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They own the SEC (UT) regular season championship. They are ranked #2. And not a player, nor coach...nor even a mention. Come on...get with it. They came from sixteen down at a good Gator's team...and then blew out the Gamecocks in the second half. I have no problem with Shan Foster being the player in the SEC...but to ignore UT as a whole. Bad call.
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I agree...sort of. I agree with the fact that UT getting shut out is ridonkulous.
Can't agree that a guy that completely disappears on the road should be POY. Lofton maybe?
Pearl not getting the love is just plain dumb. It's as easy as they come.
Oh yeah, I can't stand UT but can respect what they have done this year as a college hoops fan.
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I was saying I can see Foster as the SEC player of the year...but of course there are others just as deserving. Lofton, last year was his best...this year, he has shared more (you have to with a bench that deep). Hell, the guy own, owns the 3 point SEC mark now by a long-shot. And yes, the craziest thing was omitting Pearl as COY. Crazy.
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Since:Jan 30, 2008
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I see your point. Foster is the best in the SEC this year, I think, but I would have picked Bruce Pearl as the COTY, hands down. Patterson is good, but he hasnt played the whole year and is out the rest of the year. I would have to look at another possibility....Chris Warren at Ole Miss has been fantastic as a freshman and would have been this Rebels choice.
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Since:Aug 23, 2006
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Pearl does not deserve the award.
He had the best talent, by far. They should win.
Gillespie did a masterful job-Stansbury did equally well.
Bruce is a decent coach with great talent that underperforms.
I am afraid they will lose before the round of 16 if they don't focus.
I have some of the same fears for my Dores if they don't do the same...
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Since:Sep 18, 2007
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I whole heartedly agree with this post.
Shan Foster is the man in the conference, I don't think anyone paying attention could argue with that.
...but not giving Bruce Pearl the nod for Coach is absurd.
The man took a team that was 14-17 in '05-'06, all the way to #1 in the nation for the first time in 99 years of the school's basketball program.
Billy Gillispie had a great December and exceeded expectations, no question...but who the real coach of the year in the SEC should be is also no question.
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Since:Nov 27, 2007
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How bad did Gillespie lose at Vandy? Wasn't that 41 points... Just on that game alone he shouldn't get a consideration for coach of the year.
I'm not sure I can understand the point made about not living up to potential, seems to me they are ranked #1 in RPI, can't get too much higher than that. They just need to validate at the tournaments and it seems that Pearl has got that smirk when he talks about his chances... Should be fun to watch.
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Can't agree that a guy that completely disappears on the road should be POY.
He doesn't disappear on the road. He just isn't as good. . . Like the 22 at Arkansas. That was only a tiny bit above his average.
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Reputation:87
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Since:Apr 4, 2007
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I would have to agree, throw some credit to tenessee.. i mean come on.. they're a very good team and a possible one seed, to not mention them is kind of disrespectful.
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Since:Feb 4, 2008
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What are you guys whining about? It has nothing to do with respecting/disrespecting TN. If a guy sits down to hand out those honors, it's not like, "wow Tennessee was really good, I wonder what type of award I can give them". I agree that Bruce Pearl should have been the COY over Gillespie, but that's just a matter of opinion. In this guy's opinion, TN, although they were the best team, did not have the best player, the best coach or the best freshman. It happens. The NYG just won the Super Bowl, but they didn't have the best player, the best rookie or the best coach. Not even close. No disrespect to NY, but they just didn't have anyone who qualified for one of those honors. So what? It's not a matter of respect.
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Since:Jul 29, 2007
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In all reality, this doesnt mean anything, I disagree on coach of the year. Yea UK had alot of conference wins but they did alright on the full spectrum. Coach of the year is Bruce Pearl, i mean come on, 28 and 3, and 2 of those losses came away on the road where the refs were not goin to let Kentucky and Vandy lose, not whining but if you watched both of those games it was obvious who they wanted to win. I could name a couple others who could have been player of the year besides foster.
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Since:Feb 14, 2008
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It seems like when people sit down to give awards to players they take a look at the numbers the players put up throughout the season and award the credit based on those merits without taking into consideration the expectations of that player prior to the start of the season. However when it comes to coaches, there seems to be some idea that the coach of the year should be someone who at the beginning of the season was expected to fall flat on their face, but by the end of the season save a little grace and end up on their feet. So was Shane Foster expected to be a great SEC player at the beginning of the season? Yeah. He lived up to that expectation and deserves the award. Was Patrick Patterson expected to be a great freshman in the SEC? Yeah. He lived up to it and also deserves the award. So when Bruce Pearl is expected to take TN to their first SEC title in years and to a top seed in the NCAA tourney and does it, how can he not be the coach of the year in the SEC? It seems to me that preseason, KY was supposed to be a decent team with expectations of probably making the tourney. Where did theey end up? Having a decent season and probably making the tourney. Yet Gillespe is coach of the year? I think giving him this award proves that there is no penalty for a terrible start, and actually you get rewarded by simply playing up to your potential later in the year when written off for dead. This KY team isn't made up of a bunch of bums. They have talent and the only reason anyone thinks Gillespe is coach of the year worthy is because they so woefully underperformed at the beginning of the season. A coach of the year doesn't get players to buy into the system a third of the way through the season. He gets them on board at the beginning like Pearl did three years ago when he took over a bunch of guys who didn't even make the NIT the year before to a #2 seed. I think Pearl has consistantly been the best coach of the season and deserves the credit. He gets his players to play his style and commit to it fully. In the end, Gillespe did do a good job, but it is the same job that got the last guy exiled to Minnesota, while it gets him SEC coach of the year.
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Since:Mar 11, 2008
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Bruce Pearl a decent coach UNDERACHIEVING with great talent?
Since when is a 28-3 record underachieving? The only better records belong to Memphis(who we beat) and UNC. Also, I guess we could have done better in the RPI and Strength of Schedule since we are only #1 in both of them. If this makes Pearl a DECENT coach, who do you consider a great coach? Before he was here, we were struggling to make it to the NIT....He has completely turned the program around.
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Since:Mar 11, 2008
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Sorry, meant to say Underperforming, not underachieving.
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Since:Mar 11, 2008
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Once again as UT fans, we are reminded that UK is no.1 when it comes to sec basketball royalty. Its the only reason billy g shared COY with BP. Get used to the SEC championships at UT, as long as bp is on the sidelines UK is going to be stuck on 43 for awhile. So uk fan enjoy 50 pt games,GARDNER WEBB home losses and Scotty H signing with UT
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Since:Mar 11, 2008
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Hmm, no mention of Tennesee? It's not THAT surprising...
Let's look at the categories:
Player of the Year
These are usually awarded to the athletes that stand out. Shan Foster is way ahead of everyone on this. This isn't to say that anyone from UT isn't good, but no POY when compared to Foster at least.
Freshman of the Year
No surprise there. UT doesn't really have any good freshman, let alone one good enough for Freshman of the year.
Coach of the Year
This one is debatable. However, UT practically has the same team from last year that had 20+ wins and did OK in the NCAA tournament. Considering the caliber of the other teams in the SEC, how is it surprising that they are #1 in the SEC? They BARELY beat a UK team that has had all kinds of injuries and a brand-spanking new coach.
If you've kept up to date with college basketball this season then you would know that the UK team from the start of the year is not close to the same team they are now. That comes from coaching.
At the very least, Pearl shouldn't DEFINITELY be the coach of the year.
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Since:Feb 26, 2007
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The UK team at the start of the year also comes from coaching. It's not like Billy Gillispie showed up in Lexington in mid-January and started coaching the team then.& | |
