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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 2311782, member: 730"] Tenn has been "turning the page", "showing great energy", "working harder than in at any time in memory", "seem to be on a mission", etc etc etc every summer. I'm sure that's the same with hundreds of other programs in D1 wcbb and maybe it's just that Tenn gets more press than any other also-ran team but I am amazed at how they manage to maintain a pollyanna attitude year after year after year. The only comparable situation I know of is the comments from trainers the week before the Kentucky Derby when every horse is "working perfectly","never in better condition", "ready to shock the world". Then in the days after the race we hear how "he hadn't been himself in the days before the race", "we weren't sure whether to race him due to ". In the case of Tenn it takes the form of Warlick telling us in April that so-and-so was playing injured all year and will need offseason surgery. Every summer Warlick has told us about how the attitude of the team was 100%. Now all we hear is that DeShields and Cooper were poison the last couple of years. In the spring after DeShields sat for a season we were told that the year off gave her a chance to heal from injuries that limited her at UNC. Then at the start of the season we suddenly hear about DeShields' shin problems. So I'll leave the "everything is wonderful" comments coming out of Knoxville to the orange koolade drinkers. It appears to me that it's nothing more than an attempt to stimulate season ticket sales. As someone else posted, Tenn has 2 outstanding players returning. Next year they will have 4 experienced sophomores but will lose their 2 best players. If they can land a couple of big & talented front court players in the '18 class they could make a lot of noise in the 19/20 season. Now maybe they'll turn out to be clones of the Mich. "fab five", but I doubt it. [/QUOTE]

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