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rikberry31 said:
UT baseball was not Sh!t all the years before TV we had some good teams and great players and coaches, the Delmonico years were great and he is a Tennessee legend. The difference is that not many people paid attention to CBB like they do now. TV had the great fortune of coaching good teams when the general public awakened to CBB and became less enthralled with the MLB. ESPN is as responsible as anyone for the popularity of CBB and TV, people can watch CBB on TV now without going to the actual games and more than friends, family, and fanatics are watching.
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Delmonico did have some good years, so I will concede the point that we were worth a 💩 a few times under him, but he was really up and down...it was not the same, and Tennessee was not considered anywhere near the elite tier of CBB under him. Tony has firmly ensconced us in that elite level...it is completely different now...and that is thanks to him.
 
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I wonder if anybody has looked at a stat or kept one for that matter of how many times the Vols have scored on a drive in which they were penalized for some stupid mistakes. It is just something I've noticed over time. When they do commit a penalty, be it false start or holding or whatever they seem to stop dead in their tracks. With that being said on "clean" drives they score at a high rate.
 
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csprig9 said:
This is where I say DW keeps his job unless football and men’s / women’s bball fails
He does t care about the other sports and honestly shouldn’t

The days of being an everything school are fading in the mirror

Those close to Tony need to see that also
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DW is a fantastic AD with a huge ego. He wins everywhere and pulls a lot of money. He is not used to bad publicity and you could see that in his latest interview. He has always been loved and never had any real fall outs. This Tony situation is showing how quick things can change if you piss off a big fanbase and people close to a program. As long as football and basketball do well and he makes a good hire for baseball, no one will care in six months. But he has to get out in front of it and continue doing well. Because I think many view it as a strike against him.
 
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Rizzo924 said:
Yeah, reading his statement changed my mind. Yesterday I posted that to me he’s a VFL up until the point he comes back to CBB with another school. Now I’m gonna always consider him VFL no matter what. Pretty sure Saban never talked like that about LSU.
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He is going to come back...I just don't believe this silly experiment is going to work out for Tony or the Giants either one....and when he does come back to CBB, it will be to one of our hated SEC rivals and I am going to hate him for it.
 
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RiseToTheTop said:
A game with more Telander and Bolton at linebacker is the stuff of nightmares
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We’re going to see more perlotte going forward. But we need to see more Harmon and burns. Bolton may not play. Bull pulled film on perlotte and other young linebackers and basically said we can’t have their speed sitting and it changes games to have them able to run like they do. Which Telander and others don’t.
 
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Ttucke11 said:
Tony probably believes what he said, but he and some of the fans are delusional at the moment. He won't be on the sideline and he won't be an employee at UT ever again. And he's definitely not AD material. The time is over. Whatever happened, happened. It really sucks, but you're either a Vol or you're not and he's not anymore.
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Agreed
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
The thing is I feel like even if some media folks or VFLs do know a big portion of the whole story they have one side of it, and their personal relationships to Tony or Danny are also skewing their opinion of the story.

It’s human nature so no fault, but something I always keep in mind.

For example the statement, “it could have been avoided” if that’s coming from Tony’s side how do we know the other side, Danny felt the same way?
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Yep, it’s almost guaranteed that for it to be avoided it would have come at the expense of another sport Danny was responsible for. Resources are not unlimited contrary to popular opinion.
 
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SmyrnaATLVolisback said:
DW is a fantastic AD with a huge ego. He wins everywhere and pulls a lot of money. He is not used to bad publicity and you could see that in his latest interview. He has always been loved and never had any real fall outs. This Tony situation is showing how quick things can change if you piss off a big fanbase and people close to a program. As long as football and basketball do well and he makes a good hire for baseball, no one will care in six months. But he has to get out in front of it and continue doing well. Because I think many view it as a strike against him.
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And that's key, I suspect, for both of them. A little humility from either might have defused this.
 
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