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this tennessee team is going to come back down to earth and regress to the mean, and people are going to call it a choke job, but ask yourself: just how good should this team be?

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la owe is the only guy with any chance of playing in the nba, and that’s as a role player. zeigler is their best player, and he’s a 5’8” college lifer who isn’t a great shooter. for as mediocre as he is in the tournament, rick barnes is seriously an amazing regular season coach. there’s a reason he’s going to retire with 900-1,000 wins and end up in the hall of fame. this year has been another inexplicably successful coaching job thus far.

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this team should not be this good. rick barnes is an outstanding college basketball coach. he’s got nowhere near one of the best rosters in america, but his team is one of the very best, even with injury and transfer issues. i thought they’d get blown out tonight, but instead they held the best offense in the country to 53 points and very nearly won. he’s done this for more three decades now, taking lowly rated recruits and creating teams which are far greater than the sum of their parts. i honestly don’t know how he does it.

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tennessee has lost 3/4 and i spent all of last weekend arguing with their dumbass fans who once again think they deserve better. but game against florida in knoxville tomorrow. his seat won’t actually be hot if they lose, but those fans are basically only happy whenever they’re mad at rick barnes, and they will have a field day the vols lose that one.

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btw, the end of rick barnes’ tenure here was not nearly as bad on paper as it was experiencing it in real time. i am by no means saying we should have retained him- his time here was done. i’m just saying that the story on paper isn’t nearly as bad as it was when actually experiencing those seasons in real time.

for example: 

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that’s probably not as bad as you remembered post-2006. then you take his final season here as another example of it being a lot worse in real time than how it looks on paper: we went 20-14 (just not acceptable to lose 14 games with that team, and some of the losses were bad) but we didn’t actually lose to any bad teams. here’s our 14 losses by final kenpom ranking;

39 stanford in OT

38 osu in OT

at 38 osu

at 25 west virginia 

20 butler in the ncaa tourney 

16 isu away

16 isu home

16 isu big xii tourney 

at 14 baylor

12 kansas home 

12 kansas away

11 ou home

11 ou away

1 kentucky

talk about a brutal schedule. yeesh.

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