A History Lesson.

#53
#53
hatvol96 said:
Once, an orange wearing school south of the Mason Dixon line hired a northerner fond of bronzer to run their struggling basketball program. His teams pressed and gunned threes at a dizzying pace and the program reached a previously unseen level of consistent success. Then, scandal hit and the tanned man on the sidelines was exiled. "Woe is us!", cried his sycophants. "It's back to the scrapheap for us!" A less flamboyant, but more stable, coach was brought to town. A funny thing happened. The new coach took the base the bronzer aficianado had built and pushed the program even higher.

Texas basketball survived the transfer of power from Tom Penders to Rick Barnes just fine. Tennessee will do the same with the transition from Bruce Pearl to To Be Determined.
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Other than the part that this isn't history, it works.
 
#61
#61
ReebaVol said:
Pearl made me a basketball fan when I didn't even like the sport! I'm going back to not giving a crap anymore! Is it football season yet?
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In other words, you're a bandwagon fake fan.

Good riddance.
 
#64
#64
BasketvolsFan said:
We have many fans that are Pearl supporters, but not UT basketball supporters.
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We have a few, but I think the majority are supporters of both, they just can't see any way that UT basketball will win without Pearl.

I thought VolNation had a name for those people who were always predicting disaster if we made such a such a move and saying that to program could never succeed without Coach X. . .

NegaVols.
 
#65
#65
i'll pose the following questions.....

will the next coach at tennessee make the elite 8?
will the next coach at tennessee win a regular season SEC title (outright)?
will the next coach at tennessee make 6 consecutive trips to the ncaa tournament at any period of time during his coaching tenure?
will the next coach at tennessee continue to be willing to play the kind of schedule pearl did?

the answers to these questions are why people are concerned.
 
#66
#66
99gator said:
i'll pose the following questions.....

will the next coach at tennessee make the elite 8?
will the next coach at tennessee win a regular season SEC title (outright)?
will the next coach at tennessee make 6 consecutive trips to the ncaa tournament at any period of time during his coaching tenure?
will the next coach at tennessee continue to be willing to play the kind of schedule pearl did?

the answers to these questions are why people are concerned.
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It's not THAT hard. It's not like he made two or three Final Fours.
 
#68
#68
99gator said:
if it wasn't that hard, how come two things on that list had never been done before at tennessee?
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because we neglected basketball after Mears and during the Mears years, it was a much more challenging task.
 
#70
#70
iflipburgers said:
Another foolish comparison, see if UNC will trade any starter they have for Hopson, even the 2 Kentucky schools did not offer him, a leftover headed for Turkey at best..
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You really should not post if you don't know anything about the subject.

Both Kentucky and Louisville, among many others including Ohio St and Texas, offered Scotty.
 
#71
#71
I wonder how an outsider in the coaching profession would view the UT job at the moment? On the one hand, there is some solid talent there, there is some excitement now for the program amongst the fan base, the AD would assure any coaching prospect of continued devotion of resources to the program, and there is the string of recent success to build upon and to use in recruiting. Really, the only negatives would appear to be some lofty expectations from the fans and the possibility of some sanctions or some lingering ill will. But really, all of that is temporary. Don't see why someone good wouldn't want to come in and try to build on what you have.
 
#75
#75
lawgator1 said:
I wonder how an outsider in the coaching profession would view the UT job at the moment? On the one hand, there is some solid talent there, there is some excitement now for the program amongst the fan base, the AD would assure any coaching prospect of continued devotion of resources to the program, and there is the string of recent success to build upon and to use in recruiting. Really, the only negatives would appear to be some lofty expectations from the fans and the possibility of some sanctions or some lingering ill will. But really, all of that is temporary. Don't see why someone good wouldn't want to come in and try to build on what you have.
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It's not going to be easy to replace Pearl, because there will be some fans who will be uneasy because he's the guy replacing Pearl. However, one thing UT is good at is supporting their coach (almost to a fault). Look at how we defended everything Kiffin did.

The expectations aren't bad. Here's the expectations right now (no NCAA Sanctions).

- Make the tourney every year.
- 20 wins with a good OOC schedule.
- Sweet 16 every two or three years.
- Compete for the regular season title every year.
- Do well against our rivals (Vandy/UF/UK/Memphis)

That's definitely not impossible.
 
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