wildorange
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Debord had the "most productive offense in UT History" because 1/3 of our stats came against Tenn Tech, Mizzou, and UK.... Let us not get carried away with Debord being this offensive genius.... Dude sucked vs quality teams.
And here's another bit of overlooked info, UT has always played cupcake filler teams between the big games.
The offense set records playing the same kind of schedule that we have always played, with every oc that we have employed.
I know it's taboo to give actual credit to anything UT related, these days but Debord played tough opponents and cupcakes, same as every other UT OC. He also scored more points against the weaker opponents just like every other OC. UT, Bama, Clemson, just how it works. It's apples to apples, Get over it.
We haven't always played a weak OOC, actually historically speaking we used to be known for playing a tough out of conference schedule. Now all teams play at least 1 weak team a year in most seasons, but that is not just a UT thing everyone does.The last few years everyone has been toning down the OOC, I can bring the schedules up if I have to but we have never had a reputation of playing weak schedules. NEVER! GBO!!!!
We haven't always played a weak OOC, actually historically speaking we used to be known for playing a tough out of conference schedule. Now all teams play at least 1 weak team a year in most seasons, but that is not just a UT thing everyone does.The last few years everyone has been toning down the OOC, I can bring the schedules up if I have to but we have never had a reputation of playing weak schedules. NEVER! GBO!!!!
Lol, we play 1 decent ooc each year, like VT, this year.
Unless you're speaking of our 12-10 record versus Sewanee?
Or maybe our 38-2-2 against UTC?
Or 11-6-2 against Clemson..when they sucked badly!
Nah, it must be that 7-0 record we racked up against King College.
I can name many good ooc opponents also.. about exactly 1 per season.
I think if most people set back and really look at the past season a few things will stand out. The first few game's of the season the offense was very inconsistant to say the least. Predictable would be an understatement and very vanilla. The same can be said for the defense as well not really a lot to get thrilled about. Most of that has to do with talent development. You can't call what they can't do.
Dobbs as great of a leader and runner as he was could not be counted on to throw the ball down field on a regular and accurate basis.
Recievers can't catch it if the ball is 10 ft over their heads.
Herd was not the type of back to run in the system they have used. Power back with lead blocker yes, turn the corner and make people miss no.
Offensive line wounded or not is not quick and athletic enough to run a zone blocking scheme and not coached up well enough to do that even if they were.
Defensive line was the walking wounded and with that being said might need to get tougher and stronger.
Linebackers two starters good both get hurt......what was left slow for scheme.
D backs moments of good and then moments of terrible.
With all that being said if we could have stopped somebody and I mean anybody we would only have lost ONE game. With an OC that was working with a swim team or whatever in Mich. That is stunning.
Offensive scheme works, it scores points but you will not win if you score 50 and the other team scores 51.
I am not a Butch fan, I hate his cliches as much as the next guy. I think he is a control freak with his system and may be to head strong to change. But look around people ALL 4 OF THE COACHES IN THE PLAYOFFS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.
I hope that whom ever is hired does a great job and we win every game by 50 but every coach has a system, a system that they are comfortable with and one that who ever they hire has got to buy into that system as well. Time will tell and maybe it will be THIS TIME.
Go Vols
Debord had the "most productive offense in UT History" because 1/3 of our stats came against Tenn Tech, Mizzou, and UK.... Let us not get carried away with Debord being this offensive genius.... Dude sucked vs quality teams.
Debord had the "most productive offense in UT History" because 1/3 of our stats came against Tenn Tech, Mizzou, and UK.... Let us not get carried away with Debord being this offensive genius.... Dude sucked vs quality teams.
We need to keep Thig... Martinez not so worried about.... Seems odd to hire Larry Scott.... It makes since from a longevity standpoint but all we can do is wait and see... Don't know much about him... Anything about a QB coach?
Only to over sensitive fans does it matter
Most people have bigger nads