MWAVolfan
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ESPN FPI has us going 3-9 with no more than mid 30% chance of beating anyone in the SEC. Its us against the world looks like smh
ESPN FPI predicts Tennessee's 10 remaining games in 2018
Lack of work ethic is hard to re-teach. Alabama didnt get good again in Saban's first year. He had to cycle out a bunch of kids and get HIS players in the program. Also, these players only know Butch's crazy schemes and having to unlearn all that and re-learn it is an incredible task that wont produce very good results. Then throw on top of that everyone being "soft". that's not just a S&C problem, its a mental problem.
You have a lot of players on the team that were invested in Butch's program and are more than likely now thinking "I need to do the absolute minumum to get out of here and to a possible NFL career because they know this ship isnt going to get turned around to championship ball in 1 or 2 years. Butch had a lot of "all about me" players and now that we are in full rebuild mode, they know there isnt gonna be a championship like I'm sure Butch told them there might be when he recruited them.
Its very difficult for any coach to fight that mess and things really arent going to get appreciably better until those juniors and seniors are gone from the team.
Were all of Bama's pre Saban players gone on one year? <<<Rhetorical...
There is plenty enough talent in this roster to win if the coaching is adequate.
I will agree new schemes take time along with the benefit of new S&C benefits. However to intimate that the kids recruited by CBJ are somehow tainted beyond repair is more than a little bit insulting to them and this coaching staff.
Thats what I'm intimating though. Like it or not. and its not so much an insult to the kids (victims) or new coaches (helpless) but a big indictment of Butch Jones, the worst human being to ever wear the orange and white.
As far as Bama, they were pretty bad in yr1, better in year 2 and won a natty in yr 3 when most or all of the previous regime's players were gone from the team.
These kids are at a very impressionable age and you absolutely CAN ruin them by teaching the wrong things. There just arent that many years that a player is in a program to turn them around, especially the juniors and seniors on this current team.
Can JG be a great player? Absolutely because he was exposed to a lot less of the Jones B.S. than the older players. But that's just ONE player.
You may very well see another 0-8 SEC season.
I'm already on record as saying UT wont win a road SEC game this year. After seeing UF get thumped by Kentucky on their own field, I see one of two possibilities...
We beat UF and UK and go on to have a nice 7 win season or we lose to both of them and Vandy too and go 0-8 in the SEC again.
I think UF, UK and VU are our only viable SEC wins this year. If UF beats us, watch out.
Yes, Florida faces the exact same challenge with their schedule. Two pretty tough sec west games just like UT. It could be a race to the bottom.I'm actually thinking the same is true for Florida.
Vanderbilt on the road (who hung with Notre Dame) is no gimmee. Already lost to Kentucky. They may go 0-fer.
I'm actually thinking the same is true for Florida.
Vanderbilt on the road (who hung with Notre Dame) is no gimmee. Already lost to Kentucky. They may go 0-fer.