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BigPapaVol said:
How long were Buzz and Green here?

Surely you would agree that Pearl's best players were Peterson recruits?

Seems to me that Pearl's recruits have all underperformed their billing. That's a very bad sign.
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doesn't really matter. nothing that peterson ever did, while at ut, ever translated into victorys. i'm really not impressed that he has a recruit playing in the nba. fulmer has a few recruits playing in the nfl, also. i'm going to hold off judgement on pearl until after this season.
 
#102
#102
I could care less what guys do in the NBA as long as they help us win. The jury though still is very much out on Pearl I have yet to see him do a good job developing a guy but we'll see how good of a coach he is in the next two seasons when its all his boys
 
#103
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hatvol96 said:
My "bald conclusory statement" has evidence to back it up. Your Pearl slurping babble has the same thing buttressing it that most of your comments do: Nothing.
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I won't dignify your tribe about evidence with a response.

However, my 'Pearl slurping babble'?

::Scratching my head::

What in God's name are you talking about? Do you have that phrase shortcut-keyed or something? Like you type in "psb" and it gets replaced with "Pearl slurping babble"? You must have a whole slew of them. Perhaps "tbb" goes to "Tanning bed Bruce" or "pp" to "Pearlophile." Do you bust them out all the time, or only when you're getting worked over in an argument and need to change the subject?

I can come up with no other reasoned explanation as to how anything I wrote in this thread could be characterized as "Pearl Slurping Babble."
 
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kidbourbon said:
I won't dignify your tribe about evidence with a response.

However, my 'Pearl slurping babble'?

::Scratching my head::

What in God's name are you talking about? Do you have that phrase shortcut-keyed or something? Like you type in "psb" and it gets replaced with "Pearl slurping babble"? You must have a whole slew of them. Perhaps "tbb" goes to "Tanning bed Bruce" or "pp" to "Pearlophile." Do you bust them out all the time, or only when you're getting worked over in an argument and need to change the subject?

I can come up with no other reasoned explanation as to how anything I wrote in this thread could be characterized as "Pearl Slurping Babble."
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I wouldn't know about "getting worked over in an argument." That's your field of expertise. Maybe you need to go watch more film with daddy.
 
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mattvols said:
I could care less what guys do in the NBA as long as they help us win.
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If you don't produce successful NBA players, you're not going to get the kinds of recruits you need to consistently compete for championships.
 
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kidbourbon said:
I won't dignify your tribe about evidence with a response.

However, my 'Pearl slurping babble'?

::Scratching my head::

What in God's name are you talking about? Do you have that phrase shortcut-keyed or something? Like you type in "psb" and it gets replaced with "Pearl slurping babble"? You must have a whole slew of them. Perhaps "tbb" goes to "Tanning bed Bruce" or "pp" to "Pearlophile." Do you bust them out all the time, or only when you're getting worked over in an argument and need to change the subject?

I can come up with no other reasoned explanation as to how anything I wrote in this thread could be characterized as "Pearl Slurping Babble."
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Pearlophile is one word...abbreviated by one letter...just by the way.

Anyway, I think hat sometimes gets so annoyed/fed up by what he would simply call "idiocy" that he stops completely explaining himself, but I think BPV's post a page or two ago gives a good explanation of why we wouldn't beat Louisville. Their defense and athletes would overwhelm us at any time, and one flukey loss doesn't change that.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I wouldn't know about "getting worked over in an argument." That's your field of expertise. Maybe you need to go watch more film with daddy.
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It's normal man, denial is the first step. But with the help of your shortcut keys, I'm sure you can get through it.

Haha. He's in Germany right now, but I'm definitely sure I do. We can watch some old tape of Pervis Ellison, Herb Crook, and Jeff Hall running that wicked full court....er....never mind.
 
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VKAman said:
Pearlophile is one word...abbreviated by one letter...just by the way.

Anyway, I think hat sometimes gets so annoyed/fed up by what he would simply call "idiocy" that he stops completely explaining himself, but I think BPV's post a page or two ago gives a good explanation of why we wouldn't beat Louisville. Their defense and athletes would overwhelm us at any time, and one flukey loss doesn't change that.
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But what if he had already assigned "p" to "Pearl". I thought ahead.
 
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kidbourbon said:
It's normal man, denial is the first step. But with the help of your shortcut keys, I'm sure you can get through it.

Haha. He's in Germany right now, but I'm definitely sure I do. We can watch some old tape of Pervis Ellison, Herb Crook, and Jeff Hall running that wicked full court....er....never mind.
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What's funny is, I talked to Milt Wagner about three weeks ago. He finds the idea Louisville wasn't a pressing team far funnier than I do. But hey, what do he and Denny Crum know about how Louisville played? They never watched the film with kidbourbon and his daddy.
 
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VKAman said:
Anyway, I think hat sometimes gets so annoyed/fed up by what he would simply call "idiocy" that he stops completely explaining himself, but I think BPV's post a page or two ago gives a good explanation of why we wouldn't beat Louisville. Their defense and athletes would overwhelm us at any time, and one flukey loss doesn't change that.
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It's always heartening to see at least some people around here are paying attention.
 
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hatvol96 said:
If you don't produce successful NBA players, you're not going to get the kinds of recruits you need to consistently compete for championships.
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i agree. a list of current nba players that have played for the ut would be an even better recruiting tool than pratt pavilion or an sec championship.
 
