Rocky Top Talking Points: save your posts, people edition

by Joel Hollingsworth on Mar 8, 2007 7:48 AM EST in Tennessee Volunteer Basketball

I was just about finished with this morning's Talking Points post when my browser crashed. My Performance-edited post followed it into oblivion. No time for anything but a link dump, so here it is:

Time Capsule: Sixty-percent raise for Pearl last year. Worth it? Yes.
Honors for Lofton and the Vols from national coaches? Yes. Honors for Lofton and the Vols from SEC coaches? Yes and no.
Pearl's take on the SEC Tourney? Postive, as always.
Today's must-read piece. The gist: LSU coach John Brady fails miserably in attempting to be diplomatic when asked a question about Dane Bradshaw. Expect more on this in a game thread by either Andy or myself later this afternoon or tonight.
Our friendly rivals over at the great 'Bama blog Roll Bama Roll are having trouble with orange-clad trolls stirring up trouble. Let's not embarrass the orange, okay folks?
We've been looking for an apt nickname for JaJuan Smith all season. How does "The Pest" fit?
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JaJuan

Looking back at the season, JaJuan has always been the thorn-in-the-side of the opposition. Never super threatening, but if you're caught moving the wrong way, he'll stick it to ya. As such, "The Pest" fits, but here are my other suggestions:

The Thorn
The Aggrivator
The Agitator
The Annoyer-Destroyer
The Perturbance

I'm also a fan of just the proper noun form of the last suggestion. Just "Perturbance". As in: "Tonight vs. LSU, Perturbance will take the game over in the 4th and lead the Vols to victory!"

by Aerobab on Mar 8, 2007 8:27 AM EST reply actions

Pokey

Another interesting talking point is the abrupt resignation of Pokey Chatman, the LSU women's basketball coach. She'll remain coach through the tourney.

Over the last several years, Coach Chatman and her Lady Tigers have been consistent roadblocks for the Lady Vols, both during the regular seasons and in the various tournaments. (They knocked UT out of the SEC tourney in the semis.) Did the road to returing championships to Knoxville just widen?

I certainly hope so.

by Aerobab on Mar 8, 2007 8:45 AM EST reply actions

Probably

Unless she goes to Florida.

Go Vols!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Mar 8, 2007 9:26 AM EST up reply actions

Eww

I didn't think of that, but I guess it's a real possibility.

by Aerobab on Mar 8, 2007 10:11 AM EST up reply actions

Bizarre

Ok, this story just jumped into the Bizarre column. So apparently there are accusations of an "inappropriate relationship" with a former team member.
http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/6548166

Pokey won't be coaching the Lady Tigers in the NCAA Tourney afterall.

by Aerobab on Mar 9, 2007 12:00 PM EST up reply actions