3 pages of something only like 4 people on tww care about

[Edited on December 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM. Reason : lol]

12/20/2009 11:32:19 AM

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"and Tennessee is a football woman's basketball school anyways... and this is an NC State message board"

Fixed it for you.

12/20/2009 2:22:06 PM

Yeah you are right. A team that is #8 in the country and routinely averages 20,000 fans for the men's team could not be a basketball school too.

12/20/2009 2:48:13 PM

^^^ dead wrong there... but by posting in here you are only helping the movement

12/20/2009 6:10:50 PM

UThug!!!

1/1/2010 3:41:40 PM

i just wanna do hood rat stuff with my friends

[Edited on January 1, 2010 at 4:48 PM. Reason : .]

1/1/2010 4:48:43 PM

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"Four Tennessee basketball players, including starting senior forward Tyler Smith, are facing felony gun and misdemeanor drug charges. The Knoxville Police Department says the 23-year-old Smith, 22-year-old junior point guard Melvin Goins, 22-year-old junior center Brian Williams and 21-year-old sophomore guard Cameron Tatum were arrested during a Friday morning traffic stop near Tennessee's campus. According to a police report, officers smelled marijuana coming from the car and found a handgun with an altered serial number, a bag of marijuana and an open container of alcohol. Tatum was driving. Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl said in a statement that the team takes such matters seriously. Pearl said officials are still gathering information from authorities."

They'll probably be suspended for the first half of the next game. It is the SEC after all.

1/1/2010 4:57:56 PM

bball + weed + guns + liquor =

1/1/2010 7:48:19 PM

someone needs to tell them to not be so damn bla...



blatantly stupid

1/1/2010 8:08:06 PM

You can take a thug out of the ghetto...

1/2/2010 1:20:14 AM

ESPNU reporting that they've all been suspended indefinitely.

1/2/2010 12:57:19 PM

wow Tennessee sure is a real shit hole

1/2/2010 11:13:10 PM

this is my favorite thread

1/3/2010 12:49:11 AM

Tyler Smith - Gone

Still waiting on the other three.

No one can say that Bruce Pearl doesn't take discipline seriously. Smith is by far the best player of the four.

1/8/2010 12:47:26 PM

LOL. Pearl really didn't have a choice. They were driving around with a handgun, open container, and pot. Of course he's going to kick them off the team.

If he took discipline seriously they wouldn't have done it in the first place. Or he wouldn't have recruited thugs.

[Edited on January 8, 2010 at 2:23 PM. Reason : ^]

1/8/2010 2:22:30 PM

Haha FatAssTony here to troll what a shock.

Two years ago Pearl kicked Duke Crews off the team who had a heart condition and missed a lot of his sophomore year and worked hard to get back to playing. Pearl is recruiting consistently and Tyler was his best player but he will keep the train moving.

[Edited on January 8, 2010 at 2:36 PM. Reason : ^Kinda like if Jim Valvano would have taken academics seriously right?]

1/8/2010 2:35:26 PM

wonder if the gun had any bodies on it

1/8/2010 2:40:18 PM

Pearl has consistantly kicked guys off the team for off court issues. Ramar Smith, Major Wingate,Tyler Smith, Duke Crews, and a couple others. He has been pretty consistant on these type things.

1/8/2010 3:22:04 PM

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"Haha FatAssTony here to troll what a shock."

Hey, I'm just adding a little objectivity to this thread.

If you want everyone to agree with you, maybe you could post it on a UT board.

1/8/2010 11:33:38 PM

How is Kansas only favored by 5.5??

Tennessee will be playing 6 scholarship players

1/10/2010 12:03:54 AM

Probably has something to do with Kiffin coaching the football team. The talent on that amazing coaching staff spills over into other sports as well.

1/10/2010 12:44:53 PM

Tennessee is tied with Kansas at halftime. UT is playing their asses off but I just see KU being too talented. They should pull maway in the second half. Also, Chism is a retard with picking up that third foul with a minute left in the half.

1/10/2010 5:32:58 PM

LIFE IS ORANGE AND WHITE

1/10/2010 6:00:18 PM

those sons of bitches might win

1/10/2010 6:12:47 PM

HOPS, SON!

