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re: Gumps, who do you consider your second biggest rival?
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:05 pm to piggidyphish
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:05 pm to piggidyphish
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Nah...i'll just keep on keeping on not really caring if you think it's UT.
I don't, but okay.
I'll give a summary then. I was merely describing a portion of the fanbase. I was not insinuating that most of the fanbase puts UT #1. 
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Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:06 pm to 228Tiger
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Tennessee because they're so competitive every year and all
You MFers just really don't understand what a rivalry is about. Its amazing. Its like describing color to a blind man.
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:07 pm to piggidyphish
insecure
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:07 pm to BreakawayZou83
When Pat Dye started turning things around for Auburn about the same time Coach Bryant passed away was when things began to change. Old School fans still see UT as the main rival but those born after 1978 have little if any memory of how things were back then. Since the early 1980's when the younger fans memories start, Auburn has been the stronger team between UTk and Auburn. They have had a greater impact on our success. Prior to the early 1980s, Alabama and UTk for the most part were the SEC face for the nation (UGA did stick their nose under the tent from time to time as well).
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:08 pm to JordonfortheJ
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insecure
Turribly so
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:09 pm to DvlsAdvocat
What can we say. We're the premier school in Louisiana and have never had to really fend off other schools for recruits. Life's good 
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:14 pm to DoubleDown
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al?
We don't have rivals... only schools that temporarily might beat us until we restore order on that arse.
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:15 pm to 228Tiger
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We're the Flagship school in Louisiana
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:16 pm to TT9
Definitely UT.
LSU isnt a rival, our UT rivalry dates back over a 100 years. Just because they dont have a rival doesnt mean we'll be theres/
LSU isnt a rival, our UT rivalry dates back over a 100 years. Just because they dont have a rival doesnt mean we'll be theres/
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:19 pm to DonDraper
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I'm 26 and most definitely consider UT our #1 rival. Not only was I raised to hate them, but fat phil put it over the top. Do you not remember what he did to us?
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I'm 26 and most definitely consider UT our #1 rival. Not only was I raised to hate them, but fat phil put it over the top. Do you not remember what he did to us?
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:19 pm to DonDraper
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Just because they dont have a rival doesnt mean we'll be theres/
Damn it just throw us a bone and call us your rival....were desprate for one and Arky is well....Arky.
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:22 pm to BreakawayZou83
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After Auburn, is it Tennessee, LSU, or someone else?
When Tennessee's good, it has to be them. The last few years it's almost been like playing Vandy with worse uniforms.
It's been LSU of late.
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:24 pm to BreakawayZou83
I kind of look at the rivalry between Bama-LSU like the rivalry between Tennessee-Georgia. No, the teams really don't like each other, they do have some history, but it's just not the same.
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:31 pm to DonDraper
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I'm 26 and most definitely consider UT our #1 rival. Not only was I raised to hate them, but fat phil put it over the top. Do you not remember what he did to us?
Certainly. I was not attempting to speak in absolutes. My daughters are 16 and 18, they view UTk as THE rival because that is what they understood from birth.
If you took a survey at the stadium during regular season, you would likely find a 45% UTk vs 55% Auburn split. If you took the same survey at A-day you would likely find a 35% UTk vs 65% Auburn split. A-day will be a younger crowd.
This post was edited on 3/19/12 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:33 pm to GoBigOrange86
1) Auburn
2) Tennessee
My family are all Barners and Gumps so I know this as well as a few Vols
LSU is just a game against a Damn strong football team. After the LSU Bama(or Auburn) game we talk about it but it's over in a day or so. after the Bama auburn game they dont speak for weeks
2) Tennessee
My family are all Barners and Gumps so I know this as well as a few Vols
LSU is just a game against a Damn strong football team. After the LSU Bama(or Auburn) game we talk about it but it's over in a day or so. after the Bama auburn game they dont speak for weeks
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:36 pm to GoBigOrange86
If someone in our fanbase considers LSU our main rival I can pretty much guarentee you that they became a fan after Saban arrived.
I could see why LSU would want to be our rival, but what LSU fans dont get is that rivalries dont just pop up because your old coach now coaches at UA.
I could see why LSU would want to be our rival, but what LSU fans dont get is that rivalries dont just pop up because your old coach now coaches at UA.
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:39 pm to DonDraper
Well it was like in the early 2000s. We were on a streak against Bama and significantly better than they were. We were also able to get a couple of victories against Florida. For several years, though, UGA had our number. Around that time period a segment of UT fans cared more about UGA than Bama because UGA was in the way to Atlanta. But I think everyone realized the significance of the Bama rivalry compared to the UGA rivalry.
Now Alabama is where Tennessee was. The Vols are not a major impediment to Bama, so it's only natural for some of their fans to see LSU as a more significant/threatening roadblock on the way to an SEC/National title considering how good they are lately.
Now Alabama is where Tennessee was. The Vols are not a major impediment to Bama, so it's only natural for some of their fans to see LSU as a more significant/threatening roadblock on the way to an SEC/National title considering how good they are lately.
This post was edited on 3/19/12 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:39 pm to BreakawayZou83
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Gumps, who do you consider your second biggest rival?
After Auburn, is it Tennessee, LSU, or someone else?
After beating this topic to death in this thread, I have come to one conclusion...
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:45 pm to molsusports
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Some of them consider Tenn a bigger rival than Auburn
LSU is a practical obstacle right now but not a rival with the same degree of hatred that Auburn and Tenn generate.
So I'd say:
1) Auburn
2) Tenn
3) ULM
I bet the OP does not get the joke.
So I will fill in the gaps:
Northeastern State, er, I mean U of Louisiana @ Monroe
beat Bama during their time in hell when
coaches were falling like apples and La Tech beat them around then too.
Posted on 3/19/12 at 5:45 pm to 870Hog
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Arkansas
I watched the Leigh Tiffin game the other day and in the pregame Verne says Arkansas-Bama is an "emerging rivalry". We haven't beaten them since
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