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Tennessee Football Playing Nicki Minaj in a Hype Video Foreshadows More Losses for the Vols in 2017

By Caleb Calhoun

Sep 12, 2015; Knoxville, TN, USA; General view during the first quarter at Neyland Stadium during the game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the University of Tennessee. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 12, 2015; Knoxville, TN, USA; General view during the first quarter at Neyland Stadium during the game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the University of Tennessee. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports /
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A Tennessee football hype video of Trey Smith plays ‘No Frauds’ by Nicki Minaj ft. Drake and Lil Wayne. That foreshadows the Volunteers losing in 2017.

Does nobody in the Tennessee football administration pay attention to pop culture? The Vols used a song that is the very definition of losing in a hype video that they released in a tweet Thursday.

Tennessee football’s official Twitter account tweeted a video out of incoming freshman Trey Smith lifting weights. Smith was the top recruit in the 2017 Vols recruiting class, and the program is right to promote him with Spring Practice around the corner.

Here’s the video that was tweeted.

If you’re just watching it, there’s reason to be excited. Smith was a splash get in-state for the Vols, he’s clearly a hard worker, and as an early-enrollee, he’s preparing himself already.

However, they may have cursed themselves for 2017 with this video. The song playing over the video is ‘No Frauds’ by Nick Minaj featuring Lil Wayne and Drake.

It’s a song that signifies losing.

Everybody up to date in the hip hop world knows that Nicki Minaj just lost an epic feud with Remy Ma. She lost harder than her ex-boyfriend Meek Mill lost to Drake.

Remy made the splash hit by dropping ‘shETHER,’ which destroyed Nicki.

In response, Nicki dropped ‘No Frauds.’

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Although ‘No Frauds’ is charting, it was a huge loss for Nicki. Her bars not as good as Remy’s, but that’s not the only issue. She also waited a week to do it, and she had to enlist the help of Lil Wayne and Drake.

So again, the song all around defines losing. Why, then, would Tennessee football use that song in a hype video?

The Vols have already suffered enough curses over the past decade. No need to add another one.

Could this curse Trey Smith’s career? Butch Jones definitely doesn’t need that. Smith has the potential to be a superstar.

Maybe it’s a curse to Jones and means he will take the hardest loss in 2017 by getting himself fired if he doesn’t perform.

Or, since Nicki had all the money and power and still lost badly to Remy, does this foreshadow Tennessee losing to some no-name school this Fall?

We don’t know what this could bring. But it was not the right song to use in a hype video.

If you think superstitions aren’t a thing in college football, you’re way off. Vol Nation will be the first to voice their superstitions about the Georgia Dome curse, and there was certainly some divine intervention in their 11-game losing streak to the Florida Gators.

So accepting that Football Gods are real, why play this song in a hype video? You’ve only cursed yourself more.

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