Evina poll

Did Evina do the right thing in the post-loss press conference?

  • Yes. She answered the questions honestly. What? Was she supposed to lie?

  • No. She should not have indicated publicly that she believes changes should be made.

  • Yes, and if someone started the Evina Westbrook Church of Honestly, I’d join it.

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#3
#3
The girl did not lie. Changes have to be made. Or the Lady Vols will go through another season like this next year. Holly has had 7 years to make it right. Holly needs to take blame for this she is the head coach. All she does is blame the players and cash a big check.
 
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#6
#6
Anyone notice the poll number totals are wrong? The results show with 87 when you add the 3 possible responses yet the total reported is 83?
 
#10
#10
so, this turned into a grammar lesson...:D...no, she should keep her mouth shut and let the administration make the calls...she is speaking out of turn and also has enough to worry about concerning her play on the court...honestly...:D

GO LADY VOLS!
 
#11
#11
RollerVol said:
so, this turned into a grammar lesson...:D...no, she should keep her mouth shut and let the administration make the calls...she is speaking out of turn and also has enough to worry about concerning her play on the court...honestly...:D

GO LADY VOLS!
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But the administration is not making the call and it can be argued it is exactly her concern for her play on the court that has her speaking "out of turn". She has zero help with her on court play from the staff my hard earned tax dollars pay to help develop her. Unreasonable to expect even the highest rated recruits to do it alone.

IMO the Evina controversy is about a hostage video in which the victim is being blamed for criticizing the kidnappers!
 
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#12
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glv98 said:
But the administration is not making the call and it can be argued it is exactly her concern for her play on the court that has her speaking "out of turn". She has zero help with her on court play from the staff my hard earned tax dollars pay to help develop her. Unreasonable to expect even the highest rated recruits to do it alone.

IMO the Evina controversy is about a hostage video in which the victim is being blamed for criticizing the kidnappers!
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I think she was pleading for help.
 
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#14
#14
savannahfan said:
I think her answer could have the same effect had she just smiled and said no comment....
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Great point! The lack of a defense of her coach, when obviously being poked to comment on the coach's butt being on fire, would have said it all. So instead she mumbled a bit of playerspeak mixed with something else barely audible. Much ado about nothing much? Rome is burning and ya'll are fiddle-faddling. And Rebecca Lobo, who I usually actually like in spite of her questionable past, should shut up.
 
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#15
#15
savannahfan said:
I think her answer could have the same effect had she just smiled and said no comment....
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I can't say enough how funny I find it that everyone is criticizing Evina while, at the same time, Holly was throwing her players under the bus...yet again...during her own interview. I love the way that the article below states it.

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Coach Holly Warlick has pointed the finger at players’ youth and work ethic as sources of the problem. On Saturday, one player pointed it right back at Warlick. Tennessee point guard Evina Westbrook gave an unexpected answer to a question about the upcoming offseason following the Lady Vols’ first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament. “We’ve got to fix some stuff,” Westbrook said in the locker room. She paused for a moment before adding, “With our staff.” Just like that, the Lady Vols’ inexplicable season came into focus. Their sophomore point guard — the team’s leader — was not behind her coach.

Meanwhile, Warlick had just begun a news conference down the hall, about to field questions about her own job security. The team was moments removed from a season-ending loss to UCLA, in which Tennessee erased a 17-point deficit before falling to the Bruins, 89-77. “Putting on a jersey doesn’t guarantee that you are going to play in the tournament or play for a championship,” Warlick said after the game. “That’s on you. You have to bring it along. We’re going to put you out there, but you have to put in the extra work.”

Evina Westbrook’s comments reveal a broken Lady Vols team
 
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Amb3096 said:
“We’ve got to fix some stuff,” Westbrook said in the locker room. She paused for a moment before adding, “With our staff.” Just like that, the Lady Vols’ inexplicable season came into focus. Their sophomore point guard — the team’s leader — was not behind her coach.
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Context is our friend. Just before that she had mumble-mentioned changing stuff with the players on and off court. Not at all the absolute presented here. Ton of gray area between some stuff needs fixing and she's not behind her coach. Every reason to think as a functional human being she's NOT behind her obviously incapable coach, but that's not the obvious conclusion from what she said! Was simply being all-inclusive in her disappointment and the pledge to work on list after an awful season. Would have included the managers if she could have.

Which ironically was not what was going on right down the hall with her coach. Inclusivity of blame is not exactly a Holly Warlick strong point.
 
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glv98 said:
Context is our friend. Just before that she had mumble-mentioned changing stuff with the players on and off court. Not at all the absolute presented here. Ton of gray area between some stuff needs fixing and she's not behind her coach. Every reason to think as a functional human being she's NOT behind her obviously incapable coach, but that's not the obvious conclusion from what she said! Was simply being all-inclusive in her disappointment and the pledge to work on list after an awful season. Would have included the managers if she could have.

Which ironically was not what was going on right down the hall with her coach. Inclusivity of blame is not exactly a Holly Warlick strong point.
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I wasn't aware of this, but apparently Evina was asked in 2 separate interviews. The snippet I quoted above was from the first interview, not the second one that most of us saw on Twitter. Either way, I'm on Team Evina on this one.
 
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What I find truly flabbergasting is that here we sit, 8 or 9 years into the effective control of our team by Holly Warlick and there are still some who say she's not the problem. We don't need the heart broken mutterings of a discouraged young woman to know that Holly is not fit to coach in Div I, II or III.
 
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