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I’m not. I’ve been to parks in Northwest AR, Southern, and Central. I’ve lived and worked here for 7 years. Of the three states I’ve lived in, it’s the least beautiful and has the worst weather for actually enjoying the outdoors.

Not really. I live there, and only northwest AR is pretty, but that’s still a poor man’s East TN/western NC

To me, it sounds like he's a pretty good OC. Whether that translates into being a good HC remains to be seen, but I would be optimistic about this hire.

For some context regarding Tee Martin, USC's offense currently ranks 10th in total yards, 13th in yards per game, 24th in points, and 26th in points per game.

It's true that we were 37 in total defense in '16. Justin Wilcox consistently produced better defenses than that with far less talent, and a lot of people on this board thought he was awful (he wasn't). I think sitting at 71 in total D after four games, you're never going to get to 4th in...

Yes, and if we believe recruiting rankings as a rough metric for measuring talent, then the average number of stars in the two deep for this defense would be greater than that of 2007 defense.

Yes, but total yards and points allowed are pretty good measures of a defense. I concede that judging Tennessee's defense based on the 41 points scored in UGA game would be silly(because of bad offensive turnovers), but yards allowed is a different measure and far more appropriate. By that...

And the excuse this year is an injury at MLB. Well, Monte Kiffin started a walk-on at Mike, which is what Shoop is doing. Tennessee had a top 20 defense that year.

Coaching? Shoop inherited most of those players last year.

Just a little comparison, Chavis had the 4th ranked defense in the country the year Fulmer was fired, and Tennessee couldn't gain a yard on offense to save its life.

Jancek did better with injuries and with a less talented roster. The same could be said of just about every d-coordinator in the last 10 years, except Sunseri. Tennessee is 71st in total defense this year. That's horrendous.

He was billed as a good d-coordinator because of Vandy and Penn State, but given Shoop's experience here at Tennessee through 16 or 17 games, he's been bad. There have been Sal Sunseri-esque moments of awful. Mizzou last year is one good example.

The original post sets up a false dichotomy--that it must be the offense or the defense. It's actually both. Shoop is a bad coordinator, and Scott is a bad coordinator.

CB to UT from Ryan Callahan today. Anyone know if he offered any commentary on the prediction? I don't have a sub.

Interestingly, Ole Miss wasn't his second or third choices.