Shoop on being Vols DC

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I sure hope he's not Butch's "Clawson" on the defensive side! VN will tear him apart if so. Hopefully if Thig, Stripling and Martinez are retained, it will be a smooth transition! Bright days ahead for our D if so.
 
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"Coach Jones locked me in a room with the defensive staff, and he said, ‘You guys figure this out.’ And I spent 12 hours with Strip (Steve Stripling), Thig (Tommy Thigpen) and Willie (Willie Martinez), and it reinvigorated me. It was great. We really enjoyed it. The chemistry was great, and I was sold. I promise you, this is a big-time defensive staff. These guys are good coaches."

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I sure hope he's not Butch's "Clawson" on the defensive side! VN will tear him apart if so. Hopefully if Thig, Stripling and Martinez are retained, it will be a smooth transition! Bright days ahead for our D if so.

You do not have to worry about that. Shoop has been in the SEC at Vandy and had top 25 defenses all 3 years that he was there. He knows what it's all about. I have no doubt we will beat Alabama next year.
 
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“What will we be? We’ll be an in-your-face style defense that’s built on relentless pursuit and never-ending pressure. But Coach Jones and I talked about this a lot, it’s techniques over tactics, really coaching fundamentals, really coaching techniques, really coaching Football 101, and I look forward to doing that this spring.

“Our formula for success — and it’s stood the test of time, whether it’s the Tennessee Titans, whether it’s the Tennessee Vols or whether it’s the local high school — is simple. Stop the run. We’re very committed to stopping the run. Eliminate any and all explosive plays. And create takeaways. That’s an area we think we can do better in. We want to be disruptive. We want to get after the quarterback. We want to create tackles for loss. That’s something we were very good at last year at Penn State.
:pepper::dance2::pepper:
 
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You do not have to worry about that. Shoop has been in the SEC at Vandy and had top 25 defenses all 3 years that he was there. He knows what it's all about. I have no doubt we will beat Alabama next year.

The only thing that has me a little concerned is looking at his defensive ranking trends. They seem to start good and go down from there. Where as JJ started bad and got better. Now Shoops D were still highly ranked so its not that big of a deal. Just an observation :)
 
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The only thing that has me a little concerned is looking at his defensive ranking trends. They seem to start good and go down from there. Where as JJ started bad and got better. Now Shoops D were still highly ranked so its not that big of a deal. Just an observation :)

Janzek's ranking improved as the quality of Tennessee's opponents dropped off during the season. More specifically, the quality of our opposition's offense dropped off as the season progressed, especially in the second half of the season.
 
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I sure hope he's not Butch's "Clawson" on the defensive side! VN will tear him apart if so. Hopefully if Thig, Stripling and Martinez are retained, it will be a smooth transition! Bright days ahead for our D if so.

Well he didn't say he was taking a 4-3 and switching it to a 3-4 with a toss of 6-2 and forcing the line to memorize newtonian physics while patting their helmets and rubbing their bellies..
 
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#9
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Maybe in addition to the 3rd down for what, we can have a shoooooooooooooop after every big stop.
 
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There was a lot of things in there, that was exactly what he said in other interviews with the other staff. Relentless pursuit, in your face. Fun to watch and fun for players. Guess he's just selling himself to us, which is fine. Just found it interesting
 
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I sure hope he's not Butch's "Clawson" on the defensive side! VN will tear him apart if so. Hopefully if Thig, Stripling and Martinez are retained, it will be a smooth transition! Bright days ahead for our D if so.

Given the overwhelming success he's had at Vandie and PSU, why should anybody think there's a chance he might be Jones' "Clawson"? I don't get it.
 
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Any chance "third down for what" gets replaced by "you make me wanna shoop " ?! If it gets us to the natty I'm on Debord !!!😄
 
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I sure hope he's not Butch's "Clawson" on the defensive side! VN will tear him apart if so. Hopefully if Thig, Stripling and Martinez are retained, it will be a smooth transition! Bright days ahead for our D if so.

You don't have to worry about that. Do you remember a couple years ago when Shoop was the DC at Vandy when they beat us twice. Yeah it was Shoop defense at Vandy. He has top 25 defense in the country. With the talent we have the SEC better look out. :rock:
 
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He's never had this much talent to work with at any of his previous stops.He is very smart and will figure out how to best utilize the talent as his disposal.I give him 2 maybe 3 years till he gets a hc job.This guy is a teacher first and formost and will really develop our kids.
 
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Janzek's ranking improved as the quality of Tennessee's opponents dropped off during the season. More specifically, the quality of our opposition's offense dropped off as the season progressed, especially in the second half of the season.

I mean the yearly improvements. JJ improved statistically every year.
 
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I like everything he said - especially about Jones stepping out and letting the defensive staff figure it out. There is on thing I want to see in a program and that is their role in not only winning championships but also in making young men into solid leaders and citizens. I did not see that but I trust it is part of Shoop's program. I will get nuked for saying this but I do believe it is primarily about helping these young men prepared for life and then the championships are the icing.
 
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He needs to learn from JRM the terminology that our defense uses, 1 learning it makes more sense than 40.

Go Vols!
 
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Let's take a quick survey: how many on here would mention having to pay the taxes after winning the lottery?
 

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