ocoandasoc
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It's early in the season, so I suspect Bracketology will look very different from what the final version looks like.
What's alarming is that there is a very high likelihood that Tennessee will not have a single non-conference win against a decent team if they don't beat Stanford (they have no chance vs. ND). With how weak the SEC is this year, even if they finish above 50-50 in the standings, it's highly likely that they won't get an at-large bid if their best wins are against the likes of Alabama, LSU and Auburn.
I think you have to have a certain amount of wins to get in.........I don't know if replacing Holly is good or bad........who would want to come to a University that has a legend like Pat Summit and play under that shadow?
I think this is a real issue with replacing Holly.
I think you have to have a certain amount of wins to get in.........I don't know if replacing Holly is good or bad........who would want to come to a University that has a legend like Pat Summit and play under that shadow?
I think this is a real issue with replacing Holly.
I believe we beat Stanford and Kentucky and knock off ms state. I think we finish between 13-3 and 12-4 in sec
An interesting POV. There are constant posts about how any coach anywhere would give their eyeteeth to come to Tennessee. Whether that's true or not, why WOULDN'T a coach come to TN? Several possible reasons:
1-You have to like who you work for, and right now that's an unknown.
2-You and your family have to want to move to Knoxville. I've lived all over the US and most areas have at best a dim view of the south. For those of you living in the south, no insult intended, but that's been my experience.
3-You have to presumably get a bigger salary than your current job.
4-Various family circumstances. Maybe you'd like the job but are too tied to another place or have kids in high school, any number of other reasons.
Like others, I tend to think TN can get about any coach they want within reason. (I've always differed with the standard lists of Mulkey, Walz, Frese, etc - I don't want any of them). But as the POV above illustrates, it's not a given that everybody wants to come to TN.
We signed nobody last year--that is a firing offense. And the year before that we signed two players, also not good. Anybody who thinks next year's class is going to make us better is delusional. We've got considerable talent on this team--they just don't perform and don't respond to our coach or staff. When a coach, eight games into a season with a veteran team, tells you after the fourth loss in a row that she's proud that her team competed, you've got major problems. That should not even be a consideration. It's bad enough that our fundamentals and our system and our /basketball/ often stinks, but we have effort problems too! Oh, my.
I think you have to have a certain amount of wins to get in.........I don't know if replacing Holly is good or bad........who would want to come to a University that has a legend like Pat Summit and play under that shadow?
I think this is a real issue with replacing Holly.
I don't consider this a veteran team. With injuries and transfers, this feels like a sophomore team to me.
DD is obviously still injured and not at 100%.
HW's record since assuming these duties (including Pat's last year when HW did all the work), have not been ideal but have been very respectable.
Even last season's "terrible team" went to the Elite 8! And were 2 broken hands and a concussion from the Final 4. Then what would the naysayers say?
Curious why you think they can beat Miss State? MS beat Tennessee twice last year, and they return their entire roster plus some additions while Tennessee loses Graves, Carter and Cooper from the last year's team. They are a tough matchup because they have to dedicate either Jaime or Diamond to shadow Vivians the entire game...otherwise she will go off. That means you can't be afraid to lose either of them to fouls.
Miss State looked impressive in dismantling Texas earlier this year with Ariel Atkins (who missed the Tennessee game) playing.
This is the very definition of a veteran team. Senior PG, two redshirt juniors and two true juniors make up their starting five. Claimimg otherwise is making excuses.
The broken hands and concussion had less to do with not making the FF than thr inability to exploit their post advantage, play defense on the Syracuse guards, scorers who couldn't hit clutch shots, and inability to develop a bench full of top 50 players.
Lol at people acting like missing Jordan and having an injured Andraya made a difference. Neither of them have ever been good players.