The loss of Wilcox ........

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tim said:
You watch Wilcox the last couple of years? Thats what you should be basing your opinion on, not in the Pac.
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Watch what? I personally think he did an outstanding job considering the personnel issues he faced and the poor offensive performance we often put forth. You do remember that we started Joseph Ayers at DT against two SEC teams right? I like Sal and I think he will do a good job. I just think that for a bunch of amateur coaches to come on a message board and say that they KNOW Wilcox D won't work is a little bit far fetched.
 
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#103
I wasn't impressed with Stanfords offense.. It was Fb dive, hb dive, throw to TE .. repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 all over.
 
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#104
Our 2011 defense finished 28th in Total Defense with 3 true freshmen starting and the 104th ranked offense.

Our 2012 defense is currently 68th without a freshman(true or RS) on the 2-deep and the 17th ranked offense.

Advantage Wilcox.
 
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Vols4us said:
The truth gets lost in perception sometimes, OP.

I watched it as well. Stanford is not some run of the mill, non-SEC quality program. If you think so you need to work on your football IQ. Many of the teams in the SEC could not beat USCw. Stanford did. They are as big or bigger than Bama. They do not have the playmakers Bama has, but they are physcially strong and very disciplined in what they do. They were favorably compared to having similar size as the NFL 49'ers, while running similar schemes. Wilcox's D was innovative and fast. They blitzed and played tough man coverage. There were more 3 & outs by their D in the first half than we saw in a year with us. The reason is obvious. The players have sold out to his system and they have recruited the players to play the system. So not getting enough of the right players at UT for the system and all of the players not selling out may be why they did not do as well in the SEC. So who is responsible for making sure that happens?

Or you can continue to live in the world of perception. The head coach makes the final call on what system he wants to run and the type players he wants to recruit before he hires a DC most of the time. He communicates his plan to the AD and other parties before he is even hired. Dools did that as well.
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Thats giving them a little too much credit I believe.
 
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spudvol said:
Our 2011 defense finished 28th in Total Defense with 3 true freshmen starting and the 104th ranked offense.

Our 2012 defense is currently 68th without a freshman(true or RS) on the 2-deep and the 17th ranked offense.

Advantage Wilcox.
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End of thread?:mf_surrender:
 
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#111
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Wilcox the DC for the LSU, Bama, Ark game last year? And in 2010 Oregon, UF, Bama, UGA, and SC?

I'll take Sal any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
 
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volnal said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Wilcox the DC for the LSU, Bama, Ark game last year? And in 2010 Oregon, UF, Bama, UGA, and SC?

I'll take Sal any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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yea because the depth and the lack of talent had nothing to do with how bad our defense played the last 2-3 years. Please....give me a break.
 
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BruinVol said:
Watching the great gameplay JW had last night made me realize that his departure may have indeed been the most crushing blow to DD and his ability to get this turned around. Most of us think SS was a great hire but reality is a new defensive scheme was destined to take some time to implement. Let's hope SS can lesson the growing pains process but IMO JW would have given DD a much better shot at survival this season.
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You should've watched the LSU game. Lol
 
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BruinVol said:
Watching the great gameplay JW had last night made me realize that his departure may have indeed been the most crushing blow to DD and his ability to get this turned around. Most of us think SS was a great hire but reality is a new defensive scheme was destined to take some time to implement. Let's hope SS can lesson the growing pains process but IMO JW would have given DD a much better shot at survival this season.
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JW is a good coach, but we were never going to have an SEC defense with him here. Just hope CSal and CDD get time to shine...
 
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namasteVOLfans said:
yea because the depth and the lack of talent had nothing to do with how bad our defense played the last 2-3 years. Please....give me a break.
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Yeah, you deserve a break. Because if you think a west coast DC can go week in and week out in the SEC you need more than a break..... You need much more than that.
 
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BruinVol said:
Watching the great gameplay JW had last night made me realize that his departure may have indeed been the most crushing blow to DD and his ability to get this turned around. Most of us think SS was a great hire but reality is a new defensive scheme was destined to take some time to implement. Let's hope SS can lesson the growing pains process but IMO JW would have given DD a much better shot at survival this season.
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Sals' D will be much better its a new scheme give it time. Wilcox = OVERATED
 
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velovol said:
I would say the cardinal is pretty close to SEC quality.

I was a big Wilcox fan, and a sirmon (sp?) fan, think DD fulmered him up at times. May be I am wrong time will tell.
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Time wont tell unless he comes back to the sec. If you guys are pining for JW just re watch the Arky game orrr the second half of any game we lost sans LSU and UNC.
 
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#121
:no:we got to have bodies and talent to have top DF in the SEC we dont have enough pulse new system will take a little time which DD doesnt have.
 
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#122
Wilcox was a joke at Ut sal will have a nasty defense in years to come, we could be Washington this year u saw how his defense played against Lsu hahahahah what a joke GO VOLS
 
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BruinVol said:
Watching the great gameplay JW had last night made me realize that his departure may have indeed been the most crushing blow to DD and his ability to get this turned around. Most of us think SS was a great hire but reality is a new defensive scheme was destined to take some time to implement. Let's hope SS can lesson the growing pains process but IMO JW would have given DD a much better shot at survival this season.
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Did you watch the great gameplay of JW against LSU?
 
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