How dare Mechelle describe BY fans this way

[DobbsRover2]

The key date in Tennessee WBB history was 4/2/2000. That's when it was clear to everyone that UConn had knocked UT off their perch atop WBB. The paradigm shifted that day. No longer would the PHS style of getting the best athletes and motivating them within an inch of their life with cries of "rebounding and defense" be enough. Skill and team play moved to the fore. Something PHS never quite got a handle on. To paraphrase Herb Brooks, "Their time -- is done. It's over." Instead of stepping up her game, PHS got bitter. As soon Candace Parker gave her a bit of hand, she used it to cancel the series with UConn and slime Geno. She cut of her nose to spite her face. No Final Four in five straight years. And she never came clean, in that recent autobiography she perpetuated the smear. UT had a good run, they should be good sports. Instead, they have taken on the character of their fallen leader, who was never a good sport.

I wouldn't write UTenn off quite that early. During the next 8 years after 2000 they would play in 4 NCs while UConn would be in 3. Though the Vols would come up one win short more often than the Huskies because they had UConn in the way, that is still a level of greatness that you will find in few D1 sports outside of women's soccer. The Vols have not lost to any team other than UConn in the NC game since 1984, two years before Geno came to UConn. And at the end of that period up to 2008, that 3 NC gap they had over UConn was pretty irksome. After 2004, when the lead was 6-5 I was thinking it would be earlier than 2013 before the Huskies drew even. It has been a struggle all the way, as Geno keeps emphasizing in his post-NC interviews. Nothing comes easy, even when you recruit great players.

But for 2009 and after, it has indeed been a different era, with UTenn definitely settling back as it simply has not made the adjustments well enough for current times.

 

[Icebear]

I'd shoot myself in the head.

meyers, there would probably be volunteers lining up to do that for both of us.

 

[meyers7]

meyers, there would probably be volunteers lining up to do that for both of us.

I'm sure there would be plenty.

 

[meyers7]

I can relate to that emotion....I read all of your posts.....

I am so sorry. I apologize for all past and future posts of mine.

 

[DobbsRover2]

I am so sorry. I apologize for all past and future posts of mine.

So Meyers are you now trying to buy an exemption for a future murder of the rep of some coach for a boneheaded blither? I know that was allowed back in the Dark Ages before anyone knew how to take a jump shot, but paying in advance for your sins does not seem right to me -- unless of course it's for some semi-ethical maneuver to land a 6'9" center in 2016 who can dunk from her tippy toes.

 

[meyers7]

So Meyers are you now trying to buy an exemption for a future murder of the rep of some coach for a boneheaded blither? I know that was allowed back in the Dark Ages before anyone knew how to take a jump shot, but paying in advance for your sins does not seem right to me -- unless of course it for some semi-ethical maneuver to land a 6'9" center in 2016 who can dunk from her tippy toes.

No payment or penance involved. Just an apology. Not looking for absolution. Just feel sorry for the mods having to read through all this crap. At least they get the pleasure of banning people now and again.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Okay I know I'm risking getting expunged for dragging something, but in reference to some other place than here, how about an "oops, I didn't mean that" howler:

---When discussing the statements that Geno made about a certain clipboard-toting coach of an Orange team down south who he stated was the "best coach in women's college basketball history," a fan of her hers said that he doubted the "veracity" of what Geno said about her. Just love it. In all "sincerity," I truly love the education they do down there to l'arn those kids some lessons.

---And another fan brilliantly pinpointed the reason for UConn and Geno's success: recruiting "the meanest girls he can find that don't mind punching your lights out for no reason." I well remember the time I went to shake Maria Conlon's hand and she just decked me, and Ashley Battle than dribbled my head on the floor for a few minutes.

As vtcwbuff noted, there is incredible amounts of humor to find in life even when you're wading through the cesspool orange.