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Tennessee football: Danny White knows UT tradition is bucking tradition

University of Tennessee’s new Director of Athletics Danny White, speaks during a press conference announcing his hiring, on UT’s campus in Knoxville, Tenn., Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Dannywhite0122 0087

Let’s be honest. Tennessee football is the ultimate Boomer program. The Baby Boomers were responsible for instituting tons of social change in the 1960s and 1970s, and Gen Xers and early millennials enjoyed the fruits of that labor in the 1980s and 1990s. However, refusal to adapt since then has created problems.

That all applies to the Vols. In the 1960s, they began new traditions like running through the T, the Vol Walk and the Power T on helmets.