Let's knock off the criticism

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Rocky Top Raby said:
It's almost like our team is worse than we've ever seen them.
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The Ga St game was really bad, but the week to week improvement has been promising. Is it enough? Who knows, but it's obvious the team and staff are working on it. Maybe a lot of the credit goes to NCAA imposed rules on off season practice and the effort to make big change with freshman players and new and shuffled staff rather a poor performance by the players themselves. It takes time to jell as a team. Don't be surprised if you find the band had more practice time together than the football team playing as a team had by the first game.
 
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4-8, 5-7 and a possible 2-10 comin up. I'm giggley with enthusiasm. Last 10 years been a ball. Zat better?
 
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I have no problem with your post OP.

But I have to admit, I called a (recent) former player a "gutter rat" when he posted that video laughing about our loss. Admittedly not one of my proudest moments, not sure I regret it either. GBO!
 
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JG gets a lot of undue hate. It’s just a game. Remember when our fans sent a death threat to a QB a few years ago! Smdh. We can make fools of ourselves at times and really put our already inept AD in tight spots
 
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AM64 said:
The Ga St game was really bad, but the week to week improvement has been promising. Is it enough? Who knows, but it's obvious the team and staff are working on it. Maybe a lot of the credit goes to NCAA imposed rules on off season practice and the effort to make big change with freshman players and new and shuffled staff rather a poor performance by the players themselves. It takes time to jell as a team. Don't be surprised if you find the band had more practice time together than the football team playing as a team had by the first game.
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Yep. You wanna see improvement. You dont want the starting point to be coming off a game 1 L to Ga St but that happened and theres nothing you can do about it now. Get up and move on. It appears the players and staff have done that.
 
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VolInNW said:
Coach Fulmer, a member for 8 years and only a few hundred posts?
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I don't think, I didn't read "working like heck" any where.

Honestly, I was worried with all talk about great coaches show it in year 2 that this team wasn't set up for that and this season wouldn't be any better last. Losing most of a avg - below avg SEC D line from last season was going to be rough. Also, I had no faith JG would improve much however I didn't except the regression. The schedule was suppose to be easier so I did think we would make a bowl game. This team is all out of wack. We have really good weapons at WR but don't have QB who can read a defense or hit a WR in stride. We have average RBs for the sec but a below avg OLine (Chandler is a solid SEC back and Gray may be special but is young, and yes the OLine is improving but not SEC level at this time.) The defensive secondary has talent but young and without pressure from the Dline it's hard for any secondary to cover WRs that amount of time. Sadly next year will be about the same. If JG starts next season we will be in the 6-6 range again. If we start Shout, Maurer, or Bailey start with no experience 6-6 is about all we should realistically expect. I really do think it's a 4-5 yr rebuild no matter who we brought in to coach unfortunately. Solid QB play can speed up the process but until then hard to expect more than a .500 team.
 
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bigorangepoppa said:
I realize that everyone who is a Vols fan is disappointed in the program over the last decade and have BVS, we have been disrespected by the sports media for far too long, and the last coaching search was a debacle, to say the least. We have people posting on here who call the players bad names and talk about how bad they are, wanting a coaching change after the first two games of the season, making disparaging remarks about the coaches. We as fans need to understand what kind of affect we can have on the program, both good and bad. When the players are called something like liquid garbage, like I saw in a post this morning, that is totally uncalled for. Support our guys, make encouraging posts, and let the recruits know we support them and want them instead of making remarks that may change their minds about coming to Tennessee. When a player is singled out and repeatedly criticized, a highly rated recruit who plays that position and is strongly considering Tennessee may chose to go somewhere else, so they don't have to endure that type of ridicule. So what say we knock off the negativism toward the players and coaches and support the team. And yes, I am disappointed in the way the season has gone so far, but I'm not going to be making any of the comments I have seen on here from some posters. Let's get behind the team instead of being so critical all the time. It seems like Fulmer said during the introductory press conference for Pruitt that it would take 4-5 years to get it turned around, yet here we are with people calling for Pruitt's head after fifteen games.
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I've been asked to ask you to knock off the criticism of those criticizing the football team.
 
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To be honest, I don't believe I would want the kind of players on my team that get butthurt over what complete strangers say on the internet. Need to have thicker skin than that.
 
