re: Feelin' really bad for Tennessee fans.......

screw UT

They knew who they were hiring

Got what they deserved.

frickaVol.

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When the other teams in your conference suck, you pay the price with your RPI.

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That argument makes sense and I understand it. But look at it from another angle, if tennessee basketball sucked balls there might be a kid or 2 who looked at Georgia a little harder and didn't go to tennessee. Maybe we have another 4* or even a 5* on our roster (which we don't now). Our RPI taking a hit could and likely would be offset by us being a better basketball team and having more wins.

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That argument makes sense and I understand it. But look at it from another angle, if tennessee basketball sucked balls there might be a kid or 2 who looked at Georgia a little harder and didn't go to tennessee. Maybe we have another 4* or even a 5* on our roster (which we don't now). Our RPI taking a hit could and likely would be offset by us being a better basketball team and having more wins.

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his is true to an extent. If your conference is really good as a whole though, then you are gonna get looks regardless. Take football for example. Why was USCe able to pull as many 4 and 5 stars this year?

Because kids want to play in this conference anyway they can get in it. Georgia's main prolbem in basketball isnt Tenn, its Tech. They, for the most part, own Atlanta inner city. Which is by and large, the best place to pull basketball prospects from. Not just Atlanta inner city, but pretty much ANY large city is gonna produce most its stars from those areas.

Why? Well, its a stereotype but it fits. Those kids have one chance of getting out of the area they live in, and thats sports. And a lot of inner city schools dont even have football teams because they dont have a place to put a field, leaving basketball their meal ticket.

As long as the ACC is head and tails above the SEC, Tech is gonna get first dibs on those kids.

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his is true to an extent. If your conference is really good as a whole though, then you are gonna get looks regardless. Take football for example. Why was USCe able to pull as many 4 and 5 stars this year?

Because kids want to play in this conference anyway they can get in it. Georgia's main prolbem in basketball isnt Tenn, its Tech. They, for the most part, own Atlanta inner city. Which is by and large, the best place to pull basketball prospects from. Not just Atlanta inner city, but pretty much ANY large city is gonna produce most its stars from those areas.

Why? Well, its a stereotype but it fits. Those kids have one chance of getting out of the area they live in, and thats sports. And a lot of inner city schools dont even have football teams because they dont have a place to put a field, leaving basketball their meal ticket.

As long as the ACC is head and tails above the SEC, Tech is gonna get first dibs on those kids.

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The bottomline is that you can afford to be magnanimous about the strength of the SEC when you are in the top tier already. Bama is going to get theirs until and unless someone drives the program into the ground. I'm not saying that UGA is not a historically top tier program (that's a different argument), but they have slipped a little in all areas and are fighting to get back. Yeah, I'm on a little tangent now, but hear me out.

Those of us trying to get a leg up and scratch and claw out way into the top half of the SEC do not want other SEC programs to flourish. It harms our recruiting, scheduling and fanbase. The money distribution rule plays a small benefit to lower tier schools from TV and post season, but in terms of direct efffects on a single school, Auburn winning an NC last season hurt everyone else in the conference's recruiting. LSU, Bama and UF barely felt it (if at all) but the rest of us had a very hard time convincing kids to come to our school when Auburn had expressed interest.

The same lessons are applicable in Basketball. We recruit memphis pretty hard. So does Arky, Vandy and the other less talented SEC teams. With UT taking a plunge, we will definitely benefit. Maybe not the 5* kids who can play anywhere they want, but we might grab an extra 4* or two who want to stay closer to home.

Therefore, I'm with the UGA fans, TUCK FENNESSEE.

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I agree with a lot of that, but I still think strength of the conference is important. But we can agree to disagree on those points.

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That we can. And FTR, if OM were a national power year in and year out in football with recent trips to Omaha and the NCAA tourney, I'd be right next to you shouting about the strength of the conference.

But we blow donkey cack n bowls, so for now, I want all of you to lose/be sanctioned/fall down a well until we can scoop a few recruits, sidewalk fans and extra sports donations and get our shite together.

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Carma is a bitch.

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wut lol

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Carma is a bitch

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Spelling is too apparently.

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I personally wouldn't want ANY of the TN basketball players. They are for the most part thugs (drugs, weapons).

And I don't feel bad for TN fans, they loved Kiffin, and Pearl. They deserve the grief.

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Tyler Summitt is not a thug!

Most rational and decently educated UT fans saw the writing on the wall with Pearl a loooong time ago. The ones that are pissed and crying now are the same ones that would be calling for his head in 3 years because of how bad we were going to be because of the NCAA sanctions. Fair-weather fans all of them, some are wanting to boycott games next year, real fans there.

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I'll feel bad for UT fans just like I feel bad for Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

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this and every statement similar: i agree

SEC football is a cut-throat business. don't need to feel bad for anybody. kick us when we're down and take some licks while you can. I'd do the same if Bama or Florida is down.