Coach Buzz Peterson

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Nicholas25

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I live in Mountain City, TN, which is only 30 minutes from Boone, NC, and Appalachian State University where Buzz Peterson coached. I was hyped when the Vols hired Buzz. I thought he was going to turn the program around, and I respect him for his faith. I was in college playing baseball at the time, and didn't follow the Vols as close as I do now. What were some of Coach Peterson's biggest faults?
 
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He had a penchant for often times not having his teams score as many points as our opponents.
 
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Nicholas25 said:
I live in Mountain City, TN, which is only 30 minutes from Boone, NC, and Appalachian State University where Buzz Peterson coached. I was hyped when the Vols hired Buzz. I thought he was going to turn the program around, and I respect him for his faith. I was in college playing baseball at the time, and didn't follow the Vols as close as I do now. What were some of Coach Peterson's biggest faults?
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Not a very good recruiter in my opinion. He did have some good finds in bradshaw and lofton, but all in all not a very good recruiter. Not an up tempo style of play that people wanna play and watch, and did not have a good personality with the fans and media. In a sentence, he is the exact opposite of coach pearl.
 
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gatorhater_35 said:
Not a very good recruiter in my opinion. He did have some good finds in bradshaw and lofton, but all in all not a very good recruiter. Not an up tempo style of play that people wanna play and watch, and did not have a good personality with the fans and media. In a sentence, he is the exact opposite of coach pearl.
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He also recruited Tyler Smith.
 
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His main problem was that he could coach well enough to keep us competitive, but couldn't coach the guys to close a game. I don't know how many games I sat through where we just gave it away in the last 3 minutes.

That was his biggest fault. He was a great guy, a good coach, and a decent recruiter. He just couldn't squeeze that extra bit out of his players. One other fault was that he got a lot of technical fouls when they only hurt us. Some T's are good to get the team motivated...but not when you're down 2 with a minute left.
 
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Coach Peterson's problems were the following:

Never established an identity for his teams
Never had an option "B" or "C" when the opposing coach had beaten his option "A"
Did not know how to coach a close game in the last minute.

I always thought he was a good person until he was quoted in the media how poorly he was treated at UT and that they didn't give him a chance. Say what???
 
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He's a pious, self important imbecile. Those are his main personality faults. It would overload the board to list his strategic failings.
 
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hatvol96 said:
He's a pious, self important imbecile. Those are his main personality faults. It would overload the board to list his strategic failings.
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I had a feeling you would show up in this thread......big games coming up in the next week hat.....who's showing the most to you so far.....Texas is looking good, Duke-Pitt is going to be a good game to...
 
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Texas has played better than anyone in the country to this point. Memphis has a chance to make a real statement next Saturday against Georgetown.
 
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I think Buzz was a good recruiter, after all, Bruce hit the ground running with Buzz's players his first year. I chalk it up more to not being able to use the players he had to the fullest extent. I think he maybe reached his "Peter Principle" level at Tulsa. I was excited when we got him because Vince Dooley had considered him to replace Tubby at UGA, but was forced to take Jim Harrick instead.
 
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can't blame him.
Working for the Bobcats now after coaching at Tulsa and Coastal Carolina.
My best friend lived a few houses down from where he lived when he was at APP
 
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