Best OC in Tennessee history

#28
#28
wtorange said:
Phil fulmer was as good an OC as we have had. Walt Harris did a great job in establishing the system here. Fulmer and Cutcliffe learned the Harris system. Cut got his training from Fulmer.
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While it's pretty clear that David Cutcliffe is the best OC, glad to see you give credit for Philip Fulmer & Walt Harris. :hi:
 
#29
#29
Jim Cheney ran a pretty prolific offense while here. I'll go with Cutcliff tho.

1. Cutcliff
2. Debord
3. Cheney
4. Sanders
 
#30
#30
Cut in a landslide. Best qb coach too

Heath Shuler said he was better than the pro coaches he dealt with at Wash and NO. Said he'd never seen such a perfectionist, especially with qb mechanics and o line footwork.
 
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volnbama_ said:
Cut is the best I witnessed. Debord did better than I expected but he wasn't great.

In before someone references record breaking rushing numbers. The number of plays per game is up so obviously numbers will be inflated
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The reason was that Randy was not the disciplinarian Cut was. And, If he was, he wasn't allowed to be. Chavis kept things in line on the D, with total trust from Fulmer. Not so with Randy.

During that time I had info on head phone discussions between the coaches during games. If anyone heard it they'd never want Fulmer back as AD. He was constantly melding in the play calling and holding Sanders back.

Randy should have left and been a coordinator at a smaller gig. He's worked his way back up, but the OC job at UT, he just wasn't ready.

I don't think Cut was the best because, with that talent, they should have been even more dominant. You could never get three QBs as good as Shular, Manning and Tee back to back to back. Spurrier was doing more with lesser QBs.
 
#32
#32
volfannbama said:
I don't know this to be true, but i have heard from multiple former players and coaches that Randy Sanders may have been the best coach they had ever met. Not sure why it didn't work out for him. And i don't mean i heard this as an insider or anything, just guys during interviews and such.
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They must have played for him and no one else.
 
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armchair said:
Cut got his training from Fulmer. Fulmer was an offensive line guy, and Cut was more a skill-position coach. Here's what I remember of Fulmer as OC, losing to bama 9-6 when he had a great offense.
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Cut was a great OC, but his claim to fame was his ability to coach QBs. Remember, he was a TE at Alabama in his playing days. I really respect his ability to learn what it takes to be the best QB coach in the Nation. He believes that the success of any offensive play depends on execution and timing. He used his stop watch to get plays down to 1/10 of a second.
 
#36
#36
Statistically speaking the best offenses (scoring more than 400 points in a season)
1990
1993 (most ever for UT)
1995
1997-98
2007
2015

Coach Cut was responsible for most of those years course having PM as your QB didn't hurt anything

****any season prior to 1992 or so had less than 11 games and offenses are different than they were in 1950 and '60
 
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#37
#37
Volteacher said:
Statistically speaking the best offenses (scoring more than 400 points in a season)
1990
1993 (most ever for UT)
1995
1997-98
2007
2015

Coach Cut was responsible for most of those years course having PM as your QB didn't hurt anything
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Points are nice. Wins are better. Cut did a great job as OC and even better at developing QBs.
 
#38
#38
Ask Eric Ainge, he will say Cut, Cut once told ainge take those earrings out before practice
 
#39
#39
hohenfelsvol said:
Points are nice. Wins are better. Cut did a great job as OC and even better at developing QBs.
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The OC is not responsible for the defense if they give up 38 points a game or a head coach that makes bad calls and costs the team the game.

The OC's primary function is to score as many points as possible and give their team a chance to win and to call plays that utilize the skills of the 11 players on the offensive side of the ball.
 
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Volteacher said:
The OC is not responsible for the defense if they give up 38 points a game or a head coach that makes bad calls and costs the team the game.

The OC's primary function is to score as many points as possible and give their team a chance to win and to call plays that utilize the skills of the 11 players on the offensive side of the ball.
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OC also has to call a game that will benefit their own defense by keeping them off the field
 
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#43
#43
If we're looking at stats and records, Fulmer did a pretty good job in late 89 thru early 90's...maybe good enough to put him not too far behind Cut?
 
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armchair said:
Cut got his training from Fulmer. Fulmer was an offensive line guy, and Cut was more a skill-position coach. Here's what I remember of Fulmer as OC, losing to bama 9-6 when he had a great offense.
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that game was probably the beginning of the riff between Majors and Fulmer. We had 4 WRS that played pro ball in that game. Fulmer wanted to throw the ball and Majors overruled and said Bama couldn't score on us so he had us run it over and over again.
 
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