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

#26
#26
Chuck Smith will mostly be doing technique. Game planning falls mostly on the DC, with input from the position coaches.
 
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#27
NorthBamaVol said:
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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In addition to all of those great attributes, for those who have never met or heard Chuck speak, he has a very powerful personality and is very charismatic. He'll be a recruiting force. If he joins the staff our issues at DT will soon be over and we'll be attracting the top DEs in the country.
 
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#28
NBKGault said:
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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I think that's what I said....:p
 
#29
#29
volfan4evr said:
Chuck Smith will mostly be doing technique. Game planning falls mostly on the DC, with input from the position coaches.
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Correct, position coaching and managing dline rotations in games. He'll also be a huge asset on the sideline for keeping the energy and intensity at a high level.
 
#31
#31
All I know is that Clawson did pretty good when he was the HC....if this confirmation ever gets confirmed (instead of a rumored confirmation) I think we can get excited about it.
 
#32
#32
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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Clawson brought Scott wit him from Richmond and Drayton had coached under him when Clawson was the OC at Villanova. Chavis didnt get to bring any of his guys to LSU and they had a better defense than we did. (Some might say it was because Chavis didnt get to bring any of his guys to LSU)!
 
#33
#33
NBKGault said:
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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Let me summarize -

Greg Adkins didn't buy in from day 1 and was a thorn in Clawson's side.
 
#34
#34
Chuck Smith is a natural to recruit Georgia. Clarke Central product, a Falcons' legend -- you can't buy that kind of credibility with a kid.

Let me rephrase that....
 
#35
#35
Chuck smith will be a recruiting machine for dooley--he'll be bringing in the 5 star dline recruits---mark it down.
 
#38
#38
Has dooley scheduled a presser yet to announce all of his assistant coaches?
 
#40
#40
bigorange30 said:
Never heard of this site. How legit is it? I hope its true!
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The only way footballscoop.com gets it right is if they report something after the fact. And even then, they are batting under .500.
 
#42
#42
Last week = before signing day, that is a career killer if u leave...
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#44
#44
I heard that something may be announced about chuck smith in the next few days.
 
#47
#47
I've got to say, I don't understand why this didn't happen a week and a half ago. It might not have mattered with Copeland, but I don't think it would have hurt.
 
#50
#50
Press conference is expected later today, im guessing both Wilcox and Smith will be officially introduced.
 
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