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Agree on all counts. I do think the defense will improve I’m just not sure it’s going to be fast enough for most.I wasn’t happy with the hire at all. Now, I feel a lot better about it. I’m still concerned a bit about recruiting and wether or not he will ever field a decent defense, but the offense is off the charts and they’re fun to watch
How did you feel a year ago when you heard the news?
How do you feel about the hire today?
Great postI think that AD Danny White was totally shell shocked that he couldn't generate any serious interest in our HC position even though he was allowed to offer serious $$$ for the HC and all his assistants.
I also think we got lucky that AD White was able to convince our new HC to take on the monumental task of a total rebuild after 32 players ran away and our player roster was so badly depleted.
I think most of us realistically expected only 4 or 5 Wins last season and to make it to a Bowl game would be way over performing for the roster we were left with.
Because it took so long for the UT Admin to get rid of Pruitt and to negotiate a payout to get Fulmer to leave and then to hire a search firm to finally get AD White hired and looking for a new HC I think we all knew that the deck was badly stacked against our new HC as far as recruiting was concerned because he still had to hire all his coaching assistants and support people.
Despite having to do all of that I was pleasantly surprised that we cane away with a much better recruiting class than I dreamed was possible and we could still add a surprise or 2.
We're lucky here on VN that we have several people that do lots of serious research and know what they're talking about most of the time.
I watched these forums closely as CJH hired each new coach and after he was done it seemed that even tough he got such a late start he managed to convince some really good teachers of football to come coach in K town so I became slightly optimistic.
We all know for a FACT that we were robbed out of a TD against Old Piss and again in the Music City Bowl so that certainly should have been 2 more WINS for our Vols and CJH in his 1st season.
No coach really knows how a player will perform until you can evaluate them in real game because they can be great in practice situations bur fall very short in real games and we know that JG was 1 of those types..
Now we all know and believe that if Mr. Hooker had been our starting QB from game 1 we probably would have also gotten the WIN against Pitt and that would have been the 3rd extra WIN for our Vols and HCJH.
We all saw with our own eyes over this past year our players and Team get better and better weak by weak and we also saw tat HCJH never threw any players under the bus or make excuses or whine.
He and his staff just went back to work trying to help our players get better and make fewer mistakes.
Here we are 1 year later and I feel much better about where our Vols program is headed and I believe that we've finally found the right guy to get us back to the top where we all know we belong!
CJH and his staff simply did a outstanding job in year 1 despite everything being so badly stacked against them.
The future is bright for our footVOL Team especially after we finally get the ignorant NCAA off our back and behind us.
VFL,,,GBO!!!
Just curious, how would you rank our past coaches compared to Heupel purely on how well they were known for recruiting only, not anything else?Kind of the same honestly. I felt then, and still do today, that many of the issues this program is facing go beyond just the head coach. Until THOSE issues get solved, it doesn't matter who is wearing the headset on the sideline. I like CJH. I think he's a solid coach. I think he's an honest and moral man. I think he's a great offensive mind. Do I think that's going to be enough to get us back to competing for SEC championships? No, I really don't. I'm not sure if he's a dynamic enough recruiter to get us the talent we need to compete on BOTH sides of the ball. So I say all that to say, I'm still firmly in the "wait and see" camp. I have no expectations anymore. The last 13 years has done that to me.
Dooley - dumpster fire - recruiting ZERO olinemen in an entire class is just a level of recruiting stupidity and incompetence I can't wrap my head around. Also, his recruiting pitch to local talent was the worst I have ever seen. As a UT fan it was embarrassing to watch those guys come in and "try" to recruit. How he signed ANYBODY is amazing to me.Just curious, how would you rank our past coaches compared to Heupel purely on how well they were known for recruiting only, not anything else?
Just curious, how would you rank our past coaches compared to Heupel purely on how well they were known for recruiting only, not anything else?
Kind of the same honestly. I felt then, and still do today, that many of the issues this program is facing go beyond just the head coach. Until THOSE issues get solved, it doesn't matter who is wearing the headset on the sideline. I like CJH. I think he's a solid coach. I think he's an honest and moral man. I think he's a great offensive mind. Do I think that's going to be enough to get us back to competing for SEC championships? No, I really don't. I'm not sure if he's a dynamic enough recruiter to get us the talent we need to compete on BOTH sides of the ball. So I say all that to say, I'm still firmly in the "wait and see" camp. I have no expectations anymore. The last 13 years has done that to me.