Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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ChattaTNVol said:
I think maybe he's just not being aggressive in all facets of his game. Part of it may be confidence or playing it safe. He's really good at catching the ball. Against ETSU his blocking was I thought really good. He's building toward being the complete package. Look for him to take a punt to the house this week.
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He caught one and got killed. Should’ve fair caught it. I think he’s doesn’t want to turn it over is why sometimes he hasn’t attacked it as much. He’s not saving himself
 
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Rishvol said:
That was a cheap shot that hit him in the elbow. Probably hit his funny bone. I have no doubt he really has no feeling in his fingers. But everyone is already looking towards the draft for a QB so there's that.
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I didn’t really think that bit was dirty. It was on a read option play and after mariota handed it off he acted to tuck the the ball and run. Of course the defender is going to hit him.
 
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Vols4us said:
Some would say it just involves putting on your big boy pants, going to work, and getting the job done. That's leading by example, which is the only way to get anything that is lasting and of importance done IMO. When we look back later, it seems like it was the most rewarding times of our work lives. Just total single minded focus on accomplishing the mission, no matter the occupation. Hats off, brother. Thank you for your service to our country as well.

I agree completely on CJP. I got so tired of the sales pitches, stories, 'hot sauce' recruiting, etc. This is how you rebuild a program and become elite. As fans we wasted a lot of time, emotion and energy on supporting stuff that rarely works out. Sort of like Chip Kelly's run at Oregon. It may work for awhile to be new, different, eye catching. Then it doesn't work anymore because opponents figure it out. All the sales pitches ring hollow. The support of the past methods is our problem to get over, not CJP's. He already knows what works best. It is handling the basics, fundamentals, working harder, recruiting better, scheming smarter - becoming more professional at every aspect. When I know all that is happening the way it should, as a fan and donor I can sit back and enjoy the process and results. I've sold out on CJP/staff. With Phil having his back and actually doing the same things in his way in the 90's, we know they have a really good opportunity to succeed at an elite level.
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The other part of my story is when I first arrived at my new assignment I took a clipboard and went throughout the power plant inspecting everything and making a list of all the things I was going to need to get done. When I finished there were over 300 task items on the list and I already knew I had no help. I can still remember vividly the sense of being overwhelmed staring me right in the face. At the beginning there was no way to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Instead of allowing myself to become overwhelmed I figured I would just pick a place and get started. I had been well trained so I knew I could do all of the maintenance and I knew how to operate everything and I knew how to take care of all the administrative requirements. I had no idea how long it would take me to get everything done but as it turned out it was much less than I ever imagined at the beginning.

Sometimes I think I got lucky in my approach to that challenge but I kind of worked that way throughout my career in industry so maybe it wasn’t entirely luck. I’ve noticed different people ask Pruitt how this is done or how that works or how he teaches something or something to that effect and his answer sometimes is that it’s just common sense. I really like his down to earth approach and I believe in common sense so from my vantage point we have a really refreshing perspective atop our football program right now.
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
The other part of my story is when I first arrived at my new assignment I took a clipboard and went throughout the power plant inspecting everything and making a list of all the things I was going to need to get done. When I finished there were over 300 task items on the list and I already knew I had no help. I can still remember vividly the sense of being overwhelmed staring me right in the face. At the beginning there was no way to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Instead of allowing myself to become overwhelmed I figured I would just pick a place and get started. I had been well trained so I knew I could do all of the maintenance and I knew how to operate everything and I knew how to take care of all the administrative requirements. I had no idea how long it would take me to get everything done but as it turned out it was much less than I ever imagined at the beginning.

