This loss was on a couple Heupel decisions

[volfeeva]

Yep 100% i said when we ran up middle 3 times after turnover this game is over. Knew then. You dont win those types of games by playing not to lose

Every honest Vol fan knew we lost that game when we had the fumble recovery and opportunity to put the game away, we all saw what was going to happen. Opportunities like this game only come about every so often when a Georgia or Bama team is beatable and you have to take advantage of it . It sucks because both off offense and defense played hard and well enough to win this game. It should never come down to a kicker if you can win it otherwise

 

[hUTch2002]

Man its Thursday and after listening to some postgame reviews, im shocked by the lack of criticism of Heupel. This loss is completely on his crunch-time coaching. Not going for 2 to go up 6 instead of 5, parking the bus on the fumble recovery when you have 7 minutes left, and then the kicking debacle, where you still had time to line up the ball and call timeout even after the false start. just completely abysmal and its been that way since UCF. I'm losing all confidence in his coaching, and we just have to hope we get to the point where our talent can get him out of his own way.

Sure. Fire him. Makes sense.

 

[EastTNVol6240]

Nope. This is not on the coaches at all. It's on Gilbert.

Gilbert? Our kicker who our own coach Iced due to botching that whole kick sequence? That kicker? I think not. You play to win the game the whole game. Our coach didn’t. The goal is not to be having a 18 year old kicker with the worlds weight on his shoulders kicking to win or lose.

 

[EastTNVol6240]

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[Rickyvol77]

Man its Thursday and after listening to some postgame reviews, im shocked by the lack of criticism of Heupel. This loss is completely on his crunch-time coaching. Not going for 2 to go up 6 instead of 5, parking the bus on the fumble recovery when you have 7 minutes left, and then the kicking debacle, where you still had time to line up the ball and call timeout even after the false start. just completely abysmal and its been that way since UCF. I'm losing all confidence in his coaching, and we just have to hope we get to the point where our talent can get him out of his own way.

LOL just stop, you are being ridiculous

 

[Rickyvol77]

Good post, pretty much how I felt, but I put a little blame on Heupel. I thought the motion penalty and delay got the kicker a little out of synch and more anxious-- thinking to himself "I have to kick it 5 yds farther out", and "I have to kick from the left hash instead of straight on". At 7 seconds, Heupel should've run one more play to center the ball between the hashes. I thought it was a little flippant of Heupel to suddenly run the kicking team out there all of a sudden with 7 seconds left, like he didn't trust them to not make another mistake. The right play was to have Joey take the snap directly, center the ball between the hashes, call a time out, and give your kicker a chance to collect himself instead of rushing him out there to kick from the left hash. Kicking is such a mental thing that you need time to think about your fundamentals, and run through a mental checklist of everything. I think that whole sequence at 7 seconds unsettled the kicker when we didn't have to.

Max prefers to kick long kicks from the left hash mark

 

[Rickyvol77]

when he ran the ball 3 times up the middle, I screamed at my TV " you just lost the game" . Horrible, horrible play calling. No excuse. I don't blame the kicker, I blame this on JH. He cost them this game no doubts about it.

He had a perfect play call if you watch the video, and Aguilar missed the read. It's why CJH was so upset following that play

 

[Volfan1953]

He coached scared on multiple occasions. You can’t be a chickenshít against Kirby Smart. The punt at midfield that they drove the field on, and especially the decision not to center the ball on the field goal at the end were scared decisions, and you cannot coach scared against teams like that. There were other issues in the game, but the head coach’s in game decisions cannot be an issue if you are going to beat a powerhouse.

I am a new member on the board and was checking on the comments made, not having read all of them. In my opinion we lost the game on Georgia’s final possession in regulation. They were given a new life with the pass interference call when the pass was called in catchable and was at least 10 feet over the receiver’s head. The contact was so minimal. Then they get a no call on pass interference on their touchdown pass when the receiver pushed off the defender with the zebras saying it wasn’t enough contact to be offensive pass interference. When the receiver pushed the defender it created enough room and slowed the defender down so he couldn’t jump up and possibly defend against the pass. Had either one been called correctly none of this would have made a difference because they would not have scored. You can’t blame a coach for zebra errors. We have been on a long road to getting back to have the game called fairly ever since Kiffen left and screwed us on recruiting and the ability to find a good coach to replace him. We stuck with Dooley too long and we are still paying the price. I do think our current coach can get us back to where we belong but it is harder now with the transfer portal and the pay to play going on. There is no loyalty in college sports anymore and it won’t get better until they change the rules on transferring to include having to pay the money back if you leave to play somewhere else. Just my opinion but what do I know. We are all allowed to have our opinion. Thanks for reading my post.