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In a perfect world. I don't wanna pick on any player just want all players to have a fair shot and the best one plays just as we did that played sports growing up. The paid coaches are fair game imo.
 
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MountainDooley said:
I don't think, I didn't read "working like heck" any where.

Honestly, I was worried with all talk about great coaches show it in year 2 that this team wasn't set up for that and this season wouldn't be any better last. Losing most of a avg - below avg SEC D line from last season was going to be rough. Also, I had no faith JG would improve much however I didn't except the regression. The schedule was suppose to be easier so I did think we would make a bowl game. This team is all out of wack. We have really good weapons at WR but don't have QB who can read a defense or hit a WR in stride. We have average RBs for the sec but a below avg OLine (Chandler is a solid SEC back and Gray may be special but is young, and yes the OLine is improving but not SEC level at this time.) The defensive secondary has talent but young and without pressure from the Dline it's hard for any secondary to cover WRs that amount of time. Sadly next year will be about the same. If JG starts next season we will be in the 6-6 range again. If we start Shout, Maurer, or Bailey start with no experience 6-6 is about all we should realistically expect. I really do think it's a 4-5 yr rebuild no matter who we brought in to coach unfortunately. Solid QB play can speed up the process but until then hard to expect more than a .500 team.
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The point is that except for some teams with tremendous depth (and Tennessee isn't one of them) each year is really a new beginning, As far as the old adage about the second year, that was before early signing, stricter rules on recruiting numbers, and likely tighter practice rules ... it's going to take longer to develop depth that matches a new coach's style. There was a recent article showing how year two coaches were doing, and it wasn't pretty ... not at all. Don't be surprised if the NCAA has to loosen up the recruiting numbers because with normal attrition and new transfer options, teams with coaching change can't stay up to the scholarship limits. Early recruiting insures that the first year's recruits except in very few cases will absolutely not be the incoming coach's recruits. Coaching change is going to be a far bigger penalty than it ever was in the past ... really bad timing for us.
 
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bigorangepoppa said:
I realize that everyone who is a Vols fan is disappointed in the program over the last decade and have BVS, we have been disrespected by the sports media for far too long, and the last coaching search was a debacle, to say the least. We have people posting on here who call the players bad names and talk about how bad they are, wanting a coaching change after the first two games of the season, making disparaging remarks about the coaches. We as fans need to understand what kind of affect we can have on the program, both good and bad. When the players are called something like liquid garbage, like I saw in a post this morning, that is totally uncalled for. Support our guys, make encouraging posts, and let the recruits know we support them and want them instead of making remarks that may change their minds about coming to Tennessee. When a player is singled out and repeatedly criticized, a highly rated recruit who plays that position and is strongly considering Tennessee may chose to go somewhere else, so they don't have to endure that type of ridicule. So what say we knock off the negativism toward the players and coaches and support the team. And yes, I am disappointed in the way the season has gone so far, but I'm not going to be making any of the comments I have seen on here from some posters. Let's get behind the team instead of being so critical all the time. It seems like Fulmer said during the introductory press conference for Pruitt that it would take 4-5 years to get it turned around, yet here we are with people calling for Pruitt's head after fifteen games.
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LOUD NOICES!!!
 
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MountainDooley said:
I don't think, I didn't read "working like heck" any where.

Honestly, I was worried with all talk about great coaches show it in year 2 that this team wasn't set up for that and this season wouldn't be any better last. Losing most of a avg - below avg SEC D line from last season was going to be rough. Also, I had no faith JG would improve much however I didn't except the regression. The schedule was suppose to be easier so I did think we would make a bowl game. This team is all out of wack. We have really good weapons at WR but don't have QB who can read a defense or hit a WR in stride. We have average RBs for the sec but a below avg OLine (Chandler is a solid SEC back and Gray may be special but is young, and yes the OLine is improving but not SEC level at this time.) The defensive secondary has talent but young and without pressure from the Dline it's hard for any secondary to cover WRs that amount of time. Sadly next year will be about the same. If JG starts next season we will be in the 6-6 range again. If we start Shout, Maurer, or Bailey start with no experience 6-6 is about all we should realistically expect. I really do think it's a 4-5 yr rebuild no matter who we brought in to coach unfortunately. Solid QB play can speed up the process but until then hard to expect more than a .500 team.
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Who on the OL is not SEC caliber?
 
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