ESPN gameday blaming refs for TN win

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Physicality always ends up being the key to the tournament. Guard play and 3s can't win anybody 6 games in a row, against that competition and under that pressure.

Too bad CJ Watson is out of eligibility and can’t knock out a few teeth.

 

[OrangeScare]

No Kansas, No Duke, No Kentucky, and No UNC in this tournament. Surprised ESPN doesn’t just call the whole thing off

 

[LadyinOrange]

No Kansas, No Duke, No Kentucky, and No UNC in this tournament. Surprised ESPN doesn’t just call the whole thing off

They can't till PukeConn loses.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

They can't till PukeConn loses.

Yes. They’re ESPN’s home team.

 

[LadyinOrange]

This is laughable. I mean Duke has never had the benefit of favorable whistles have they? K never got any calls that I can recall…. (If I knew how to do blue font, I would.)

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[Thunder Good-Oil]

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Cool

 

[WilcoVolsFan]

I usually don't buy into the "ESPN hates us" narrative, but that segment was obnoxious. Seth and Bilas both looked like they'd eaten something distasteful.

They did. A big plate of Crow.

 

[ArdentVol]

ESPN headline: Tennessee into Sweet 16 after bringing Duke 'into the mud'

 

[Delmar]

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[ArdentVol]

Thanks. I am the poster child for computer illiteracy.

I will challenge you for that claim

 

[Post4Vols]

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[ArdentVol]

Feel like I learned something special

dunno if i saw icon

 

[Orange931]

And I don’t particularly care for anyone on CBS, either, but Barkley is one of my favorite players of ball time. He has more credibility in his pinkie than the rest of them collectively

Definitely has more credibility and deep down loves a physical game. I grew up watching him and he was one of the most physical players on the court that I’ve ever seen.

 

[Col_Cathcart]

Tshiebwe gets away with murder on dang near every possession. Cry me a river.

Not anymore he doesn’t

 

[FranklinVFL]

After further thought, if the media gets to dictate the rules of the game and how games are reffed, then we really will be at the end of a great sports era.

Media should not be able to influence anything in sports. But, I have seen it happen in the past (Peyton-Heisman), and if our game is called with a ton of ticky-tack fouls, then the sports media controls the NCAA.

And that is a sad sad state of affairs.

 

[volfan102455]

So I guess playing good defense isn't allowed especially if the result is the team you support loses.

 

[ShoalCreekVol]

What call did they not get?

Should have called a flop on that dookie that got grazed by the basketball from Vescovi and acted like he stepped on a mine.

About that...I was listening to the Garza something something show, maybe Overtime or something, I forget, but it's Basilio's postgame call-in show. A caller brought up that play, and correctly talked about how it was an important play since the fake-out got Vescovi tagged with an undeserved foul. But TB said he didn't have a clue what play the guy is talking about, and then everyone else including John Adams said they didn't see it either. I was thinking did any of y'all actually watch the game???

But then the hosts went on to mercilessly mock the caller for a long time after that, acting as if he just made it up and the play never happened. They went on about that for a while. Then another caller told them the first guy was correct, and they cut him off and mocked him too.

They sounded like a bunch of seventh graders. Seriously how does someone watch the game and have no idea that play happened? The refs even spent a while looking at it on replay. Wierd.

 

[ButchPlz]

About that...I was listening to the Garza something something show, maybe Overtime or something, I forget, but it's Basilio's postgame call-in show. A caller brought up that play, and correctly talked about how it was an important play since the fake-out got Vescovi tagged with an undeserved foul. But TB said he didn't have a clue what play the guy is talking about, and then everyone else including John Adams said they didn't see it either. I was thinking did any of y'all actually watch the game???

But then the hosts went on to mercilessly mock the caller for a long time after that, acting as if he just made it up and the play never happened. They went on about that for a while. Then another caller told them the first guy was correct, and they cut him off and mocked him too.

They sounded like a bunch of seventh graders. Seriously how does someone watch the game and have no idea that play happened? The refs even spent a while looking at it on replay. Wierd.

Knoxville sports radio. That's all you need to know.

 

[ButchPlz]

After further thought, if the media gets to dictate the rules of the game and how games are reffed, then we really will be at the end of a great sports era.

Media should not be able to influence anything in sports. But, I have seen it happen in the past (Peyton-Heisman), and if our game is called with a ton of ticky-tack fouls, then the sports media controls the NCAA.

And that is a sad sad state of affairs.

The media has been dictating this stuff for a long time already.

 

[VolAmerican]

Anytime you beat a Blue Blood, you're going to step on somebody's toes. Outside of a couple of calls on Plavsic, I thought it was officiated well.

 

[onthehill71]

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[Thunder Good-Oil]

After further thought, if the media gets to dictate the rules of the game and how games are reffed, then we really will be at the end of a great sports era.

Media should not be able to influence anything in sports. But, I have seen it happen in the past (Peyton-Heisman), and if our game is called with a ton of ticky-tack fouls, then the sports media controls the NCAA.

And that is a sad sad state of affairs.

I hope that FAU doesn’t lean Left.

 

[Tenacjim]

After further thought, if the media gets to dictate the rules of the game and how games are reffed, then we really will be at the end of a great sports era.

Media should not be able to influence anything in sports. But, I have seen it happen in the past (Peyton-Heisman), and if our game is called with a ton of ticky-tack fouls, then the sports media controls the NCAA.

And that is a sad sad state of affairs.[/QUOTE

 

[Tenacjim]

After further thought, if the media gets to dictate the rules of the game and how games are reffed, then we really will be at the end of a great sports era.

Media should not be able to influence anything in sports. But, I have seen it happen in the past (Peyton-Heisman), and if our game is called with a ton of ticky-tack fouls, then the sports media controls the NCAA.

And that is a sad sad state of affairs.

it’s not like the media has any influence over the world beyond sports either…

 

[Delmar]

I will challenge you for that claim

Gunfight at the Microsoft Corral?