Tennessee hires Chuck Smith to coach D Line (confirmed with link)

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I know you will criticize my post count and and lack of link. But numerous sources, connections I guess you could say, have confirmed. It will be made official VERY soon. TIFWIW.
 
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TheAbsoluteTruth said:
I know you will criticize my post count and and lack of link. But numerous sources, connections i guess you could say, I have confirmed it will be made official VERY soon. TAFWIW.
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And don't worry about qualifying your sources, especially if you know it's for sure.. I've noticed the guys who actually know what's going on generally aren't the ones starting their story with "my friend who is a big time donor."
 
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This is very believable IMO, been a lot of talk about it.
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Gotta be true, it's coming from "TheAbsoluteTruth" :thumbsup:
 
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I believe it there's just too much smoke for there not to be something burning.:thumbsup:
 
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I like Chuck Smith as much as everybody else. But I'm kind of worried about Justin Wilcox not having some of his guys to help him install his stuff. I thought that was the main thing that hindered Dave Clawson. The old staff was there, and they never bought in which made it easy for the players to not buy in. ...I can't help but think since we got Wilcox he should've got to bring a couple of guys or at least 1 he's comfortable with.
 
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NBKGault said:
I like Chuck Smith as much as everybody else. But I'm kind of worried about Justin Wilcox not having some of his guys to help him install his stuff. I thought that was the main thing that hindered Dave Clawson. The old staff was there, and they never bought in which made it easy for the players to not buy in. ...I can't help but think since we got Wilcox he should've got to bring a couple of guys or at least 1 he's comfortable with.
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I thought the main thing that hindered OCDC was his head coach.....
 
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VolNC2316 said:
I thought the main thing that hindered OCDC was his head coach.....
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Well kind of. What I think happened was Clawson came in and wanted to do things that this off. coaching staff wasn't used to doing since they had been there together 4 quite a while. Fulmer heard the pleas from the fans to hire somebody "outside the TN family" so we'd be less predictable and new. I think Fulmer thought that was a good idea to. But w/ the same old coaches being there and probably having a little trouble themselves teaching it... there probably started a little whisper in Fulmer's year that they shouldn't just let Clawson do what he wants. At that point you're just half buying into something and that's the worse thing you can be. You can be a very unimaginative offense, but everybody buys into the philosophy and you at least have a chance. But now the staff is arguing and the players can pick up on that so then they don't buy in. The whole off. lineman changing sides isn't anywhere near as complicated as they made it out to be. But since the coaches (probably the off. line coach) didn't buy in... he probably whispered or made remarks to players that showed he didn't buy in. Which made it easier for the players to not buy in. Learning something new is always difficult. Now imagine guys around you being negative and saying it's a dumb thing to do. Gives you an easy excuse to not buy in, huh?!
Then the UCLA game came. A game Fulmer and most vol fans thought we'd win easy. We lost... so at that point Fulmer pretty much handicaped Clawson. Because yes we didn't run the ball enough that game. And Crompton was a wreck then. But instead of letting Clawson have Crompton work through it and get a hold of it like Kiffin did (yeah i know people hate to give him credit for anything now)... Fulmer stopped the growth and went back to "his way" b/c he felt the heat, but he had a guy that didn't know "his way" calling the plays. So it was just a mess the whole year.
 
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Clawson only had one holdover working for him. He was on a 2-4 year program to get his O fully installed and functioning. He needed that long to fill the offensive roster with the right talent. When things didn't go well from the start, Fulmer got nervous and started meddling. Things got worse and he meddled even more. Eventually it was completely dysfunctional.

One thing Kiffin proved is that "buy in" must be sold by the HC... CPF failed in that regard.
 
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NBKGault said:
I like Chuck Smith as much as everybody else. But I'm kind of worried about Justin Wilcox not having some of his guys to help him install his stuff. I thought that was the main thing that hindered Dave Clawson. The old staff was there, and they never bought in which made it easy for the players to not buy in. ...I can't help but think since we got Wilcox he should've got to bring a couple of guys or at least 1 he's comfortable with.
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i think that is a valid point but i aint getting rid of lance thompson..
 
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Said before and will say it again, PF, DC, LK are all in the past. Move on and enjoy the future.
 
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BloodRUNZOrange said:
i think that is a valid point but i aint getting rid of lance thompson..
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Yeah me neither! lol Lance needs to be here as long as he wants. But I'm betting that Coach Dooley realizing this possible future problem is why Chuck Smith or any other Def. Line coach hasn't been hired. Dooley has pretty much given him Thompson (understandable) and Joseph... so maybe Wilcox at least gets to pick the def. line coach (or at least interview him to see if he has the same philosophy or at least the capacity to teach Wilcox's).
 
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NBKGault said:
I like Chuck Smith as much as everybody else. But I'm kind of worried about Justin Wilcox not having some of his guys to help him install his stuff. I thought that was the main thing that hindered Dave Clawson. The old staff was there, and they never bought in which made it easy for the players to not buy in. ...I can't help but think since we got Wilcox he should've got to bring a couple of guys or at least 1 he's comfortable with.
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At the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school I goto out here in L.A. we have a saying:

"Leave your EGO at the Door."

I think for some of the prior staff that would've been hard to do....but I see Dooley running his staff in the realm of my BJJ school's mindset.
 
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Chuck Smith ill be agreat hire...Can you imagine going into a high school Defensive Linemans home with his credentials. All-American, all time sack leader with the Falcons, NFL consultant to some of the top Defensive tackles.
 
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NBKGault said:
Yeah me neither! lol Lance needs to be here as long as he wants. But I'm betting that Coach Dooley realizing this possible future problem is why Chuck Smith or any other Def. Line coach hasn't been hired. Dooley has pretty much given him Thompson (understandable) and Joseph... so maybe Wilcox at least gets to pick the def. line coach (or at least interview him to see if he has the same philosophy or at least the capacity to teach Wilcox's).
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The night before signing day the entire defensive staff flew to Denver to interview with Wilcox. Must not have been any red flags thrown up by anybody because he was hired the next day. Gotta think CJW and the rest saw eye to eye when it came to where the program would be headed. If Wilcox were an older, long established guy I would be more concerned about the staff jelling, but since everybody is starting together I think it works.
 
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