Brice: 2017's storyline for the Tennessee Vols? Development stages
A snippet from John Brice of 247.....
More importantly, gone are a combined 125 touchdowns from the Joshua Dobbs-Josh Malone-Alvin Kamara trio, not to mention the additional 26 career scores from Jalen Hurds midseason bounce session.
This, however, is where Jones recruiting through his first four years and his revamped staffs overall ability to develop talent must rise to the surface.
This is, after all, Year 5 of the bygone Brick by Brick era, a slogan no longer allowable because another school owns the copyright, but a mantra that nonetheless resonates with the onset of spring camp roughly seven weeks from its onset.
There are now, officially, only Jones bricks in the program. These are his players. These are players he and the coaches he hand-selects are responsible for developing through the years.
Most importantly, this now is fully and wholly Butch Jones program. Every hire is his; every scholarship player is his; every ounce of ownership of Tennessee football rests on the shoulders of one Lyle Allen Butch Jones Jr.
A class not remotely as top-heavy and certainly not as bottom-heavy as some of those of his predecessor is OK right now; not great, not yet a disaster.
What it is, however, is a mandate on Jones & Co.s evaluations to this point and developmental abilities moving into the future.
A snippet from John Brice of 247.....
More importantly, gone are a combined 125 touchdowns from the Joshua Dobbs-Josh Malone-Alvin Kamara trio, not to mention the additional 26 career scores from Jalen Hurds midseason bounce session.
This, however, is where Jones recruiting through his first four years and his revamped staffs overall ability to develop talent must rise to the surface.
This is, after all, Year 5 of the bygone Brick by Brick era, a slogan no longer allowable because another school owns the copyright, but a mantra that nonetheless resonates with the onset of spring camp roughly seven weeks from its onset.
There are now, officially, only Jones bricks in the program. These are his players. These are players he and the coaches he hand-selects are responsible for developing through the years.
Most importantly, this now is fully and wholly Butch Jones program. Every hire is his; every scholarship player is his; every ounce of ownership of Tennessee football rests on the shoulders of one Lyle Allen Butch Jones Jr.
A class not remotely as top-heavy and certainly not as bottom-heavy as some of those of his predecessor is OK right now; not great, not yet a disaster.
What it is, however, is a mandate on Jones & Co.s evaluations to this point and developmental abilities moving into the future.
