Tigeer Wrote:  

(11-12-2014 04:38 AM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(11-11-2014 11:35 PM)Claw Wrote:  I bet not a single one of you know where the UT orange actually originates. It is steeped in history older than our War Between the States' Blue and Gray.

I would guess the Scots-Irish of Northern Ireland, aka the Prods, the Orangemen, a group that is heavily represented in Appalachia culture--the orange part of the Irish Republic's flag.

This is what I always thought as well, but:

The school colors of orange & white date to April 12,1889, when Charles Moore, president of the University's athletic association, chose the colors for the first field day. His inspiration came from the orange and white daisies which grew profusely on the Hill. In 1891, students again wore orange and white to the Sewanee football game. In 1892 students endorsed the colors at a special meeting called for the purpose, but two years later were dissatisfied with the choice and voted to drop the colors. After a heated one-day debate no other colors proved satisfactory, so the students returned to orange and white.

But really, who gives a flip.

I knew Sewanee had something to do with it.

I believe Scotch-Irish explanation to be the correct one. If you look at the color, it is spot on. The flowers thing is a nice story to make a secular origin out of it, but it goes back to William of Orange and the Scotch-Irish that settled the region.

Order of the Orange