Tennessee fans low key complimentary of Coach Pope

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

UT has never been a good job. Historically, they are one of the worst SEC basketball programs of all time. It's to be seen if Barnes was just punching above his weight class there, or if they can sustain that with a new hire.

Disagree about ut's history. I'd rate them as probably the 2nd best, consistently over time, basketball program in the SEC. I remember back to the Ernie/Bernie teams and the fits they gave us. It seems like since those teams, every 6 or 8 yrs. or so, UT gets a group of players together that will give us problems for a 2/3 yr. stretch, and I don't recall any other SEC teams having that kind of success against us.

 

[RunninRichie]

History really doesn’t mean too much in the NIL era. They’ve got arguably the nicest arena in the SEC and have beaten that cats more than any team. I hate the Orange peeps more than any program in the sec but even I can’t agree here

They’ve also lost the most to Kentucky. 163 times. They’ve won one or two SEC tournaments since the 70s, 2 elite 8’s in 70 years, 0 final fours. All they can hang their hat on is, beating UK. Just ask Ray Mears.

 

[RunninRichie]

Disagree about ut's history. I'd rate them as probably the 2nd best, consistently over time, basketball program in the SEC. I remember back to the Ernie/Bernie teams and the fits they gave us. It seems like since those teams, every 6 or 8 yrs. or so, UT gets a group of players together that will give us problems for a 2/3 yr. stretch, and I don't recall any other SEC teams having that kind of success against us.

Alabama is easily the second best. They have the 2nd most SEC wins of any program. LSU has 4 final fours. Florida has 2 titles.