OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

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Vols are only .56 points behind Arizona in the KenPom ratings. Arizona has a difficult game vs Oregon and 2 mediocre games at UCLA and at USC before their conference tournament. As we all know, winning on the road has been extremely difficult this season so if they slip up in one of those games then that last 1 seed is there for the taking. All of those teams are considered Quad 2. All of our remaining games will be Quad 1. Arizona currently has 2 Quad 2 losses and 1 Quad 3 loss while we only have the lone Quad 2 loss to South Carolina at home. All of our other losses are to Quad 1 teams. Arizona edges us in Quad 1 record as they are 9-3 compared to our 5-5. However, if we handle business and hope that Florida finishes strong then we will potentially have a 9-5 record vs Quad 1 teams before the SECT begins. Still a lot to be decided but it’s exciting that we are still in play for a 1 seed at the end of the season.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
I'd assume that both numb-skulls were kicked off the team after the dust settled.

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Man this stuff happens on every team. Can’t tell you how many times I saw fights break out in the basketball locker room. Only difference is we didn’t record it. I couldn’t imagine being that kid recording and selling my teammates out for the world to see.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Man this stuff happens on every team. Can’t tell you how many times I saw fights break out in the basketball locker room. Only difference is we didn’t record it. I couldn’t imagine being that kid recording and selling my teammates out for the world to see.
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Unless you are #2 on the roster behind one of the fighters.

In today's world it's all about "likes" and posting it first. To heck with who ultimately gets hurt by the post.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Man this stuff happens on every team. Can’t tell you how many times I saw fights break out in the basketball locker room. Only difference is we didn’t record it. I couldn’t imagine being that kid recording and selling my teammates out for the world to see.
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I grew up in a different time & place. We didn't (in Jackson anyway) fight in locker rooms where the coaches office was right across the aisle from where we dressed out.
If we had a disagreement w/another dude (probably over a girl) we'd wait until after school was over & then get after it. But never on school grounds or in locker rooms.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
I grew up in a different time & place. We didn't (in Jackson anyway) fight in locker rooms where the coaches office was right across the aisle from where we dressed out.
If we had a disagreement w/another dude (probably over a girl) we'd wait until after school was over & then get after it. But never on school grounds or in locker rooms.
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Our coach would sit back and let the fight happen and wait to see if anyone would break it up. Once the fight was over or broken up he would say “alright now that we got that out of the way we can get to practice”. Then he would proceed to make the entire team run stadiums for our 2 hour practice. After the stadiums he would tell us if we didn’t care enough about each other then we didn’t deserve to play. If we weren’t going to come together as a team then we wouldn’t have a team and the season would be canceled.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Our coach would sit back and let the fight happen and wait to see if anyone would break it up. Once the fight was over or broken up he would say “alright now that we got that out of the way we can get to practice”. Then he would proceed to make the entire team run stadiums for our 2 hour practice. After the stadiums he would tell us if we didn’t care enough about each other then we didn’t deserve to play. If we weren’t going to come together as a team then we wouldn’t have a team and the season would be canceled.
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Exactly right. We didn’t want to hear all about that stuff & be punished for our fighting so that was the reason why we didn’t fight in locker rooms.
 
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CAVPUT said:
Might be wrong, but didn't we snag him from an Ivy program out of HS?
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His mom wanted him to go to Princeton, Harvard, or Yale because she is an electrical engineer for NASA. She only cared about academics and wanted him to have a degree from a prestigious school. She was so pissed at him that she didn’t speak to him for months, according to Grant. She ended up giving in and supporting him and driving from Texas to watch his games. I couldn’t imagine being so pissed at my child for making their own professional decision that I would choose to ice them out for months. We are suppose to support our children no matter what. I understand her being upset but she had no right acting that way towards him. The kid only gets one shot at playing professional basketball. Same thing as Josh Dobbs. Both of those guys are highly intelligent but they are only in their athletic prime for a short period of their lives. They can go back to school whenever they want. They can even go to graduate school at one of those Ivy League schools. I just thought she came off as very immature in that situation whenever I read the article about it and made me not care for her so much.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Our coach would sit back and let the fight happen and wait to see if anyone would break it up. Once the fight was over or broken up he would say “alright now that we got that out of the way we can get to practice”. Then he would proceed to make the entire team run stadiums for our 2 hour practice. After the stadiums he would tell us if we didn’t care enough about each other then we didn’t deserve to play. If we weren’t going to come together as a team then we wouldn’t have a team and the season would be canceled.
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Technically, we didn’t have a stadium, except on Friday nights, the rest of the week we had a patch of grass behind the school, so we ran hills for every penalty flag we got. It wasn’t that bad, other than the public humiliation, we weren’t penalized too often, but I don’t know if that qualifies for “caring about each other”. 😛
 
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vol66 said:
Technically, we didn’t have a stadium, except on Friday nights, the rest of the week we had a patch of grass behind the school, so we ran hills for every penalty flag we got. It wasn’t that bad, other than the public humiliation, we weren’t penalized too often, but I don’t know if that qualifies for “caring about each other”. 😛
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I don’t know about caring for each other but the coach sounds like he definitely cared about playing a clean game 😂
 
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VolPack22 said:
I don’t know about caring for each other but the coach sounds like he definitely cared about playing a clean game 😂
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Maybe. I think it was his way, mind you, I had 3 different head coaches in four years, it was a way to smash discipline and conditioning into one period on a quarter acre. The maintenance guys loved it!
 
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