Lesson #1 — Never Believe Your Own Hype!

[kxtop]

Believing your team’s own hype, or the hype about your conference!! As a first example, just think of all of the superlatives about the SEC being best conference in college basketball in 2022! Only hard work and a deep seeded desire to win EVERY GAME and to constantly improve will win in March.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

When is lesson 2?

 

[PandamoniumReigns]

Purpose of this thread is over my head

 

[Volprofch05]

Chuck D and Flavor Flav already taught this lesson

 

[SGMVols]

I don’t get why we keep spending millions of dollars on coaches when so many VN posters know how to win in March.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

When is lesson 2?

Not sure when, but I bet it will have to do with you have to score more points than the other team to win.

 

[cardvolfan]

The OP may, or may not, get it one day.

 

[DERELICK_MY_VOLS]

Believing your team’s own hype, or the hype about your conference!! As a first example, just think of all of the superlatives about the SEC being best conference in college basketball in 2022! Only hard work and a deep seeded desire to win EVERY GAME and to constantly improve will win in March.

 

[SouthKnoxVol70]

I told everyone on here Michigan would beat TN, and I got called ignorant for even thinking that . Was TN solid this year , of course , but history just reared it’s ugly head again .

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I told everyone on here Michigan would beat TN, and I got called ignorant for even thinking that . Was TN solid this year , of course , but history just reared it’s ugly head again .

Who?

 

[esarmstrong]

Not sure when, but I bet it will have to do with you have to score more points than the other team to win.

Purty sure that's a Neyland maxim.

 

[VolPack22]

 

[PreacherVol2]

If only we had Mark Few as our coach . . . oh, wait . . .

 

[orangemadam]

We would have gone further in the T if we had only paid Barnes $3 mil.

 

[BruisedOrange]

I think we could have a valid discussion if the thread was reworded to ask,
"Have we learned anything about SEC basketball from results so far in the tournament? What was lacking?"

Our regional insecurities always present as needless bluster when we get on the national stage, despite the frequency of our appearances there. It may be that the "superiority of the SEC" only brings out the best in our opponents, just as it did for us back in the 60s and 70s when we went up against the UCLAs, Penn States, and Notre Dames.

 

[the_great_pumpkin]

When is lesson 2?

Lesson #1 was on the house. I’m pretty sure all future lessons are by subscription only. Lesson #1 was just a teaser to get us hooked.

 

[therealitytheory]

I learned that winning the SEC Tourney was pretty sweet. It happened in March, too - I checked the calendar.

 

[OffTackleVol]

Believing your team’s own hype, or the hype about your conference!! As a first example, just think of all of the superlatives about the SEC being best conference in college basketball in 2022! Only hard work and a deep seeded desire to win EVERY GAME and to constantly improve will win in March.

Day drinker?

 

[tennrich1]

I am just a bit confused. Was the "hype" generated by the team? Or did the team generate the "hype"?

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

I am just a bit confused. Was the "hype" generated by the team? Or did the team generate the "hype"?

This will all become clear by lesson 4. Right now, we just know to not believe hype. The good stuff will be here soon.

 

[TennEddie]

UT played like they were “ dissed “ by just getting a 3 seed.
UM played like they had a point to prove from all the talk
about them not deserving to even be in the tournament.

 

[AngryButchJones]

UT played like they were “ dissed “ by just getting a 3 seed.
UM played like they had a point to prove from all the talk
about them not deserving to even be in the tournament.

If only it were this simple.

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

UT played like they were “ dissed “ by just getting a 3 seed.
UM played like they had a point to prove from all the talk
about them not deserving to even be in the tournament.

Tennessee played like they missed a lot of shots. Michigan played like they hit more shots.

 

[birdie74]

Believing your team’s own hype, or the hype about your conference!! As a first example, just think of all of the superlatives about the SEC being best conference in college basketball in 2022! Only hard work and a deep seeded desire to win EVERY GAME and to constantly improve will win in March.

So the SEC teams did do well because they bel