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Jethro Tull

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The thing about rankings is this


And I have followed WBB for over 25 years now, rankings have always been slow to reflect what actually happens on the court from week to week. Typically it takes a while to crack into the rankings and it takes a while to fall out of them too. Tennessee seems to be ranked every year and has to play itself out of the rankings (which it did). Sometimes I wonder if those voting realize Pat Summit isn't there (and unfortunately passed away).

This team has been in trouble since the Miami game. The WF game was pretty evident that this team didn't deserve ranking. Not only was the score close (72-70) but we barely hung on for the win. Worse than that was the way our team just let WF physically handle them. WF is not a good team at all.

The performances at Duke and at home vs. FSU were classic "mailing it in" games. We didn't show up. Those games showed we were in a complete free fall. Last night they didn't even mail it in- they didn't even bother to show up.

My #1 concern here is if I am a HS senior and I am thinking about playing for the Lady Hokies, what effect does the game last night have on me? Here was a case where KB took on our rival for the first time as HC at VT and the result was a total disaster. UVA is not that good but clearly their coaches better prepared them for VT than VT coaches did preparing for UVA.

I went to every WBB home game in the late 90's when we were really good. Both UConn and UT came to the Cassell and played. And, both beat the tar out of us. As good as we were, I don't think we had a single player on our team then that would even ride the pine on UConn or UT. Even though we were "good" we were not elite. Those 2 schools were indeed that much better than us.

The loss last night was every bit as bad as either of those losses I saw (in terms of score and domination) but with one very sad difference-UVA does not have players that much better than ours.

(In response to this post by Pylons)

Posted: 01/27/2017 at 1:32PM



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Unwelcomed Records -- knoxtnhokie 01/27/2017 11:38AM
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