Our assistants are mid level

[ThreatLevelOrange]

Compare the top programs like Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia vs UT.

At those schools, coordinators are highly sought after and usually become head coaches or move to NFL roles. But going back to Fulmer’s time, only Cutcliffe and Golesch really enhanced this program and made the staffs better. It seems like night and day when they weren’t here.

You hire your friends and they will get you fired.

 

[landscapingvol]

Compare the top programs like Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia vs UT.

At those schools, coordinators are highly sought after and usually become head coaches or move to NFL roles. But going back to Fulmer’s time, only Cutcliffe and Golesch really enhanced this program and made the staffs better. It seems like night and day when they weren’t here.

You hire your friends and they will get you fired.

Banks and Halzle definitely need to go but the rest are good coaches

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

Our head coach is too.

 

[SNAFU]

I said it in another post, if Heuple is so loyal that he won’t fire ineffective conches than he deserves to be let go.

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

Banks and Halzle definitely need to go but the rest are good coaches

Perhaps but even the talented WR and DL groups haven’t shown up every game.

 

[landscapingvol]

Perhaps but even the talented WR and DL groups haven’t shown up every game.

Our DL is undersized but Garner is a great coach

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

I said it in another post, if Heuple is so loyal that he won’t fire ineffective conches than he deserves to be let go.

This is the drip drip. In the SEC you are either climbing the ladder or you get stepped on. M Stoops, Freeze, Kelly, Gus, Jimbo, Richt, Miles, and Fulmer all reached a certain point and slid backwards.

 

[Cartervol]

You can't keep or hide the good ones. Teams poach them. It's the nature of the business..

 

[orangerush]

The good news is there’s minimal accountability and high job security when you work for Heup.

 

[heath.hinkle]

IMO CJH is a very nice guy but he is too. Would be a fantastic OC but lacks the edge to get the best mentally and physically from coaches and players consistently. He's a "player's coach" = buddy. I've never seen or experienced a team, sports or otherwise, that reached excellence without healthy tension.

 

[West Vol]

Banks and Halzle definitely need to go but the rest are good coaches

Special teams is terrible. Receivers haven’t been able to catch since Pope was elevated. Tight ends are hilarious when they were supposed to be the best position. Willie Martinez should have been let go a long time ago. Linebackers have no idea where they are supposed to be (although that could be more on Banks than Inge). Running backs aren’t great and Peyton Lewis I don’t think is aware he can try to avoid being tackled.

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

You can't keep or hide the good ones. Teams poach them. It's the nature of the business..

Majors had strong staffs that he replaced often.

 

[Godfatha]

Majors had strong staffs that he replaced often.

I don't think Majors would be putting up with what this team has been doing, lack of discipline, etc. I also don't think he would put up with some of the weak links on this staff.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

Compared to programs like programs like Alabama Georgia & Ohio State, our whole operation is garbage. At any spot you look. The whole **** is ****ed.

 

[THEONLYTENISEE]

Banks and Halzle definitely need to go but the rest are good coaches

Heupel will promote from within. I’m ok with Seth Littrell being OC but I don’t know if Inge is an upgrade.

 

[teeball]

Our head coach is too.

Agree … Remember why Heupel was hired? Danny tried to hire a number of other more highly regarded coaches and they all turned him down due to the poisoned environment at Tennessee (past coaching carousel, investigations, you name it) and so as a last resort Danny hired Josh his previous coach at Central Florida. As I recall I, like many on here, were not excited about the hire and felt we had to ”settle” for Josh and that he would probably only be around for a few years. But we have to admit he’s done far better than expected however it appears that he has reached his ceiling. Unless/until he becomes better at evaluating and managing his employees (staff) Tennessee will continue to be a mid-level SEC team IMHO.

 

[CoachClick]

 

[Cartervol]

Compared to programs like programs like Alabama Georgia & Ohio State, our whole operation is garbage. At any spot you look. The whole **** is ****ed.

It's not on their level and Bama is said to have NIL issues and the state is poor. Yet they keep getting the dudes that win games. Those teams just put more in to it and have better assistant coaches, and for the most part better players. You can say NIL leveled the playing field but the same suspects are still there year after year.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

Nil didn't change how well the top 3 recruiting schools recruited. It just allows those top 3 to pay legal money to kids. The playing field is as level as you make it.