billy donovan Stories - Rocky Top Talk
Tennessee 75 Florida 70 - Vols Repossess Billy Donovan's House
Nevermind the margin, aided by four garbage threes in the last 35 seconds. Tennessee came into Gainesville and dominated #7 Florida. Again. Florida hadn't lost at home all year. Over. Tennessee hadn't won on the road all year. Over. Tennessee hadn't scored 75 points since heavy competition...
Coming To A Theater Near You: Tom Herrion
Most Marshall coaches don't do much to impress me. They seem to be around for 2-4 years and either get fired or find a better job. Outside of Rick Huckaby and Billy Donovan, I couldn't name one in the past thirty years. But Tom Herrion will be remembered forever thanks to his Redd Foxx...
NCAA Sports: Money To Student Athletes Confounds Coaches
There's the famous story told about Winston Churchill, who was at a dinner party and apparently well into his cups. The story goes that he asked an attractive woman at the party if she would sleep with him for a million pounds. The woman responded, coyly, "Maybe." Then Churchill asked her if she...
NCAA Basketball Coaches: Figuring Out Who Is Earning Their Money
Ever wonder which coaches among the top ten highest paid are earning their money? It's hard to compare, and any comparison is largely subjective, but just for fun I took the top 10 highest paid coaches as indicated by USA Today and tried to quantify their worth. For this exercise, there are...
Kentucky Basketball: A Season's Worth of Obversations From the Peanut Gallery
It is always difficult to say goodbye to a Kentucky basketball season, especially when the goodbye is said on Saturday night of the Final Four. That, though, is what we are left with. So it's now time to reflect on the season as a whole, remembering how far this team traveled, from the summer...
Arkansas : Mike Anderson :: ????? : HCFM
The Big 12, and in fact, most of the college basketball world has been buzzing recently with the somewhat sudden, unexpected departure of Missouri's Mike Anderson. It's just the latest example of a college coach who gives off the illusion of absolute loyalty, only to break the hearts of a fan base...
Somebody Save Me From The Internet
For the first time during this search I feel like I'm losing my grip on sanity. In general it's been a far less agonizing process than the search five years ago--Debbie Yow has seen to that--but the longer it goes, the longer everyone sits in the dark, the crazier things get. And things got just a...
TOURNEY WATCH: 3/27/2011 (NCAA Open Thread)
First things first: Let this post serve as our unofficial gathering place today as we cheer the Rams of the Commonwealth of Virginia on to an upset win over the Mythical Birds. A region as prone to upsets as the Southwest has been deserves better than sending a chalky No. 1 seed to Houston. I want...
Why It Matters That Mark Fox's Georgia Bulldogs Made the NCAA Basketball Tournament Field
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I haven’t watched one minute of college basketball (other than accidentally) since the end of Friday afternoon’s disastrous collapse by the Georgia Bulldogs against the Alabama Crimson Tide. Nevertheless, I am positively thrilled that the Fox Hounds snagged...
Georgia Bulldogs at Florida Gators: The Haphazard Ill-Informed Roundball Preview
Fox has done a terrific job in rebuilding Georgia Dick Vitale (February 20, 2011) The first time Mark Fox’s Georgia Bulldogs played a Thursday night game this season, my reaction was succinct. The second time the Red and Black played a Thursday night game this season, I had a pleasant evening in...
Showing 1 - 10 of 53 Next
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
