Tennessee football fans may have, once again, forced change

A couple of years ago, Tennessee football fans blocked the administration from hiring Greg Schiano, now they’ve changed the Vols bowl destination.

Two or so years ago, the Tennessee athletic department tried to hire Greg Schiano as the Tennessee football head coach. Tennessee fans resulted in what would have been a horrible hire and forced the Vols to look elsewhere.

Tennessee later hired Jeremy Pruitt as a head coach, and it looks like Tennessee fans may have been right on Schiano. I guess we will have to see what his results at Rutgers are before we can officially count that as a win.

If you thought Tennessee fans were done after that, you’re wrong. I wrote an article a couple of days ago about the outcome looking like the Vols could be heading to the Music City Bowl. I was not happy with this revelation and hoped for a better opponent than Louisville in a better bowl.

Well, it looked like the deal was all but done, and Tennessee was heading to Nashville to play Louisville on December 30. Within the span of an hour or two since it was unofficially announced, Tennessee fans came out in numbers showing their disproval of the bowl.

I wasn’t sure how other Tennessee fans felt about playing in the Music City Bowl, but I was against it. Now I have a pretty good idea that I was in the majority and wanted to see the Vols play in a better bowl against a better team.

Throughout this timespan, I drafted a few different tweets about my thoughts towards going to the Music City Bowl but decided not to tweet any of them out as I wanted to wait on the official announcement.

While all of this was playing out, I didn’t think, “Hey, maybe this blowback will make the administration change its mind and pick a better bowl before it’s final.”

But it turns out that’s exactly what played out, or at least in some Kentucky fans’ minds. They claimed Tennessee fans convinced the administration to push Kentucky out of the Gator Bowl and replace them with Tennessee.

It looks like Tennessee fans have used Twitter to make a change in the administration again. This time it wasn’t a personnel change, but a change in the personnel’s mind.

Tennessee’s fanbase is a powerful one. If we don’t get what we want, we will push you out of the way and go and take it. We’re like prime Stone Cold Steve Austin stunning the whole dang WWF roster to get the World Heavyweight Championship.

The fact that we upset Kentucky fans some more makes it a little sweeter. I think this continues to prove we’re the best fanbase in the country. Or maybe it proves we now own the athletic department.