Fools Gold?

[sami]

It's one game in a long season. Those type of games happen. There's no trend.

It's the nature of the game. You'll learn. Maybe

Probably not.

Very doubtful, in fact.

 

[orangemadam]

With the emergence of Mississippi St and Georgia, this league is ever
tougher than originally thought. Can Auburn remain undefeated more than
2 weeks?

League champ may have 5 or 6 losses by March.

 

[CornbreadVol]

With the emergence of Mississippi St and Georgia, this league is ever
tougher than originally thought. Can Auburn remain undefeated more than
2 weeks?

League champ may have 5 or 6 losses by March.

Auburn and UT will both have 1 SEC loss when they meet in 2 weeks.

 

[Mccage]

The Jimmy Carter of UTBB coaches.

Actually Wade was a great assistant. But he was more interested in running his Louisville based trucking company than earning his $200k UT salary.

Every farmer in the US never thought Carter was nice

 

[orangemadam]

Auburn and UT will both have 1 SEC loss when they meet in 2 weeks.

so you're expecting Ga to beat Auburn? Possible but doubtful.

 

[SlyStone]

Wade Houston was a nice guy and a mediocre coach.

The expectation was that he would recruit like he did in Louisville, and it never happened outside of Allan. Good guy, but at that time TN was a hard place to recruit 5 stars into.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

The expectation was that he would recruit like he did in Louisville, and it never happened outside of Allan. Good guy, but at that time TN was a hard place to recruit 5 stars into.

Players weren't entirely the problem. Great guy, but couldn't coach. Recruiting wasn't the issue

 

[Jax_Vol]

Every farmer in the US never thought Carter was nice

What was the story with Carter and the farmers?

Fuzzy memory here

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

What was the story with Carter and the farmers?

Fuzzy memory here

Weird. He grew peanuts and his brother was a strong supporter of hops and barley.

 

[Anti-shunshinepumper]

I didn’t say that. What I’m saying is seeing us play like that shows that we have serious issues that indicate over the course of the season, we are more likely to be a 5-6 seed than a 1 or 2 seed. Now you run along Bernie.

If we end up a 5-6 seed something will have went terribly wrong for us.

 

[Jax_Vol]

Weird. He grew peanuts and his brother was a strong supporter of hops and barley.

I had to look it up.

Yeah, he was behind a Farmer's Act that didn't work out as planned.

Now that Billy Carter...he fully supported the hops and barley farmers.

 

[BradstarVols]

Why don't you go tell them in person. While you are at it, please give the full analysis of what you saw in their shooting stroke that created this travesty. Or, could it be that they just had an off night.

Lol

 

[rocketskates]

I don’t sweat it much. Of course I want the higher seed, but I’d rather go in as a lower seed like UCLA did a few years back and make the final four than be a 1 or a 2 and lose in the sweet sixteen. It’s about making the tournament and then what you do after.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

I don’t sweat it much. Of course I want the higher seed, but I’d rather go in as a lower seed like UCLA did a few years back and make the final four than be a 1 or a 2 and lose in the sweet sixteen. It’s about making the tournament and then what you do after.

That 1 or 2 seed is imperative

 

[Mccage]

What was the story with Carter and the farmers?

Fuzzy memory here

Combines, tractors, Seed, fertilizer, feed, fuel, etc ……farmer buys a combine (150,000 dollar back then) and either put your land up or get a balloon note …Carter gets in and interest ballon’s up to 21 percent. Lose your farm or lose your equipment to pay for farm. Happened to thousands across the country unless your friend was Bert Lance!

 

[Jax_Vol]

Combines, tractors, Seed, fertilizer, feed, fuel, etc ……farmer buys a combine (150,000 dollar back then) and either put your land up or get a balloon note …Carter gets in and interest ballon’s up to 21 percent. Lose your farm or lose your equipment to pay for farm. Happened to thousands across the country unless your friend was Bert Lance!

Wow! That was truly sad. Especially considering that Carter was a farmer himself.

 

[rocketskates]

That 1 or 2 seed is imperative

In most cases sure, but there are times where teams that are seeded lower find the hot hand in the tournament. I’m not arguing that I wouldn’t want a high seed, but I’d also be pretty happy with a team that comes in seeded lower and turns it on in the tournament. I’d gladly trade a 1,2, or even 3 seed if it meant we make it to our first final four.

 

[walkenvol]

Combines, tractors, Seed, fertilizer, feed, fuel, etc ……farmer buys a combine (150,000 dollar back then) and either put your land up or get a balloon note …Carter gets in and interest ballon’s up to 21 percent. Lose your farm or lose your equipment to pay for farm. Happened to thousands across the country unless your friend was Bert Lance!

You’re omitting the source of inflation which was OPEC quadrupling oil prices which had an obvious ripple effect across all industries and created the runaway inflation. One can argue the federal reserve may have been overzealous in raising interest rates to combat inflation, but that wasn’t a policy implemented by Carter. Like always, presidents get too much credit for a good economy and too little for a bad one.

The Middle East hostage debacle fell directly on Carter’s shoulders along with pulling us out of the Olympics which I recall being hugely unpopular at the time. There are other things he directly decided to point out if you look harder.

 

[chuckiepoo]

Combines, tractors, Seed, fertilizer, feed, fuel, etc ……farmer buys a combine (150,000 dollar back then) and either put your land up or get a balloon note …Carter gets in and interest ballon’s up to 21 percent. Lose your farm or lose your equipment to pay for farm. Happened to thousands across the country unless your friend was Bert Lance!

I took a HS NAIMUN trip to DC during the winter of ‘78-‘79. Blizzard. Farm equipment evarwhar…

 

[Jravol78]

Weird. He grew peanuts and his brother was a strong supporter of hops and barley.

 

[volbound1700]

Was our 14-0 start just fools gold making us think we are better than we really are? When you look back at the non conference schedule, yes Illinois was a good win, but none of the other teams we beat were that good. I’m afraid we’re more in line to be a 4th place SEC team and 3 or 4 seed in the tournament rather than a top seed Final Four contender.

We were overrated as #1 team but I still think we a solid contender for a Final Four. Issue is that our low scoring output egg has a way to catch up with us as it does every year in March Madness (last year may have been an exception, we just ran into a better team). That seems to be the bane of Rick Barnes.

 

[volbound1700]

Sadly, I think we are heading towards a 2 or 3 seed. In a lot of years, this team might be a 1 seed but SEC is too deep and we will have more losses. It would be nice to be a 1 seed for the first time in school history but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.

 

[SlyStone]

Players weren't entirely the problem. Great guy, but couldn't coach. Recruiting wasn't the issue

What other 5 star recruit did he sign beside his son? Recruiting mattered. That last season was horrible. Agree his coaching was suspect.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

What other 5 star recruit did he sign beside his son? Recruiting mattered. That last season was horrible. Agree his coaching was suspect.

Ed Gray from LA was a highly recruited guard. Jermaine Brown was highly recruited. He had groups of players who could have made the tournament with someone like Barnes at the helm. I think I actually mentioned something like that in another post

 

[GAV4L]

We might lose to Georgia if we don't get our acts together.