Nice to see that the Lady Vols...

[armchair]

look athletic, as a team, and they are running again. The program's best team ever was a running team--and then Summitt & Co. could never come close to putting a similar squad on the floor. The guard recruiting was really bad for several years--PS became strangely enamored of big, slow players and heady guards (many from Indiana) who were not athletic--and that is Warlick's first job if she wants to win a national title. Recruit good, athletic guards--one of which, Scaife, we lost today, unfortunately. We need a team that can play great pressure defense and then run the court.

Talent evaluation is key with recruiting. If you analyze the top 21 HS prospects every year, odds are that a number of them do not have the game to excel at the top of the Div. 1 level, even though they were highly rated coming out of HS. About 7 will be good/very good, another 7 will be decent/good, and 7 will not fulfill their potential and will have average to disappointing careers when assessed against their high ranking. That's why evaluation is key. The three girls we landed this year look quite good, so off we go with a new era of UT women's basketball. It's time we got back to the Final Four, for starters.

 

[Special Ed]

Chamique Holdsclaw is doing her part to keep UT in the news, too.

 

[Brentwoodvolfan]

Chamique Holdsclaw is doing her part to keep UT in the news, too.

Come on man. You much of started drinking early. You have spewed you garbage all over boards today. Give it a rest!!

 

[Voluble2]

I don't know how closely you follow these things but the Lady Vols had a pretty epic run of bad luck when it came to point guards. They lost some to injury, overbearing parents etc... Hornbuckle had to play in the NCAA tournament with a cast on her hand and arm that looked like something a football player would wear. She outplayed most of her competition with one hand --- but of course you can't win a tournament that way. Pretty much anything that could happen to us at the point guard position happened.

 

[Special Ed]

Come on man. You much of started drinking early. You have spewed you garbage all over boards today. Give it a rest!!

Just doing my part to keep the sardonic and satirical commentary flowing. The current state of Vol football and basketball has us all a little off kilter. At this point, it’s hard to take anything too seriously. Sometimes you just have to laugh to keep from crying.