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TIME TO RAISE MY OWN WHITE FLAG
BOWLS AND HOOPS
Posted: Thu, January 4th, 2018, 4:23 PM
by Beano
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FREE THOUGHT FRIDAY

BOWL TAKEAWAYS


Wish I had realized how bad the PAC-12 sucked this year before picking a bunch of it’s members in several bowl pools. If there was a good team in the entire league it didn’t show.

Apparently, the officiating in that league matches the member’s ineptitude. The Music City Bowl may have been the worst officiated game I have ever seen.

Try this test next bowl season. If you see a game being over-officiated to Barney Fife levels you can bet it is a PAC-12 or SEC crew.

I’m also never going to win a bowl pool in a postseason that sees the Big-12 go 8-1. You can bet with few exceptions I’ll be on the other side of their games.

It seemed the layoff teams had leading up to their bowl games effected special teams play more than any other phase. Whether it was returners muffing punts or catching them inside their 5-yard line; bad squibs, inaccurate FG kickers or some other malady there appeared to be numerous gaffes.

One great thing about all-inclusive SEC Bowl play on New Years Day; no SEC officiating crews wearing out mics and rotator cuffs calling penalties.

Though it was much higher scoring than I prefer it would be hard to find a more entertaining game in the playoff era than Georgia-Oklahoma. If you didn’t care who won it was enjoyable from start-to-finish

Great to see both Army and Navy win a bowl game. Those kind of results deter me from complaining about there being too many bowl games.

The Big-10 and PAC-12’s exclusion from the playoffs -along with being locked out of the Rose bowl- and the SEC having two teams playing for the National Championship will almost certainly hasten an expansion to 8-teams. That may be the only redeeming feature of a Georgia-Alabama final.

DEEP BREATH; TIME FOR OTHERS TO SHARE THE BAMA BURDEN:
I never dreamed I would think it -let alone write it- but barring only counting games against division members to determine the East and West winners it’s time to move away from the Vols facing Alabama as a permanent opponent. As much as I hate for another of the great traditional annual rivalries to disappear Tennessee is just at too great a competitive disadvantage to look at it any other way.

First, the SEC must go to a 9-game schedule. Not only would I not settle for Tennessee playing Alabama only twice every 10 years or so -regardless of what it did to our SEC Championship chances- but a 14-team league playing only 8 games to determine champions is ludicrous. Not to mention how infrequently many non-division games are played. I propose playing everyone in your division and three non-division rotators that would stay on the schedule for two years (home-and-home) before rotating three more for the following two seasons. That would mean anyone completing four years of eligibility would have faced every league opponent and visited every stadium but one. Under this plan Tennessee would still -except on rare occasions- face Alabama three times every five seasons. That would satisfy my old-school desire to play the Tide regularly while Georgia and Florida could take their turn trying to slow down the Red Elephants as well.

VOL HOOPS:

Can’t believe how sick the Arkansas game made me feel. I thought going in that was a no-lose contest. Instead the way we folded down the stretch -after making a habit of it in 2016-17- made it feel like two losses

Not sure there’s a teaching point to the loss to the Hogs. There wasn’t one area you could pinpoint to improve upon. It was a complete meltdown that appeared more mental than physical. Rick Barnes could certainly be a better recruiter and late-game coach. He can’t however be the team shrink as well.

Both Grant Williams and Admiral Schofield must do a better job of staying out of foul trouble on the road. The home-whistle most everyone in the league receives makes it more difficult for visiting big men but you have to understand it and eliminate the stupid reaching and attempted charge drawing gimmees that get you in trouble every trip.

Jordan Bone is becoming the one guard we have that I feel confident will be strong enough with the ball to be on the floor late in games.

John Fulkerson is simply not physically ready to do the dirty-work expected of him. He needs a healthy offseason in the weight room if he is ever to become a solid SEC-level contributor.

I can take most anything from my team except half-ass; mail-it-in; standing-around basketball and that’s what we got from most of the Vols against Auburn. This team will rarely have a talent or size advantage so they have to play with greater effort, energy and intellect than their opponent. The Vols were a woeful 0-for-3 in those areas Tuesday.

I hope I’m proven wrong but I fear that this roster doesn’t have enough guys that hate to lose. And that sadly includes Little Rickey from "Hickry".

Surrendering 20+ offensive rebounds to a smaller team like Auburn is inexcusable. That is simply a disgraceful level of want-to.


FINAL FRIDAY THOUGHT: Though it got off to a rocky start with Tennessee’s abysmal basketball “effort” Tuesday I’ve got to believe brighter days are ahead for Vol Men’s sports in 2018. Happy New Year everyone.

Caitlin Clark
Posted: Fri, Mar 1st, 2:21 PM
We can now officially congratulate Caitlin Clark on breaking the record for the most points scored in women’s basketball!

Caitlin Clark is the biggest superstar in college basketball (men’s or women’s). That’s not just me being a fan, Caitlin Clark is HER! Caitlin scored 49 points on February 15th to pass Kelsey Plum’s NCAA record for the most career points in women’s college basketball..... [more]
It's a Love Story
Posted: Wed, Feb 14th, 11:23 AM
Jared (the redneck from Roanoke, VA) thought the Taylor Swift coverage would end with the Super Bowl, but this love story isn’t going anywhere. In a game that was four hours and 18 minutes (that’s a total of 15,480 seconds). Swift only appeared for around 55 seconds! 55 SECONDS from the moment the game kicked off to the overtime touchdown.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ONwhRyugP/.... [more]
Missouri Game Preview
Posted: Thu, Nov 9th, 12:56 PM
by Josh
The Vols did what they were expected to do against UConn. There's not really much to say about that game. The game this Saturday in Columbia, Missouri will decide whether or not this season is a failure in my opinion. If they Vols lose, they are staring at 8-4 and probably the Gator Bowl. Maybe Reliaquest..... [more]
Connecticut Game Preview
Posted: Thu, Nov 2nd, 6:19 PM
by Josh
The Vols are coming back to Neyland Stadium and I am returning after a discretionary bye week. I'll be honest with you. This year it seems like I've been writing the same preview over and over because the formula to win has been the same pretty much every SEC game. I didn't want to sound like a broken record so I needed a bit of a break from that.

I'll start with some general observations..... [more]



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