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This Team Will Go As Far As Butch Will Allow It To Go
Topic Started: Aug 2 2016, 08:52 AM (182 Views)
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The talent is in place. We are loaded with top line talent from starters to depth on this team. Butch Jones has done a very good job of replenishing the cupboard of talent that was almost bare during Fulmer's final year. We have speed at every skill position. We have power in the backfield. We have speed and strength in the trenches on both sides of the ball. We have return specialists who are as good as there are in the collegiate game. Even our kicker and punter are good. The table is set. The Vols can compete and play with anyone in all of college football.

This team is damn good. With a break here and there in a few games, it has everything that it needs to run the table.

This team will go as far as Butch will allow it to go. So, what does that mean? It means that Butch will be driving an Indy caliber race car around the tracks of the SEC and beyond. Will he let his car take over and let it run at optimum speed, utilizing the car's full potential? Or will he slam the brakes on the car in the stretch?

Butch has to improve his game day coaching from what we have seen in his past teams. He is 5-9(read that on VQ) in close ball games since he has been here. A lot of that has to do with questionable decision making and sticking his head back in his shell when big games are on the line. He has to put his best players on the field and allow them to fully utilize their talents in crunch time instead of not trusting their abilities and balling up in fetal position when the game is on the line.

Letting them play does not mean that you throw 80 passes in the game or get careless. It means that you don't run a simple dive play on 3rd and 6 on your 40 yard line with 2 minutes left in the game while you are nursing a 2 point lead. Give the team an opportunity to move the chains. Go for it on 4th and a yard on the goal line, when you have mighty "Mo" on your side. "Mo" will grow mightier if allowed to grow.

This team will go as far as Butch Jones will allow it to go.
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I've pretty much gone on record in the past as saying IMO the jury is still out on whether Butch can win big in the SEC. I hope he can but I'm in a wait and see mode. He's a good salesman...he's a good PR man for the program....he says and does most everything right off the field and he's shown flashes of being a good coach. It's why this season is HUGE....he must show the college football world and future recruits he can win big with the pieces that are in place. I think it's already had an effect on recruits and coaches from competing schools are using it against UT....in fact, I know it is.

This season success isn't just huge for the present......it's HUGE for the future.

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Aug 2 2016, 08:52 AM
The talent is in place. We are loaded with top line talent from starters to depth on this team. Butch Jones has done a very good job of replenishing the cupboard of talent that was almost bare during Fulmer's final year. We have speed at every skill position. We have power in the backfield. We have speed and strength in the trenches on both sides of the ball. We have return specialists who are as good as there are in the collegiate game. Even our kicker and punter are good. The table is set. The Vols can compete and play with anyone in all of college football.

This team is damn good. With a break here and there in a few games, it has everything that it needs to run the table.

This team will go as far as Butch will allow it to go. So, what does that mean? It means that Butch will be driving an Indy caliber race car around the tracks of the SEC and beyond. Will he let his car take over and let it run at optimum speed, utilizing the car's full potential? Or will he slam the brakes on the car in the stretch?

Butch has to improve his game day coaching from what we have seen in his past teams. He is 5-9(read that on VQ) in close ball games since he has been here. A lot of that has to do with questionable decision making and sticking his head back in his shell when big games are on the line. He has to put his best players on the field and allow them to fully utilize their talents in crunch time instead of not trusting their abilities and balling up in fetal position when the game is on the line.

Letting them play does not mean that you throw 80 passes in the game or get careless. It means that you don't run a simple dive play on 3rd and 6 on your 40 yard line with 2 minutes left in the game while you are nursing a 2 point lead. Give the team an opportunity to move the chains. Go for it on 4th and a yard on the goal line, when you have mighty "Mo" on your side. "Mo" will grow mightier if allowed to grow.

This team will go as far as Butch Jones will allow it to go.
Tooterpooter who wrote this piece?

Maybe BJ will move into "Big Game Bob" neighborhood of coaching?

How about the dramatic change at the DC position? Bring in a guy whose most recent track record in both the SEC & B1G could best be described as okay - no championships - winning seasons yes, championships none.

This broad brush "loaded with talent" is just that. Just in case someone didn't tell you there are several teams in the SEC that are loaded with talent on the 2016 schedule - in particular stand out A&M, Alabama and UGa.
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Tux has a burr up his ass with Butch! If Tennessee wins 10 or 11 games, he will dwell on the losses. Notice how he doesn't give Butch credit but he can't wait to criticize him. Tux was a big Dooley fan. Maybe he feels like he made a fool out of himself then and is trying to make up for it now.
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Butch has to learn to win the close games. That is what has held our program back. The talent is in place. Butch has to learn how to trust and use the talent.

In 2015, Tennessee was 2-4 in games decided by 7 points or less.

In 2014, Tennessee was 2-2 in games decided by 7 points or less.

In 2013, Tennessee was 2-0 in games decided by 7 points or less.

There are some games this upcoming season that have a real chance to be close.

Va Tech
Florida
@Georgia
Bama
@ Texas A&M

IN order to move the program ahead, Butch has to trust his players and let them ball.
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True Tux......But, Players have to make plays in nut cutten time. Coaches don't make players drop passes....coaches don't make kickers miss field goals....coaches don't make players jump off sides and kill a drive or keep the other teams drives alive...

When you put athletes on the field...they have to make plays. In close games your athletes have to make at least 1 more play than their athletes.....Our athletes not making that 1 play has cost us several games. It cost us 3 last year.
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Tnphil
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True Tux......But, Players have to make plays in nut cutten time. Coaches don't make players drop passes....coaches don't make kickers miss field goals....coaches don't make players jump off sides and kill a drive or keep the other teams drives alive...

When you put athletes on the field...they have to make plays. In close games your athletes have to make at least 1 more play than their athletes.....Our athletes not making that 1 play has cost us several game. It cost us 3 last year.
True, but Butch never gave the team a chance to convert 3rd and very makable downs in the OU and UF games. He has to trust Hobbs to make plays with his arm.
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In 2013-14, without the talent he was 4-2 in close games. You're going to win some and lose. The defense lost most of those games in 2015 but Butch made a outstanding change to shore that up. Yes, he has to win this year but most likely they won't win them all, especially that four game stretch. That's a lot to expect. In regard to the OU game, he didn't go for a TD from the one yard line. He did go for it against Ga from the one. How did that turn out? So thinking that Tenn would have scored against OU falls in the category of who knows. Of course the fans would go for it. As a fan you can be very brave!
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Aug 3 2016, 09:29 AM
Butch has to learn to win the close games. That is what has held our program back. The talent is in place. Butch has to learn how to trust and use the talent.

In 2015, Tennessee was 2-4 in games decided by 7 points or less.

In 2014, Tennessee was 2-2 in games decided by 7 points or less.

In 2013, Tennessee was 2-0 in games decided by 7 points or less.

There are some games this upcoming season that have a real chance to be close.

Va Tech
Florida
@Georgia
Bama
@ Texas A&M

IN order to move the program ahead, Butch has to trust his players and let them ball.
In 2013, Tennessee lost 5 games by more than 7 points...and average margin of loss (7) was 21

In 2014, Tennessee lost 4 games by more than 7 points...average margin of loss (6) was 13.5

In 2015, Tennessee lost 0 games by more than 7 points...average margin of loss (4) was 4.25

If you look at either of these two groups of statistics by themselves, without taking notice of the other group, they paint an incomplete picture.
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