Met Chavis - said Vols Off best in league

[shelbyvillevol]

Thanks for sharing this. Hard not to pull for Chief, even if he is at a rival school.

[chatt-townVOL]

Originally Posted by GreyWolf1129

The only issue I ever had with the Chief was the proverbial "3rd & Chavis" defenses

Can someone elaborate on exactly what this means? I've heard it several times but I'm not really sure what it's referring to

[salutethehill]

Originally Posted by chatt-townVOL

Can someone elaborate on exactly what this means? I've heard it several times but I'm not really sure what it's referring to

Prevent D on 3rd and 2 in the 1st qtr

[Cartervol]

Originally Posted by chatt-townVOL

Can someone elaborate on exactly what this means? I've heard it several times but I'm not really sure what it's referring to

He had a philosophy of not getting beat deep. Keep everything in front of you. Well that lead to a lot of converted 3rd down and long situations. So that's how the term 3rd and Chavis got started.

Might have been some of larry slade's teaching or the athletes. Either way the db's weren't physical enough at the line and gave up ridiculously long conversions on 3rd down. Made you want to throw something at the TV or on the field at the game.

[StarRaider]

Chief = class. Thanks for the summary!

[mrredskin]

Originally Posted by joeydupree

How credible is OP, cuz I'm eating it up...

that would be one helluva wasted morning to post that amount of detailed info.

[MikeDVol]

Originally Posted by joeydupree

Has he waited 5 years just to troll the **** out of us?

lol

[mrredskin]

Originally Posted by fade route

Sorry, OP, but after reading this again, I find it hard to believe that a bigtime college coach would share his personal feelings on being fired from his previous gig with a casual fan he had just met 20 minutes ago. May be a cool story bro, just not sure it's a true story bro.

you, again??

[byobbio]

Originally Posted by coach799

Thanks for the info, J!

I had multiple conversations through the years while Chief was with us. He used to come to Franklin and play in Sterling Marlin's Golf Tournament each year. I always had my favorite color on and he would smile at me and offer a hearty handshake along with a great conversation about his expectations for the coming season! He tells it like it is and is a class act. The "3rd & Chavis" comments always irked me because I knew that none of the idiots posting them had the integrity of "The Chief."

I hope he is right about our offense this year and I, too, pull for his unit any time they are not playing us! Especially against the Bammers!

Good Luck, Chief! and GO VOLS!!

Sterling Marlin Golf Tournament? When/where is that? Let me know. I would like to play in it!

[General Jack]

Very cool OP thanks for sharing.

[jps2194]

Originally Posted by General Jack

Very cool OP thanks for sharing.

You're welcome - I certainly enjoyed it and thought Volnation would like to hear about it.

[tsvol06]

Chavis told Chris Low the same thing about Patterson.

[knoxvols1]

Chavis was good when he had talent to make up for defeciencies.

[utfantilidie]

I actually was thinking about him and his coaching days at UT the other day. I would not mind him being head coach at UT one day if Dooley keeps failing. He did play for UT under John Majors, that would be interesting.

[Lexvol]

Originally Posted by utfantilidie

I actually was thinking about him and his coaching days at UT the other day. I would not mind him being head coach at UT one day if Dooley keeps failing. He did play for UT under John Majors, that would be interesting.

Would be a recruiting and staffing disaster. Chief is not and never will be head coaching material.