The Official #8 Tennessee vs. #12 Kentucky Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN

[vavolfan6]

People complaining about the fans is a joke. Kentucky is a one trick pony who is having success right now. That is why we are losing. Kentucky sells out with their style if basketball. They can beat anyone and lose to anyone. It's why Mark Pope has never won a NCAA tourney game

 

[Vol4lif3]

He’s coaching at Kentucky.

Kentucky has been a bad basketball program for a while lol

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

The seating was set up a long time ago as part of the funding for the arena. Big donors to the building fund are locked into the sidelines.

Move em. Did it for football. Do it for basketball

 

[FlVols]

Getting our butts kicked out here

And this at home. Damn Vols get your asses kicked

 

[C-south]

Simple Game. Put the ball in the basket. Just a bad game tonight even D intensity not there.

There are zero offensive playmakers on this team.

 

[Freak]

Correct.

Just saying. If you've called ballgame once, by definition, it makes no sense to keep calling it again.

 

[KB5252]

This team just doesn't have it. This isn't going to be a deep tournament team......... Our offense is just too one dimensional.

Rough stretch and it's exposed us

 

[Go47]

Gotta get it within 6 with 5:00 to go.

 

[cwbytruckers]

I love Barnes but we need to recruit shooters and screw this #1 defense according to KenPon crap.

 

[OrngeJuiceJones]

Barnes looks miserable

 

[SGMVols]

Kentucky has been a bad basketball program for a while lol

No they haven’t. They just haven’t been “Kentucky good”

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

Yeah. Apparently so. It’s sad that folks send ushers to student section for supposedly being “obnoxious.”

My son got to see that in motion early in the season. Some blue hair said he heard “bad words” from the student section and they sent the ushers in because they said, and I quote, “someone wearing orange over here was screaming the F word”. News flash, everyone over there is wearing orange. And the F word they heard came from the bench.

 

[Woodrow Call]

You’re shocked a Blue Blood is able to rebuild a program quickly?

That program was in disarray. Lost their coach, players. We should be ahead of them regardless of their pedigree.

 

[Anti-shunshinepumper]

We need MAJOR help from the refs

 

[germantown902]

This game is such a head scratcher.

 

[patrick]

Get loud about what? TN is giving them nothing to cheer about. Just brick after brick and weak D tonight.

Don’t you love those that rail on the fans instead of the guys getting paid to play the game???

 

[Jax_Vol]

How do you fix the setting in a giant arena? Not being snarky, actually interested in solutions. I just can’t come up with many that make sense for any side.

Well, we took away the orange seats in heaven and installed black to look sleeker.

Then we added curtains per our interior decorator.

Then we took out seats and added a huge block of luxury boxes.

But, yeah...it is difficult

 

[tnvols72]

In less than a year, Pope's program appears to be as good or ahead of us. There's no excuse for that.

That is the sad part

 

[D3Athlete]

Atmosphere sucks.
It can’t be this hard to make open shots. Kentucky not doing anything on defense. Tennessee just not shooting. Ever since the Florida game, the offense just not the same

 

[pearloftn]

Huge fan of CRB but his reluctance to recruit shooters and true physical big men is wearing thin. This team is so offensively handcuffed it's just sad.

 

[SGMVols]

I love Barnes but we need to recruit shooters and screw this #1 defense according to KenPon crap.

We did recruit players we thought were shooters. They just haven’t translated from the mid majors to the SEC

 

[cwbytruckers]

We were the worst baseball program in the south for 20 years and now we’re the best with one of the best stadium environments to go with it. This is stupid.

And yet we are still a football school first

 

[A-RodWiLks]

Game is far from over but we need some stops

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Barnes looks miserable

He’s 70 years old

 

[DooleyOrangePants]

Move the students

Where? You move them court side, you piss off a sizeable bunch of season ticket holders. To be clear, I’m fine with it personally, but I just don’t see UTAD doing it.