Jones: "There's no need to panic."

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According to Butch, "there is no need to panic" following the single most unacceptable loss during his tenure. His team, with every opportunity to finish 10-2 & possibly play in the SEC CG, just pooped the bed in truly epic fashion & his response is "there is no need to panic".

Well maybe, just maybe, this is why this team felt no sense of urgency to fix its obvious schematic & mental breakdown deficiencies prior to Saturday night?

Maybe it's why this team just doesn't seem interested in competing until they're down 2 scores in the 4th qtr?

Perhaps it is why after a 2 week hiatus to heal up & prepare, this team provides its most undisciplined & unmotivated effort to date.

The time to panic was week 1 against a recent FCS team that took us to OT.

The time to panic was week 3 when we struggled early (again) against Ohio.

The time to panic was week 4 & 5 when we spotted undermatched UF w/ a back-up QB a 3 TD lead & needed a Hail Mary against a really bad UGA team.

Or maybe when we turned the ball over 7 times in week 6, or when we rolled over & got slaughtered by 40 against Bama?

Well, they didn't panic & the result was a truly horrible loss to an even worse USCe team w/ a high school QB & basically erased any opportunity to salvage the season.

I'll say this: Lyle may not be panicking, but this fanbase is; and I for one am glad someone is.
 
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If he doesn't see a need to panic, then he needs to see an optometrist.

I didn't know if last night was a Jones coached team or a Dooley coached team.
 
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The truth is, we haven't been very good all year. We've been horrible in the first half in every game. We've had, what, maybe three good second half performances. That's been the highlight of the year. The offense is not good--and that's on Jones (and the old crony OC he hired).
 
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In all seriousness, I don't want him panicking, that would be adolescent, but he should have just not said those words. It's that crap that just pisses people off.
 
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I'm not panicking, I'm confused. What the heck happened to this team?
 
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Dobbs great kid, but needs to send a message and at least put Dormandy in the rotation. This is amateur sports, but is a business...and if don't produce, you get replaced. Really pulling for Dobbs, but coach has to make some tough coaching decisions, or he'll be our next coach on a buy out.
 
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njvols said:
Dobbs great kid, but needs to send a message and at least put Dormandy in the rotation. This is amateur sports, but is a business...and if don't produce, you get replaced. Really pulling for Dobbs, but coach has to make some tough coaching decisions, or he'll be our next coach on a buy out.
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Dobbs has won more games for us than he has lost. The day Jones pulls Dobbs during his senior season against what should be lesser opponents is the day ill stop supporting him.
 
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The pitiful thing about the Jones problem is that nothing is going to happen. Not called on the carpet, not fired, not anything. Because he, the press guys and all who don't want to see or admit the bad job of teaching and coaching Butch and his staff are doing, can and will blame it all on injuries.
 
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volfannbama said:
Dobbs has won more games for us than he has lost. The day Jones pulls Dobbs during his senior season against what should be lesser opponents is the day ill stop supporting him.
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It's got nothing to do with supporting or pulling Dobbs. It's called looking to the future, which it is time to do. We are bowl el. This team has had their chance to be real good. Didn't happen for one reason or the other. Play all who show they really care. But lets start looking at other players, i.e., QBs, RBs, ect., maybe even new playsets. It is time to start to look ahead.
 
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Butch is exactly right, just like a replay of Dooley, no need to panic. Tennessee recruiting will slip this year and continue to slip. The time to panic is 2019 when we don't have any of the talent from the first 3 years.
 
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This is why the Negas *****ed and moaned about the extensions and raises

Any sane person could see the flaws in his "infallible" system and the BS with the BSIA

He is a used car salesman and a bad one at that

UT bought a 79 pinto thinking it was a new Audi
 
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njvols said:
Dobbs great kid, but needs to send a message and at least put Dormandy in the rotation. This is amateur sports, but is a business...and if don't produce, you get replaced. Really pulling for Dobbs, but coach has to make some tough coaching decisions, or he'll be our next coach on a buy out.
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Don't know if that's the answer but SOMETHING quite OBVIOUSLY has to change...like right now. As everybody has pointed out and everybody knows, we have not shown up to play in any game this season. We went from last year's team being quite disciplined to this year's team being unbelievably UNdisciplined. We seem to have lost our grasp on almost all fundamentals, e.g. Neyland's maxims.

We have played a handful of quarters of great football. We could very easily have a losing record right now. We should all be very concerned about Kentucky and Vanderbilt.

College football at Tennessee used to be: "If you keep making the same mistakes and hurting our team, son, you will sit and not play." Why has that changed?

And does it not also apply to coaches? "Coach, if that play only works 17 percent of the time we've run it against that defensive look, why do we keep running it?

"Coach, why are we trying to throw the ball for only five yards on third down when we need 13 for a first down?"

Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Why does that not apply to this team, especially our offense?

The blowtorch on Butch's butt got very hot last season after inexplicable losses to FL, OK, and Arkansas -- all good teams; last night was an inexplicable loss to a very bad team.

To his credit, Butch made some changes and additions last offseason...Shoop and Larry Scott, for example. I do hope he has the same common sense to make some fundamental changes this offseason.

My candidates: Coach Debord should gracefully retire and take his scheme with him, Azzani should be moved to coaching another position as far as possible from the receivers group, and Coach Mahoney should be encouraged to find another opportunity to pursue.

Question: will Butch start right now coaching for the future? By that, I mean...for example, will he start giving our future QBs some serious, significant game reps?

"Next man up" should also apply to those players who are and aren't getting it done, right?

Dobbs can look like an All-American at times and worse than a high-school QB at other times. Maybe it's like baseball pitchers..."Son, you're just not on tonight...it's just not your day" and go to the bullpen.

It's a tough call for any college football coach...which is why Butch is paid millions.

And that's why Butch will spend the rest of this season under incredible, justifiable scrutiny in the fishbowl.

SORRY FOR THE RANT!
 
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