The Official #17 Tennessee vs. #5 Villanova Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, ESPN News

[mr.checkerboards]

Bailey should be benched for that effort

 

[Big Orange#1]

Wtf was that laziness from Bailey doesn’t deserve a scholarship for that effort tf

 

[johnfnkelly]

How can y’all justify Bailey playing? He’s a bad basketball player. Can’t defend. AND HE DOESN’T PLAY HARD.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Put Bailey's ass on the bench and keep him there.

 

[cwbytruckers]

Bailey shouldn’t see the floor again today or tomorrow after that lazy play

 

[Christian Lowe]

this entire game

 

[VolArmy74]

Arnie’s won’t retire anytime soon. Would you if you were paid $5M and Got away with doing a mediocre job? He’s here until White fires him

At some point you reach an age where the massive pile of money you have means you're willing to step away from working for more. I'd say Barnes has 3 to 5 years left.

 

[1985Vols]

You mean DW who struck out on his main targets and had to settle for Heupel?

If you expect him to come out and hire anybody he wants, then you’re highly mistaken.

I can’t think of any coach we could have gotten I would rather have than Heupel. Heupel has done an amazing job This season.

 

[gainesvol82]

Get Bailey out now!

 

[Larkin]

Wtf was that laziness from Bailey doesn’t deserve a scholarship for that effort tf

He couldn’t touch it

 

[VolGee4]

Jerry Green took over a 11-16 team. This idea that Jerry Green took over the 92’ Dream Team cracks me up.

O’Neil recruited Tony Harris who was a freshman in Green’s first year. CJ Black was a sophomore, and Victor was a freshman. Obviously you have no clue.

 

[VolArmy74]

How can your 2 big men (one a 6th yr SR and the other your best player so far this season) have 3 shot attempts between them and expect any shot at winning? This is an atrocious game plan if you can even call it that. We’ve rolled the ball out and let them do what they want.

Fulky has been extremely passive with the ball in his hands or just turned it over.

 

[PC Jr.]

Abysmal performance.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Looks like 3rd game of the season fan meltdown is in full effect...

 

[johnfnkelly]

There was a poster that had the audacity to tell me Bailey had improved because of two cupcake games. Kid should be playing at ETSU.

 

[Big Orange#1]

He couldn’t touch it

Ahh gotcha I couldn’t see well watching on my phone

 

[VolsSportsFan]

He couldn’t touch it

Then bench him for his terrible shot attempt.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

He brings in players that are flops. jJJ?[/QUOTE
He’s a good defender. Don’t get me wrong this is a horrible game we look awful. That being said Rick Barnes is a good coach give the team a chance to redeem themselves before writing them off and starting the fire rants. Good grief.

 

[PandamoniumReigns]

These announcers are gushing over Villanova like a 14 year old dude seeing a naked girl for the first time.

 

[VolGee4]

Dude it’s a new day in our athletic dept. Randy Boyd and Mike White are not going to accept average teams. I can tell you White is not overly excited with Barnes as our BB coach

Lol…Sure.

 

[Kicker82]

Jjj 0-100 on threes?

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Chandler has gotten obliterated today. Wake up call for everyone on this team.

 

[zjcvols]

I can’t discuss with someone who wants to use Cuonzo Martin to defend his position. You’ve done this before. Changed the goal posts when you bash Barnes for no titles, but use Martin’s 20 win seasons, like that matters. Martin lost to Austin Peay his first year and got the play-in game with a talented team.

Jerry Green walked into a talent gold mine, so that doesn’t work either. Good luck making terrible arguments.

Are the last two years under Barnes acceptable, especially considering the salary raise he got? Is today acceptable?

My problem is this idea that Barnes is some sort of special coach when you actually look at what he has done compared to other coaches here, it’s not special at all.

 

[TrumpedUpVol]

And here I was, thinking Tennessee had a solid chance of being ranked in the Top 5 after this tournament. We better hope that UNC (I'm assuming Purdue drubs them by ~15) cares even less tomorrow than the Vols did today.

 

[tnvols72]

This team is bad