Butch Jones era

[Vol8188]

Top 5 reasons

5 - Making Justin Worley run the read/option when he was a pocket QB.
4 - Ignoring the fact that you had a dynamic RB in Alvin Kamara to applease Jalen Hurd. Again, wrong player in your system.
3 - Letting your best defensive player play special teams and get hurt for the remainder of the season - JRM.
2 - Starting Nathan Peterman over Joshua Dobbs at Florida, and letting him stay in for a disastrous half. (Buffalo should have reviewed this tape).
1 - Not going for a TD on the 1 inch line vs Oklahoma.....

Shoot why stop there?

1a - Playing Colton Jumper over ANYONE on the roster.
1b.........

I don’t buy the “Hurd wasn’t right for the system bs”. He was on his way to being the most productive rb in school history

 

[DaUndergroundMan]

Top 5 reasons

5 - Making Justin Worley run the read/option when he was a pocket QB.
4 - Ignoring the fact that you had a dynamic RB in Alvin Kamara to applease Jalen Hurd. Again, wrong player in your system.
3 - Letting your best defensive player play special teams and get hurt for the remainder of the season - JRM.
2 - Starting Nathan Peterman over Joshua Dobbs at Florida, and letting him stay in for a disastrous half. (Buffalo should have reviewed this tape).
1 - Not going for a TD on the 1 inch line vs Oklahoma.....

Shoot why stop there?

1a - Playing Colton Jumper over ANYONE on the roster.
1b.........

Curt maggitt's season ending injury occured on special teams as well.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

1. Loss of Dobbs who made the offense look good.

2. Hired his buddies over coaches who knew how to win.

3. Inability to change his offense that clearly wasn’t working in the SEC.

4. Way in over his head when he first took the UT job.

 

[BowlBrother85]

1. Loss of Dobbs who made the offense look good.

2. Hired his buddies over coaches who knew how to win.

3. Inability to change his offense that clearly wasn’t working in the SEC.

4. Way in over his head when he first took the UT job.

Did the concept of in-game adjustments ever register with Butch? I sure never saw any.

 

[butchna]

3. The loss of Dave Lawson. It's no coincidence that after Dave was let go, injuries piled up. Why he was let go I don't know, but we paid the price for firing him.

On Lawson...It was an immediate visible physical transformation of the players when Lawson took over. This was Butch’s GUY...since CMU. The narrative in the fanbase started focusing on perceived weird injuries and an offshoot result of another narrative...Butch not trusting his players (specifically their leaders) led to Butch kicking Lawson to the curb imo. The players HATED Lawson and preferred Szerszen. So the first time Butch crossed one of his “buddies” it was the one success story that ruined him.

 

[butchna]

I don’t buy the “Hurd wasn’t right for the system bs”. He was on his way to being the most productive rb in school history

If Butch hadn’t reneged on DeBord incorporating the off-set I into the spread, it would have boosted both his and Kamara’s production imo.

 

[o3marine52]

Butch Jones urea

Nitrate

 

[NEVolFan]

for the sensible replies. No thanks to the childish spell checkers. I had a brain fart, ok. Give people a break.
Do you not have anything better to do with your time?.

There's a period after the question mark.

 

[butchna]

for the sensible replies. No thanks to the childish spell checkers. I had a brain fart, ok. Give people a break.
Do you not have anything better to do with your time?.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

Josh Dobbs graduated, that’s what happened.

And I think the whole Jalen Hurd situation was the beginning of the end.

 

[ManningBerry#1]

Things fell apart when the game started, and stopped falling apart when the clock stopped. I, personally, liked the man and what he stood for. However, when it came to actual 'coaching' he honestly got out-coached by Muschamp, McElwain, and others...

Winless in the SEC...Let that sink in...

 

[JohnnyVolunteer]

The only reason things didn’t fall apart sooner was because of Josh Dobbs. Once he left and butchie had to develop players he was exposed as the terrible football coach that he is. His in-game decisions were embarrassing. The only reason he had success at C. Michigan and Cincy was because he was “coaching” Brian Kelly’s roster. By his 5th year here it was his team and the lack of developed talent was evident. Dobbs covered for him in previous years.

 

[OrangeSquid]

There's a period after the question mark.

:lolabove:That's actually funny.

 

[TNnative]

I am always amazed at those who take a fan base and paint it with a broad brush and say "this fan base is the reason". I think if you put Alabama, Georgia, Florida, USC and any other traditional program in the same situation, the reaction there would be identical.

Don't blame the fans. That's not why this happened. Blame two previous incompetent athletic directors and the Haslams. UT fans have every reason in the world to feel like they do about the current situation.

Well, my point was a big reason why our fans do crazy stuff, it is in reaction to incompetence in the leadership. You choose to name a few specific individuals when in reality there are plenty more involved screwing things up. But whatever.

 

[KBVol]

I don’t buy the “Hurd wasn’t right for the system bs”. He was on his way to being the most productive rb in school history

Hurd was only approproaching the top of the all-time leading rushers list because of the number of carries he got. He was literally the worst starting running back in the SEC in 2016 before he quit, averaging only 3.7 yards per carry. His yards per carry average was bad for a college running back, especially one that was 6’4” 240 playing in the same backfield with an elite running qb, Josh Dobbs. He’s currently 6th all-time but imho he’s nowhere near the 6th best running back in school history, not even close. Hell, he was the 3rd best running back on his team at the time in 2016.