"Another" Elite 8 exit

[Doctrippin]

I guess I’d be disappointed as well, but y’all’s team has consistently been a very good team 3 years in a row! It could be worse, Mike White could be your coach.

White has gotten us much better, but a decent shot at making the tournament might be our ceiling under him. Still, it’s better, but nowhere near the level of y’all’s team.

Rumor is Blue Cain wants to come back home to Knoxville. We'll see if he hits the portal. Look, the SEC is a whole other level from 5 years ago and nobody is going to dominate it anymore. White is a good coach. GA has great fan support and it's a tough arena to play in. Let's see what he gets from the portal. Next year could be another level for the team

 

[BreatheUT]

Hell, after what I saw yesterday, I think that the team that curb stomped us will be the ones cutting down the nets next Monday night.

We will be surprised how back to earth they are against Arizona. Now they may have been on top of their game, but I think it speaks to really how terrible we were. Open brick city isn't because of what Michigan is doing. It's decent players that surprise you with a good game but they go back to the mean %'s wise.

 

[robcovol]

After having a day to sleep on it, I have decided that Michigan is an NBA team at the college level. Tennessee seems to get the worst luck in opponents for the elite eight, with the possible exception of Michigan State in 2010. Rick Barnes can’t be blamed for that. We should be thankful he puts up with us.

 

[DirtyDawg]

Rumor is Blue Cain wants to come back home to Knoxville. We'll see if he hits the portal. Look, the SEC is a whole other level from 5 years ago and nobody is going to dominate it anymore. White is a good coach. GA has great fan support and it's a tough arena to play in. Let's see what he gets from the portal. Next year could be another level for the team

Blue would be a good get and a tough loss for us. We will see, it just seemed obvious that St. Louis took us to the woodshed bc of better coaching. They were more prepared and had a strategy that worked against us. I don’t think their talent level was any better. Their coach played a big part it seems to me.

Our team was a monster this year when we were hitting shots. St Louis made those shots tougher, and we suffered tremendously for it.

On to next season, who knows what the portal might bring to either of us? I’ll be content if we make the tournament and win 1 game honestly. Sure, I want more, but after some rough years, I’m just happy to be relevant again.

 

[VolsWinRLose]

I'm not sick of it. I'll take it every single season.

It's the way they put it that bothers me. Not "Vols take a hard loss" or even "Vols boatraced" but the implication that they failed somehow by ONLY getting to the EE...for 3 years in a row.

 

[BreatheUT]

Blue would be a good get and a tough loss for us. We will see, it just seemed obvious that St. Louis took us to the woodshed bc of better coaching. They were more prepared and had a strategy that worked against us. I don’t think their talent level was any better. Their coach played a big part it seems to me.

Our team was a monster this year when we were hitting shots. St Louis made those shots tougher, and we suffered tremendously for it.

On to next season, who knows what the portal might bring to either of us? I’ll be content if we make the tournament and win 1 game honestly. Sure, I want more, but after some rough years, I’m just happy to be relevant again.

There's probably several Blue Cain's out there. Not impressed.

 

[SlipKidVol]

We have lost our last two elite eight matchups by a combined 53 points so yea we gonna get ridiculed for that. My co workers already hit me with the Rocky Flop ragging this morning at work. RB is a very good coach but in what 40 years of coaching almost he’s been to just one final four. It was an embarrassing loss yesterday for the whole world to see.

Oh poor you..your co workers...hope you survived

 

[DirtyDawg]

There's probably several Blue Cain's out there. Not impressed.

Sure, but he would be an asset and he is from Knoxville. He didn’t have a good season this year, but he has played tons of ball and is capable of playing very well. I agree though, there will be better options in the portal. I hope the Vols say no thanks and we can keep him.

 

[vegasvolfan]

I don't know about everybody else, but I'm sick and damned tired of seeing headlines in the media referencing "another" Elite 8 loss "again." Exactly how many teams get TO the EE 3 years in a row? I much prefer to look at it as "No Final 4 YET."

I dunno but Barnes needs to keep recruiting bigger guys. We have two stout Freshm an that will be a menace and have a LOT to build off this year. Okpara sp was too thin. Estrella lost a lot of weight too. We also lost a lot out of our guard play and had no real shooter. Lanier and Knecht were bigger difference makers than Ament. Don't get me wrong, all three were great talents and staple in getting a team that should never have been in the Elite 8----to the Elite 8, but that's a Barnes accomplishment. I think with Brown, Phillips, Estrella, and Carey all coming back... we will be a menace if he matches the rest of the talent around those guys. Not sure about other guys. Boswell is a good bench guy.

But honestly lost in the elite 8 again is still music to my ears.

 

[VolGee4]

Rumor is Blue Cain wants to come back home to Knoxville. We'll see if he hits the portal. Look, the SEC is a whole other level from 5 years ago and nobody is going to dominate it anymore. White is a good coach. GA has great fan support and it's a tough arena to play in. Let's see what he gets from the portal. Next year could be another level for the team

White is a good coach? I disagree. He’s maybe average.