Coaching Staff and "Stuff"

[WoodsmanVol]

This isn't the football recruiting forum. However, I came across something I think recruits and players alike will or already have a deep appreciation for. It appears our staff put SERIOUS focus on success, rather than coach-speak just to get football players, mere things to be used for their own benefit and little else. To this staff, success is as much, and maybe more important off the field and after football is over and done with. With this attitude, they may well institute a de facto program harnessing the greatest recruiters any school can ever have - parents so pleased with the staff, they actively recruit and enlist other parents to encourage their sons to pick Tennessee. It would be difficult for other schools to out-recruit a program that has the seal, unofficial as it might be, of parental preference. See why I say this, starting with the 11th paragraph of the below article.

Source: VolQuest - Tennessee in the driver's seat for JUCO's Will Whitson

 

[Vol524]

That is how I know we have the right HC this time. I just hope we can hang on to this one for a while.

 

[ftsandersvol]

Heupel is, and always has been, a winner. And not just in football, but in life. He's well grounded and confident, but not selfish or arrogant. These are the kind of men we need leading our young kids today.

 

[TJVol95]

Be fun and stuff

 

[driscokid]

This isn't the football recruiting forum. However, I came across something I think recruits and players alike will or already have a deep appreciation for. It appears our staff put SERIOUS focus on success, rather than coach-speak just to get football players, mere things to be used for their own benefit and little else. To this staff, success is as much, and maybe more important off the field and after football is over and done with. With this attitude, they may well institute a de facto program harnessing the greatest recruiters any school can ever have - parents so pleased with the staff, they actively recruit and enlist other parents to encourage their sons to pick Tennessee. It would be difficult for other schools to out-recruit a program that has the seal, unofficial as it might be, of parental preference. See why I say this, starting with the 11th paragraph of the below article.

Source: VolQuest - Tennessee in the driver's seat for JUCO's Will Whitson

But hopefully not Champions of Life or anything

 

[Orange Raid]

I love how he said he didn’t want to leave K-town when the visit was over!

 

[Southeastern VFL]

There is definitely a different feel to CJH and staff and I think it really showed in the way we played last year. I know a lot of people look at the 7-6 record and that is all they see. When you look at all 13 games beyond the record you will see a team that was in every game no matter the opponent they were right there fighting and never spent a day under .500 for the first time in a long time. Also something that stood out was how dominant they were in 6 of 7 wins where with the last 3 coaches when they would win as a fan you were just like well looks like we got away with one today and sometimes that was against a opponent that we should have dismantled. In just one season if you look very closely there is a lot of reason to truly believe that CJH can really be something special here.

 

[TNHopeful505]

I've said it before, many times. With Kiffin, Dooley, Butch, and Pruitt....I got excited for them (because what other option did I have?), but there was just always something that made me think "I dont really like him." Kiffin was arrogant. Dooley seemed smug and insecure. Butch seemed insincere and a cliche platitude machine. Pruitt seemed like he never fully bought in to being here, and like a jerk.

But, I truly, genuinely like Coach Heup as a person. I feel like if I ran into Heup on the street, he would be the type to ask me more questions about me than he would answer about himself. And then he would be super cool and just treat me like he had known me for years. Like, Heup just feels real. And every recruit seems to echo that. "They're so laid back." "Its not just about football with them." "They care about me off the field more than on the field." "Its all about family with them." "It's about faith and my walk with the Lord with them." "They are gonna make me the best man possible."

Like....this staff just seems like they're hitting the spots that good, young men really need to hear and have in their lives. And that is an incredible culture to have.

 

[SpookyAction]

I thought Pruitt fought hard as a coach, just not the way I would do it. He lacked charisma, but had a fighting spirit. He needed team-building skills on the locker room and state/national level as well. Fulmer didn't improve him there. Don't know if he had it in him to be improved and the scandal ended him anyway.