Why Josh Deserves The Criticism

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VolTom1 said:
This post is to point out why those who are saying Josh deserves no criticism are wrong, and why I personally don't think Josh will achieve anything beyond the occasional play off appearance here at Tennessee. That being said this is not a call to fire Josh, that would be stupid with all of the coaching changes going on right now. Also if you are fine with mediocrity, if you are fine being average and not great, Josh is the prefect guy for you, just move along from this post, call me stupid for my concern, all of the typical BS I get instead of listening to the legitimate complaints.

1. Clock management - He has no idea what the rules are. Josh literally didn't know the clock was not stopping late into the Oklahoma game, not the first game he has mismanaged the clock. In this past game he had to have the ref explain the rules to him right at the two minute mark. This is a huge red flag, how are the players suppose to know the rules if the coaches don't know them, how can a staff this big not know the rules over half way through the season?

2. Stubbornness - He adapts slowly, refuses to play the best players if they are younger, most of the time. He also gives players and coaches more chances than they deserve. He didn't change up the offense for two years, we had two years of stagnation and he refused to change until this year. He has yet to force the D to change, we continue to play the same regardless if we are getting sacks or not, DB's continue not to turn and locate the ball even when they could etc...

3. Talent Evaluation/Development - While we have some good talent evaluators at Tennessee, Josh himself has been really bad at evaluating QB talent, at least since he has been at Tennessee. Also WR was an issue till this year it seemed, why did it take so long to fix these things? Hopefully they figured that blind spot out, remember though, If it was not for Joe Milton getting hurt Hendon Hooker would have sat on the bench, if it was not for the COVID year players we would have been in a world of hurt last year and this year to a degree.

4. Preparedness - Multiple games every year we go into not prepared, making critical mistakes and losing or almost losing to inferior teams. We win many of these games just because we have better overall talent, but those games should never be that close. TBF Other teams do this from time to time, Georgia comes to mind, But Georgia has one or two of these games a year, that they normally win, we on the other hand have about 4 and we are lucky if we win half of them.

5. Blindness - This is the biggest issue I see with Josh. Anyone who pays attention could clearly see we need more people on the DL, proven talent and depth. Anyone could see we were about to lose TONS of production from 2024, the type of production that you can't just get back without using the transfer portal. Think about it, it's very scary to think that if Nico stayed, just how bad would we be. Josh is very LUCKY, becasue for all the mistakes Joey makes, he also makes some really good plays, that I doubt Nico would make, and they fully expected Nico to be our QB this year. How can we lose so much of our production and think we are going to be ok with Nico at QB. This is what we lost from 2024, Omari Thomas, Omarr Norman-Lott, Elijah Simmons, James Pearce Jr, Jayson Jenkins, Jakobe Thomas, and Will Brooks. I can recall many plays from each one of these guys that helped us win games, critical plays that we might not win the game if they don't make them. I can't be the only one who seen this coming, our D taking huge steps back, this concerns me because as I said above, if Nico stays we are probably lose the Arkansas and Mississippi state games. We would be 1-5 in the SEC.. and Josh would probably be fired.

All of this being said I don't want Josh to be fired, I want him to make changes, but I'm losing confidence that he will do it, or do it fast enough to save his job, and our program from being bad again. If you get mad at me over that, I don't care, I've been a VFL and will always be, I just don't want a repeat of the bad years. I want Tennessee to be how I was when I was a kid, dominant, feared, winning championships, and we will never get there if Josh settles with the state of things now and makes no changes. I have hope he will, hopefully this past game will be the catalyst for change.



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You speak a lot of facts.

Josh Heupel deserves a lot of slack because the program is still ultimately going in the right direction.

People don’t want to accept the truth of the criticism though.

There’s absolutely zero reason we should have lost to that Oklahoma team…
 
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I haven’t seen anyone say he doesn’t deserve criticism. He just doesn’t deserve to have people lobbying for him to be fired.

Often the criticism is so extreme that I feel obligated to reply with the opposite extreme just to bring balance to the force.

Some adjustments obviously need to be made but I’m not the person to make recommendations. I just know we shouldn’t need 2 defensive touchdowns to beat MSU and there should never be a serious discussion of whether or not Vanderbilt has a better team than us.
 
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MurphyVol said:
Ahhh, come on man. 27 years without a SEC title and we still sell out games.

No, we don't need to fire JH but we have every right to be antsy. Three decades at UT with no conf titles isn't acceptable.
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Exactly.

And Josh might just be the guy Tennessee needed given the shape we were in, but maybe he’s not the guy to beat UGA and take us to bigger and better things.

27 years is a lifetime, but how dare you question a loss at home to an inferior opponent? Or Heupels many holes.
 
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VolTom1 said:
And why did we win those games? Are you trying to now say Nico was the reason we won? 😂 DUDE what is wrong with you, you would rather try and win an argument even when you know you're lying. why is it that important you win that you're going to say things you know are not true? Hell I might be wrong, but at least I believe what I'm saying.
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He has to be the smartest in the room
 
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VolTom1 said:
Yeah I did. But you're the least fun to argue with since you're not actually saying anything, just attacking me personally, not my points, you know you can't argue with my points, or your not mentally capable of arguing with my points, so you attack me like all low IQ people do. It's good man, take care.
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Look at the big brain on ole VolTom1. I’m sure your exceptional brilliance is appreciated by all here
 
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deatojl said:
If Josh Heupel had just a few months to evaluate two transfer QBs to decide on a start for his first season at a new school, what exactly was he supposed to base his decision on other than how those two QBs performed in practice? From all accounts, Milton outperformed Hooker in practice. It's easy to say he evaluated them wrong after Hooker got into games and performed the way he did. Saying he thought Nico was worth 8 million dollars is quite assumptive. That is the QB he recruited and the deal he agreed to with the collective(if those numbers are accurate). Also, playing hypothetical games based on what you think would happen is not really an exact science.
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I hear old JG was a great practice QB
 
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Peradox1K said:
Yeah... no. Player execution and mistakes caused our three loses and we're off our rockers for it. Not CJH's fault at all.
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Except that he’s the one that is in charge of the whole thing!

What’s the difference with well coached teams and the rest?
Fundamentally sound, execution, consistency, minimal mistakes And don’t give games away.

Not saying he’s not a good coach but if a team struggles with the above somewhat regularly the man in charge has to except responsibility.
 
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I know his biggest issue the last two years is playing not to lose. He gets a lead and then gets conservative. If you haven't noticed that, then you're not wanting to see it. He is horrible at clock management when the pressure is on and seems to become like a turtle hiding in his shell during crunch time. He definitely deserves the criticism but that doesn't mean we want him fired...yet. We want to see changes, especially on the defensive side of the ball. He shouldn't be making the same mistakes during games in year 5 that he did in years 1,2,3 and that goes to the penalties also. Same things over and over during critical junctures of the game.
 
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Cobb-Webb 1989 said:
Yep.

Nico did have a better defense, last year.
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Yes, I am aware. Our two starting corners weren't out for most of the season last year. Plus, our defense wasn't out on the field as much either because we were running the ball more. Our defense played pretty well in the first half this past Saturday because we had the ball on offense for most of the time this past Saturday.
 
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