Coach Joe Osovet

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Glocker_Alum_2005 said:
Not necessarily true. Look at Yurcich, he lost out the Akron job to the HC at UTC. So maybe he needs to get out from under Gundy's shadow and make a name for himself in the SEC...nobody cares about OSU football outside of Bedlam.
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I wonder if Yurcich got cold feet when hearing about Pruitt's work ethic and his expectations of his assistants to work just as hard? An article I read on Gundy sounded like he has lower expectations on his assistants as far as hours to spend on the job.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
And you may be right. I may be completely wrong about Osovet. He could be a great OC for us. And if we were a smaller school in a much easier conference, then I would likely not question his hire. I just feel that in the SEC, we need someone who has experience calling plays in a big setting in a big time conference.
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I tend to agree here. It's so tempting to just give Osovet the reigns and see what he would do. He might just turn this offense into a juggernaut. I like what I read about him. He took an analyst position here to get his foot in the door of P5 football. I'd hate for him to leave and then become someone else's next great coach. However, if he flops???? Not good for Vol Nation and Coach Pruitt. Gotta get this right. Honestly, he's the only one on this staff that intrigues me as an OC. Perhaps after our next OC leaves for a better job.
 
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Orange to the Bay said:
I'd prefer to stick with the more Tennessee style, downhill, under center at times, more pro style, so I'm personally rooting against this. After Butch, I don't want to seet the two-handed butt-out handoffs anymore. Dobbs torching a D on occasion was the only thing that made that remotely tolerable.
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To run this type of offense, the Vols need players that like to block and right now they don't have any:(
 
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IF it were up to me at this point (it's not so this isn't worth much), I would make one more run at Yurcich then promoter Osovet and move one. Feel pretty good that this isn't hurting recruiting. You don't need a dual-threat QB to run RPO's since on MOST of them you are reading the Backside LB on Inside Zone or Power. The 'option" is to hand to the B or throw the designated route. Drew Lock excelled at this and so did Mason Rudolph at Okie State. Neither are exactly burners. Just my latest two cents.
 
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Not a subscriber. Can you summarize what follows "Pruitt fielded a call..."? (if there's anything new there)
 
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Yet another pro-Osovet article. Either he has a great agent pushing his image, or Uncle Phil is doing a psyop campaign.
 
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Thorp32 said:
Do you think Pruitt would allow him to run RPOs?
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No I don't; but I think if he does hire an innovative, creative oc he needs to let him run the offense. But with that said I believe Pruitt wants a pro style, run first offense similiar to Ga. and will get an oc to do that. This is why I do not believe, briles, yurich, freeze were ever made an offer. Some coaches who do this that have been mentioned are Sark, Propst, and Friend. I am sure there are more but these are names that have been mentioned.
 
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GetYouSomeofThat said:
I think it is so much more than play calling that makes an OC or DC poor, good or great. How they run their practices, teach their technique and teach their schemes and how they manage their practice time is more important than game day play calling. However the best conference with the most money (outside of the NFL) has coaches who not only manage their practice time well, teach their schemes and techniques well but they also are great game day coaches.

This is why IMO that a proven Power 5 guy should be hired.

Osovet has the makings of a great coach and I would bet he has a lot of the skills needed to succeed. However, he hasn't been proven against the best coaches with the best athletes and I'm of the opinion he shouldn't get his training here at Tennessee.
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I feel if we don't promote him we will loose him next year. From what I have read about him he would be a great oc.
 
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GetYouSomeofThat said:
Yurich woiud be a good hire.

I honestly haven't a clue where the bully part came into your thinking. I certainly didnt mention it.

However, if given enough incentive an OC would come here to work from another Power 5 school. And the pool should be shallow. There arent a bunch of great coaches out there and we would like a great one wouldnt we? Or should mediocrity be what we are happy with?

If any new hire we get is going to be handcuffed by the AD or HC it will be difficult to hire someone who is currently successful. If however offered both the latitude tonrun his own show and the cash to make his wife happy, a great one can be landed.
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I understand where you are coming from and would love to have one of them. But who would it be?? Who would come from an already successful program. If he is good, I would think the school he is at would match any offer we would make.
 
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Ratvol said:
Seems we would need quick thinking QB with a great arm and a quick set of legs. Not sure we have that on this team.
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And I would agree with you unless one of our other 2 qb fits this description. JG could not run rpo effeciently. We may have run a few this year, but not that many. For Rpo to work must have a mobile qb. Of course this is just my opinion. A qb who is a threat to run or pass.
 
