VolsByNature
DeletedPost Record Holder
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2007
- Messages
- 5,890
- Likes
- 103
The jury is still out on Jones. People have been praising him all offseason and speaking of him as if he had already restored the UT program to greatness. Watch those same people blast him after thisseason if the Vols go 5-7 or so. He may be all that and more, but he has not proven ityet and likely will not in 2014. UT fans will find ou if he is the an for the job in 2015. If he trips or stumbles in 2015, he is going to feel the heat.
he can recruit them. we still dont know if he can turn that into wins on the field in the SEC.
But he gets the credit he deserves so far.
I agree that he hasn't proven much yet besides the fact that he can recruit. Lane Kiffin could recruit too, but he turned out to not be a very good football coach.
I'm not saying Butch is anything like Lane, I'm just suggesting that the jury is still out on him.
It is undeniable, however, that he HAS already proven to have so much more character than either of our previous two coaches. I believe that coupled with his recruiting ability will have to amount to something in the end...won't it?
If Dormady, Dobbs, or possibly Gibson turn out to be good QBs for Tennessee, we should be in the SEC East race by 2016.
It is on the coach: he is responsible for repping them until they will execute. Fulmer, who would not hesitate to heap all blame on the players, would say we had a flawless game plan, but "the kids just didn't execute." Well, after the kids didn't execute for enough years, it was Fulmer that got fired.If the player(s) would have executed last year we would have been 7-5, with wins over two ranked teams. Is that on Jones' coaching or the players inability to execute?
The jury is still out on Jones. People have been praising him all offseason and speaking of him as if he had already restored the UT program to greatness. Watch those same people blast him after this season if the Vols go 5-7 or so. He may be all that and more, but he has not proven it yet and likely will not in 2014. UT fans will find out if he is the man for the job in 2015. If he trips or stumbles in 2015, he is going to feel the heat.
This is true.I liked the hire from the get go, but we still haven't won. I expect we will, but we haven't yet.
Those that said he couldn't recruit were obviously mistaken, and the family environment he has built up there in a short time is really amazing. I think the players will play for each other soon and with the uptick in talent (need I remind Palardy was the 2nd fastest at our pro day this year), the wins will come. Hell, if we had a schedule like Ohio State, we'd have won 8-9 games last year.