Recent content by bigbender

As for Maze: he is what he is and it's been good enough most of the time. Next year: no Maze. But they'll still be plenty of Hopson or, should I say, not nearly enough? ... plenty enough to worry me, that's for sure. Can his fragile mentality can be toughened enough to live up to his physical...

Probably True ... which means that the selection formula must be brain-dead simple, basically, and one doesn't need a high-payed, esteemed committee. The guys at any corner market could knock out just as good of a solution in an hour or so. Of course, the guys on the corner couldn't consider...

Vols BIGGEST challenge is to ignore or be shielded from all the anti-Tennessee vitriole on ESPN and the blogs today. Coach Pearl had better sequester the team like a jury is sequestered. What's going on here is a Reggie Miller psych job aimed at our team. All this will make them so mad they...

Vols BIGGEST challenge is to ignore or be shielded from all the anti-Tennessee vitriole on ESPN and the blogs today. Coach Pearl had better sequester the team like a jury is sequestered. What's going on here is a Reggie Miller psych job aimed at our team. All this will make them so mad they...

A few points: 1 - SDSU is underseeded; 8's about right 2 - Vols are underseeded; 5 is correct. 3 - But so is Georgetown, who should be a 2, etc., etc. 4 - The brackets are biased deliberately. The Committee is NOT trying to pick the best teams. Their objective is to maximize TV...

Jay Bilas thinks Murray State is not a sure win for Vandy. ... all we had to do to have Vany's seed was to beat them in Knoxville. ... pitiful.

Vol teams (excepting Pat's Lady Vols) have had a tendency toward lackadaisicalness or overconfidence and under-performance. Football and basketball. Is it something about the great living here. Maybe Knoxville is just a place where you can't keep an edge on young athletes. It's just too nice...

Another thing, responding to the comment about being clueless without Chism, is the head-nodding celebration displayed by some of our guys, particularly Prince, who is good at times but has holes in his game, and Hopson, who is feeble mentally. This kind of thing rubs critics the wrong way...

Are we out of favor because we didn't get to the elite eight when we were gifted with a 2 seed in 2008? The issue I think is that we've looked pretty lackluster at times, in retrospect didn't have a good enough record against the top 50) and we may now be a touch gimpy (Chism & Williams).

One could say that Bruce Pearl's not anyone's favorite out there but bottom line is that we need to win some big tournament games. Arguably Pat Summit went thru all this enroute to her favored current status.

Vols were a 2 seed in 2008, lost to Louisville.

Between 4, 5 and 6 seeds, which is all we could have hoped for, this one isn't that bad. Agree SDSU is a tough match-up but we actually match up pretty well against GU and OSU, so long as we're healthy mentally and physically. Agree with the point about being pissed off except I wonder if...

Stephen Pearl has quick feet and hands. He creates things defensively, No doubt he cannot do so on offense but the issue with the Vol's offense is that no shooter Coach Pearl's recruited has risen to the level needed. It's not an issue with Stephen. As for Woolrich, he's gotta work in the...

Can he manage this? Can he become mentally tough enough to fulfill his promise? Scotty's a real project for Pearl and his staff.