1/10/2010 6:14:27 PM

i would love to see Kansas lose this

Cole Aldrich has no neck

1/10/2010 6:14:30 PM

god damn Hopson

1/10/2010 6:14:46 PM

GO "whoever Tennessee is playing"!!!

[Edited on January 10, 2010 at 6:22 PM. Reason : KANSAS! GO KANSAS!]

1/10/2010 6:21:52 PM

Kansas keeps getting bailed out with phantom calls

1/10/2010 6:24:28 PM

Don Butthole doesnt know college basketball, he doesnt even know who the #1 team is playing in a given week



dammit, my wallet will take a hit but I will sacrifice that for a win, but dont fucking lose but cover dammit

[Edited on January 10, 2010 at 6:35 PM. Reason : d]

1/10/2010 6:24:40 PM

Tennessee just beat #1 Kansas!!!!!!!!!!

1/10/2010 6:46:46 PM

oh really?

1/10/2010 6:47:05 PM

has Pearl ever coached his team on how to break a press? jesus

1/10/2010 6:48:21 PM

that was a baller shot by that white guy

1/10/2010 6:50:04 PM

pretty sure they will never play this well again

1/10/2010 6:50:25 PM

lol at that white kid

that will probably be the best moment of his life

1/10/2010 6:50:26 PM

fuck yea boys

1/10/2010 6:54:12 PM

sorta reminds me of the time state beat unc

1/10/2010 6:54:17 PM

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Never thought they could pull this game out. Great effort play.

GBO!

1/10/2010 6:55:45 PM

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"pretty sure they will never play this well again"

LOL at the Tennessee trolls....

1/10/2010 6:56:20 PM

Holy hell I don't know how they won this... Only 6 scholarship players against the #1 team in the country and a team that is exact type that is usually a bad matchup for them. GG Vols!

1/10/2010 7:32:47 PM

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" Tennessee Upsets Top-Ranked Kansas With Six Scholarship Players With less than a minute to play and Tennessee nursing a three-point lead, freshman walk-on Skylar McBee found himself holding the basketball as the shot clock wound down. McBee, who with his floppy brown hair and shorts that appear to almost double as pants, looks like a ringer from a junior high team. He's not supposed to be in this position. Not supposed to be draped by a defender for the No. 1 team in the country with the ball in his hands just a few months removed from playing high school basketball in tiny Rutledge, Tenn. But he's on the court because Tennessee is down to just six scholarship players and there is no one else to put in the game. He pivots right, the crowd screams as one, aware that the shot clock is winding down but not sure McBee is aware of that fact. And then, comes the magic, the reason why we all watch college basketball. Leaning and twisting away from his defender McBee throws up a prayer a millisecond before the shot clock expires. And his three-pointer draws nothing but net to give the Vols a six-point lead with 36 seconds remaining. Amazingly, there was no doubt. The biggest win of the Bruce Pearl era was going to happen. Now, improbably, just ten days removed from the darkest stain of the Pearl era, the arrest of four players for misdemeanor gun and drug charges. With just six scholarship players, Bruce Pearl and Tennessee pulled off the improbable. This is Bruce Pearl's fifth season. After three stellar seasons in Knoxville, last season was a totally different story. The Vols, picked by everyone to win the SEC, stumbled out of the gate, played selfishly, without smarts, even appeared disinterested at times. The team was the antithesis of everything Pearl had instilled in his first three seasons. They were scowling malcontents, offended at the very idea that they could have ever committed a foul. Put simply, they thought they were better than they were. If there's any more infuriating trait in a team, it's that one. The overconfident swagger that doesn't arrive when big baskets are needed, but reveals itself in excessive celebrations during wins over teams that didn't match the Vols' talent. Too often Tennessee could drain a series of threes when the game wasn't close, but when winning time arrived, the swagger vanished and the team turned tail. The talent was there, but the inconsistency was so mind-boggling that many Vol fans, myself included, derived hardly any enjoyment from watching the team play last season. The Vols finished the SEC season 10-6, still won the East in a down year for basketball in the league, lost to an inferior Mississippi State team in the SEC Tourney championship and lost by two to Oklahoma State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Then came this season. The highly-ranked Vols returned everyone, but the passion didn't seem to be there. How else to explain a 22-point loss at USC when Tennessee failed to compete at all? Pearl, the Incredible Bulk as he sometimes calls himself, seemed incapable of recapturing the same passion with this group of players that he had with his first three teams. Where was the derring-do, the thrill of competition, the swagger of a team and coach who believes that no matter the situation, they're going to triumph? And have fun while doing it. Now, for the second year in a row, fans weren't responding to the team. It was hard to connect with the inconsistency, the mental errors were galling, at times watching the team play on DVR was less painful than watching the games live. And then something strange happened, four players, including all-SEC star Tyler Smith, were arrested, charged with drug and weapons possession, and suspended from the team. Amazingly, in one fell swoop, the arrest turned a team of selfish underachievers into hard-working underdogs. On Wednesday, the Vols took the court for the first time without the suspended foursome, and played with a scalding passion, a fevered intensity. They didn't have as many good players, but Pearl suddenly had a team that reflected his own personality once again, a group of hard charging underdogs who had nothing to lose. Against Charlotte, Tennessee basketball had the old-time Bruce Pearl feel. But that was against Charlotte. The question remained, what would happen against the nation's top team with a depleted roster? "

