Basketball or football school

#1
DarkVolder

DarkVolder

Come on over to the dark side
Joined
Oct 4, 2023
Messages
1,760
Likes
2,737
#1
A legitimate question these days is are we a basketball or football school? I wouid argue more a basketball school these days. More recent high level success in basketball this century than football more conference titles and post season success and better coaches, Jerry Green , Bruce Pearl and Rick Barnes def trumps Dooley , Butch and Pruitt. Football makes more money but i think since 2000 we are known more for our hardwood success than on the grid iron.
 
Last edited:
#3
#3
DarkVolder said:
A legitimate question these days is are we a basketball or football school? I wouid argue more a basketball school , more recent high level success in basketball this century than football more conference titles and post season success and better coaches, Jerry Green , Bruce Pearl and Rick Barnes def trumps Dooley , Butch and Pruitt. Football makes more money but i think since 2000 we are known more for our hardwood success than on the grid iron.
Click to expand...
Honestly don’t really think it matters. I think with NIL and free agency, a school can be whatever it devotes its resources to.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pappy, adam.vol and volfanhill
#4
#4
In my lifetime, we have actually had more years of nationally relevant, sustained success in basketball. We were good in both in the late 60s and early 70s, but as we moved through the 1970s the football program sank some while the basketball program sustained it's consistency into the 1980s. The late 80s and 90s saw a swing back to football but the drop in basketball was due to Dickey not giving a F about basketball. We regained some momentum in basketball in the late 90s but fell off in the Buzz years until Pearl showed up. Had he not F'ed up, we likely would have never had a dip in basketball. Barnes is far and away the best coach we have ever had in basketball and I would say better than any coach we have had in football during the modern era
 
  • Like
Reactions: Hairy Vols and DarkVolder
#6
#6
Just a VolinTears said:
Tennessee will always be a football school
Click to expand...
No. It's a basketball school at the moment while we're still competing in the NCAA tournament. We're not a blue blood in either sport, and we've had far more national relevance in basketball than football for the entire 25.3 years of this century. Football generates exponentially more revenue, BUT based on performance, basketball is our best sport
 
  • Like
Reactions: DarkVolder and Pappy
#12
#12
Depends on what you mean.

Football from a fan perspective will always be king because when people think "Vol Nation" they think a sea of orange at Neyland, the T, etc.

If you mean in actual results, we're stronger in basketball than football in sustained success in the past 20-25 years.

But it kinda doesn't matter, being second fiddle to Tennessee's football fandom is hardly anything to be ashamed of, especially considering our rep as a basketball fandom is pretty good. We've been packing TBA for pretty much 20 years now since the Pearl days, with some dips but even during the Martin years through Barnes first 2 seasons we still had great attendance.
 
#13
#13
VolsSportsFan said:
Depends on what you mean.

Football from a fan perspective will always be king because when people think "Vol Nation" they think a sea of orange at Neyland, the T, etc.

If you mean in actual results, we're stronger in basketball than football in sustained success in the past 20-25 years.

But it kinda doesn't matter, being second fiddle to Tennessee's football fandom is hardly anything to be ashamed of, especially considering our rep as a basketball fandom is pretty good. We've been packing TBA for pretty much 20 years now since the Pearl days, with some dips but even during the Martin years through Barnes first 2 seasons we still had great attendance.
Click to expand...
When I click on the Ticket Forum on this site during the NCAA tournament and all of the posts are for regular season baseball tickets, that tells me we aren’t a basketball school.
 
New Posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

Advertisement



Back
Top