The Official #3 Tennessee vs. #11 Michigan NCAA Tournament Game Thread, 5:50 PM ET, CBS

[utkCREW]

Meh, speak for yourself. I’m already excited about next season.
GBO!!

Same — what’s coming back is solid, what’s developing has GREAT potential, and what’s on the bench can really be an impact. I’m very optimistic about the next 2 years honestly.

 

[Vol8188]

How many interceptions did Jeremy Pruitt throw? Or Butch? Or Dooley? This is a common theme with Barnes accept it. Like I said yes he’s a good coach, I am grateful for him but he will never take us deep. That is obvious.

You’re overreacting. Pruitt couldn’t recruit. That’s what hurt him. He brought in around 0 cbs and 0 talented QBs. Barnes brings in elite talent and elite coaches.

You’re going to lose more tournaments than you win. Every coach does. The idea that we need to move on is insane

 

[VolGee4]

That’s What you’ll get with Barnes unless he has superior talent all the way around . They did well but just not enough

He didn’t have superior talent in 2019. This is just not true.

 

[hog88]

If you are lucky Tn might hire a coach who cant get into the tournament.. How many F4 have you seen Tn in?

None and I want to see us in one before I die.

 

[orange_glory]

My advice is don't make Tennessee sports your primary source of happiness.

 

[Frozevol]

I will regroup after this weekend and find my favorite to pull for. I can't take watching our highlights over and over and over this weekend.

We have baseball!

 

[Berry4Heisman14]

You’re overreacting. Pruitt couldn’t recruit. That’s what hurt him. He brought in around 0 cbs and 0 talented QBs. Barnes brings in elite talent and elite coaches.

You’re going to lose more tournaments than you win. Every coach does. The idea that we need to move on is insane

I’m not saying the smart move is to fire him now. I’m just saying we won’t ever go deep with him.

 

[YankeeVol]

That’s a lot to pay a male escort. Where did you two watch the game?

Your moms

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Great group of kids that wore the orange and white this year. I’m not gonna dog them. They put more into this season than any of us can even imagine. I’m proud of them. Disappointed they lost but proud of every single one of them!
And I’ll say it, I’m proud to have Rick Barnes as our coach.
GBO!!

This 100 times.!!

 

[djohnnyg]

Barnes has a long history of choking in the tourney. It's who he is and what he does. It's his "thing." He surprised me by choking even earlier than I expected this time.

 

[vol94]

He had a hard fall early, never looked the same afterwards. I don’t know if he can, but if Santi can find a way to add the threat of a drive he could really be a great player. He had an off shooting night, but played hard as hell. I feel like Barnes went to “what had worked” all season, going small. But Michigan was the wrong team to do it with. Uros was having a great game and with him out we had no rebounding.

Love Fulky but he’s never been a good rebounder. Also people are quick to forget how good Michigan is from a talent standpoint. They have 8 top 100 guys, we have 5.

Agree. I posted earlier today that they were preseason top 5. Idk why they struggled this yr but it’s so frustrating to lose to a team that many felt should not have made the tournament.

 

[Vol8188]

I’m not saying the smart move is to fire him now. I’m just saying we won’t ever go deep with him.

That’s dumb. If you bring in elite talent and elite coaches, you can win a title.

Once again, you’re going to lose more tournaments than you win.

 

[Frozevol]

Also that hook shot was so dumb. Something you shoot when playing horse.

Jabbar must have won a lot of HORSE!

 

[GBO18]

Every player out there played to their abilities, just because fulky isn’t as talented as KC or JJJ, he deserves more pity? Cmon man, it don’t matter if he has been around 6 years or 6 months

Just stop. I mentioned nothing about his abilities. JJJ's career is not over nor is KC's.

 

[Lizzard28]

When you ppl gonna realize Michigan was our worse possible matchup...come on

I think Gonzaga or Kansas would be much worse along with a few other teams. This was a middling Big10 team that just lost to IU. It was another golden opportunity to get to the sweet 16 and Tennessee choked, aint no bones about it

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Try to find a post in my entire history where I made that complaint. The first thing Phil Jackson did when he got to the Lakers was make them stop taking so many threes. It’s pretty basic coaching that if your shot isn’t falling you don’t keep jacking up the long ball.

Analytics say mid range jumpers are bad odds in the modern game. We won a lot of games in the last month due to the three. A good coach says shoot through the slump. We had a bad night, and they had a great gameplan.

 

[C-south]

My advice is don't make Tennessee sports your primary source of happiness.

I’ve invested in too much orange to turn a blind eye.

 

[Vol8188]

Barnes has a long history of choking in the tourney. It's who he is and what he does. It's his "thing." He surprised me by choking even earlier than I expected this time.

How many 3s did Rick Barnes miss?

If Heupel had Tillman schemed open for 5 tds, we missed all 5, and lost a game by a single possession, would you blame Heupel?

 

[hog88]

He's probably not too far from retiring now anyways. He's good enough to maintain our basketball program as an attractive destination so we should retain him until he decides to hang it up. Don't want to see our basketball program turn into a dumpster fire like football did.

I truly hope we don’t fire him. It would be great if we could do a handoff with Barnes being an ambassador for the university.

 

[Vawlranger88]

Just stop. I mentioned nothing about his abilities. JJJ's career is not over nor is KC's.

You said you feel bad for fulky? What about the Tennessee Vols cmon man, it’s not a one man show?

 

[Berry4Heisman14]

That’s dumb. If you bring in elite talent and elite coaches, you can win a title.

Once again, you’re going to lose more tournaments than you win.

Dumb is seeing a coach fizzle out in the tournament year in and year out and expecting anything different to happen in the future. He’s made it out of the first weekend one time in his past 10 tournament appearances. That’s not indicative to you?

 

[GBO18]

Barnes has a long history of choking in the tourney. It's who he is and what he does. It's his "thing." He surprised me by choking even earlier than I expected this time.

lol are you drunk or is your account controlled by a robot? Same post over and over.

 

[Sos]

That was a bad loss IMO. We had talent and depth. No attempt to draw fouls on the interior.

Disappointing. But. Nice season Vols!

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

Your moms

Excellent. I just bought her a new camera. She’ll send the good ones soon.

 

[Vol8188]

Dumb is seeing a coach fizzle out in the tournament year in and year out and expecting anything different to happen in the future. He’s made it out of the first weekend one time in his past 10 tournament appearances. That’s not indicative to you?

No. It’s not. All 10 of those weren’t sweet 16 worthy teams.