Kevin O'Neill Head Coach at USC

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He's a good coach. I still have an autographed picture of him from when I was a kid and he coached at UT. I still don't get why he got fired. He put Tennessee in position to win games by slowing the game down when we just didn't have the talent to win otherwise. As soon as he was assembling the talent to achieve wins at a higher level, he got canned.

There is nothing wrong with him as a coach, in my humble opinion. he'll do just fine if given a few years.
 
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IPorange said:
He's a good coach. I still have an autographed picture of him from when I was a kid and he coached at UT. I still don't get why he got fired. He put Tennessee in position to win games by slowing the game down when we just didn't have the talent to win otherwise. As soon as he was assembling the talent to achieve wins at a higher level, he got canned.

There is nothing wrong with him as a coach, in my humble opinion. he'll do just fine if given a few years.
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O'Neill wasn't fired. He resigned. Dickey begged him to stay, going so far as to have Summit try to talk Kevin out of leaving.
 
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Wow, I didn't know that. I was only like 10 or so at the time. To listen to people around here, he got canned.

Why did he quit? Because of the constant silly belly-aching about his "style of play?" Or was it one of those Southern "personality conflict" things with a higher up?
 
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IPorange said:
Wow, I didn't know that. I was only like 10 or so at the time. To listen to people around here, he got canned.

Why did he quit? Because of the constant silly belly-aching about his "style of play?" Or was it one of those Southern "personality conflict" things with a higher up?
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By the time he resigned, Kevin thought every bit as highly of Doug Dickey as I do.
 
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I see. That's a shame. That probably set the basketball program back at least a decade... or perhaps indefinitely.
 
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IPorange said:
He's a good coach. I still have an autographed picture of him from when I was a kid and he coached at UT. I still don't get why he got fired. He put Tennessee in position to win games by slowing the game down when we just didn't have the talent to win otherwise. As soon as he was assembling the talent to achieve wins at a higher level, he got canned.

There is nothing wrong with him as a coach, in my humble opinion. he'll do just fine if given a few years.
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If you say so.

1995 Tennessee 11-16 4-12 6th East --

1996 Tennessee 14-15 6-10 5th tie East NIT First Round

1997 Tennessee 11-16 4-12 6th East

I'll take what's CBP has brought us. We now have people complaining that we're never going to make it to the Final Four instead of we're never going to make it out of the first round of the NIT.
 
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JamesBenUT said:
If you say so.

1995 Tennessee 11-16 4-12 6th East --

1996 Tennessee 14-15 6-10 5th tie East NIT First Round

1997 Tennessee 11-16 4-12 6th East

I'll take what's CBP has brought us. We now have people complaining that we're never going to make it to the Final Four instead of we're never going to make it out of the first round of the NIT.
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Pearl inherited a team that had won 5 games the previous year?
 
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hatvol96 said:
By the time he resigned, Kevin thought every bit as highly of Doug Dickey as I do.
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I was actually in PT with him after he had his knees replaced and realize I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I should have. Of course I was in pain too but no where near as much as him
 
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utvolpj said:
I was actually in PT with him after he had his knees replaced and realize I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I should have. Of course I was in pain too but no where near as much as him
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I would have hit the SOB directly on his fake kneecaps with a tire iron without hesitation.
 
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JamesBenUT said:
Is 11th out of 12 teams acceptable in your third year as head coach? He deserved to go. We were merely treading in mediocrity at best.
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If he was so bad, why was everyone's favorite icon Pat Summit in Memphis begging him to reconsider leaving for Northwestern? People wonder why I say we have the most clueless fans in college basketball.
 
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hatvol96 said:
If he was so bad, why was everyone's favorite icon Pat Summit in Memphis begging him to reconsider leaving for Northwestern? People wonder why I say we have the most clueless fans in college basketball.
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This wasn't one of your better arguments...just sayin.
 
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hatvol96 said:
If he was so bad, why was everyone's favorite icon Pat Summit in Memphis begging him to reconsider leaving for Northwestern? People wonder why I say we have the most clueless fans in college basketball.
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If Pat Summit was truly "begging", history has proven she was difinitively wrong. His Northwestern record was worse than it was in Knoxville. Heck, his whole career indicates he loses more than he wins
 
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JamesBenUT said:
If you say so.

1995 Tennessee 11-16 4-12 6th East --

1996 Tennessee 14-15 6-10 5th tie East NIT First Round

1997 Tennessee 11-16 4-12 6th East

I'll take what's CBP has brought us. We now have people complaining that we're never going to make it to the Final Four instead of we're never going to make it out of the first round of the NIT.
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Did you see the makeup of those teams? Or watch the game? We weren't losing because of coaching. Far from it. That was the only reason we were winning any games.
 
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JamesBenUT said:
If Pat Summit was truly "begging", history has proven she was difinitively wrong. His Northwestern record was worse than it was in Knoxville. Heck, his whole career indicates he loses more than he wins
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Let's see how things go at USC.
 
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So how to you evaluate a coach? Wins and Losses? -- he failed. Improvement? -- his record the first year was just as bad as his last (and the middle year was pathetic too). Beat expectations? -- did 6th in the SEC east exceed expectations? Certainly not mine.
 
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