Team Meeting Confirmed

[McDad]

Insert the scene from "Remember the Titans"

 

[DaddyChad]

Unless punches were thrown, I doubt it was much more than a grabassfest.

No doubt, some helmets needed to be fallen upon.

 

[Smokey X]

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Not the scene I was thinking of but it works. I guess.

 

[LargeOrange1]

Maybe the defense should meet at practice and learn how to tackle at some point.

That would be a nifty start.

Hell....I'd be happy to see them line up correctly.

 

[Dudleys87]

Team meeting to play Fortnite probaly

We’re doomed

 

[VolFan_N_NC]

What an embarrassment this team has been for this university and fan base for the last 10 years. Saturday was just the cherry on the top.

 

[CAVPUT]

SIAP...didn't see a thread on this.

Anyone heard anything else? Will this make any difference in how they come out Sunday?

After the way last season ended, they said "never again". Even put up boards with the scores. They've been talking and working all spring, summer and into the fall for this season and fall flat vs GSU. Now a team meeting after game 1?

I'm tired of talk. Ready to see some play on Saturdays that looks like they know what they're doing and actually give a damn about the games. Just show some pride in yourself, your team and your school. Enough talk already.

 

[Volbrando]

Hope it was more than to swap playlists

 

[Zues1]

Don't they have one of these come to Jesus meetings per season. Smh

 

[VolForLife83]

Ive thought for a very long time this team lacks leadership.We don’t have the Barnett’s,Dobbs,Maggit guys like that.I was hoping over the summer and sum changes guys would step up and assume those roles.Quiet opposite actually maybe Saturday was a wake up call,maybe it wasn’t I guess will find out soon enuff.

Jennings is the only leader Im aware of

 

[Elhanan]

Hope so but let’s see Saturday.

I’m not expecting much but hopefully JJ and whoever still cares can motivate.

The proof is in the play. Fight or don’t even bother coming to the stadium.

 

[tenntex67]

Brian Maurer

Does he play Defense?

 

[maotai]

The last one of these the players had ended with a player transferring, 3 sec losses, and a coach that should have been fired at the end of the season.

 

[TheMagnificantOne]

SIAP...didn't see a thread on this.

Anyone heard anything else? Will this make any difference in how they come out Sunday?

If there are no reports of people falling on helmets, then it is ineffective

 

[BreatheUT]

The team meeting has to happen after this one but this is pretty sad. A team meeting after the first game. It's not even September and the Vols are in a do or die game.

Honestly games are won in the off season. If the same lineup is trotted out on Saturday then expect similar results. You can only get incremental improvement from week to week playing the same veteran players. It's hard to see a drastic change in play unless your spark is a young player like when Jamal Lewis took over at RB as a true freshmen. He made a good team a very good team.

Just think 5 days ago a lot of you were "pumped" and couldn't wait for the season to start. I honestly took the cautiously optimistic approach because we've seen the act many times before. Clearly this was a shockingly bad performance.

I found out today my coworker and her family who moved down less than a year ago from the north went to the game on Saturday for their first experience in Neyland Stadium. The game was awful, the atmosphere dull probably because the game was awful, and it was freaking hot. They left at halftime. Probably won't go back.

 

[G8rh8r]

The time for talk has passed. Let’s see what they prove on the field Saturday.

 

[i2amavol]

Ive thought for a very long time this team lacks leadership.We don’t have the Barnett’s,Dobbs,Maggit guys like that.I was hoping over the summer and sum changes guys would step up and assume those roles.Quiet opposite actually maybe Saturday was a wake up call,maybe it wasn’t I guess will find out soon enuff.

How can you have leadership when you don't even know who is starting? I'm not blaming it on the coaches, but there weren't many settled positions on the team. Maybe the leaders will now start stepping up to help save the season.

 

[Zues1]

Jennings is the only leader Im aware of

I guess, the interview I saw with him seemed to be just talking points. No energy, no fire in his delivery or eyes. Looked more like a job interview in the locker room. Hell he should have broke something, a chair something.

 

[Boca Vol]

If you need a team meeting before the 2nd game after getting your a$$ handed to you by a scrub in the 1st game then you're a little late to the party.

 

[KeyVol14]

Gotta be the quickest players only meeting in CFB history. I mean, it was just 2 weeks ago they were in camp. I get it after 7-8 weeks but after week 1??? What could they possibly discuss?? Maybe this is a carry over that needed to happen since last year.

Asking each other wtf that was on Sat

 

[CAVPUT]

The team meeting has to happen after this one but this is pretty sad. A team meeting after the first game. It's not even September and the Vols are in a do or die game.

Honestly games are won in the off season. If the same lineup is trotted out on Saturday then expect similar results. You can only get incremental improvement from week to week playing the same veteran players. It's hard to see a drastic change in play unless your spark is a young player like when Jamal Lewis took over at RB as a true freshmen. He made a good team a very good team.

Just think 5 days ago a lot of you were "pumped" and couldn't wait for the season to start. I honestly took the cautiously optimistic approach because we've seen the act many times before. Clearly this was a shockingly bad performance.

I found out today my coworker and her family who moved down less than a year ago from the north went to the game on Saturday for their first experience in Neyland Stadium. The game was awful, the atmosphere dull probably because the game was awful, and it was freaking hot. They left at halftime. Probably won't go back.

I think it's more a case of the players rotating too much....especially on the OL. They need to pick their starters and roll with them. Bring guys in when the starters need a rest. No sense in this musical chairs approach. I recognize the impact the transfer portal is having especially with our depth issues, but if that's why we're rotating linemen so much, that's a mistake. I don't want a kid who isn't willing to compete for a job. If he's the type that quits on his team, he's the type that will quit in a game.

One other thing. There's a saying that if you're going to lose, you don't do it with juniors and seniors. If I'm going to take some lumps, I'm playing my younger players like Henry T, Gray, Wright, Morris, Keyton, etc. if they can hold their own. I'll accept some mistakes in exchange for experience. Build for the future. I'm beginning to think some of our veteran players simply assume that "it's their turn to start" and really aren't willing to compete and work for the job. Screw that. Let the young dogs have their time.

 

[KBVol]

I hope this meeting translates into something tangible on the field.

It won’t. We should all remember this thread Saturday night when BYU’s offense is absolutely gashing our defense on some more Georgia State-like 15-16 play drives.

 

[1985Vols]

How can you have leadership when you don't even know who is starting? I'm not blaming it on the coaches, but there weren't many settled positions on the team. Maybe the leaders will not start stepping up to help save the season.

I completely blame it on the coaches. Great leadership starts at the top and last year Pruitt even said the coaches were the leaders of the team. So far the Pruitt experiment has been a complete fail. We'll see if they get off the mat Saturday but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[njvols]

Need football version of Bull Durham speech

 

[Thorp32]

Maybe the defense should meet at practice and learn how to tackle at some point.

That would be a nifty start.

Second they should learn that only 11 players can be on the field at the same time. Then I think the coaches ought to hand out cheat sheets on how to line up correctly