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volfanecs

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Did anyone else catch the Holly Rowe interview? When Hamilton was asked how he grades his coaches he said "I do not get caught up in the emotion of specific wins and losses. I look at the entire body of work". Does that mean that mean in a career, this year? Thoughts?
 
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hopefully he's judging Clawson's "body of work" which has been an offensive diaster

how many times did you hear it last night, "Tennessee's struggles on offense", blah, blah, blah...
 
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He said that to cover his a$$ knowing everybody wants Phils head on a platter and for the bogus contract he gave him last year.

Mike Hamilton needs to be fired along with Phil Fulmer.

Tennessee Football is greater than both of them. We can get through this but it requires great leadership. That is the one thing we DONT have right now.
 
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Company line. Thats all you'll get from him until the year is over. After all the good coaches are already on their way to their new gigs and most of our recruits have decommitted.
 
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vol_in_ar said:
hopefully he's judging Clawson's "body of work" which has been an offensive diaster

how many times did you hear it last night, "Tennessee's struggles on offense", blah, blah, blah...
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There are more coaches on the offensive side of the ball that just Clawson. Your detest for him makes you blind and ignorant at times. It's a group effort and that also involves the HC of this team. We aren't even running Clawson's offense right now, it's a hybrid between Fulmer's and Clawson's. That has been known since before the season started. Stop pointing out just Clawson when we have to point out everyone including him when judging this offense.
 
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volfanecs said:
Did anyone else catch the Holly Rowe interview? When Hamilton was asked how he grades his coaches he said "I do not get caught up in the emotion of specific wins and losses. I look at the entire body of work". Does that mean that mean in a career, this year? Thoughts?
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Hearing that made me sick to my stomach.
 
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vol_in_ar said:
hopefully he's judging Clawson's "body of work" which has been an offensive diaster

how many times did you hear it last night, "Tennessee's struggles on offense", blah, blah, blah...
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Not sure why you choose to continue the attempts at deflecting criticism of Fulmer onto a brand new coach that's been on the staff for just a few months. Whether Clawson is incompetent is beside the point. The program has been eroding under Fulmer for years, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the problem is the head coach, not the supporting cast of players or assistants.
 
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volfanecs said:
Did anyone else catch the Holly Rowe interview? When Hamilton was asked how he grades his coaches he said "I do not get caught up in the emotion of specific wins and losses. I look at the entire body of work". Does that mean that mean in a career, this year? Thoughts?
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He's meaning the year I believe. If he's not referring to this year and wanting to keep holding on to 1998, then Hamilton needs to be out the door with Fulmer.
 
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billbattle said:
Not sure why you choose to continue the attempts at deflecting criticism of Fulmer onto a brand new coach that's been on the staff for just a few months. Whether Clawson is incompetent is beside the point. The program has been eroding under Fulmer for years, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the problem is the head coach, not the supporting cast of players or assistants.
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He doesn't understand that. To him the OC is responsible for everything and no one else. He just doesn't get that Clawson doesn't have FULL control like Cut did when he was here. That's why we have thrived under Cut as OC, he didn't let people meddle in his business.
 
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billbattle said:
Not sure why you choose to continue the attempts at deflecting criticism of Fulmer onto a brand new coach that's been on the staff for just a few months. Whether Clawson is incompetent is beside the point. The program has been eroding under Fulmer for years, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the problem is the head coach, not the supporting cast of players or assistants.
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They've been sidestepping that problem for years. Its finally come home to roost. I guess they can always retread that perfect storm excuse. I haven't heard that one in awhile.
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
There are more coaches on the offensive side of the ball that just Clawson. Your detest for him makes you blind and ignorant at times. It's a group effort and that also involves the HC of this team. We aren't even running Clawson's offense right now, it's a hybrid between Fulmer's and Clawson's. That has been known since before the season started. Stop pointing out just Clawson when we have to point out everyone including him when judging this offense.
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Good point...Who's the knucklehead that thought Stan Drayton would be a good RB coach? UF hasn't had a running game in years and we go and hire this guy.
 
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you have to understand where Hamilton stands professionally. He cannot just comeout and say STICK A FORK IN HIM, HE IS DONE! He has to be politically correct or endanger how other candidates view this job.
 
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How Clawson continues to be immune for blame is beyond me. You would think for all the excuses people on here make for him that Clawson has actually done something worthwhile at UT.
 
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that translates to he doesnt have the balls to fire fulmer, he would rather live in the past like alabama fans
 
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i'm still not sure whether to blame clawson or not because I, nor anyone on here, knows just how much or how little Fulmer is trying to control the offense. The answer though is simple. Bring in a new head coach and let him hire whomever he desires as his assistants.
 
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TravisHenryCBlockedMe said:
How Clawson continues to be immune for blame is beyond me. You would think for all the excuses people on here make for him that Clawson has actually done something worthwhile at UT.
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Clawson has stunk it up from a statistical and wins standpoint since he has been here at UT, but just because of that doesn't mean you can just throw him under the bus when the ENTIRE staff seems to have just as many problems on offense. Adkins SUCKS as a O-Line coach and we have steadily become a WORSE football team running the ball since he came aboard. Drayton is Trooper Taylor without the ego and chestbumps. Scott is in the same boat as Drayton is. Michaels just isn't that great of a coach. So while Clawson gets some of the blame to, don't lay it all at his door step. Also, don't forget about Fulmer's system as well.
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
He doesn't understand that. To him the OC is responsible for everything and no one else. He just doesn't get that Clawson doesn't have FULL control like Cut did when he was here. That's why we have thrived under Cut as OC, he didn't let people meddle in his business.
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Where has it been "known" that Clawson/Fulmer are merging their offenses? And when has it been proven that Clawson doesn't have full control?
 
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I was disturbed about the body of work comment too. That sounds like justification of keeping the status quo because of past accomplishments rather than future success.

Interesting that, similar to last year, after hambone makes a bold statement about the status of the program (and expectations) he quickly backtracks. Who is hammy's puppet-master?
 
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The material to show that is on TV basically every week. Anybody that thought this offense would change was living in a dream world. After watching the I-AA playoffs of the past, the offenses Clawson put on the field in NO WAY resemble what UT is showing. Tennessee writers that were there every day of spring practice have said that the offense Tennessee is running doesn't resemble the spring. Watch the games folks. Listen to people that ARE in the know that are interviewed. You'll learn quite a bit about the mess down there.
 
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kptvol said:
Where has it been "known" that Clawson/Fulmer are merging their offenses? And when has it been proven that Clawson doesn't have full control?
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Have you watched any of the games this year?...Give you an idea...Watch the UCLA game, That game Clawson had full run of the offense and You could tell, Now watch that game last night and tell me the difference...BIG TIME difference...70% of the formations run last night was vintage Fulmer.
 
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VOLnMiami said:
Have you watched any of the games this year?...Give you an idea...Watch the UCLA game, That game Clawson had full run of the offense and You could tell, Now watch that game last night and tell me the difference...BIG TIME difference...70% of the formations run last night was vintage Fulmer.
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Yawn.
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
Video : Fulmer and Clawson: A marriage of offenses : GoVolsXtra.com
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That video was posted shortly before the Mississippi State game. I'm sure Fulmer is starting to get more involved in the offense at this point. However, we have no way of knowing when exactly Fulmer started to intervene. One thing we do know is that Clawson was allowed to completely revamp our offensive line scheme and their play has been horrible. Additionally, we have opposing players telling us that they are able to tell what play we are running before we run it based solely on Clawson's OL alignments.
 
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