volcrazy89
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My adjusted expections are 22-7 and 12-4 in the SEC for this years Ladyvols
Chattanooga W
Albany W
Texas L
ETSU W
Virginia Tech W
@Wichita State W
@Stanford W
@Oregon State L
Stetson W
@Missouri W
Florida W
Auburn W
@Arkansas W
@Notre Dame L
Vanderbilt W
@Kentucky L
@Miss State L
Alabama W
Arkansas W
@Texas A&M L
@Vanderbilt W
South Carolina L
Ole Miss W
@LSU W
@Alabama W
Georgia W
I could not disagree more. The gap between the elite teams and everyone else has gotten wider in the past few years. There really is little difference between team number 5 and team number 100. They all play ugly basketball. Forget the rankings. Watch the games and ask if any of these teams pass the eye test. Just because we have loyalties towards some of these teams does not mean they are exhibiting excellence. For the past three years there has been a huge gap between Notre Dame/UConn and everyone else. Our scores are not close because everyone else is so much better; it is because we are so much worse since Pat's retirement. How can anyone scream parity if the #1 team embarrasses the #7 team (on the road) by 44 points? And then we struggle to beat two cupcakes at home by only single digits.
My adjusted expections are 22-7 and 12-4 in the SEC for this years Ladyvols
Chattanooga W
Albany W
Texas L
ETSU W
Virginia Tech W
@Wichita State W
@Stanford W
@Oregon State L
Stetson W
@Missouri W
Florida W
Auburn W
@Arkansas W
@Notre Dame L
Vanderbilt W
@Kentucky L
@Miss State L
Alabama W
Arkansas W
@Texas A&M L
@Vanderbilt W
South Carolina L
Ole Miss W
@LSU W
@Alabama W
Georgia W
You don't take into consideration the fact that this team is still gelling and will only get better and better. You also don't take into account that they played three games in five days. They will lose two games tops. Pipe down.
Go put in your application at TBA. See how far that gets you.
Do you people not realize why I spend so much time mocking you? Half of you (more than half of you) present the perfect caricature of the crazy fan who always thinks he or she knows more than the coaching staff. The hyperbolic ranting, the know-it-all self-importance, the hair-pulling, glass-half-empty break-downs even after a win . . . it's glorious. I'm not serious in a lot of what I say here (though I truly am a passionate Lady Vols fan and a huge supporter of Holly), but you guys are too clueless to even realize it. Too. Much. Fun.
I will comment on any damn thing I want, and I will do so in whatever manner that pleases me. Don't dare tell me to stop doing the the one thing you claim everyone else has a right to do -- post their views. I will post what I want when I want and how I want. You can go take a flying leap.
Expectations are the same. This is a similar start to last year. The team is trying to itself. Love the way graves and russell are playing. If we get an offensive flow we'll be okay. Ready for Nared ti return. She really matured last season. In fact my line up would be Russell/Graves/Nared/deshields/Cooper
It would be different if I cared what people think. I don't. My posts are no sillier than those of the idiots here who fancy themselves D1 coaches.
They don't fancy themselves D1 coaches. But most understand the game pretty well and root for the Lady Vols and then come here and express their opinions about their play or the coach's coaching. That is what this is for. If you think their opinion is faulty explain how. By saying, "You're not a D1 coach, you don't know what you're talking about," is not really an argument. It is just a personal attack. If you really think they don't know what they're talking about then prove it.
They don't know what they are talking about first and foremost because they are NOT coaches. They are not in the huddles, they are not at practices, and they don't know what's going on behind the scenes. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, but it gets pretty damn ridiculous when every single time the team loses or doesn't win by enough points, the mantra of "poor coaching" or "outcoached" or "fire the coach" starts up. Few of these posters ever take anything else into consideration because they are solely focused on bashing the coaching. They have one-track minds. They do not consider that this is, overall, a young team that is learning to play together as a team, and there are going to be some missteps and miscues. They do not consider that this is very early in the season. They do not consider the fact that Diamond is still not 100%. They do not consider that this team has played three games in five days. They don't consider anything other than "poor coaching." Holly knows what she is doing, more than anyone who posts here. Let her do it.
The brutal truth is, many of these people are bitter about the fact that Pat is gone and is never, ever coming back to the game. No coach will ever be good enough. Maybe it makes it an easier pill to swallow to assume that everything negative that happens is mostly or solely the fault of the coaches. Perhaps they are thinking if they switch coaches frequently enough, one day they will find Pat's doppelganger. That's never going to happen. Ever. Holly has won 80% of her games, and her teams are going to continue winning FAR more than they lose. Be happy about that. It would be much worse with anyone else.