Full-time special teams coach?

#2
#2
"My wife will not be interested in missing our anniversary dinner to find a TV Monday night," Leaverton said. "She's a little more important to me than Tennessee football, so we'll concentrate on dinner and not the game."
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He should file for divorce immediately.
 
#4
#4
After watching the turds run one back again today. I'd say we better be pretty good on special teams or it could cost us. Especially against them. Yeah i think we could benefit from a fulltime coach in that position.
 
#6
#6
Yes, for the love of god, hire a ST coach. Our Spec. teams has been atrocious recently. Makes more sense than giving the big guy a raise....

:twocents:
 
#7
#7
It's not a matter of money. You would have to eliminate another coaching position to hire a ST coach.
 
#8
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SWIL said:
Yes, for the love of god, hire a ST coach. Our Spec. teams has been atrocious recently. Makes more sense than giving the big guy a raise....

:twocents:
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You do know that in order to hire a ST coach, we would have to fire a position coach right?
 
#10
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GAVol said:
He should file for divorce immediately.
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exactly. she should know there are certain sacrifices a lady has to make when she marries a die hard Vol. priorities man, priorities. i once took a small 'headset radio' into a wedding when UT was playin' the dawgs.
 
#11
#11
"My wife will not be interested in missing our anniversary dinner to find a TV Monday night," Leaverton said. "She's a little more important to me than Tennessee football, so we'll concentrate on dinner and not the game."

Punters...:dunno:
 
#12
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LadyinOrange said:
Do we need one?
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A hearty wildy enthusiastic yes yes yes
yes!!!!

I didn't click the link, my boycott of KNS
is total and final as long as John Adams
is employed in any capacity there.

Until now I have always been a big fan of
David Leaverton, "until now" being key.

I have advocated for a "special teams coordinator"
position on the Vol coaching staff, it seems like
forever.

A few years ago I mentioned one such candidate
who is was at the time coaching for a Div-1A
program in the state of Tennessee who had
been special teams coordinator for a while and
had at one time or another led his conference
in every special teams statistic in not one
but three different conferences.

I don't recall his name but the last time I
mentioned him, one of the many other very
astute Vol fans did name him.

We do fairly well at special teams but we
could do some things better I believe
and having one man in charge of all
aspects of STs could be a positive move
toward a more excellent effort.

As Lombardi said, you never achieve perfection
but if you seek perfection you will find excellence.

A good case in point; remember the Florida game
in Neyland in which the "five minutes of infamy"
occurred???? Remember what cause that to happen??

12 men on the field! That was the one play that
denied us the win over Florida that year. Who
was responsible???? I asked a multitude of
times but received only silence in return.

oh well, sounds of silence is one of my
favorites, long live Simon and Garfunk.

PS; Leaverton is probably lying, he just
doesn't want to relive that '97 UCLA
game, can't say I blame him for that.:wink2:

“I don’t know many people that can say
that they got fired six times before they were
25,” Leaverton said. “Of course, then again,
I don’t know many people who signed six NFL
contracts before they were 25 either. The
last team I signed with was the Washington
Redskins. They paid for my place to live while
I worked on getting a job............."

Here is something else he said:

“I wouldn’t trade all my trials and tribulations
at UT for anything in the world. I went from
being the freshman scapegoat to being a team
captain my senior year. That pretty much says
it all. Punters and kickers aren’t team captains.
Typically they’re considered outsiders because
they don’t practice with the team. For my
teammates to vote me a team captain was
awesome. I became a man at the University
of Tennessee. Last week I went to the UT
game against Vanderbilt with my wife and
parents and had a ball. I’m loving Tennessee
football more now than I ever have in my life.”

Leaverton is a Vol and one of our greats
but he had his bad moments too, flash
back to the Bolden hit in the Bama game.

Not to get off topic but here is an interesting
tidbit; one of our RB commits for '09: scored 7 touchdowns and gained 350 yards of RUSHING
offense last night. He's a 3 star if that matters.
 
#14
#14
SWIL said:
Yes, for the love of god, hire a ST coach. Our Spec. teams has been atrocious recently. Makes more sense than giving the big guy a raise....

:twocents:
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After a miserable start to the season, the ST actually rebounded to respectable numbers (triggered, if I remember correctly, by the change to a spread punt coverage formation.) We wound up 34th in Net Punting, 59th in Kick Returns, and 11th in Punt Returns. Lincoln finished 21/29 (.724.)
 
#18
#18
Vkb, do you know the actual breakdown of special team responsibilities?
 
#20
#20
I can't remember off the top of my head either.
 
#21
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cotton said:
"My wife will not be interested in missing our anniversary dinner to find a TV Monday night," Leaverton said. "She's a little more important to me than Tennessee football, so we'll concentrate on dinner and not the game."

Punters...:dunno:
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Made me laugh. :lolabove:
 
#22
#22
Since most coaches,players,and fans agree that special teams is 1/3 of the game of football, it is absolutely ridiculous to think that a team would not have a fulltime coach in that area. Whenever you get right down to it, the game of football is really a game of field position. It seems like special teams are important enough to command a full time coach. Miami and Virginia Tech used to be great teams that won with special teams. I've never been able to figure out why we don't have a coach that is exclusively responsible for special teams. With that said, we have been pretty good in punting and kicking field goals over the years. Just think how much better our teams could be if we consistently blocked fieldgoals and started out each offensive drive in better field position. Just think how much better we would be if our kickoff team could consistently make the tackle deep in the opponents territory. I don't think that there is a debate on whether we need a fulltime coach in the area of special teams. The question is," Who is the guy that should fill this position"? I'd start the search by looking at VT's special team coach. We should be able to pay him more than they do.
 
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#23
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Hotrodpinto said:
Since most coaches,players,and fans agree that special teams is 1/3 of the game of football, it is absolutely ridiculous to think that a team would not have a fulltime coach in that area. Whenever you get right down to it, the game of football is really a game of field position. It seems like special teams are important enough to command a full time coach. Miami and Virginia Tech used to be great teams that won with special teams. I've never been able to figure out why we don't have a coach that is exclusively responsible for special teams. With that said, we have been pretty good in punting and kicking field goals over the years. Just think how much better our teams could be if we consistently blocked fieldgoals and started out each offensive drive in better field position. Just think how much better we would be if our kickoff team could consistently make the tackle deep in the opponents territory. I don't think that there is a debate on whether we need a fulltime coach in the area of special teams.
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Alright. Agreed. Now tell me what position on our team doesn't need a position coach at all.
 
#25
#25
Midfielder10 said:
Alright. Agreed. Now tell me what position on our team doesn't need a position coach at all.
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I didn't know that we were limited in that area. I thought that VT and several other teams have special teams coaches. Seems like they could find some way to pull this off.
 
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