Crowder misses practice due to not starting?

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keckjm said:
I'm saying that a specific coach, or a combo of coaches, (mainly Butch, Mahoney, or Mike Baj.) pushed the "plan for future" agenda of playing Thomas last year at all cost. IMO it cost us the FL game, and honestly, I think it eliminated any chance of us beating UGA even with our defense playing great most the game until they ran out of gas from being on the field so much.

I'm not a sunshine pumper. I look at what I see and what I've seen so far is below average OL coaching and some questionable in game offensive strategies. The OL play and the play calling work hand in hand. When Worley has one second to throw the ball you got to figure something out so you can move the ball. You can't keep pushing your agenda at the cost of loses like FL last year. There's no excuse for it.

Also, it wasn't just an OL strategy problem that I had problems with last year. Through the last few pages you can clearly see I'm 110% for starting both Kendrick and Thomas, so I'm not trying to sound like I'm bashing Thomas here. My issue, and the most concerning issue IMO, is the lack of development of our OL all last year. Our OL made the same mistakes every game. Yes, our OL got bullied around, but they also never improved on their technique. We also never tried to truly fix/stop the bleeding during games. The OK game is a prime example of this. OK rushed us on Thomas' side all game, using the same CB blitz. At what point do you realize that just putting Wolf, a freshman I might add, at H-back on the right side isn't going to cut it? In those situations you have to protect your QB at all cost. If you have to play a FB and a TE, which will limit your playbook to 5 plays the rest the game, you do it. Then, instead of using it as a crutch to justify your OL strategy decisions, you go find ways to make those five plays turn into 15 plays during the game. It's possible to do. Go watch Chip Kelly coach.

I'm 100% pro CBJ, but his on the field coaching is questionable. I believe that is a very fair statement to make about CBJ. He's done everything else right. He's put us back into contention, but he's got to prove he can win us games when the offensive game plan fails. Ultimately, loses like FL fall on CBJ's shoulders, especially considering he's an offensive minded coach.
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How can you be 110% for anything? It is absolutly impossible to ever go above 100%. 100% means there is no more to give i.e you can't climb 110% of a mountain, or finish 110% of of a test unless I guess you count extra credit.....damn..... Well there goes that theory. 🐴💩
 
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o3marine52 said:
How can you be 110% for anything? It is absolutly impossible to ever go above 100%. 100% means there is no more to give i.e you can't climb 110% of a mountain, or finish 110% of of a test unless I guess you count extra credit.....damn..... Well there goes that theory. 🐴💩
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sjt18 said:
Then I doubt very seriously that your impression of Jones is correct. That appears to have been what he offered Weisman and Kendrick.

Crowder is a 20 something year old guy. He's put a type of dedication into UT football for 5 years and especially the last 3 that few can understand. By all accounts I've seen, he's been a model team player.

To give him a day off to process news this kind of news... is a remarkable indication of caring for players. Jones is sufficiently tough when it matters.
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I played football at Park Junior High, Knoxville, as an 8th grader. My coach was Bill Adonizio (sp) who played for Neyland on the the 1951 National Champion team. (Yeah, I know it's not quite as big as playing for UT.)

Our team had a 9th grader who was a starting halfback and lost his job to a bigger faster 8th grader. The player who lost his job missed the first practice and I'll never forget what the coach said, "sure he skipped practice, I would too if I lost my job to someone else". That really stuck with me. Coach knew he was really hurting.

Sometimes you have to let someone be disappointed and not make it worse.
 
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volfan10735 said:
Care to do a positive highlight film too? That would be neat.
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His job was to pull and block the first guy that crosses his face. He pulled on the play, got wide and split the field.
He gave the ball carrier an obstacle. I guess if he could run a 4.6 forty he could've led Malone down the field. Looks like nit-pickin' to me.
 
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sjt18 said:
All of this "Player skipped practice for being upset" stuff carries the stench of "North has a season ending injury." Small nugget of truth... exploded into something "newsworthy".

IMHO, it is likely that he is upset if he isn't starting. It is possible that Jones allowed him to take a day to rest and put his thoughts together before getting back to competing. I believe it is next to impossible that any of these guys have successfully bullied Jones. Totally contrary to his personality, patterns of action, and belief system.
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Maybe. But it sure seems odd after they both got upset, that since then they are more of a factor

Strange...
 
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SteelerVol said:
His job was to pull and block the first guy that crosses his face. He pulled on the play, got wide and split the field.
He gave the ball carrier an obstacle. I guess if he could run a 4.6 forty he could've led Malone down the field. Looks like nit-pickin' to me.
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No doubt that one is nit-pickin. Good grief if I wanted to make a point about our OL being an issue it wouldn't be complaining about not getting a block 20yards downfield
 
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Dr Dread said:
Scratching my head on why the coaches are trying so hard to keep C. Thomas in the starting line-up. They tried him at center during the spring, but by all the reports I've seen, that didn't work out too well so they moved him into B. Kendrick's spot at RT. If what has been posted earlier in this thread is true, the veteran players convinced the staff that Kendrick was the better option. But instead of moving Thomas to a backup roll, they give him the starting job at center, despite his performance there in the spring. Not understanding this at all.
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Actually Thomas was forced to miss a lot of the Spring due to the Mike Sawyers fiasco that he was wrongly implicated in. Aside from that he was already challenging Crowder for the starting C position FWIW
 
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BruinVol said:
No doubt that one is nit-pickin. Good grief if I wanted to make a point about our OL being an issue it wouldn't be complaining about not getting a block 20yards downfield
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Agree, go back and look at Hurd's 4th down screen pass against Cackalacky and Robertson did the exact same thing. Luckily Hurd spun out of the tackle and scored
 
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sjt18 said:
All of this "Player skipped practice for being upset" stuff carries the stench of "North has a season ending injury." Small nugget of truth... exploded into something "newsworthy".

IMHO, it is likely that he is upset if he isn't starting. It is possible that Jones allowed him to take a day to rest and put his thoughts together before getting back to competing. I believe it is next to impossible that any of these guys have successfully bullied Jones. Totally contrary to his personality, patterns of action, and belief system.
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Hear Hear! Hear Hear!!!:hi:
 
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SteelerVol said:
His job was to pull and block the first guy that crosses his face. He pulled on the play, got wide and split the field.
He gave the ball carrier an obstacle. I guess if he could run a 4.6 forty he could've led Malone down the field. Looks like nit-pickin' to me.
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FTR, this play isn't really an example of what I meant.


It is hilarious though.
 
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Literally millions of dollars are at stake for Jones and his coaching staff this season. To do anything other than try and win as many games as possible this year could be very damaging to CBJ. He can not afford to not play the best players on the roster at the position they are best-suited to play.

That being said if a young guy and a old guy grade out the same then by all means the young guy should be playing. The hope being that as he has more game reps he becomes the better player for this year and the next few.
 
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austin_vol said:
Jimmy Hyams "@JimmyHyams: UT senior C Mack Crowder (12 career starts) missed practice Monday, upset he won’t start v. Bowling Green. He will return to practice today"

What is everyone's thoughts on this? Senior skipping practice because he is not a starter? Seems odd to me
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So he's a Senior and acting like this? Damn that's pathetic if true. It must suck for him knowing he actually has to earn playing time now and not play just because we have absolutely no one else to put at Center like last year.
 
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getting messy in here.....peace. Grateful to have Mack and im glad hes a VFL. But at the same time really happy the competition is getting higher out there on the practice field.
 
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