The Official #16 Tennessee @ Louisiana State Game Thread, 2:00 PM ET, ESPN

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Teeboy said:
Yeah...really...and match all of these other great coaches we've had...and all of these National Championships we've won. RIght? I'm pretty satisfied where we're at. TOP 5 in recruiting, NCAA tournament every year, ranked every year...winning 25 games, pretty much, every year. When did you start watching Tennessee basketball? What exactly are the expectations for Tennessee basketball? I don't remember better times and I'm pretty old....Sounding like the old football fans where 10 wins wasn't enough every year. Tennessee fans just can't handle any success....Barnes leaves and we are back to the cellar, just like football. Unfortunately just true....what coach is going to come to this basketball powerhouse?
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Don’t disagree with anything you said. My hope is we break through and finally get to a couple of final 4s and/or win a chip. If that happens then I think think that opens the door for other great coaches to come in after Barnes. In order to do that we have to have a reliable big that can get a basket when needed. I know Grant wasn't that big but can you imagine having him compliment Johnson and Springer? Wow. Now Barnes needs to go find a big that can do that and I think we break through.
 
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Jravol78 said:
I agree in principle but if I am being honest I am a bit jealous. I don’t mean that I am jealous that LSU has Will Wade & UT doesn’t but jealous that LSU sacked up & basically told the AA to pound sand. That is not to say that it might not come back to bite them in the arse someday but at least in the present it exposes the NCAA for the double standard practicing paper tiger that it really is.
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Eh.
The gray area is what it is.
The stupidity about how you go about it in this case wont be envied by me. The AA is a joke, but so is Wade and those they kept him.
 
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Jravol78 said:
I agree in principle but if I am being honest I am a bit jealous. I don’t mean that I am jealous that LSU has Will Wade & UT doesn’t but jealous that LSU sacked up & basically told the AA to pound sand. That is not to say that it might not come back to bite them in the arse someday but at least in the present it exposes the NCAA for the double standard practicing paper tiger that it really is.
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I totally agree...but, I don't want to be LSU. Pretty bad way to win. That Netflix show literally had him talking about paying more than NBA teams could pay for some of his players......actually on tape and gets away with it.
 
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#887
I thought this was the year we made it to the final four. Boy was I wrong. Ponns and Fulkerson are wildly inconsistent. We'll be lucky if we make it past the first round.
 
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Very talented Lsu team that was mentally bought in today. Missed jumpers from us . We need to get Pons healthy. Faulk not sure what is going on with him. No confidence for sure. Still missing a true PG to run the team. But I love our Vols will be better next game. In CHRIST Alone
 
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#891
Let me get this straight, to argue against "just being good", window lickers are using Pearl as an example.....who only ever got us to "just being good".

I swear some of our fans can be a dumb as rocks.
 
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#892
Don’t forgot Pearl also got the players and their families to lie about the BBQ.

Then he threw his own assistants under the bus.

He was backstabbed though. 😂
 
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#893
BisonVol said:
Barnes probably never gets us to a Final Four, but we'll be tournament regulars with him. Last time we fired a guy for going to the NCAA tournament year after year, we ended up with Buzz Peterson. Never take being a tournament regular for granted.
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It’s a whole new season once you get to the tourney and anything can happen, but you gotta get there first.
GBO!!
 
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minorvol said:
Don’t disagree with anything you said. My hope is we break through and finally get to a couple of final 4s and/or win a chip. If that happens then I think think that opens the door for other great coaches to come in after Barnes. In order to do that we have to have a reliable big that can get a basket when needed. I know Grant wasn't that big but can you imagine having him compliment Johnson and Springer? Wow. Now Barnes needs to go find a big that can do that and I think we break through.
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Totally agree. We've had some bad luck on big men unfortunately. One sitting on the bench right now....4*
 
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aWhiteLoftonChism said:
No one was able to keep anyone in front of them today. If you looked up the definition of “playing on your heels” the way we played D today would be there.
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We didn't guard off the dribble very well today as a team. None worse than the guy we are discussing. Hes struggled ever since he stepped on campus in that regard. He is just very limited on that end and any decent coach we play against is exposing that.

When we find a match up that works for him its not near the problem. There just isn't very many of them.
 
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#898
Let’s all be clear though. LSU isn’t a “lesser” team.

Florida & Ole Miss = Bad Losses

Alabama, Missouri, LSU = not bad losses

There’s a Texas Tech team with 6 losses in the top 10 right now. LSU has all the talent in the world, being paid well to be there.

Not every team we lose to is bad, we aren’t elite enough to sleepwalk and win. That’s why we’ve lost 5 games.
 
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Teeboy said:
I totally agree...but, I don't want to be LSU. Pretty bad way to win. That Netflix show literally had him talking about paying more than NBA teams could pay for some of his players......actually on tape and gets away with it.
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Didn‘t know there was a show on Netflix. I will have to check that out.
 
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