“Idiots in tennessee”

#101
#101
Yeah he’s a real professional. He has no respect from me. He’s an idiot for saying that on air. I would love to run into him anywhere.
 
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OrangeVolMan said:
People defending him need to understand he started it because he has an on air forum and knows we can only respond on Twitter. If he doesn’t like what’s said on Twitter then he needs to get off of it. Also for some reason New Yorkers ( and many Yankees) take great pride in trashing southerners and the south because they want to appear superior. Then they all move here as soon as they can.
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I think we’d all be better off if we weren’t so thin-skinned and got over this stupid inferiority complex that many seem to have.
 
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Sports broadcasters should NEVER call a fanbase any name, it's inappropriate and should be reprimanded. Last month, Pat Forde with sports illustrated referred to us as "the petulant fan base," after the water bottle, mustard dish incident.
 
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Sara Clark said:
Sports broadcasters should NEVER call a fanbase any name, it's inappropriate and should be reprimanded. Last month, Pat Forde with sports illustrated referred to us as "the petulant fan base," after the water bottle, mustard dish incident.
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Not that many years ago, it was unheard of for a broadcaster/writer to make that kind of comment. Today, many of these guys think it’s cool to make these comments. Previously, their employer would have fired them if they made negative comments towards their “customers,” the very people that are the reason they have a job. Apparently, today it’s okay to spit in your audience’s eye. To me, it’s baffling.
 
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UneducatedGuess said:
Is this the guy that was saying

VesKaVee versus VesCoveEe

It was the “ah” versus the “o” sound that was messed up
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It was. And then all heck broke loose. Even Wilkerson and Bert on the radio broadcast were disrupted by the controversy. They went both ways with it for a while and apparently settled in on the new pronunciation.
 
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I read back thru this thread and listened to the clip and have heard several guidances on how to say the name but had not seen the one provided in the online basketball roster, so here it is as of moments ago. I had no idea what that squiggle was beside the names was for....

Santiago Vescovi
sahn-tee-AH-go VESS-co-vee

Even with emphasis on and stretching out the s in the first part of his name co is still co and vi is still vee not veeeeee
 
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UneducatedGuess said:
Is this the guy that was saying

VesKaVee versus VesCoveEe

It was the “ah” versus the “o” sound that was messed up
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Yes, the guy who called TN fans idiots for correcting him actually changed the pronunciation from one way 1st half to another way 2nd half.

To be fair, Fraschilla was talking us up before and after the poor words. So much so that NC fans were probably getting tired of hearing about Ziegler, Vescovi, and Chandler.
 
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Jack Burton said:
Yes, the guy who called TN fans idiots for correcting him actually changed the pronunciation from one way 1st half to another way 2nd half.

To be fair, Fraschilla was talking us up before and after the poor words. So much so that NC fans were probably getting tired of hearing about Ziegler, Vescovi, and Chandler.
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Guess it is all in the listening filter one has. What I heard about ten times was that UNC had three stellar guards that can all shoot the ball but one needs to step up to distribute the ball better than they have. That was for sure the feature topic about the time ZZZ drilled a couple of 3's and a drive to the basket as we were stretching the lead. Fran is as bad as Dickie V with blue blood bias.
 
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etsuvol13 said:
It's all about optics for me. It's poor taste and makes the fan base look bad.
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Err'ybody hates us anyway. I couldn't care less if we look bad to the rest of the world. We got our guys' backs.

Go Big Orange.... **** evereybody else
 
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#125


The video from the articles plus full interview. Was as I said, accent on the é. Véscovi. He said he doesn't really mind, though people would always stress the "co". Anyway, he's been playing some really good ball lately. Played well against Nova and UNC.
 
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