Sometimes I think I got lucky in my approach to that challenge but I kind of worked that way throughout my career in industry so maybe it wasn’t entirely luck. I’ve noticed different people ask Pruitt how this is done or how that works or how he teaches something or something to that effect and his answer sometimes is that it’s just common sense. I really like his down to earth approach and I believe in common sense so from my vantage point we have a really refreshing perspective atop our football program right now.
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Good stuff....

i had a similar experience when i became a GM of a plant. the difference, i had no clue on the actual operation of the equipment, the parts etc...i had to learn on the fly....fast.

took me about 6 months to get some of the "higher level" issues under control, and about a year to get to the nuts and bolts of it all.

once i did that, and turned over a good portion of the staff....i started delegating and training. 18 months in to the job, i took the place from losing money, to making $40k/month. which isn't huge, but this was a small company that had been basically using my place as a write off for years.

really had to challenge the employees and make them "own" their part of the process, and understand what their TRUE PURPOSE was for being there every day. rarely did i answer questions they brought me....i'd answer with a question. one example was my inventory guy, he had an issue with how product was being received in, and no stock #'s assigned. and he came to me to fix it. so i asked him...who is supposed to assign the stock #'s? he answered, and i said, have you talked to them? he said no....so i asked, then why are you talking to me?

he looked at me like i was crazy lol. but the point was...it is your responsibility to handle inventory. if you have something preventing you from fulfilling your responsibility, it is then your responsibility to get that resolved. ultimately, his purpose was to make sure we had good inventory available to sell, and if he was behind or inaccurate, he impacted virtually everyone in the facility. so his sense of ownership and understanding of his purpose, were very important to what level of success he would acheive, and our facility.

really tried to empower as many of them as i could, so they had some understanding that they do really control their own destiny as far as their job performance was concerned.

as i've gone on in my career, one of the the most detrimental things facing managers/leaders/companies today is the utter inability of employees at any level to make decisions. people just want to be told what to do, and for a "boss" to fix everything. and leaders that don't recognize this issue, and don't understand that their employees/associates/middle managers SHOULD be decision makers, find themselves getting stuck in the weeds and are generally hate their jobs, and ultimately not very good at their job.

anyway, it takes time, but it worked.
 
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RiotVol said:
If we were all at a bar, we'd tell the bartender to turn down the music so we could hear @ChattaTNVol better.
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Yeah that would probably be fun to watch. My GF at the time and I were on a cruise in the caribbean with another couple back in 1990. We were underway one night playing cards and drinking shots of Tequila. Somehow we ended up at the bar. I don't remember anything past the shots of Tequila and playing cards but they said while we were at the bar I fell off of my barstool while talking to the bartender and landed on the floor - and never stopped talking the whole time. Moments like those is why I wished we had camera phones a few years earlier. I might have been famous.
 
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ChattaTNVol said:
The other part of my story is when I first arrived at my new assignment I took a clipboard and went throughout the power plant inspecting everything and making a list of all the things I was going to need to get done. When I finished there were over 300 task items on the list and I already knew I had no help. I can still remember vividly the sense of being overwhelmed staring me right in the face. At the beginning there was no way to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Instead of allowing myself to become overwhelmed I figured I would just pick a place and get started. I had been well trained so I knew I could do all of the maintenance and I knew how to operate everything and I knew how to take care of all the administrative requirements. I had no idea how long it would take me to get everything done but as it turned out it was much less than I ever imagined at the beginning.

Sometimes I think I got lucky in my approach to that challenge but I kind of worked that way throughout my career in industry so maybe it wasn’t entirely luck. I’ve noticed different people ask Pruitt how this is done or how that works or how he teaches something or something to that effect and his answer sometimes is that it’s just common sense. I really like his down to earth approach and I believe in common sense so from my vantage point we have a really refreshing perspective atop our football program right now.
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How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.
 
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A question for you Xs & Os guys...Why are we not attacking the middle of the field in the passing more? This is not a play calling criticism disguised as a passive/agressive query, I figure it has to do with protection problems due to missed assignment/confusion in the interior Ol positions because of the stunting and stemming being done. It looks like attacking the middle would loosen up the ground game between the tackles by giving the LBs and safties something to worry about?
 
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