Why did Jerry Green retire?

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therealitytheory said:
His recruiting sucked? LOL He closed the deal on Tony Harris, and he brought in Slay and Yarbrough.

"If you watched his last season, he was losing control of that team" - you could have made the same statement about Pearl.

Don't know why you have a hate-on for Green - maybe you're a big fan of the NIT.
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Tony Harris? The guy that regressed every year?

I have made the same statement about Pearl, and everyone knows why they tanked. He was about to be shown the door. Green had nothing like like going on. Besides, what Pearl did or did not do has nothing to do with the fact that Green's last team tanked.

Green was an average coach with outstanding talent. It's already been asked but if he was so great, why did he never coach again. OH...right, feed me the "He decided not to" bullcrap.
 
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Also, Martin gets flack for not showing emotion, but good gracious he's Bobby Knight compared to Green. Green looked like he wanted to fall asleep during games.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Also, Martin gets flack for not showing emotion, but good gracious he's Bobby Knight compared to Green. Green looked like he wanted to fall asleep during games.
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Oh come on.

Otis had his patented wave for the ball to be pushed up the court in a more out of control fashion!
 
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jcvet33 said:
Jerry Green just rolled out the ball and yelled play. I always noticed during timeouts instead of talking to the players he stared up at the scoreboard.
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Bull. Jerry Green ran the best plays off of dead ball situations than anyone who was ever HC at UT; Mears, Pearl - anybody. He ran various pick 'n weave plays handed down from Dean Smith to his mentor Roy Williams to great success. OoB plays were his bread and butter; they were also precious moments when he could get Tony Harris under control, albeit only briefly.

Hate on Green all you like, but don't make crap up about him. That's not right.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Threads like this make it clear how little Tennessee fans know about basketball before Bruce Pearl.
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thanks for the moron comment. I'm very well aware of basketball before Bruce Pearl but there was never a reason given for Green's departure. Stop being a tool.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Tony Harris? The guy that regressed every year?

I have made the same statement about Pearl, and everyone knows why they tanked. He was about to be shown the door. Green had nothing like like going on. Besides, what Pearl did or did not do has nothing to do with the fact that Green's last team tanked.

Green was an average coach with outstanding talent. It's already been asked but if he was so great, why did he never coach again. OH...right, feed me the "He decided not to" bullcrap.
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Never said he was a great coach. YOU said his recruiting sucked, and the facts say otherwise.
 
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therealitytheory said:
Bull. Jerry Green ran the best plays off of dead ball situations than anyone who was ever HC at UT; Mears, Pearl - anybody. He ran various pick 'n weave plays handed down from Dean Smith to his mentor Roy Williams to great success. OoB plays were his bread and butter; they were also precious moments when he could get Tony Harris under control, albeit only briefly.

Hate on Green all you like, but don't make crap up about him. That's not right.
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This might be one of the most laughable comments ever made on here. And that's saying something.
 
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BruinVol said:
Oh come on.

Otis had his patented wave for the ball to be pushed up the court in a more out of control fashion!
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Was Green the one that lost his shoe when he was showing the ref how someone was tripped? I can't remember or not, but it was pretty funny.
 
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VolGee4 said:
Was Green the one that lost his shoe when he was showing the ref how someone was tripped? I can't remember or not, but it was pretty funny.
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I don't Remember that one. I do recall green motioning up the court all the time
 
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therealitytheory said:
Never said he was a great coach. YOU said his recruiting sucked, and the facts say otherwise.
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I wouldn't say his recruiting sucked, but almost every recruit that I can think of were from TN- Yarbrough (who was related to Del Baker), Slay, Haislip, Walker, Woods, and if you even want to include Harris. Higgins is the only one out of state that I can remember. TN had some great prospects, and Memphis was going through their fiasco with Tic Price. It really was not as good as you say. It was more circumstantial than anything else.
 
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It would have been interesting to see how Devoe could have handled Tony Harris and UT probably would have beaten UNC and gotten to the Final 4.
 
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therealitytheory said:
Sorry that facts don't jibe with your "inside scoops" on Green. Funny how a couple of autographs turn into "relationships with ex-players."
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Your "facts" are baseless and a joke. Green couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper sack. He was a damn joke and everyone in the coaching community knew it. And I've never asked a hoops player for an autograph so nice projecting there Nancy. You're good at making up bullsh*t stories though.
 
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