Congrats to the Gators Here

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OldVol

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Just wanted to pop on and congratulate the Gator fans who post here. NCGatorbait, lawgator, et al.

Great season in roundball.

I guess the only good thing we Vols can take from this is the knowledge that we are the only team to beat the national champions twice in the year.

It was a great run for your team and I'm glad they brought the trophy South.

Now; will your team return or go pro? Listening to the guys on CSS yesterday, they agreed Brewer and Noah will go pro. What say ye?
 
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(OldVol @ Apr 5 said:
Just wanted to pop on and congratulate the Gator fans who post here. NCGatorbait, lawgator, et al.

Great season in roundball.

I guess the only good thing we Vols can take from this is the knowledge that we are the only team to beat the national champions twice in the year.

It was a great run for your team and I'm glad they brought the trophy South.

Now; will your team return or go pro? Listening to the guys on CSS yesterday, they agreed Brewer and Noah will go pro. What say ye?
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South Carolina too.
 
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Can we please stop praising the Gators now? It may look like it helps us, but it hurts us more in the long run.
 
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Just some good sportsmanship....which is fine. but like all good things, it has to come to an end.
 
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All things considered, I believe that Horford and Noah will go. I think Horford has probably already made up his mind to do so. If you aksed Noah today, he'd say he's staying. But in a few weeks, when the furor has died down and he realizes that he already won the highest accolades possible at this level, he will opt for the NBA.

Thsi will hurt, but I think it will give Chris Richards a chance to shine next year. He's a big tall beefy guy and with just a little more quickness would be a terror.

 
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Once you lose Horford, Noah, and Brewer ya'll will suck next year.
 
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(govols @ Apr 5 said:
Once you lose Horford, Noah, and Brewer ya'll will suck next year.
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that's the spirit!!!! Go Vols!!!!
 
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Thanks for the response lawgator.

As to the other replies, you guys might want to consider getting over yourselves.

If others have overdone congratulating the Gators, then jump them, but this is my first post on the subject period, the end. In fact, it's my first post on any subject here in a few weeks.

Deriding someone for offering accolades to a competitor is unsportsmanlike, and in this case, to be perfectly honest, it appears childish.

A good lesson to learn on message boards is; let people discuss what they wish, within limits, and if you don't care for the topic, ignore it.

Trying to censor a person for saying, Great game, or great season to a rival is really petty.
 
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Oldvol..thank you sir..heck of a ride for sure. I look forward to hearing about the upcoming football season from you! :devilsmoke:
 
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(NCGatorBait @ Apr 5 said:
Gators start two Tennessee boys..that should count for something! :shades:
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I have a feeling Mr. Pearl will shut the valve on that Tennessee pipeline that fed the Gator Championship.

It's too bad they didn't win their division though, isn't it?

Let's see, who did win that division? :D
 
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(OldVol @ Apr 6 said:
I have a feeling Mr. Pearl will shut the valve on that Tennessee pipeline that fed the Gator Championship.

It's too bad they didn't win their division though, isn't it?

Let's see, who did win that division? :D
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Do you guys get to hang a banner for that? I kind of like a single "National Champions" banner a little more than I do the "Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference Champions" one. Yours will be too complicated, too much writing on there. Ours will be simpler.

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(lawgator1 @ Apr 6 said:
Do you guys get to hang a banner for that? I kind of like a single "National Champions" banner a little more than I do the "Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference Champions" one. Yours will be too complicated, too much writing on there. Ours will be simpler.

:post-20645-1119625378:
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Maybe we could just hang one that says, "We Own The National Champions."

That'll do it. .. :D
 
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(OldVol @ Apr 6 said:
Maybe we could just hang one that says, "We Own The National Champions."

That'll do it. .. :D
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Hmmmmm.... That's better but gosh that is still so many words. I think just "Round of 32" would work.
 
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(lawgator1 @ Apr 6 said:
Or maybe "Tied for 17th."
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Nah, you never want a th on the end of your banner, just an st.

How about, "We slew the Gators, they ate everything else."

By the time we got through eating all that Gator meat we must have been too full.

REALITY BELOW:

We have nowhere near the talent of the Gators.

Not to diminish your basketball accomplishments, but this is what makes college football so far and away ahead of all other sports.

Could there ever be a time in college football where two teams with such disparity in talent levels could face off and we see the results, twice in the same year, as we did with the Vols/Gators 06? I find it highly unlikely.

That's why a national title in football means so much more, at least in my opinion.

There's not a way in the world a team like George Mason could make so much noise in football.

To me, a football championship means so much because the difference between the top 4 or 5 teams annually that actually stand a chance of playing for a title are so far ahead of the 20th team in the nation, that there's no way that team could compete for the crown. Where were the Gators ranked pre-tournament? 17 ... 18?

Even if football had a playoff, no team that low would ever stand a chance of winning.

But, thereto, that gives basketball a sense of uniqueness as well.
 
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Well, I agree with you to some degree. I think the difference is that to field a highly competitive basketball team you only need about 3 really excellent players and another 4 good ones for support. Most teams do not rotate more than 7 or 8 guys, total. Florida had the luxury of one or two more than that, and it helped. But even then your real roster of game players is only about 9-deep. A George Mason, a Southern Illinois, a Wichita State even, they can find 6-deep talent if they look hard enough and recruit hard.

But football you are talking about 22 starters, plus special teams extras. Not to mention backups. To be competitive at the national level you probably need at least 10 stars, plus a depth of another 30 really very good guys. The same schools tend to be competing for that level of player and that usually does not include the smaller schools and never the mid-majors (they may have one or two in any given year, but not 40).

Even if there were a playoff in college football, it probably only needs to be run with the top eight teams to give you a true national champion.

 
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Forget the top eight (I assume you mean ranked) make all join conferences and let con. champs duke it out at the end of the season.
 
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(volmanjr @ Apr 6 said:
Forget the top eight (I assume you mean ranked) make all join conferences and let con. champs duke it out at the end of the season.
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Well then who makes the playoffs in the SEC? LSU, who won the regular season title? Or Florida, who won the tournament?
 
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(lawgator1 @ Apr 6 said:
Well then who makes the playoffs in the SEC? LSU, who won the regular season title? Or Florida, who won the tournament?
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He means football... :blush2:
 
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