re: Ben Howland, Tubby Smith approached Tennessee today; UT contacted White, Tyndall

Does not sound like Tubby is a factor at all.

Also, I have never bitched about style of play. I don't care if the coach runs 30 seconds off the clock each possession if he wins. I do believe Howland is a much better coach than Cuonzo.

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Y'all bitch about Cuonzo's boring brand of basketball and go after Howland and Tubby

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It was boring because it was losing ball and not well executed. During the tourney his style was plenty exciting because we saw it run with passion and good execution for once BUT the problem with CCM wasn't just that he had a boring style - HE was boring and to make matters worse just didn't connect with fans or even attempt selling the program. He had no interest in doing so - at least none that he showed to the general public despite (his personality was stoic and he had no intention of changing or making an effort to reach out regular Joe Schmoe which is necessary in college hoops) being universally regarded among the community and fanbase as a great human being. However, his charisma was -10 topping -100 at times except in the tourney. Other coaches accused of being boring would be hard pressed to reach the anti-charisma level Martin reached regularly. And I say that as someone who supported Martin and thought that he had potential to develop into a great, maybe even elite, coach here with time.

If a coach is boring and has given you no reason to believe he can turn it around that's a deadly combination - winning coaches and more proven ones are given more leeway to be boring. That's just fans for you, not a damn thing unique to us.