1/10/2010 11:05:13 PM

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"And so they tipped the ball off on a frigid Sunday afternoon in Tennessee. 1. Enter the Kansas Jayhawks, 14-0, with just two of those wins by less than double digits. The Jayhawks showed a bit of a weak chin against Cornell, won, but proved that they weren't clicking on all cylinders. Even still, early in this game it appears that Cole Aldrich is on pace for 100 rebounds. He and his Kansas teammates are grabbing every offensive miss. Kansas appears crisper, better organized in the half-court, and able to get whatever shot they want whenever they want it. The Jayhawks surge out to a 14-6 lead with just under 14 minutes to play. It will be their largest lead of the game. 2. Down 16-10 early, a Tennessee forward named Renaldo Woolridge takes a pass at the top of the key. Woolridge, son of former Notre Dame and NBA star Orlando Woolridge (and second cousin of Basketball Hall of Famer Willis Reed), stepped into Tyler Smith's starting role after his dismissal. Thus far in his Tennessee career, Woolridge has most distinguished himself by pursuing a rap career under the stage name Swiperboy. I wish I was making that up He's also not shy when it comes to missing three-point shots. With a little under 10 minutes left in the first half, Swiperboy takes the pass and lets fly from the top of the key. He miscalculates. Badly. The shot banks directly off the backboard and settles through the net. It's 16-13 and the crowd exults. In the next one minute-forty-one seconds, Woolridge fires in two more threes. Suddenly we're tied at 19, Kansas is taking a timeout, and Woolridge is not just a rapper who plays basketball. He's a basketball player. It's impossible to understate how important Woolridge's personal 9-0 run was, or how improbable it was based on what the sophomore had done in any game prior. Don't believe me? Against Memphis just 10 days ago, Swiperboy got only eight minutes on the floor. 3. Midway through the first half, Tennessee's two most experienced seniors, Wayne Chism and J.P. Prince, pick up their second fouls. Both men are pulled from the game. Tennessee's offense, and I'm not making this up, features the coach's son, Steven Pearl, putting the ball on the floor and trying to get to the basket. But, to be fair, it's not like Steven Pearl hasn't been an offensive weapon before. Okay, so that was in Israel at the Maccabi Games against only Israeli players but... Yeah, he's not really an offensive weapon. But Tennessee hangs tough. 4. Until Bruce Pearl inexplicably brings back in Wayne Chism with 1:55 remaining in the half. Chism has been out of the game since picking up his second foul with 7:39 remaining. The Vols are in decent shape, leading by a few points. Rather than leave Chism out for the remainder of the game, Pearl rolls the dice ... and Chism picks up a blocking foul with 34 seconds left in the half. He's now got three. As an aside, someone needs to put together a video compilation of Wayne Chism's foul calls. If there is any big man in college basketball who gets called for more touch fouls, I want to see it. Wayne is a walking foul magnet. 5. On offense Kansas is stifled. The Jayhawks aren't getting great dribble penetration from Sherron Collins and their offense stagnates. The Jayhawks make just one basket from the floor for one eight-minute stretch as the half wanes. Tennessee is pressing the passing lanes and rotating well on the perimeter to challenge the shooters while encouraging other Jayhawks to let fly from a distance. 6. In fact, on paper what looked like the biggest mismatch in the game, Kansas's Collins against Tennessee's Bobby Maze, is proving to be anything but. Prior to this game Maze has been erratic at best. Collins has been consistently excellent. While Maze has been frequently beaten off the dribble and inconsistent at getting to the rim, Collins has carried Kansas on his back at times. If anything you'd expect Collins to exploit Maze and set up Kansas's offense in great situations. You'd expect that. But for tonight, you'd be wrong. Collins is still getting his points, but Maze is making him work for them. What's more, Collins isn't distributing the ball that well: he'll finish with five assists but also four turnovers. He's also taking a lot of contested threes and will finish just 2-10 from outside the arc. What's more, Maze begins to beat Collins off the dribble and get to the rim. What's more, Maze is finishing when he gets there. 