PERFECT EXAMPLE

[zjcvols]

Any season with 30 wins is a success. I can understand saying there was more out there to achieve but to say it wasn't a success is just dumb.

Not when your preseason top and didn’t win a title/make the Final Four. Sucks but that is how North American sports work.

 

[BruinVol]

Not when your preseason top and didn’t win a title/make the Final Four. Sucks but that is how North American sports work.

Lol.

That's how you view it. Stop acting like everyone views it that way.

I'd make a huge wager that well over 50% of basketball fans throughout this great place called North America would view this basketball season a succcess for the Tennessee Vols.

 

[CAVPUT]

Last nights finish is the PERFECT EXAMPLE of why you can't judge a teams success on what happens in the tourney.


Just a complete travesty for the season to be decided on such a play.


You absolutely have to look at the entire body of work to judge a team.

Just stop stop stop the basketball is a tourney sport BS.

While I agree with you, it was the team's stated goal for the year. Everything else kinda took a back seat.

 

[zjcvols]

Lol.

That's how you view it. Stop acting like everyone views it that way.

I'd make a huge wager that well over 50% of basketball fans through this great place called North America would view this basketball season a succcess for the Tennessee Vols.

And yet nobody is gonna remember this team outside of Knoxville in 3 years because they didn’t win anything significant.

 

[k-town_king]

Hopefully you see my point and are just choosing not to acknowledge it. Have a good day!

You don't have a valid point.

You don't understand the basketball mentality.


Winning big regular season rivalry games and being ranked doesn't make a good season in basketball without the post season success too.

You are one of many here who don't know anything about bball except UT games.

Individual losses ,when people freaked out, didn't matter and I told people that. It was always about the tourney.

It doesn't matter if you win 20 or 30 games. It's the postseason results.





So who had a better year?

Team A. Top ten preseason. 31-1 undefeated reg season. confernce regular season champ but loss in tourney champ. Loss in Sweet 16 as 1 seed.

Team B

22-10
Not ranked preseason. No regular season champ. Wins conference tourney. Makes Final Four.

 

[jp1]

And yet nobody is gonna remember this team outside of Knoxville in 3 years because they didn’t win anything significant.

You can argue until you are blue in the face. Your definition of success is different than some. Doesn't mean either is right/wrong. I view this season a success despite them not winning everything available to them.

 

[BruinVol]

And yet nobody is gonna remember this team outside of Knoxville in 3 years because they didn’t win anything significant.

And nobody is going to remember K State for making an elite 8 a year ago either.

I said this before and it's very very true. Being number 1 for an entire month is much harder than making an elite 8. It gave this program great juice and we are seeing that in recruiting right now.

 

[zjcvols]

You can argue until you are blue in the face. Your definition of success is different than some. Doesn't mean either is right/wrong. I view this season a success despite them not winning everything available to them.

Hopefully Barnes or the program or the AD don’t have that same view as you

 

[TC 83]

And yet nobody is gonna remember this team outside of Knoxville in 3 years because they didn’t win anything significant.

I bet a KY fan will remember

 

[jp1]

You don't have a valid point.

You don't understand the basketball mentality.


Winning big regular season rivalry games and being ranked doesn't make a good season in basketball without the post season success too.

You are one of many here who don't know anything about bball except UT games.

Individual losses ,when people freaked out, didn't matter and I told people that. It was always about the tourney.

It doesn't matter if you win 20 or 30 games. It's the postseason results.





So who had a better year?

Team A. Top ten preseason. 31-1 undefeated reg season. confernce regular season champ but loss in tourney champ. Loss in Sweet 16 as 1 seed.

Team B

22-10
Not ranked preseason. No regular season champ. Wins conference tourney. Makes Final Four.

I like how you view my basketball knowledge because my definition of success doesn't line up with your "facts"....er opinion. In my opinion, your perspective is simple. Carry on young man.

 

[volfannbama]

You don't have a valid point.

You don't understand the basketball mentality.


Winning big regular season rivalry games and being ranked doesn't make a good season in basketball without the post season success too.

You are one of many here who don't know anything about bball except UT games.

Individual losses ,when people freaked out, didn't matter and I told people that. It was always about the tourney.

