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#51
#51
cncchris33 said:
I'm done for a few days. This board is inundated with morons with agendas an uneducated opinions. Even if their complaints are legit, their methods of solution are extremely myopic. I'll wait it out though. As soon as NASCAR and wraslin' get amped back up, they'll retreat until our first loss next season.
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I'm with ya

Go Vols
 
#55
#55
JACK8254 said:
Without Bruce, we would have never, ever been a player in the top 20 teams. We had never been #1 in the nation before Bruce came here ad we will never get back there unless he comes back. Its not like he had a DUI or killed someone. He had a recruit at his home for a BBQ and kept him there a few hours over the limit. I think Bruce is great and we would be lucky to get him back.
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He lied straight up to the investigators from the governing body of his sport. This is supposed to be college athletics where young men are built into leaders and respectable citizens. The people of this State have a right to demand more from a coach who is entrusted with this duty.
 
#59
#59
ITSGR82BATNVOL said:
He said it multiple times publicly, so of course the players bought into it. All you had to do was watch the game, to see they gave a half ass effort. Bama was the aggressor from start to finish, and made UT play their games the entire 40 minutes. I for one am sick of you people making excuses for Martin and this team's lack of effort in games that mean the most.
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Well said.
 
#62
#62
Stoked4Zo said:
Sounds about right....the person in charge doesn't even know what he's talking about. All the CCM hate is comical. Last time I checked he wasn't left with and AA Lofton or and NBA pg only a McBee and Hall lol. Our fans are so annoying.
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Yet you used the excuse that the reason when we lost all year was that a Pearl recruit was injured.
 
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#64
#64
Keep making excuses for CCM but the fact is he is not as good of a coach as Bruce otherwise he could have made the tournament in a down SEC year.
 
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#67
#67
Volhoops said:
Keep making excuses for CCM but the fact is he is not as good of a coach as Bruce otherwise he could have made the tournament in a down SEC year.
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Your example is under an NCAA ban for cheating and lying. He doesn't coach anywhere because of it.
 
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#69
#69
It's not enough just to schedule tough OOC games, you have to win more of them. Oklahoma St. on a neutral floor, on the road at Georgetown, on the road at Virginia, and Memphis at home were all opportunities that we didn't make anything of. Wichita St. and Xavier coupled with Presbyterian and and Western Carolina and Oakland ALL AT HOME, and being swept by UGA and Ole Miss...C'mon, we didn't deserve it based on EVERYTHING.

It's the second year in a row we start slow and finish with a fury. Hopefully we'll have a better plan next year. GBO!
 
#70
#70
volatil said:
Good lord. Bruce is not coming back. Please give it up. Counzo is going to have to make the tourney soon, agreed. But for the love of God give up this Pearl is coming back thing.
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No, because if Cuonzo can't get it done next year, and there is a good chance of that, then that is exactly what needs to happen. We need to rehire a proven winner like Pearl. I doubt if we could get him to return though. He has a good job and probably wouldn't want to go back to coaching now.
 
#71
#71
vol66 said:
It's not enough just to schedule tough OOC games, you have to win more of them. Oklahoma St. on a neutral floor, on the road at Georgetown, on the road at Virginia, and Memphis at home were all opportunities that we didn't make anything of. Wichita St. and Xavier coupled with Presbyterian and and Western Carolina and Oakland ALL AT HOME, and being swept by UGA and Ole Miss...C'mon, we didn't deserve it based on EVERYTHING.

It's the second year in a row we start slow and finish with a fury. Hopefully we'll have a better plan next year. GBO!
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Actually win them? Ask Middle Tenn. if you have to win them or not.
 
#72
#72
87Vol said:
No, because if Cuonzo can't get it done next year, and there is a good chance of that, then that is exactly what needs to happen. We need to rehire a proven winner like Pearl. I doubt if we could get him to return though. He has a good job and probably wouldn't want to go back to coaching now.
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What part of "banned" makes you think he chose TV?
 
#74
#74
Not in because:

1) we were a middling team in a conference that is not very good and gets very
little national respect. It worries me that the default reaction among basketball pundits is that "the sec sux." That's often true, but not always--and when you are, say, the 4th best team in the SEC, or 5th, it's going to cost you.

2) the selection committee increasingly picks small-conference teams for "last-in" berths--they showed that on CBS. Major conference last-in picks--major trend down; small-conference, major trend up. UT is as good or better than 35 teams in the tournament--but that's not saying a whole lot as there are a lot of average teams in the dance.

3) we laid an egg in our last game--against a mediocre team. Never good when you're a bubble team. We played fairly well down the stretch, but you cant play like crap against a team that's not in the tournament and expect to get in.

4) Every year at least four teams that wouldn't get any consideration for the nit, much less the ncaa, get into the big dance because they win their small-conference tourney. Liberty--20 losses--and James Madison--spring to mind. There were others. Oh, well.
 
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#75
#75
armchair said:
Not in because:

1) we were a middling team in a conference that is not very good and gets very
little national respect. It worries me that the default reaction among basketball pundits is that "the sec sux." That's often true, but not always--and when you are, say, the 4th best team in the SEC, or 5th, it's going to cost you.

2) the selection committee increasingly picks small-conference teams for "last-in" berths--they showed that on CBS. Major conference last-in picks--major trend down; small-conference, major trend up. UT is as good or better than 35 teams in the tournament--but that's not saying a whole lot as there are a lot of average teams in the dance.

3) we laid an egg in our last game--against a mediocre team. Never good when you're a bubble team. We played fairly well down the stretch, but you cant play like crap against a team that's not in the tournament and expect to get in.

4) Every year at least four teams that wouldn't get any consideration for the nit, much less the ncaa, get into the big dance because they win their small-conference tourney. Liberty--20 losses--and James Madison--spring to mind. There were others. Oh, well.
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Nice assessment.
 
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