Unofficial TN at ETSU, Thursday 12/22 7pm MyVLT ESPN3 pregame

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ETSU fan here, looking forward to the game. You guys are playing very well and we'll have our hands full Thursday night. Any of you guys coming to the game?
 
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Efan said:
ETSU fan here, looking forward to the game. You guys are playing very well and we'll have our hands full Thursday night. Any of you guys coming to the game?
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My son and I are gonna be there. I don't wear orange to this one out of respect for the school that gave me my career and a couple of years of mandatory ROTC training which helped in my secondary military career. I love the Vols but I also love the Bucs and am biased in this one.
 
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Funny how a certain poster here hasn't posted anything positive about the Vols this year; considering he claims to be such a huge UT fan and all.
 
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b-ball fan said:
Some would argue that a home arena(even with a small capacity) is much more desirable than a huge 3/4 empty behemoth.

With our attendance of the past couple years, Stokely would have been a better homecourt than TBA. If you're filling it up like Bruce Pearl did, TBA is awesome. Not so much with 6,000 scattered in the seats.

For anyone that watched ETSU games in the Minidome, a renovated Freedom Hall is a jewel.
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Except we've had no crowds that small. But nice try.
 
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I follow ETSU, and pull for them every game (except this one). They are a very talented team. I could see them finishing with only 6-7 losses.
 
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appyvol said:
I follow ETSU, and pull for them every game (except this one). They are a very talented team. I could see them finishing with only 6-7 losses.
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Caught a little bit of the Bucs vs MSU game. They're definitely athletic. Hopefully UT is diligent at picking them up at the 3 pt line and blocking out. With a week to prepare, I like UTs chances here. IF they shoot better than 30%.

Edit. My bad not a week, 3 days.
GBO
 
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Well, they will be packed to the rafters for this game for a change. Like the Battle at Bristol, a full house. :D
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Funny how a certain poster here hasn't posted anything positive about the Vols this year; considering he claims to be such a huge UT fan and all.
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When we are no longer 14th in the SEC in recruiting like we are for the 2017 class, I might be a little happier, Joe. You don't win championships like that. Letting a fellow named Stokes sign with Florida is dropping the ball in my opinion.
 
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SeniorDrill said:
When we are no longer 14th in the SEC in recruiting like we are for the 2017 class, I might be a little happier, Joe. You don't win championships like that. Letting a fellow named Stokes sign with Florida is dropping the ball in my opinion.
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Everyone complaining about recruiting look at the on the court results this year with a young team. Being an avid fan shouldn't be dictated by recruiting rankings especially when the proof is in the pudding that it's working this year.
 
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SeniorDrill said:
When we are no longer 14th in the SEC in recruiting like we are for the 2017 class, I might be a little happier, Joe. You don't win championships like that. Letting a fellow named Stokes sign with Florida is dropping the ball in my opinion.
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Down here in west tenn it is pretty well known that stokes was not going to UT unless there was a coach whose initials was cm!!
 
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Recruiting works at a major school like a TN when the program is sound. Pearl lying, Cuonzo quiting, and Donnie getting nailed for cheating left the program in shambles. Barnes has signed two solid classes and is getting some respectability established at TN after the 3 stooges before him wrecked it. If the 2017 scholarship is still available and TN overachieves then I'd expect a good recruit to sign and the prospects for the 1 or 2 scholarships in the 2018 class to pick up. If TN continues to play well then the 3 spots in 2019 should be filled by highly rated players. TN needs Bone to get healthy and the rest of the team to stay un-hurt in order to win a bunch of games the rest of the way. Success breeds success. Dumpster fires don't.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Recruiting works at a major school like a TN when the program is sound. Pearl lying, Cuonzo quiting, and Donnie getting nailed for cheating left the program in shambles. Barnes has signed two solid classes and is getting some respectability established at TN after the 3 stooges before him wrecked it. If the 2017 scholarship is still available and TN overachieves then I'd expect a good recruit to sign and the prospects for the 1 or 2 scholarships in the 2018 class to pick up. If TN continues to play well then the 3 spots in 2019 should be filled by highly rated players. TN needs Bone to get healthy and the rest of the team to stay un-hurt in order to win a bunch of games the rest of the way. Success breeds success. Dumpster fires don't.
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This is too complicated for some to analyze.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Except we've had no crowds that small. But nice try.
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Thank you, I do my best. :salute:

I'm assuming that you're saying that tongue-in-cheek, or you are basing your figures on the "official attendance".

If not, exactly how many would you estimate attended the Lipscomb or the Presbyterian games? Are you going with the "official" number of ~12,000.
 
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b-ball fan said:
Thank you, I do my best. :salute:

I'm assuming that you're saying that tongue-in-cheek, or you are basing your figures on the "official attendance".

If not, exactly how many would you estimate attended the Lipscomb or the Presbyterian games? Are you going with the "official" number of ~12,000.
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That's tickets sold. Actual was less than 6,000. Attendance has been awful.
 
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OrngeJuiceJones said:
That's tickets sold. Actual was less than 6,000. Attendance has been awful.
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Probably because we were picked to finish 13th in a crappy SEC AND college basketball hype is at an all time low. It's not just at Tennessee. It's happening everywhere.

That and on top of a lackluster OOC home schedule, of course the attendence is going to go down.

I did, however, attend the Georgia Tech game. There were easily 14,000 people there. But games like Presbyterian and TTU? I wouldn't go in the middle of the week either for those crap shows.
 
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ETSU and Chattanooga just swapped 9th and 11th place in the College Basketball Invitational Mid-Major poll. Gonzaga is #1. The Bucs (9-2) win over Mississippi State, 67-65 coupled with the Mocs (8-3) loss at Vandy, 76-74 led to the switch by the coaches poll. It's gonna be a heck of a game Thursday in Johnson City when the Vols come calling for the first time in 53 years.
 
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Efan said:
ETSU fan here, looking forward to the game. You guys are playing very well and we'll have our hands full Thursday night. Any of you guys coming to the game?
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I'll be there. I should be easy to spot - I'm wearing my "F" Donnie Tyndall shirt
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Look around the SEC; it sucks everywhere. Auburn looked like they had about 3K yesterday. Miss St. looked like they had about 1K for ETSU.
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They're also small arenas, in a small city. Knoxville is huge compared to those towns. We should get way more than they do.
 
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OrngeJuiceJones said:
They're also small arenas, in a small city. Knoxville is huge compared to those towns. We should get way more than they do.
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Every SEC school not named Kentucky is having attendance issues in these early games and it's been that way for several years now.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Every SEC school not named Kentucky is having attendance issues in these early games and it's been that way for several years now.
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Not specifically early games but games all year round. College basketball isn't as compelling as it was 10 years ago. People aren't following teams anymore. The classic matchups and rivalries are gone. Officiating problems. Kids change schools every year.. the list goes on.

College basketball is dying unless someone implements big change.
 
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I googled tn volunteers basketball 2012 senior day trying to find a pic of Swiper. I couldn't find any Senior ceremony pics, but this one came up in the search results.
 

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