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This guy is starting to make too much sense: Matthews stating that Pruitt had his man several weeks ago...Everyone assuming, including me, that he’s waiting til the end of bowl season or the NFL regular season...yet no announcement. Why it hasn’t been announced, perhaps related to recruiting, who knows why? I’m settling in on Pruitt building his own team of coaches, this guy being one of them. Had anybody heard of Ohio State’s OC Ryan Day until the last year or so? Heck, now he’s the head coach.
 
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SmokeyLives said:
This guy is starting to make too much sense: Matthews stating that Pruitt had his man several weeks ago...Everyone assuming, including me, that he’s waiting til the end of bowl season or the NFL regular season...yet no announcement. Why it hasn’t been announced, perhaps related to recruiting, who knows why? I’m settling in on Pruitt building his own team of coaches, this guy being one of them. Had anybody heard of Ohio State’s OC Ryan Day until the last year or so? Heck, now he’s the head coach.
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Ohio St buddy at work told me when Urban was put on suspension that Day would be the next head coach whenever Meyer quit.

If it was Osovet, there wouldn't be a reason to wait unless they fear a negative reaction from recruits.
 
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SmokeyLives said:
This guy is starting to make too much sense: Matthews stating that Pruitt had his man several weeks ago...Everyone assuming, including me, that he’s waiting til the end of bowl season or the NFL regular season...yet no announcement. Why it hasn’t been announced, perhaps related to recruiting, who knows why? I’m settling in on Pruitt building his own team of coaches, this guy being one of them. Had anybody heard of Ohio State’s OC Ryan Day until the last year or so? Heck, now he’s the head coach.
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I've decided that they are following @VOL_Lyfe and seeing how many Friend memes he'll put up. Sort of like a cat toying with a mouse, because killing it immediately takes all the fun out of it.
 
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1955bamavol said:
Sarkisian is a big risk. Hasn't set the world on fire in Atlanta and not SEC experienced. Was up and down in the PAC 12.
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So.... he is a huge risk how? We had Tyson Helton..... Sark has coaches on multiple levels and has called his own offenses with success. Dunno how that is a huge risk.
 
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THINK my friends...I think Pruitt is sly like a fox and that he tries to cover most everything just in case a emergency hits us.

Remember back, we were headed to a National Championship game against Florida State and we lost Cut as our OC because he was hired as a HC and and to get to work recruiting and building a staff right them.

Fulmer was smart and had himself and Cut training Randy Sanders just in case and because Fulmer was prepared for a emergency like that we WON the National Championship.

Pruitt has seen those things too so he brought in Helton, Friend and Osovet and all have OC knowledge and experience.

My guess is that he thought he would have Helton at least 2 or 3 years to help better train Osovet in a more Pro style type of O but Helton got his 1st dream job and had to go.

Osovet is VERY well respected as 1 of the 1st real innovators in his style of O and many college and NFL coaches have paid good $$ to learn from him.

If Pruitt is smart he'll hire Osovet as our new OC and let him combine what he knows best along with more Pro style sets and combine the 2 into a O that can pound the ball, make big plays fast, control the clock and put points on the board and keep the D constantly guessing what we'll do next.

Doing this will require Pruitt to get a bit out of is comfort zone but if he can do that then we could build a O in the next couple of years that puts the FEAR back into our O game and let Pruitt focus on our D.

A solid mixture of Pro and what Osovet knows best could turn into a really exciting type of O and accomplish what Pruitt wants to do too.

Friend is still here so he can still help Osovet with more Pro styles.

Friend is actually a much better coach than most people on here have any idea about.

I'd be 100% behind Pruitt doing this and then we'd have the best of both worlds.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
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VolRoger said:
I wonder if Yurcich got cold feet when hearing about Pruitt's work ethic and his expectations of his assistants to work just as hard? An article I read on Gundy sounded like he has lower expectations on his assistants as far as hours to spend on the job.
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Ohio State can offer similar money and opportunity for advancement. He's from Ohio as well. Possibly has family in the area and probably is more familiar with the recruiting landscape of the region. Not to mention Ohio State has consistently easier opponents as well. The only advantage Tennessee would've had potentially was more autonomy over the offensive philosophy.
 
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TlM said:
This is actually the guy I want. Let's be innovative for once. He'll put up points in bunches.
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Pruitt has worked with him at least now and that’s important. Wonder if it is him how & what the staff moves will be? I cannot find anything on his history on position coaching.

That really doesn’t mean as much as you think, but would have to move him around it seems to install that O

He would need to jump from position group to position group.
 
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