This is one of the most satisfying wins I’ve seen in a while. The effort is unbelievable.
Major props to White having his boys ready to play. Let’s do it again Saturday, okay?
I said recently Mike is NOT the guy to get this team where it can be or should be. However, he earns props tonight for motivating a team missing it's top players to come out and dominate a t10 team start to finish. This is but a spark, a glimpse of what he could do as a coach, of what the players could do as a team. This says the ceiling is a lot higher than demonstrated to this point. I still believe MW can't do this consistently and needs to go, but I'm happy for him to show he has it at least once in awhile. I'm more happy for the players to show they can do it, no excuses going forward.
Probably White's best job getting the team to go full out for almost the entire game.
Agreed. I can't recall another game where he got the team to perform this well. Ever.
Seems to me that some previous games have seen the Gator offense run through Castleton. Is it a worry that the whole team played so well together when Castleton was out?
No. It ran through Castelton because he wanted it - he hustled and got rebounds, created AND finished his shots, ergo it ran thru him. However, there was no team structure or strategy to run thru him...it was his effort. Now, to see the team perform without him, just means he doesn't have to carry the whole load every game if his team mates show up again like they did in this one. It is not an either-or proposition, it is an AND....the rest of the team can play like this AND he can still be a workhorse.
We Owned and Destroyed Tenn just like in football.
Been awhile since we had a jboss 'Owned and Destroyed' on anything. Good to see it come back.