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Villian07 said:

Again, Walter Clayton has free will. He can choose where he wants to transfer to. Rick cant tie him up and take him with him, or force him to stay at iona.

The kid is from florida and transferred to the university of florida. Not exactly ground breaking stuff here.

And yea cal does own RP. But that had nothing to do with st johns shooting like 2-22 from 3 and 8-27 in the paint. The Arkansas defense did though, they have song long athletic dudes who played well defensively. But st johns also missed open shots they usually make. Aka bad shooting night. I mean how man games in his career has rj luis went 3-17 in. Dude is a scorer, all 3 levels. Just went ice cold.

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Shooting is directly affected by defensive strategy; go back and look at UL shooting % in Pitino vs Calipari …..no coincidence when the opposing coach studied your offensive tendencies and executes strategically to force you out of what you do.

Watch Duke dominate Alabama for evidence

nccardfan said:

Not sure about that. Wade succeeded Don Devoe who at least made UT basketball a winning program. And his last season he went 19-11 and made it to the NCAA tournament. UT hired Wade because they thought he could take UT to another level, the same success that DC had.

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Tennessee had been a relatively successful program under Ray Mears and following a disastrous year under his replacement, they hired DeVoe. He started well, going 49-17 in 1st four years in SEC games. From there it was 9-9, 9-9, 8-10, 5-13, 7-11, 9-9 and finishing at 11-7 in his final year. And that was in a SEC that was not that strong. The program was going nowhere under his leadership.

The portal is very fluid and if you don’t feel good about your chances move on. I am not convinced a over priced kid is worth the gamble. Throw a ton a money at the UAB kid that just enters the portal.

Being soundly defeated by Creighton has no bearing on our having been discounted so badly by the Committee.

The political influence in NCAA sports has become so common, that even some UL fans have become accustomed to being abused. Honestly, I am not sure if there is an answer right now.

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Looking for more money I think another school has offered more money and he is giving the competition time to match or beat the current bid.

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We were run off by a 9 seed who was also under seeded. Obviously the SEC was over represented they had 14 teams in the tournament and they only have 2 teams left. sUcK was obviously way over seeded as a 3 seed and it didn’t do them any good. The most confusing seed to me outside of UNC was Clemson. We were ranked higher than them in the national polls, beat them twice and finished higher than them in the cone but yet they get a higher seed.

Something was not right in the seeding of teams and everyone knows it. Take the human input out of the equation and feed all the information in to a computer and let it seed the teams. Use the metrics that the so called selection committee says they are using.

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Dan is stubborn (in a good way), but first and foremost, he is honest. I believe if he were asked today, “should you have relieved Forbes in the 6th after his 4 pitch walk”? I believe he would acknowledge that he waited too long to make the change.

UT hired Wade because they thought he was a good coach and recruiter. The bonus to the hire was they also got his son Alan Houston who was one of the top players in the country.

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