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hatvol96 said:
What's funny is, I talked to Milt Wagner about three weeks ago. He finds the idea Louisville wasn't a pressing team far funnier than I do. But hey, what do he and Denny Crum know about how Louisville played? They never watched the film with kidbourbon and his daddy.
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I want you to go on record as saying the '86 UofL Nat'l Championship team was a pressing team. Just please put that simple statement in a single post. That is all I ask.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
How is that true? For a bigger game, as UT surely would have been, there would clearly have been a different defensive intensity. The matchups clearly favored UL in a gigantic way, especially on our offensive end, and we all know about our defensive end.

Every team drops some games they shouldn't, but the best teams with best coaches tend to play well in the big ones. I don't think we could have played them within 10 without them simply being off.
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It is true because it was a conference game in the Big East. It was not a throwaway game...and that point really isn't even arguable. A loss hurts seeding in the conference championship, which leads to a tougher draw, which can lead to an earlier exit, which can have an adverse effect on seeding in the big dance.

Would a UL/UT game in January or early February have been a bigger game than a conference game? Good question. On the one hand, UL and UT are not rivals and are not in the same conference, so you would think UL would play with more intensity in a conference game or a rival game like against UK. On the other hand, we were ranked higher than them that year, so, yeah, they might have gotten up for it.

You said that every team drops some games they shouldn't. I agree. Bad nights happen. And I pointed to a couple bad nights that UL had. But don't think my argument is based just on one game. UT had a real real good regular season and beat a memphis team on the road that would have beaten UofL by double digits. UL had a decent regular season, but they had worse losses than UT and less impressive wins. And they just never really looked that good. I saw them lose to Georgetown at the Verizon Center. I will acknowledge that that wasn't a bad loss, but the team just never looked particulary impressive on offense -- scoring seemed like a chore for them.

The joy ride for UT came to a screeching halt at the end of the regular season. I don't know enough to speculate on the underlying reasons, but the wheels just started to fall off the Vols at the end of the year. They weren't the same team. Hell, the first round tournament game against American wasn't even safe until the very end. I have little doubt that UT would have beaten the mighty American Eagles by 30 had they played earlier in the season.

And then [after another tight and generally lackluster game] we played UofL. And it was brutal. I saw it, and I am no blind man. We got destroyed in all aspects. BUT....before we all start circle jerking to the almighty Fighting Pitinos, let's not forget that UofL got a pretty good whooping at the hands of UNC in the next game, who then in turn got a really good whooping at the hands of Kansas, who then beat Memphis by about the same margin that UT beat them by -- on the road -- earlier in the year. I fully understand the limitations of the transitive property in making these types of comparisons. But it does provide some evidence -- which is about twelve times more evidence than "bald conclusion hat" has provided -- that maybe, just maybe, the fact that UofL spanked us is as much attributable to (a) the fact that UT had inexplicably and unfortunately regressed to a mere shell of the team they were even a month earlier, as it is to (b) a total mismatch at every position on the floor.

UT would have beaten UofL earlier in the season.

I don't expect a substantive response from hat, but I eagerly anticipate finding out which household cleaning products he wants me to chug.
 
#116
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kidbourbon said:
I won't dignify your tribe about evidence with a response.

However, my 'Pearl slurping babble'?

::Scratching my head::

What in God's name are you talking about? Do you have that phrase shortcut-keyed or something? Like you type in "psb" and it gets replaced with "Pearl slurping babble"? You must have a whole slew of them. Perhaps "tbb" goes to "Tanning bed Bruce" or "pp" to "Pearlophile." Do you bust them out all the time, or only when you're getting worked over in an argument and need to change the subject?

I can come up with no other reasoned explanation as to how anything I wrote in this thread could be characterized as "Pearl Slurping Babble."
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Apparently, if you write anything in this thread that tends to support the current coach in any way, you are a Pearl slurper/Pearlophile. That's what I've gathered.

Time to hit the tanning bed.
 
#117
#117
From the above posts and my own recollections, here's what I think of the 2008 UofL debate:

UofL was better.
UT might have beaten UofL during the regular season.

:p
 
#119
#119
KidBourbon, you say that the Seton Hall game was big basically because it might have affected seeding in the NCAA Tournament. I'm pretty sure that a game against a top ten team like Tennessee would have more influence there, thus making it a bigger game. I would be willing to bet that our players get up for Marquette/Kansas/USC more than for Georgia, even though it didn't really look like it this year in Lawrence.
 
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VKAman said:
KidBourbon, you say that the Seton Hall game was big basically because it might have affected seeding in the NCAA Tournament. I'm pretty sure that a game against a top ten team like Tennessee would have more influence there, thus making it a bigger game. I would be willing to bet that our players get up for Marquette/Kansas/USC more than for Georgia, even though it didn't really look like it this year in Lawrence.
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I eagerly wait for the rematch this year. Should be an incredible game. Should be. If Tenn can finally gel as a team going into the match-up with the potential Number 1 ranked team, it should be a clash similar to the Memphis game two years ago.

Although, some here discredit that game as nothing meaningful, for some odd "I hate Bruce" reason. I wonder if they will do the same if Tennessee can manage to knock off Kansas? I'm curious as to what the "excuses" will be on why Tenn won, if and when that should happen.
 
#121
#121
That KU game is on a Saturday. I'm going, and believe me, there is fun to be had if we win.
 
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