I posted this today in another thread but I think it needs to be stated so everyone on here can chill out...
Feel free to blast away at me for this, but most of you guys on here need to turn the tv off a few weeks and clear your minds some. What Vol fan isn't mad about the game Saturday? It hurts to lose games you should win, but VolNation built the game up as the single most important game in the last 4-5 years here. When you do that and you lose you must be willing to suffer the consequences, and the consequences for this loss is that it's going to hurt for a very long time.
A few reminders for those suffering from short term memory loss. I'm not one to say this much, but I happen to know a huge donor family. They have been friends with my family since I was a kid, and they are the reason I bleed orange today. My friend's cousin stated from the very beginning in 2010 that Dooley was going to be cancer for our program. This is coming from a guy who clears well over 15 million a year and has had dinner with the likes of Fulmer, Dooley, Hart etc. I can not stress to you all enough how much this donor hated Dooley. Dooley has pissed off everyone who surrounded him. He's pissed off high school coaches, former players, former coaches, and a ton of donors. CBJ isn't just having to coach a football team, he's having to mend broken relationships. Freeze didn't have to go to every major high school in Mississippi and apologize for the past that he had no part in. Stoops at KY didn't have to worry about KY schools being mad at the program, they never sent major talent to KY anyways. Stoops is now changing that. It's a lot easier to recruit guys when high school coaches don't have a vendetta on your program. Guys, you want the truth? Truth is there's a lot of schools in TN that because of Dooley recruit against us by encouraging visits to the likes of Ole Miss. So, while you guys preach for a new coach etc, keep in mind that whoever you bring in better be a d@@@ good relations man or we are in major trouble. Our fan base at this moment doesnt deserve Butch. I'm embarrassed to be a Vol fan after reading some of the comments on this board. Butch didn't have to come here and accept tradition. He didn't have to come here and work his a@@ off to get former players and coaches back inside our locker rooms. All he had to do in most people's eyes is simply coach, but it's simply not that simple. Dooley destroyed what little image we had left from the Fulmer days. Butch is trying to restore it, while also coach a team full of below average SEC players from the Dooley era.
Lastly, I want to emphasize the importances of having solid, PROVEN, players. So many people have been b@@@@@@ about the OC. Well, last year with a proven, senior line we rushed for the second most total yards in the last 15 years here. Oh, and that was with two average RBs, a freshman and walk-on TE, and piss pour QB play. We passed for the second fewest yards here in the last 15 years last year. How many people think we are still that bad passing the ball? I'm sure the improvement of Worley had little to do with CBJ and staff.. This year our defense has greatly improved. We are much faster, cough, cough thanks to CBJ's recruiting efforts, but we also have one key ingredient that almost all of you have overlooked. Experience. Every position on the field has a proven, SEC caliber player playing at it on defense. TKJR has the likes of Randolph and McNeil to look towards for help. Our CBs have Cam and Coleman to look towards. Our LBs have Maggit and AJ. Our D-line has J. Williams, O'Brien, and Sauls. The difference between our defense and our offense is experience, proven experience. Our o-line was looking at a walkon who had never played before for help. Jackson is the only guy with "lots" of SEC experience. We have no chemistry on the o-line. No real proven vets to look towards for guidance. Well, you got to deal with the hand you are given, right guys? Well, let's put some HBs or H-backs back their to help block. Oh, wait our best players in those positions are also freshman, whom CBJ recruited by the way... Well, you say the TEs have Downs, and Hurd has Lane and Young, but how much advise can a senior give to someone who's 3x the player they are as a true freshman? You can talk about seeing the holes all you want, but until you do it you won't really have a true understanding of it. Our offensive guys have no one to lead them outside Worley. When TKJR comes in and doesn't understand a play guess what he can do? Ask Randolph who's on the field with him and who's played four years here. Same goes for Branett, JRM, etc. This is why our defense is so improved, and our offense blows. Proven veteran leadership wins you football games. We needed speed on defense, and we obtained it, but it wouldn't look near as SEC caliber if it weren't for the Vets leading the way and showing them how it's done in live games with them on the field. We have no AJ on offense and that's on Dooley not Jones.
