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Ten_Titans said:
I always liked Jim Rome. It's kind of a shame that the world of shock jock trolls in sports media is so watered down now he just kinds of gets lumped in with the Stephen A Smiths and Colin Cowherds of the world.

The hate kind of cracks me up. Everyone hates on those guys relentlessly. But who do people listen to, First Take or the "journalists" of the world like Jimmy Hyams and VQ? Yeah...
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He’s his own special kind of shock jock troll. I don’t like him and laugh when he implodes. Misplaced arrogance has that effect.
 
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pierce60 said:
Most of Vandy’s 3’s weren’t because of bad D, they were just tough, lucky shots. A couple of times TN got lazy and put their hands down, but most were highly contested shots.
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You know how goofy this place is. If the other team hits shots it is only because the defense sucked and was lazy.

I watched one game I recorded earlier this season after following the thread while traveling, and it blew my mind how different the reality of the game was from the description on VN.
 
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247 has an article based on the Rome interview. Good bits.
"For me, the great passion and energy for me has always been in being in a place where you’re building something, you’re creating something. That’s what we’re doing here. This is a tradition that is as deep as anywhere in the country. We get an opportunity to rebuild that, but do it with a new-age approach and put a product out there that I think is going to be extremely exciting."
 
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Kristy* said:
I have no problem with the tweet - showing confidence and having a chip on his shoulder. But he needs to thicken his skin if he can't handle a few negative comments because he chooses to talk the talk before walking the walk. Go out there and prove the idiot fans wrong too.
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I don't know why these kids say anything like that on SM anymore. No good at all comes from it...just get better, get a chip on your shoulder and then keep it there all year..and let your play shut the penisnoggins up.
 
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jakez4ut said:
it's all relative. TN basketball is not widely considered a good/great basketball program. there's not really a big history of championship caliber play. no final fours, 1 elite eight and a handful of sweet 16's..... ever. it's been 40 years since we won an SEC tournament....we've won 10 regular season titles...all time.

so yeah, to be nationally relevant, and discussed in terms of competing for championships....i'm good. who knows, maybe we screw up and win a conf tournament, or make another elite 8 or a final four before barnes retires?

either way, i just know i enjoy watching basketball now. and i can tell you thru the 80's and most of the 90's and a good chunk of the 00's.....it wasn't really worth watching.....i think i went to one men's bball game the entire time i was in school there.....

it's not like i'm against championships...i'm just not grading the job a coach does on the scale of winning titles, or not......
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100% agree..
 
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Devo182 said:
Read the last 2 pages wondering how the heck we could be down double digits to VU. Then check the score and we are up by 5 in the first half 😂
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You'll learn------the sky is always falling around here. If we don't hit every shot and win by 30----well, you can figure out the rest. Barnes has to go because we finally have 5 star players and he can't coach them up :):):):)
 
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therickbol said:
"It's dumb" and "You don't like it" are not the same thing. You are welcome to not like that it works that way. But it is far from dumb. They know what they are doing.
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They continously waste millions on a ton of raw players that never amount to anything, and that is dumb.

I know you are going to throw out a few names of guys that worked out and were worth it, but save your thumbs...I can throw out a ton of names that never amounted to much and this will just go round and round.

I think what they do is dumb, and you don't...and nothing is going to change that.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
You are negative lately, but you aren't mean about it like some of us can be.
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I don't see it as negative because I question our coaching hires. Plenty of reasons exist to question them. That's reality. I've continually said I hope they prove me wrong and succeed here. Again, not negative. I'm just not as "rah rah" as some when it comes to this staff. We've been burned one way or the other by every football hire since Kiffin. Reality. So pardon me if I'm a bit cautious this time around. It's not like I'm cheering against this staff. I'm not.
 
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Weezer said:
I don't see it as negative because I question our coaching hires. Plenty of reasons exist to question them. That's reality. I've continually said I hope they prove me wrong and succeed here. Again, not negative. I'm just not as "rah rah" as some when it comes to this staff. We've been burned one way or the other by every football hire since Kiffin. Reality. So pardon me if I'm a bit cautious this time around. It's not like I'm cheering against this staff. I'm not.
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I think that approach is very reasonable. We've had to deal with too much BS this last decade.

Where some posters annoy me is when they unreasonably use every opportunity to pull their shorts down and crap on every move or non-move by these coaches. That's annoying. If you don't like the hire, great, but don't use every opportunity to be a d!ck.
 
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UTMVol76 said:
I think that approach is very reasonable. We've had to deal with too much BS this last decade.

Where some posters annoy me is when they unreasonably use every opportunity to pull their shorts down and crap on every move or non-move by these coaches. That's annoying. If you don't like the hire, great, but don't use every opportunity to be a d!ck.
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I don't think I've done that. I'm hoping they'll turn out to be impressive, but I'm waiting to actually see them impress me on the field.
 
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Z06VolinWV said:
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