Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[JCP201]

Heart breaking

 

[SugarCC]

Maybe a hot take but I would take our baseball, softball and wbb programs being bottom dwellers but our football and basketball programs making final four and competing for titles consistently. And no our football and basketball programs arent elite or competing for titles, elite teams dont get blown out in r1 of playoffs, struggle every conference game, or get blownout in the ncaa tournament

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Really good season overall. I guess we overachieved again. Sucks to be almost there and fall once again.

 

[Aesius]

If Florida loses one of their next two games, their end result is the same as ours. I don’t consider Auburn a rival tbh

Auburn became a rival the instant they hired Bruce Pearl. Narratives like that creative rivalries, especially with both programs rising under Pearl/Barnes at roughly the same time.

And you really think a loss in the national championship game, for example, is the same as a loss in the Elite Eight?

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Lol who will?

So Barnes is the greatest coach in college basketball? Nobody else could come here and win? Nobody? Really? Barnes is it? So when he retires the basketball team will just become irrelevant? Wow.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

All I’m asking is why is it the final 4 that’s the equivalent and not an elite 8 ? And in all seriousness yes it’s cool to make the playoff but simply making it still doesn’t mean you won anything. Just kinda stone cold facts.

But it shows progression. The mindset of if you don’t win titles you haven’t won anything is strange. It’s like getting to the Super Bowl and losing. Yes you lost but you still made it to the biggest game. Something many other teams couldn’t do.

Many teams that have more titles in basketball than we do didn’t make it as far as we did. And making the final four days something. It says you are one of the four best teams in the nation amongst how many D1 schools? Final fours matter. They matter big time.

 

[volbeast33]

Honestly what is the obsession with final 4 anyways? Why do Kentucky fans knock us for no final 4s but they don’t say “no natties”. Isn’t a final 4 just a participation trophy. Losing today is literally no different than losing next week. You didn’t win the natty. Just something I don’t really get lmao

Every sport has a huge accomplishment below the NC…. in baseball….. it is to make the College World Series, Football…. it was to make a New Years 6 game and now possibly the playoffs….. In basketball…. it is to make the Final Four. I hope I get to see us make one someday. I’m going to miss this group of players.

 

[VOL608]

Lol who will?

Barnes has been great, but who will take us to the Final Four?.

 

[Jimmy Football]

So Barnes is the greatest coach in college basketball? Nobody else could come here and win? Nobody? Really? Barnes is it? So when he retires the basketball team will just become irrelevant? Wow.

He’s nowhere near as good as Next Coach.

 

[volbeast33]

And making Omaha is 8 teams. So shouldn’t the elite 8 actually be the equivalent of a final 4 then.

different sports

 

[VOL608]

What coach will take us to the Final Four?

 

[Weezer]

It’s like a venereal disease. You don’t know when it’s going to flair up and when it does it’s an agonizing slow burn.

I’m gonna go read an encyclopedia

You should probably get that VD checked by a doctor....

 

[Jimmy Football]

What coach will take us to the Final Four?

Next Coach.

 

[Weezer]

Yet no one can tell me what the difference is. Lmao

With the Elite 8, there are 8 teams left. With the Final Four, there are only4.

I really would have thought the difference was obvious. It's simple math.

 

[UTK]

different sports

Is making it to Omaha just as hard as making a final 4 in your opinion?

 

[JCP201]

But it shows progression. The mindset of if you don’t win titles you haven’t won anything is strange. It’s like getting to the Super Bowl and losing. Yes you lost but you still made it to the biggest game. Something many other teams couldn’t do.

Many teams that have more titles in basketball than we do didn’t make it as far as we did. And making the final four days something. It says you are one of the four best teams in the nation amongst how many D1 schools? Final fours matter. They matter big time.

and yet, we've beaten two of the probably final four. Go figure.

 

[Weezer]

It was a good season. Yes, it would have been great to continue, but it just wasn't meant to be. Now, let's all cheer for SEC teams to lose next weekend.

 

[UTK]

Every sport has a huge accomplishment below the NC…. in baseball….. it is to make the College World Series, Football…. it was to make a New Years 6 game and now possibly the playoffs….. In basketball…. it is to make the Final Four. I hope I get to see us make one someday. I’m going to miss this group of players.

But the only reason this “accomplishments” exist is the way the media sells you on the sport. “THE ROAD TO OMAHA” “THE ROAD TO THE FINAL 4”. “THE ROAD TO THE CFP”. Its just marketing at the end of the day.

 

[NMVol]

Football scrimmage tomorrow evening!!

 

[VOL608]

Love Barnes, but Pearl would’ve had us in the Final Four a few times.

 

[UTK]

Auburn became a rival the instant they hired Bruce Pearl. Narratives like that creative rivalries, especially with both programs rising under Pearl/Barnes at roughly the same time.

And you really think a loss in the national championship game, for example, is the same as a loss in the Elite Eight?

I still like Pearl, sure I don’t exactly want to see him it all at another school but it won’t suck like UF winning it. And that’s not what I’m arguing. A loss in a final 4 is no different than a loss in the elite 8. A loss in the championship game would actually mean you’re the legit runner up

 

[VOL608]

Love Barnes, but Pearl would’ve had us in the Final Four a few times.

Just being honest.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Love Barnes, but Pearl would’ve had us in the Final Four a few times.

 

[JCVol00]

sucks to see zz and mashack go out that way, they are true VFL’s. Let’s also not forget that that was the last game Kesling and Bert called before retirement as well. All of them are VFL’s and i am forever grateful for their contributions to the university

 

[VolGee4]

Love Barnes, but Pearl would’ve had us in the Final Four a few times.

Just stop. This is maddening.