When to start worrying?

#79
#79
unfrozencvmanvol said:
I don't. We're just not hearing much of anything, on transfers or the 22' class either.
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Why would you one week into a new head coach and 2 or 3 days from National Signing Day?

I'm guessing recruiting the guys we have on campus and on the dotted line are way more important than any uncommitted seniors or juniors that are out there. Trying to keep the status quo in February is the only goal we should have. Don't lose any more ground.
 
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#81
#81
Now Henry T and the other 2 Lbs are down right awful in pass coverages...speedy running backs ate they lunch all year on wheel routes
 
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CA_Vol said:
I was a little surprised by the Heupel hire, but am holding out that he may bring a fun style of football to watch and acknowledging he has more actual head coaching success than any coach we’ve hired since Majors.

That said, when should the lack of any announced staff begin to worry us? It’s clear that we were rejected by the top choices for HC. Is something similar at play or is this more of AD White’s tendency towards keeping these types of things close to the vest?
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I'm tired of giving these guys time to make UT football mean something again...Now i am at the point of just sitting back and hoping something good happens...I am liking the hire more and more and like you I think he will bring an exciting brand of football...I am excited to see it as long as he can get a good defensive coord i think we'll be alright...At this point I am just hoping good things happen....I'm just tired.
 
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#84
#84
Way too many balloons up in the air right now with (for example) the portal players, NSD right around the corner, staff changes, COVID, who's the DC?, potential NCAA sanctions, and all the way down to...hell, I dunno, Toyota gas pedals.

Like many here, I am beyond weary of lining up like a good VFL behind the next coach, only to start all over again 3 or 4 years later with yet another ulcer. That's one of the reasons I adopted ETSU as my "NCAA girlfriend". If she dumps me, no big loss.

I wouldn't read too much into, or put too much stock into, anything we see before the season starts. And I literally mean "anything". Because if we want to know "when will we know"...and we all do...then we will get our first solid piece of info when the clock reads 00:00 at the Florida game. That will likely be the first piece of solid data we have on what this staff, and this team, can or cannot do in 2021.

So...grab a box of Snickers bars and have a seat. We've got a long, frustrating wait ahead of us.

Go Vols.
 
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VOLnMiami said:
I'm tired of giving these guys time to make UT football mean something again...Now i am at the point of just sitting back and hoping something good happens...I am liking the hire more and more and like you I think he will bring an exciting brand of football...I am excited to see it as long as he can get a good defensive coord i think we'll be alright...At this point I am just hoping good things happen....I'm just tired.
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I think this is the healthy way of approaching it. After the last decade, no one can blame anyone for just being exhausted by it all. At a minimum, I think we will at least have a fun offense to watch. That is a huge step in the right direction after 27 years of watching JG fall apart.
 
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#87
#87
When you fully realize how this program is now viewed within the coaching community, you stop worrying and accept who you are right now. UT is not going to lure elite coaching talent like Saban and bama are able to do. We'll have to try to do more with less. Maybe hang our hats on younger coaches who are hungry and looking to get a foot in the door at an SEC program.
 
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#92
sorry dude - u just posted a postive thread and this is still out here from earlier

this thread should be deleted

u bi-polar much?
 
#98
#98
GR82BVOL said:
The problem with CBJ was that he brought the group of 5 mentality to the SEC. He did good recruiting because he was recruiting to Tennessee instead of Cental Michigan or Cincinnati. Problem was being able to coach them up to compete game in game out at the SEC level. Heupel has experience coaching in the SEC and also played at Oklahoma as a heisman runner up QB. Definitely brings more to the table than CBJ did. Definite upgrade over previous hires. We wouldn't have been able to get him if not for AD White.
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He only had one great class for OL and he followed a guy that famously signed zero OL in his last class. He recruited some outstanding skill players and I believe that a lot of the success that the teams of 2015 and 2016 enjoyed was based on Dobb's abilities to improvise and elude. The one good thing from the Pruitt legacy is that CJH comes into his tenure with the best DL and OL of any Vols coach since Fulmer. That's huge. If CJH's offense can work against SEC defenses, we should see vast improvements in terms of yards gained and point scored in Fall 2021.
 
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CA_Vol said:
I was a little surprised by the Heupel hire, but am holding out that he may bring a fun style of football to watch and acknowledging he has more actual head coaching success than any coach we’ve hired since Majors.

That said, when should the lack of any announced staff begin to worry us? It’s clear that we were rejected by the top choices for HC. Is something similar at play or is this more of AD White’s tendency towards keeping these types of things close to the vest?
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START worrying? Hell, there are people on here that have never STOPPED worrying!
 
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#100
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I don't think we are actually signing very many on Wednesday because of the amount we signed in December. However he may be just trying to control what is in the transfer portal and getting some of them to return and play.
 
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