jakez4ut
Patience... It's what's for dinner
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A) not relevant imo. Every situation is different. And it won't be during the first full off season when you just got your first real crop of ol on campus the your staff recruited.... Who happen to be top 10 prospects... And the next crop looks like it could be pretty good too... Lol
B) never said that.
Future looks much brighter than the present. And I still think they'll be better this season. No where to go but up.
You're just making stuff up now.How is it not relevant that other coaching staffs are putting together functional offensive lines with "less talented" recruits, and Will Friend can't? Why is UT this nebulous place where coaches can't be expected to be good at the jobs they are hired to do?
So you prefer to refer to our olinemen as "chicken sh*t" instead of trash? Not sure which is worse, but OK, have it your way. Do you believe that every offensive linemen on the roster besides Trey Smith is uncoachable chicken sh*t?
You're just making stuff up now.
It was an analogy not a literal translation...
I don't know what else to tell you.
You're ready to fire him in April for what might not happen by December.
I think that is.... Premature.
Never too early to grab a torch and Pitchfork I guess....How am I making anything up? That was your phrase, verbatim, how else is it supposed to be construed other than you believe that our oline roster is uncoachable, and untalented?
Yeah, if Will Friend can't put an oline on the field by the end of the season that can be trusted to consistently block someone on every play, then I don't believe that there's any reason to give him another year to not even be able to put a bare-minimum oline on the field.
The only difference in the schedule this year from last is we don’t get a top 15-20 team like WVa as our toughest out of conference game. However, instead of only having 1 OOC team like last year that could beat us (WVa), we actually have 2 this year imo (BYU and UAB) although neither are as good as WVa was.
Beyond that, just like last year, we got Florida, Georgia, SCar, Mizzou, Ky, Vandy and Alabama. And just like last year when we played Auburn, we’ll be underdogs to another SECw team when we play a good, tough MissSt team.
I’m not seeing where the schedule is “nowhere close to last year”. It’s virtually identical imo.
GA, FL and BAma are probably all L's.Miss state won’t be nearly as good this year. Get off your negativity shtick. Between you and BOT, it’s the exact same thing every time. If we win 8 games will you promise to get lost?
Why isn't it a fair statement? That team is the way it is because of the crap it went through the past decade. Butch contributed a lot to the downfall. He didn't know how to develop and recruited players that weren't fit for the sec. May be my opinion, but I think it's an accurate statement.I don't think that is fair statement considering the s__t storm UT has gone through the last ten years.
it's only unfair if you blame the players that came here under butch are the problem, or can't ever be meaningful contributors to this program....so i think the "can't wait til they're all gone" comment resonated more here than anything specifically about butch jones....Why isn't it a fair statement? That team is the way it is because of the crap it went through the past decade. Butch contributed a lot to the downfall. He didn't know how to develop and recruited players that weren't fit for the sec. May be my opinion, but I think it's an accurate statement.
I don't blame them and I hope they improve and prove me wrong, but the fact of the matter is I don't think we will be realisticly competing for the east until we have a full roster recruited by Pruitt and co.it's only unfair if you blame the players that came here under butch are the problem, or can't ever be meaningful contributors to this program....so i think the "can't wait til they're all gone" comment resonated more here than anything specifically about butch jones....
that said, there just aren't that many that are or have been or will be significant contributors...bituli, taylor, warrior, jennings, johnson, palmer, some of the OL....a couple other DB's....and Chandler.
there's some good players in there. but to your point, i'm not 100% certain how many of those kids would have been actively sought after by this staff.
well, you lost your best OL to a medical condition, 2 more retired from football all together, and 2 transferred. so you're left with...........the guys that weren't good enough to start for the last staff.
and you're scrambling to plug holes with Jucos and grad transfers.
i think i just closed that post off iwth it's fair to expect improvement.
i don't think it's fair to put quasai ultimatums on a coach that got a crappy hand dealt to him, and is still looking for new cards, a full year later.
and now, before year 2 is even started, before we even get the rest of the OL hual we just signed is no campus, you're telling everyone that if they're not better (by whatever measure you decide on) then coaching is the problem.
that's just not necessarily true.
and like i said, it's fair to expect improvement. i do. and if they're as bad as they were last year, then we have a lot of problems.
just be average, and that's probably worth a game, maybe two. and an average o line would seem like gigantic improvement imo.
just don't get the need to put an ultimatum on it, in April.
My point. Is your pointWhy isn't it a fair statement? That team is the way it is because of the crap it went through the past decade. Butch contributed a lot to the downfall. He didn't know how to develop and recruited players that weren't fit for the sec. May be my opinion, but I think it's an accurate statement.
Lol. 9 wins? No.How about "more manageable"?
Is UGA weaker because of them losing their OC?....................yes, can we beat them........I think so..............L
Is Vandy beatable with this team?...............yes
KY............well............yes
Mizzou beatable with this team..............yes
USC.........dang, they've had our number, but this team can beat that team.............yes
BYEU.............W
UAB..............W
Bama.............L
Florida...............50/50 game..............L
MSU............W
Georgia State...........W
Chattanooga............W
9 wins are there