Here's the thing - my $.02...
Not sure Tennessee's woes have anything really to do with Karma, but as a UCONN fan, who hates Tennessee more than any other team out there (including MCBB, MLB, NFL, NCAAF, MLS, etc), it's awesome to see. But I wanted to address 2 things.
First, the point with the board being obsessed with Tennessee... I doubt we'd have quite as many posts if it were ND in free fall and the exact same thing happened to them as is happening to Tennessee. BUT... it would be something that was discussed a LOT. Additionally, there is no team out there who had their former HC as well as their administration and league try to take UCONN down. Without rehashing the entire debacle, to have them send a 39 page complaint complete with quote from Boneyard posters; to make so many accusations that were all thrown out (except for the 2ndary violation of a staffer scheduling an ESPN tour for Maya's family), and then to have the moderator of their forum, a journalist no less, report one of our posters to the FBI for copyright infringement stemming from quoting an article that she thought was on a pay only site (but was not); to have a fan base that still accuses UCONN and Geno of cheating (and worse), causes me to put their entire program and fan base in the farthest place in hell, as far as I'm concerned.
When you have a program that actively tried to take down Geno and UCONN, the people who remember and do not forgive will always have a special kind of hatred towards Tennessee.
Secondly, as for as bad for the game, how on earth can it be? Didn't the UCONN-ND game recently just have the highest viewership in WCBB history for a regular season game? Haven't other compelling teams launched themselves back to the top of the pack (including welcoming Texas and Baylor back to the elite)? Additionally programs like OSU and Maryland are back near the top, recruiting like gangbusters, and that's not even counting the west coast teams like UCLA, Oregon State, USC, ASU, etc etc who are making lots of noise. I would argue the opposite - that it's actually great for the game because so many people have so much interest in the decline of the once great powerhouse. Kind of like if the Yankees were to head towards the toilet. It would be compelling for everyone.