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Deangelo Gibbs to the cocks!? Didn't see that coming.... He hasn't played in like two years right? Never really saw the field with us after coming in overweight and didn't want to work...
Had a random dream last night that Gibbs showed up at a school playing basketball and was dunking all over people. Announcers kept questioning how we let him get away from us.
 
College basketball's championship is both the most exciting and the most frustrating.

You give Coach Barnes a full week to prepare for a championship game OR you give him a best of 3 series to decide and I'd put him against anyone in the country.

But when it comes down to a tournament run of winning 6 games straight in basically 2.5 weeks and it's honestly hard to feel confident about any coach that's not at a blue blood school stacked with talent.
 
College basketball's championship is both the most exciting and the most frustrating.

You give Coach Barnes a full week to prepare for a championship game OR you give him a best of 3 series to decide and I'd put him against anyone in the country.

But when it comes down to a tournament run of winning 6 games straight in basically 2.5 weeks and it's honestly hard to feel confident about any coach that's not at a blue blood school stacked with talent.
Exactly. You need a team that catches fire and catches some breaks to be the last one standing in a 'one and done'.
 
Big Orange Train? Il be honest don’t think their are actual trolls in here. I’ve read more than I’ve posted but the only troll imo is the Hallie poster, whoever that is.
It’s okay to “troll”, just don’t be an actual troll, you know what I mean? Lol
Think it was checkerboard.
 
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I just planted a tree to compensate.

Speaking of (over) compensating.

Had privalege of driving a '22 Toyota Camry last week, as a Toyota stock holder, it was everything I'd dreamth of and more.
We almost bought an older Toyota Camry for my daughter but ended up with a Honda Civic instead…. I don’t think your tree will cover for China and India.
 
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We almost bought an older Toyota Camry for my daughter but ended up with a Honda Civic instead…. I don’t think your tree will cover for China and India.
es anyone know how many trees are required to offset an average car's emissions? I've never thought of it until you just mentioned that.
 
College basketball's championship is both the most exciting and the most frustrating.

You give Coach Barnes a full week to prepare for a championship game OR you give him a best of 3 series to decide and I'd put him against anyone in the country.

But when it comes down to a tournament run of winning 6 games straight in basically 2.5 weeks and it's honestly hard to feel confident about any coach that's not at a blue blood school stacked with talent.
He has 3-4 days to prepare for the first game of the tourney and has lost 12 times. He has a below .500 record in the tourney for this reason.
 
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Rick Barnes ceiling is elite 8 possible final 4..when it comes tournament time and the list gets trimmed to “elite coaching” to win. he gets out coached even when his starting 5 is championship caliber with championship caliber players.
Love Rick Barnes. So thankful we have him.
 
He has 3-4 days to prepare for the first game of the tourney and has lost 12 times. He has a below .500 record in the tourney for this reason.
Ya… great guy. But through 51 attempts (a lot of attempts) he’s 25-26. That’s not exactly good. Averages out to a Round of 32 appearance per tournament appearance
 
He has 3-4 days to prepare for the first game of the tourney and has lost 12 times. He has a below .500 record in the tourney for this reason.

At TN Barnes has only lost 1 first round game, to Oregon State.

Which was also the weird season dealing with COVID and us not starting the year until December and the year Fulky got put out of the SECT by Payne and didn't play in the last 2 games (both losses) of the season.
 
But you have to position yourself in the regular season, too….to take advantage of March. He only has one first round loss here.

I’m just getting tired of people of complaining about single losses in basketball. It’s like our fans have never experienced basketball seasons.
It doesn’t bother me right around the game bc I know people like to vent. The fans that bother me is continuing complaining about individual losses…wanting to fire every coach…. Lowering expectations so we can always feel successful….. Barnes is 24-25 in the tourney…. It’s when it matters most…. Hopefully, he makes a deeper run this season.
 
At TN Barnes has only lost 1 first round game, to Oregon State.

Which was also the weird season dealing with COVID and us not starting the year until December and the year Fulky got put out of the SECT by Payne and didn't play in the last 2 games (both losses) of the season.

In his 3 NCAAT’s at Providence, he was seeded 12, 9, and 8. He lost by 3 to 5 seed Virginia, by 1 in OT to 8 seed Ohio State, and by 6 to 9 seed Alabama. When he took Clemson to the SS, he lost to 1 seed Minnesota in double OT but beat UK (lost in title game), Duke, and Maryland in the regular season. There are more layers to his history.
 
I guess my thing being that I've been watching UT basketball for 3 decades now is that our expectations shouldn't be what Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, or Kansas fans expect from their programs.

Yes eventually it'd be nice for the Vols to rise to that level of FF or bust every year, but the program has only made the Elite Eight once.

We've had 2 SECT championships since the 40s, we've only been ranked in the preseason 17 times. The school is 23-25 in the NCAA Tournament. Only 6 coaches in program history have even made an appearance in the NCAA.

Things I keep in mind when looking at our success as a program under Barnes. I absolutely want to see him win a Natty here. I absolutely want to see him make a FF or multiples while here. But right now I just want to see yearly Sweet Sixteen appearances and a team that's always ranked and competing for the SEC regular season or conference tournament championship...that he has at least given us.
 
I guess my thing being that I've been watching UT basketball for 3 decades now is that our expectations shouldn't be what Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke, or Kansas fans expect from their programs.

Yes eventually it'd be nice for the Vols to rise to that level of FF or bust every year, but the program has only made the Elite Eight once.

We've had 2 SECT championships since the 40s, we've only been ranked in the preseason 17 times. The school is 23-25 in the NCAA Tournament. Only 6 coaches in program history have even made an appearance in the NCAA.

Things I keep in mind when looking at our success as a program under Barnes. I absolutely want to see him win a Natty here. I absolutely want to see him make a FF or multiples while here. But right now I just want to see yearly Sweet Sixteen appearances and a team that's always ranked and competing for the SEC regular season or conference tournament championship...that he has at least given us.
Yearly? He has made 1 SS…. Nobody should want Barnes fired but it’s ok to discuss his failures as well.
 
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