It doesn't matter if you win 20 or 30 games. It's the postseason results.





So who had a better year?

Team A. Top ten preseason. 31-1 undefeated reg season. confernce regular season champ but loss in tourney champ. Loss in Sweet 16 as 1 seed.

Team B

22-10
Not ranked preseason. No regular season champ. Wins conference tourney. Makes Final Four.

So what your saying is you see it differently than he does?

 

[zjcvols]

And nobody is going to remember K State for making an elite 8 a year ago either.

I said this before and it's very very true. Being number 1 for an entire month is much harder than making an elite 8. It gave this program great juice and we are seeing that in recruiting right now.

Yeah nobody cares about being #1 for a month either. I’d rather have a Final Four appearance or a SEC title.

 

[zjcvols]

I bet a KY fan will remember

They won’t care if they win a national title.

 

[volfannbama]

I bet a KY fan will remember

So will Auburn fans.

 

[BruinVol]

Yeah nobody cares about being #1 for a month either. I’d rather have a Final Four appearance or a SEC title.

I'd rather have a final four yes. Elite 8 no.


And yes plenty of people care. Just look at our recruiting list these days and you will see many that care

 

[BruinVol]

They won’t care if they win a national title.

And if they don't they had a failure of a year by your standards

 

[zjcvols]

I'd rather have a final four yes. Elite 8 no.


And yes plenty of people care. Just look at our recruiting list these days and you will see many that care

Nah I’d rather have an Elite Eight. Nobody is gonna care in six months who was number 1 in January. Hey, who was the #1 team in the country in January of 2014? You don’t know or care.

 

[zjcvols]

And if they don't they had a failure of a year by your standards

Well it’s Kentucky and they were preseason top 5 and didn’t win an SEC title so I’d venture to say if they don’t make the Final Four a lot of UK fans will say this season was not a success

 

[Rudy123]

Last nights finish is the PERFECT EXAMPLE of why you can't judge a teams success on what happens in the tourney.


Just a complete travesty for the season to be decided on such a play.


You absolutely have to look at the entire body of work to judge a team.

Just stop stop stop the basketball is a tourney sport BS.

Someone posted E8 a few days ago & I said. “Slow your role”. We can be beat

 

[BruinVol]

Nah I’d rather have an Elite Eight. Nobody is gonna care in six months who was number 1 in January. Hey, who was the #1 team in the country in January of 2014? You don’t know or care.

You really think K state a year ago had a better year than we had this year??

 

[zjcvols]

You really think K state a year ago had a better year than we had this year??

Neither team won a regular season conference title
Neither team won a conference tournament title
They made it farther than us in the tournament.

We had a better regular season but they had more postseason success than us. We would probably be more fun to watch. I’d probably call it a wash.

 

[BruinVol]

Neither team won a regular season conference title
Neither team won a conference tournament title
They made it farther than us in the tournament.

We were a better team but they had more postseason success than us. I’d probably call it a wash.

Wow that's pure comedy. We shouldn't even play the regular season at all then.

That's plain dumb and Most Northern American sports fans would strongly disagree with you.

 

[zjcvols]

Wow that's pure comedy. We shouldn't even play the regular season at all then.

That's plain dumb and Most Northern American sports fans would strongly disagree with you.

I should say Kansas State had a pretty favorable draw last year. Moreso than UT this year. But that’s how the cookie crumble sometimes.

Either way, both of those teams didn’t accomplish a lot in the grand scheme of things.

 

[BruinVol]

I should say Kansas State had a pretty favorable draw last year. Moreso than UT this year. But that’s how the cookie crumble sometimes.

Either way, both of those teams didn’t accomplish a lot in the grand scheme of things.

Of course they had an easy draw But because North American sports gurus only view the tourney as guidelines for success/failure you made an ignorant post.

 

[zjcvols]

Of course they had an easy draw But because North American sports gurus only view the tourney as guidelines for success/failure you made an ignorant post.

Titles and Final Fours is what matters in college basketball. Tennessee did none of that this year as a preseason top 10 team. The season was not a success. It sucks, but that’s how it goes. Maybe one day programs will hang banners for 30 wins.