(coach Fulmer, you are welcome to claim these ideas as your own when you accept the SEC Coach of the year honors next December)
1) Offense: a) Make Crompton your starting QB from spring practice on to utilize this mobility....not necessarily an option type offense but more of a Urban Meyer motion offense. b) Get the ball in Coker's hands out in space. c)If a play works don't go to it multiple times in a row i.e. the tightend screen (the opponents defense unlike ours can make adjustments).
2) Defense; a) radical changes including bringing in a new defensive coordinator. b) Any speed you can recruit this year stick on defense (Berry, Vereen etc) especially in the secondary. c) get out the old tackling dummies and teach the players how to tackle (and watch the replay of the Outback Bowl to see how Penn State does it).
3) Use some imagination....talk to the Boise State coach. Bring some excitement back to Neyland.
4) I suggest you and the assistant and the players camp out one night on the Field at Neyland Stadium stressing that this is their home and nobody comes in and wins on their home!!
5) Fans; improved this year but could be better. When I was in school there, Doug Dickey would have friday night pep rally bonfires before big games with coaches and players often attending to fire up the students.
No reason why UT can't return to the top in the SEC even with the present HC but changes will have to be made!!:twocents:
1) Offense: a) Make Crompton your starting QB from spring practice on to utilize this mobility....not necessarily an option type offense but more of a Urban Meyer motion offense. b) Get the ball in Coker's hands out in space. c)If a play works don't go to it multiple times in a row i.e. the tightend screen (the opponents defense unlike ours can make adjustments).
2) Defense; a) radical changes including bringing in a new defensive coordinator. b) Any speed you can recruit this year stick on defense (Berry, Vereen etc) especially in the secondary. c) get out the old tackling dummies and teach the players how to tackle (and watch the replay of the Outback Bowl to see how Penn State does it).
3) Use some imagination....talk to the Boise State coach. Bring some excitement back to Neyland.
4) I suggest you and the assistant and the players camp out one night on the Field at Neyland Stadium stressing that this is their home and nobody comes in and wins on their home!!
5) Fans; improved this year but could be better. When I was in school there, Doug Dickey would have friday night pep rally bonfires before big games with coaches and players often attending to fire up the students.
No reason why UT can't return to the top in the SEC even with the present HC but changes will have to be made!!:twocents:
They did go down there last year and have a meeting and watch a presentation of some sort on the Jumbotron to that kind of efect.
