Next year will be more of the same. What we've seen from Warlick and the Vols is a long pattern of underachievement--players and teams who consistently underachieve. There is a lack of cohesion, lack of development, lack of discipline and mental toughness, lack of offensive execution. You could count on one hand the number of games this year in which the team played as a cohesive whole for most of the game. Usually, we might have two players playing well and two or three others out of sorts and struggling--see last night. Nared was great, Russell was OK and Reynolds, Jackson and DeShields had poor games. The team cannot sustain good or even solid play. It's a given that we will have /at least/ one quarter, maybe two, in every game when we fall apart, and it often costs us the game--see 4th quarter last night. How many games this year did we come up and play really well in the first quarter, build, say, a 10 point lead, and then stink up the gym in the 2nd quarter and go into the half tied? Many games.
As I said, there is a long pattern of underachievement, weak coaching, and you can change the names of the players, but the result will be the same.
