I Can't Help but Laugh

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#26
Thunder Good-Oil said:
Maybe with so much disruption in the O-line personnel, sticking with the base offense was the only option. That 265# freshman right tackle thrown in versus Alabama isn't likely to be blowing holes in SEC defenses.
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We did run some plays with a lead blocker earlier this year. Of course, Hurd was that blocker and Dobbs was the ball carrier. I'm sure plenty of people are upset about that, but if you're not handing off the ball you gain an extra blocker, and it lets you do power running out of a spread formation.

Of course, all of that is contingent on having adequate blocking at the point of attack.
 
#27
#27
ShoalCreekVol said:
That talk about scheme is ego, pure and simple. His ego is bruised, so he's reverting to selfishness instead of being a team player. Anyone can be a team player when you're the star, but it takes special character to be a team player when the team is not revolving around you. I don't believe it's actually scheme that's the issue IMO.

When he talks about schemes or systems, IMO he is saying "But everything doesn't revolve around ME!" Marsha Marsha Marsha! Typically when people make blatantly selfish and self-centered decisions that are basically unjustifiable on merits, they look for a cover excuse that makes it about something else that would be outside their control.

I haven't seen where he was talking about any specific places, but I may have missed it. I have seen where some fans were speculating about the LA area and Cal (b/c of Wharton).

He won't be released to another SEC school, so LSU & Arkansas won't be available options. He would probably excel in Michigan, but he would also have to be a team player there among a lot of stars, so I don't see that happening. Wisconsin could be an option, I guess. Most people are thinking southern California area schools b/c apparently his dad lives there. Also b/c he's burned his bridges in his home state.

No coach is changing their system for him, except possibly a bottom of the barrel nobody team. Like Vandy...


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Great post and I agree with everything you said.
 
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Eddie Vol Halen said:
The beautiful I-formations against Northwestern appear to have been a con-job. I'm unhappy with that on several levels. I've been the consistent voice from Year Zero on the Butch-fense: wait and see with talent and experience. Has been stymied against every SEC defense worth a damn with what will be Butch's best team.

Been the consistent voice that Butch seems to be getting it done Monday to Friday but has things to prove on Saturday. Suddenly our breakout year is a dumpster fire. Daj and his +2 coaching metric for Butch has missed the sign; Butch has lost two against lesser talent now.

My feeling at Appy State was the BSiA didnt know what to do with a true Championship team. With bricks leaving the team and the state it appears the once in a generation legacy class has falsely elevated the Butch record on Mondays to Fridays.

I dont know if Jalen was a cancer in the locker room. I know with the exception of THAT play against Georgia he ran his heart out for the Vols. I saw him almost break our rushing record with 90% of his yards after contact in this ridiculous scheme. Looks like Butch conned him; looks like there is no one who should be refusing a big spoonful of maturity in the Vol staff and team.

Butch led us out of darkness but we are close to plunging into the abyss again. New admin coming in needs to have ambition and vision. Everything happening now sucks especially for team and fans who aren't making millions.
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Get over the freaking I-formation, as others have pointed out, we tried it, didn't get crap against the team we tried it with, no sense in continue to running it.

Another post even pointed out the good point that maybe trying to run a new formation with new guys on the line getting their first ever starts wasn't a great idea, so yeah I can see why we didn't do it. If Hurd couldn't see or understand that, then I'm not real sure what to tell him.

One of these days he'll learn that people lie to you to hopefully get you to stick around, is it right? No but it happens, but here's the thing we don't know what if anything Butch promised him, maybe he did, maybe he didn't. We only have the word of his "uncle" who lets be honest is obviously not a big fan of the Universtiy of Tennessee to begin with so I take what his says with a whole block of salt.

I'm also glad you brought up the whole UGA run from Hurd, cause up until that point he appeared ok, but since that point something obviously changed with him. The team saw and responded in kind by not talking to him or congratulating him when he scored.

Here's the thing, obviously changes need to be made on the offensive side of the ball, maybe Debord needs to go, maybe there needs to be a change in QB, who knows. What I do know is that Jones will be the coach unless he straight up loses every game from here on out.

So for now, we can get behind the players and support them. Don't want to support the coaches? Fine then don't, but the rest of the players who decided to ride out the rough time instead of taking their ball and going home deserve our support.
 
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#29
I like how people act like we ran the I the whole Outback Bowl. It was less than 10 plays, and we still gashed them with the read option.
 
#31
#31
Volatility said:
Honestly I don't blame him for leaving. If there was any legitimacy to the post about him wanting to be in I-formations but not getting it, it's very understandable why he would want out.
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Lets think about this for just a moment. If you as a coach have a player come up to you and say "Coach I want us to run plays out of the I formation or I'll leave" do you honestly think you'd take those words as anything other than a threat?

I can tell you this, if I was his coach and he said anything even remotely close like that to me, I'd already be handing him brochures of other schools he could transfer to, because no player should ever have any type of say like that unless they're a Tom Brady/Peyton Manning type player.

Other than that, he needed to sit down, shut up, and get in line with the rest of the team.
 
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ValleyAlVol said:
I like how people act like we ran the I the whole Outback Bowl. It was less than 10 plays, and we still gashed them with the read option.
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Yep and it was a bowl game with a month to prepare. Teams often put in schemes not on film...to win!
 
#34
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Power T-Rev said:
What program wouldn't want a quitter on their team?
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Oh yea, all sorts of programs are going to welcome with open arms a young man with one year of eligibility left. His positives include he demands to play a position he's never played previously benching one of their own at the minimum, he was poison in his own locker room which is an elite program in the SEC, and the cherry on top? He quit his team mid season, everybody wants this guy, right?
 
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Remy said:
Oh yea, all sorts of programs are going to welcome with open arms a young man with one year of eligibility left. His positives include he demands to play a position he's never played previously benching one of their own at the minimum, he was poison in his own locker room which is an elite program in the SEC, and the cherry on top? He quit his team mid season, everybody wants this guy, right?
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All I know is I don't want a guy on my team with that soft mentality
 
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