Hank Bukowski
Roland James
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I was trying to figure out how "good" our defensive coaches are.
I know Martinez has like 25+ years experience and is supposed to be considered pretty good, but with how bad our DB's played I find it hard to believe he is a good coach.
Our LB coach Brian Jean-Mary has been at Michigan, Texas, USF, GT and Louisville. he has a lot of experience but I do not know how "good" he is
DL coach Rodney Garner - enough said, he is awesome
Eckler - I know he is great at special teams but I do not know about OLB/DE experience
OK I Googled and found this article from when the staff was hired, just gives a brief background and does not say good/bad
Tennessee football: Breaking down Vols’ new defensive coaching staff
Edit: You cannot teach speed, you either have it or you don't, everything else is coachable and we are missing speed in the secondary
As I see it, our D coaches played with the cards they were dealt. They worked with what they had. To me, we do not yet have enough SEC-caliber players to field an SEC-caliber defense.