7. At the half we're tied at 33-33. With the Vols in foul trouble, you'd expect Kansas to dial up the pressure for the second half and try to tire out the undermanned Tennessee team. But Bill Self elects not to. In fact, for much of the second half he elects to play zone and let Tennessee rest on offense -- evidently gambling on the fact that the Vols can't make outside shots. 8. Early in the second half, Tennessee begins to pull away. How? Courtesy of the patented top of the key Wayne Chism three. The Vols surge ahead 46-39. It's a huge shot that suggests the game will go down to the wire. Kansas will not be pulling away from the Vols today. 9. But then near disaster strikes. In a span of 10 seconds both Prince and Chism get their fourth fouls. Now Pearl is forced to rely on the walk-ons for serious minutes. At one point Tennessee has three walk-ons on the floor together, Josh Bone, Skylar McBee, and Steven Pearl. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that an opponent has never beaten the No. 1 team in the country while playing three walk-ons with double-digit minutes. That's probably a stat that's impossible to disprove, so consider it a fact. Surely, Kansas will exert its will now. 10. But the Jayhawks can't. In fact, Tennessee's own Hamlet, Scotty Hopson, outdribbles his greatest enemy, his capacity to overthink on the court, and begins to attack the basket. No one on Kansas can stay in front of him. Hopson punctuates this display with a rousing baseline dunk on Kansas's Cole Aldrich that sends Thompson-Boling Arena into a frenzy. Hopson, who memorably tripped over a referee while celebrating a big dunk last year, doesn't even react that much to this stellar play, perhaps the most explosive of his Volunteer career. And with 10:24 left the Vols are up 9. 11. Meanwhile, Maze, who will only leave the court for seven minutes tonight, is on his way to besting Collins. Maze makes a run at a triple-double, going for 16 points, eight assists, and seven rebounds. What's more, despite being ballhawked all night on defense, Maze only turns the ball over twice. 12. Even still, Kansas makes its run. With 6:47 left the Vols lead by eight, 62-54. In a little over two minutes the Jayhawks tie the game at 64 on two Tyshon Taylor free throws. 13. Now comes crunch time. The time when this Volunteer team has typically failed to make the big play, allowed defeat to be snatched from the jaws of victory. Only not this time and not this team. Somehow, some way, through the complicated calculus of basketball, Tennessee has subtracted four players and found its inner warrior. 14. But not without a struggle. Up six with the ball and 1:10 remaining, Wayne Chism decides to go Harlem Globetrotters on us, and dribbles behind his back. The ball is stripped and Kansas's Brady Morningstar drills a three. Suddenly it's a one-possession game with an awful lot of time remaining. 15. With 39 seconds left, Tennessee's McBee has the ball. The crowd stirs as the clock wanes. We've all seen this before, this Volunteer team crumbling down the stretch. Does McBee, the walk-on freshman, know the time situation? Not until the last moment. But then McBee lets loose with the ball from his hands. In the time the ball is in the air you can track the prayers of a million Tennesseans, all willing the ball in the basket. And McBee hits one of the biggest shots in the history of Thompson-Boling Arena -- the only shot, mind you, to ever beat a No. 1-ranked team there. 16. And by the time McBee's shot nestles through the net, the biggest win of the Bruce Pearl era is assured. Some may quibble and argue that the win over top-ranked Memphis two seasons ago was bigger. That game lifted the Vols to the overall No. 1 ranking for the first time in program history. Some might point out that this is an early January game and might not matter at all come March. That any NCAA tournament win is bigger. But I disagree. This one was bigger, this one was the biggest. Ever. Not because it was Kansas, but because of all the noise off the court, with so few players available to go on that court, with the entire basketball program under seige -- and some might argue with the entire athletic department under seige -- this was the win that mattered the most. In the immediate wake of the victory, as 21,936 fans screamed along to Rocky Top as loudly as they could, the win didn't feel so much like an ending as a new beginning. "Bruuuuuce" cooed the crowd. Suddenly, and improbably, with just six scholarship players and three walk-ons to rely on, Bruce Pearl got his groove back. The rest of the SEC better watch out. Because the only thing more dangerous than the Incredible Bulk with a basketball team filled with stars, is an Incredible Bulk with absolutely nothing to lose."

