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Butch Jones - Vols Rise To The Top
Topic Started: Dec 11 2012, 06:28 PM (668 Views)
gallavol
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Isn't this G Kings like 7th or 8th year at TN? Didn't he come in with the 2007 or 2008 class? He must have won some appeals with the NCAA or something. He was here before Kiffin showed up. He has always been injured, every year.
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King was in Kiffin's first signing class, I think. Played pretty well as a freshman but has more or less disappeared since.
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Apr 8 2013, 11:43 AM
Isn't this G Kings like 7th or 8th year at TN? Didn't he come in with the 2007 or 2008 class? He must have won some appeals with the NCAA or something. He was here before Kiffin showed up. He has always been injured, every year.
He has been side tracked by injuries and minor surgeries for most of his career. Last season he was as close to being healthy as at any time during his career. If you remember, they even tried him as a tight end when Downs got hurt and Meredith couldn't shake off the hamstring problem. He has hung in there despite the disappointments and here's hoping that by September he has, at least, become a viable reserve at one of the linebacker positions.
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That would almost be a miracle at this point, but I wish he would contribute in his last year too.
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http://cfn.scout.com/2/1296822.html
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Phil Fulmer did a phenomenal job during his run before it started to sputter to a halt. Lane Kiffin actually was a good hire in theory, but it was disastrous in practice, and Derek Dooley was way too nice and way too decent to be able to crush and kill in the cutthroat world of the SEC. Butch Jones might just be the best combination of the previous three coaches, and he should be the right fit at the right time. 


Basically, he gets it.

Originally Posted by :The season will be a success if … Tennessee wins eight games. It might not be the SEC East championship season that Vol fans are waiting for, but with this schedule, taking care of a few of the bigger home games while sneaking out a road win or two over a Missouri or Florida to get to around eight wins would be a nice step after the 5-7 clunker of last season. Right now, if Tennessee was offered wins over Austin Peay, WKU, South Alabama, Auburn, Vanderbilt and Kentucky, and two wins against Oregon, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Missouri, it should take it and run.
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http://cfn.scout.com/2/1296822.html
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Phil Fulmer did a phenomenal job during his run before it started to sputter to a halt. Lane Kiffin actually was a good hire in theory, but it was disastrous in practice, and Derek Dooley was way too nice and way too decent to be able to crush and kill in the cutthroat world of the SEC. Butch Jones might just be the best combination of the previous three coaches, and he should be the right fit at the right time. 


Basically, he gets it.

Originally Posted by :The season will be a success if … Tennessee wins eight games. It might not be the SEC East championship season that Vol fans are waiting for, but with this schedule, taking care of a few of the bigger home games while sneaking out a road win or two over a Missouri or Florida to get to around eight wins would be a nice step after the 5-7 clunker of last season. Right now, if Tennessee was offered wins over Austin Peay, WKU, South Alabama, Auburn, Vanderbilt and Kentucky, and two wins against Oregon, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Missouri, it should take it and run.
Aub and Vandy will be tough for this team. Aub is more talented than we are and Vandy is just as talented if not more talented than we are.

Out of the last 5, we may beat Mizzou. Oregon and Bammer will be kills. We will be big under dogs to USC, UGA and Florida.

I think we will struggle to get six wins. Our 2013 offense could be as bad as our 2012 defense. If this year's team gets down 14 pts, I have trouble seeing how we can catch up.
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I think 6 wins would be a huge accomplishment as well, but you know...it's only June. Who knows what's going to happen this season, to be honest. Some of these teams we think are going to be good, will end up sucking nuts. Some of the teams we think will be horrible will end up being beasts.

With UT being such an unknown quantity at this point, well...really difficult to even guess. Low of 3 wins, high of 8 is my guess. 6 is in the middle so I'm going with that.
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Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel wrote this column about Butch Jones and the job he has done on the recruiting trail.
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While I don't know the specifics of Jones' recruiting operation, his success should hardly be considered a surprise. He's a new coach and he's at Tennessee. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a very similar scenario play out: A new coach takes over a traditional power fallen on hard times and puts together a phenomenal first full class (the second Signing Day following his hire), most notably Mack Brown's top-rated 1999 class that reenergized Texas' program and Pete Carroll's 2002 class at then-dormant USC. For more recent examples, check out the hauls Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin and UCLA's Jim Mora assembled in 2013, Michigan's Brady Hoke secured in 2012 and Notre Dame's Brian Kelly locked up in 2011, respectively. Even first-year coaches at not-so traditional powers have found early success, including Ole Miss' Hugh Freeze last year and Kentucky's Mark Stoops so far this year.

As the cliché goes, a coach is never more popular than when he's undefeated -- a notion that seems to apply even more prominently in recruiting. Most 17-year-old prospects have short memories. They don't care what happened last year. And the idea of "being part of the class that puts [State U] back on the map" is a powerful selling point. Any recent mediocrity is irrelevant because that was the fault of some other guy. The new guy starts with a clean slate, is brimming with confidence and can reference the program's long, proud history as evidence of all the glory that awaits a potential player. So not to take anything away from Jones' budding class (currently ranked No. 2 by Rivals.com), but I'd be more surprised (and disturbed) if he didn't produce a top-10 class in his first full cycle. This should be the norm, not the exception, at a school with a 100,000-seat stadium, national championships and NFL alums such as Peyton Manning.

It certainly helped Jones to have one of the nation's top running backs in the 2014 class, Jalen Hurd, right in his own state, and a highly rated defensive back, Todd Kelly Jr., located a few miles away in Knoxville. Their early commitments helped the staff build credibility with other elite prospects. Now, it's a matter of keeping everybody on board during the inevitable poaching season leading up to Signing Day. (Rival coaches will surely use Tuesday's news of the program's APR troubles and possible 2014 bowl ban to recruit against the Vols.)

Jones' hire from Cincinnati wasn't universally celebrated at the time, but, as it turns out, Jon Gruden wasn't the only person capable of attracting star athletes to Tennessee. I'm sure Jones has already won over a lot of skeptics. Now he just needs to coach a game.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130612/butch-jones-tennessee-recruiting-mailbag/#ixzz2W6NbRe8A
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We have all known for some time that this recruiting cycle was a perfect storm waiting to happen, lots of legacies and a much higher quality of in state talent than we typically see.

I still say, though: Butch is a good football coach. In some ways I'm really starting to think the guy is a comination of the GOOD aspects of our last three coaches (i.e. Fulmer's ability to recruit & rub elbows with the southern good 'ole boys, Kiffin's ability to actually coach & run a practice, and Dooley's attention to detail) without the baggage...and, hopefully, he's actually a good game day coach (something we just havent had since Majors, and even he had several brain fart days against 'Bama).

He's on a roll right now. He's going to have to pull off an upset of SOMEONE this year to keep the momentum going, though.
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