I would be interested in your thoughts

[colliervillecard]

I have long held the belief that recruiting is the major factor to winning programs. I think coaching unless completely incompetent is secondary. I have had the opportunity to meet and talk with present and past Vol coaches back to Bill Battle. An hour spent with coach Majors will make you think the present coaching staff are the smartest people in the world. To be fair coach Majors probably did not think I was the brightest bulb in the room either. I use him because he had a very successful run prior to Tennessee including a national championship. I supect recruiting the All Americans he had on that Pittsburg team, Dorsett, Green, ect was of more importance than his coaching.

I often read on the board how our present staff does not game plan or coach the talent successfully. I think we are getting the result our talent can produce. I do not like to make over the top statements but this might be the worst defense I have seen Tennessee field. I think they try, they just are not at an SEC or past Vol level.

If I am wrong about the talent level then the present staff has became a lot poorer coaches in the past ten years.

The perplexing problem I have is if I am correct we are not attracting top level talent as we have in the past we have a major problem taht must be addressed. If I am wrong and the staff can not coach today's players or compete with the new coaches that have came on the scene we have a disaster in the making.

If it is a combination of the two I do not know what you do.
Continue and hope for the best or hire a new coach and wait four years for him to build his program?

I welcome your thoughts.

 

[Vols4ever]

I accept everything you say. If the coaches cannot attract new talent, that means either the coaching is inefficient / the program has lost the ability to attract good talent.... I accept getting a new HC wont turn the program right away but i would rather wait 4 years to see tennessee back than think somethin would happen to change this and realize we need a change after 2 years and then wait 4 more years...

"we cannot do the same thing again expecting different results"

 

[justingroves]

The talent is there supposedly, if you're a firm believer in recruiting services.

 

[coach31]

They can't judge character, work ethic or smarts-football smarts or academic smarts, or how a 5 star player will react against other 5 stars when he's been dominating 1 stars.

 

[T_man_J]

I have long held the belief that recruiting is the major factor to winning programs. I think coaching unless completely incompetent is secondary. I have had the opportunity to meet and talk with present and past Vol coaches back to Bill Battle. An hour spent with coach Majors will make you think the present coaching staff are the smartest people in the world. To be fair coach Majors probably did not think I was the brightest bulb in the room either. I use him because he had a very successful run prior to Tennessee including a national championship. I supect recruiting the All Americans he had on that Pittsburg team, Dorsett, Green, ect was of more importance than his coaching.

I often read on the board how our present staff does not game plan or coach the talent successfully. I think we are getting the result our talent can produce. I do not like to make over the top statements but this might be the worst defense I have seen Tennessee field. I think they try, they just are not at an SEC or past Vol level.

If I am wrong about the talent level then the present staff has became a lot poorer coaches in the past ten years.

The perplexing problem I have is if I am correct we are not attracting top level talent as we have in the past we have a major problem taht must be addressed. If I am wrong and the staff can not coach today's players or compete with the new coaches that have came on the scene we have a disaster in the making.

If it is a combination of the two I do not know what you do.
Continue and hope for the best or hire a new coach and wait four years for him to build his program?

I welcome your thoughts.

Who do you think is responsible for signing the players? You can't blame the rating services because good coaches should be as good as these services at evaluating players. The problem is that we sign good kids, but we can't develop them as players; after a while, frustration sets in and you see many unmotivated kids on the field just going through the motion. Again, the blame goes back to coaching.

A good example is Kenny O'Neil. This kid has tons of talent, but they will not play him because he can't learn 14 different variations of about 1600 plays. What the :censored:? With a talent like Kenny, you are supposed to invent plays for him, but that means the coaches have to be innovative; we damn sure don't have any of that.

So you see, it is very simple, the buck stops at the top no matter how you look at it.

 

[Cartervol]

Put a different coach in here with a different scheme with the same players and you'd get a different result. We would look great all of a sudden. Might even start tackling people. We'd run more when our back is averaging 7.5 yards per carry(WTF)?

 

[DEFENDTHISHOUSE]

Who do you think is responsible for signing the players? You can't blame the rating services because good coaches should be as good as these services at evaluating players. The problem is that we sign good kids, but we can't develop them as players; after a while, frustration sets in and you see many unmotivated kids on the field just going through the motion. Again, the blame goes back to coaching.

A good example is Kenny O'Neil. This kid has tons of talent, but they will not play him because he can't learn 14 different variations of about 1600 plays. What the :censored:? With a talent like Kenny, you are supposed to invent plays for him, but that means the coaches have to be innovative; we damn sure don't have any of that.

So you see, it is very simple, the buck stops at the top no matter how you look at it.

And that in a nutshell is what is wrong with our football team.

 

[utvolpj]

A good example is Kenny O'Neil. This kid has tons of talent, but they will not play him because he can't learn 14 different variations of about 1600 plays. What the :censored:? With a talent like Kenny, you are supposed to invent plays for him, but that means the coaches have to be innovative; we damn sure don't have any of that.

A 5yd out is not a tough route to learn and (from what I've read) this is his issue.

 

[Vols4ever]

A 5yd out is not a tough route to learn and (from what I've read) this is his issue.

If he is one of the faster guys in the team, i would love to see him do something atleast without the ball... just run a deep route and take both CB and safety out of the play.. lol: ugh sorry am worse than our RA's....