1/10/2010 11:05:36 PM

1/10/2010 11:27:45 PM

^ hahahah

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"“The thing I will tell you is this: I don’t know if Tennessee was a team until this past week. I don’t know if Kansas is a team yet,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “McBee’s shot was worth how many hours in the gym?” Pearl said. “When other kids were doing everything else, you could see McBee in the gym practicing all night long. It paid off—the beautiful thing about sports.” Kansas couldn’t find its composure in front of 21,936 screaming Tennessee fans at a sold-out Thompson-Boling Arena, which was hosting a No. 1 team for the first time. The Jayhawks turned the ball over 16 times, while Tennessee (12-2) had only eight turnovers"

hahaha http://utsports.tv/featured/kansas-post-game-locker-room-jan-10/

[Edited on January 10, 2010 at 11:42 PM. Reason : d]

1/10/2010 11:32:55 PM

hahaha, here are some SEC Conference pride quotes from other fans just to piss TT10 off:

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"drew_ukfan Re: Impressive victory Reply Congrats guys, nice job winning one for the SEC. I was getting tired of the Kansas fans running their mouth, another congrats for shutting them up."

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"NotTheRedGrassState You guys deserve one more thread! Congrats UT!!!!! Big win! Reply Glad to see you guys pull it out. You played tough down the stretch and put it to them. I still will hate you when we play you, but love that you knocked off KU! Go Cats! Go SEC!"

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"BurpinTurpin CONGRATS UT!!! Reply Awesome win today! I know I'll be hating you guys soon again, lol, but for today, YOU GUYS KICKED KANSAS' ACE!!!! Fantastic win, proud of your team and the SEC. YES!"

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"jrfoster From a UK fan Reply you made me proud to call you my SEC brother. Great win being undermanned. Your kids played their butts off."

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"GomangoCat Wow, way to go Tennessee......SEC SEC SEC Reply Inspirtional win. I mean talking about against all odds. "

wow... Kentucky fans are usually bitter bitches all throughout bball season due to Football suckage...

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 12:06 AM. Reason : x]

1/11/2010 12:03:24 AM

Obviously not a huge UT fan, but I gotta admit that was pretty awesome. 2/3's of the roster was walkons and scrubs and two of the best three players were in major foul trouble. That kid that hit that dagger three probably will never have a bigger moment in his life in sports.

Kentucky fans are the biggest douches on the face of the earth...

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 9:41 AM. Reason : x]

1/11/2010 9:40:56 AM

can't be as bad as hole fans.

I won't even entertain the thought.

1/11/2010 9:50:26 AM

UNC fans have a fantastic reputation among most other big time basketball schools believe it or not. I've never met a UConn fan who dislikes UNC fans as a whole. I've never met another school who actually likes Kentucky fans as a whole.

They are putrid rednecks..

[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 9:52 AM. Reason : x]

1/11/2010 9:51:59 AM

The problem with Kentucky fans is that they continually get beat down in football by the other teams in their division (Tennessee, Florida, Georgia) and can never say shit so they try to make it up during bball season by being the biggest fucking assholes ever.

While UNC isnt much better in football, and might be worse, they at least go back and forth with most of their yearly opponents for the most part... they are still bitches though



[Edited on January 11, 2010 at 3:22 PM. Reason : f]

1/11/2010 3:17:46 PM