I hope Barnes don’t say anything

#51
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RockyTop140 said:
I understand your point. You don't want the team thinking about how they got screwed. But, you know the players are already thinking that. And if Barnes sticks up for them and calls the committee out, they may get even more fired up
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You may be right. Coach Fulmer certainly made effective use of the disrespect shown the Vols in the lead up to the 2001 Florida game. Coach Martin got his team within a play of the Elite Eight with an "us against them" message.
 
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#52
If the admin feels like something needs to be said let White do it. Barnes doesn’t need to act like he’s worried about anything but Longwood. If the admin sees no need to say anything I’m also cool with that. Just show up and let your play do the talking is my opinion.
 
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wmcovol said:
So using you’re numbers, in the first round, you have a 94% chance to win as a 2 and and 85% chance to win as a 3. It’s all how you present it.
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I can’t see why Longwood didn’t get a 15 or 16 seed. Looks to me like the committee was planning on us playing Winthrop and when Longwood upset them the committee just inserted them into the same seed. We got a really favorable first round matchup IMO as it’s more like were playing a 16 seed
 
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It's over, so Tennessee needs to be focused on the next game. Complaining about not being a 2 seed doesn't need to be where their minds are. Just go play defense like they have since the Kentucky loss and move on to the next game, re-focus and get ready for the next game, rinse, repeat. That's the mind set I hope they have.
 
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Va Tech winning the ACC doesn't help the "winning your conference tournament means a lot" argument. Or Iowa winning Big 10....but the announcers constantly bring up how we hadn't won the SEC tourney since 1979...so it obviously means something that we won it this year. The committee needs to say winning conference tourneys mean something...or else that's trouble for the NCAA. Teams will just start skipping it and that cuts big time into revenue.
 
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I think this is something we need to make noise about but let's hold off until after the season is over. Focus on the games at hand right now.
 
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golfballs said:
Don’t lie down and take it. White needs to speak out. The committee are the ones who proclaimed all these metrics they’d be using to guide their decision and there isn’t a single one which explains being any less than a two. So they deserve to be called out if they’re not even following their own supposed guidelines. Force them to explain themselves. They’re the ones who supposedly want to be more transparent. Which was their justification for releasing and early top 16. Turns out it’s just a big dog and pony show
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I saw an interview with the "Chairman" of the Men's Selection Committee, some smuck Conference President for a Quad 3 - The Southern Conference I believe, on CBS during the selection show. What amazed me was the smuck stated that the "committee" started out with about "10 brackets" weeks ago and narrowed it down to "two brackets" before the conference tournaments. Then completed the "final" bracket after the tournaments.

Many in this tread and numerous others suggested that the "brackets" were, in essence, predetermined. Given this guy's remarks, I agree! The only changes that were made were the "automatic" bids may have altered the brackets - Richmond Spiders over Davidson, etc.

Is there anything that we can do to change our seeding? No. Hell, even ESPN analysts and talking heads were questioning us not being a 2 seed . . . which is a shock! But a great shock, as everyone on Tweeter, FB and other platforms are hammering the Committee - Michigan in and aTm OUT?? Duke a 2 seed? And our VOLS are getting a lot of love!!

Let's just go to Indy and kick some butt . . . and politely give the committee the "you're number 1" sign as we advance to the Final Four!

GBO
 
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VolsSince78 said:
I liked Joakim Noah’s answer to a court side reporter’s questions right after UF won the SEC tourney 15 or 16 years ago. The reporter asked him two different ways if he thought the Gators had done enough to get a #1 seed in the NCAA. Noah just told her twice with a big smile on his face “It don’t matter! It don’t matter!”

And UF won it all 3 weeks later.
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Right. At the end of the day you have to beat good teams to make it all of the way. The only “gimme” in theory, is the first round game .
 
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orangelo said:
If the admin feels like something needs to be said let White do it. Barnes doesn’t need to act like he’s worried about anything but Longwood. If the admin sees no need to say anything I’m also cool with that. Just show up and let your play do the talking is my opinion.
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The thing is, if the administration had an issue, they would do it privately and not publicly. I would be doing the same thing. There is likely discussion going on about it. We only read/see/hear what is leaked to the media.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I hope he says something. And I think he will. He doesn’t have to raise cane by any means, but three hours ago he made a comment arguing about why we should be a #1 seed and now we’re the #2 3-seed. That’s horse ****. He knows it. We know it. He should say something.
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I'm sure he's saying something to his team.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
I hate the fact our seed remained unchanged, but I think we got the best draw in the tourney to advance to the final four.
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Villanova looks like the best 2 seed and has one of the 3 best coaches in CBB and Arizona is arguably the best #1 seed. So I don't think I'd call that an easy path vs what even the other 3 seeds got.
 
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newyorkvol said:
14 seed 22-122
15 seed 9-132

So…a 3 seed is twice as likely to lose first round as a 2 seed.
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If the Vols are seeded wrongly the numbers shouldn't matter. If we take care of business we'll see Villanova again and the only difference will be how much orange we are wearing. I think CRB will use this in the locker room and play it down in public.
 
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This is not very eloquent, you can decide on it's value.
Rick should say to the team what I say to my daughter, "Life is NOT fair. You have to accept that and NOT expect it."
Do we want life to be fair, absolutely! BUT sometimes it is just NOT!

Job (Biblical reference) did NOT deserve what he got. He wallowed around and complained about his lot and keep telling everybody he was better.
Everybody else measured him and found him lacking based on their own personal methodology.
Skipping to the end ... God says (not a direct quote, but a summary), "I know what I am doing. You are not as smart as you think you are."

One poet said, “Living well is the best revenge” (George Herbert?) Frankly, I don't know what his motive or meaning was, but my spins is ... 'make the best of whatever life throws at us, and weep no more, but LIVE!'

When we get lemons, we can mourn it! That is reasonable and expected! We suffered a loss. But dwelling on the loss ... is dark dead end alley.
When we get a raw deal, we can sit, wallow and complain ... or ... we can get up and LIVE life to the fullest.
When we are done with the pity party. Grab the lemons and make lemonade and move on.

Or as one lyricist remarked, " ...
Woes are fleeting​
Blows are glancing​
When you're dancing​
Through life... ​
And the strange thing:​
Your life could end up changing​
While you're dancing​
Through! " (Dancing Through Life)​
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Now, it up to Mike and others to question the 'rules of the game.' But I am hoping our players say, we have a game against Longwood and winning that game is all that matters. The rest is just noise!​
 
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