Tennessee And Texas Fans Are Fighting Online Again
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By Cody McClure
Welcome to June.
None of us have anything to do.
Which makes it the perfect time to argue with strangers online about meaningless sports topics.
You’ll be glad to know that Tennessee and Texas fans are at it again.
Two passionate fan bases that have their own reasons to back up “bUt I’M tHe rEaL uT.”
A Texas data bro, Kyle Umlang, for some reason this morning decided to post on X that Texas has eight SEC sports championships for the 2024-25 academic year while Tennessee has zero.
I don’t know why Kyle Umlang baited us in this way, but it seemed to work as Vol X is now mad online.
Rightfully, our people are pointing out that most of these “championships” were from swimming and diving.
Personally I quit caring about who is tHe rEaL uT at least a half a decade ago. They got some licks on us. We got some licks on them. They’ve done some winning. We’ve done some winning.
I like Austin as a city. I’d probably live there if I didn’t live in beautiful Knoxville, Tennessee.
But what I am upset about is how this discussion has led to a video clip surfacing of one our top football commits appearing to get his ass worked by one of their top commits.
That’s definitely what it looks like when you first watch.
It was a classic bull rush from 5-star EDGE Richard Wesley on 5-star offensive tackle Gabriel Osenda. The Texas commit powered into the body of Osenda and got him off balance.
Now to defend Osenda a bit — and I’m not trying to be biased here — I’ve watched this clip 100 times, and I can’t say for certainty that he got worked as bad as it looks.
I know it looks that way but a big reason why is because Osenda falls over the tackling dummy at the end. That makes it look terrible.
But when you’re an offensive lineman and you’re standing straight up, things like that can happen.
The first part of the rep Osenda is slightly off balance and doesn’t intercept the contact from Wesley very well. But while shuffling, he still keeps the defender in front of him.
The problem for Osenda was that he was too high, particularly by the end of the rep. He didn’t have his knees bent enough, he let the defender get under him, and by the end Wesley had him straight up.
I don’t think it’s as simple as Osenda just got brutally bull rushed by a guy 100 pounds lighter than him. He just wasn’t low enough and he got off-balance.
It happens, and I’m sure there were many other reps that looked better and didn’t happen to be captured on film.
If this was a real-life game, would that rep have mattered? Would Wesley have pushed Osenda all the way into the quarterback there? Or would the QB have thrown it by the time he got there?
Check out the rep below and see what you think: