A Question re: Improvement

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I look at what UGA did yesterday and I think that is what you as a fan want to see in a program that is going through a rebuilding process. Take your lumps but show some sort of incremental improvement throughout the season so you can tell things are getting better and hopefully it'll manifest in some kind of marquee effort by the end of the season. It seems like the Vols are moving in the opposite direction. The lines are not improving. The running game is not getting better. All three starting WR will most likely be gone next year but I am not seeing anyone else get significant game experience. Does anyone actually see the Vols as an improving program that is in the process of rebuilidng to make a run next year?
 
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yes. much of it depends on injuries however and we saw that last night. I think that Ainge will continue to improve and hopefully so will the O line behind an older center.
 
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I don't. Granted, Ainge is playing (was playing) much better than last season, in that regard there has been a huge improvement and it's shown on a few occasions.

Hindsight being 20/20, I don't think we lose to LSU with a healthy EA at the helm, despite the defense not being able to stop them on 4th and 8.

Like you, hillbilly, I don't understand why our depth is so pathetic. That falls squarely on the coaches.
 
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If Chavis can fix our defense, and we do something about all the injuries, we can make a title run next year.

Coker will be a good runner, and I think the passing will be pretty good.
 
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it's not injuries, it's player development. There are other QB's at UT who are scholarship athletes, what do they do, they hold clipboards and wear headsets. the same must be true where Harrell and Johnson are concerned. Upperclassmen scholarship athletes relegated to the practice squad, where their development stops. A good college coaching team doesn't let that happen. The top tier programs like USC don't get where they are by having 1 great player at each position.
 
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MG1968 said:
it's not injuries, it's player development. There are other QB's at UT who are scholarship athletes, what do they do, they hold clipboards and wear headsets. the same must be true where Harrell and Johnson are concerned. Upperclassmen scholarship athletes relegated to the practice squad, where their development stops. A good college coaching team doesn't let that happen. The top tier programs like USC don't get where they are by having 1 great player at each position.
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We have a ton of injuries too, every year.
 
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"I don't think we answered the bell at all in the first half, emotionally or whatever it was," Tennessee Coach Phillip Fulmer said. "That goes back to me and the coordinators and us getting ourselves ready to play. We've been a team that's been emotionally into the season all year long."

What say you now?
 
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I say Fulmer just admitted that he and his staff did not have the team up for this game. That in itself is reason enough to swing the axe. I guess it's tough to get fired-up when you make over $2 million a year and you know that many of your fans are such blind rubes that they'd still kiss your posterior if you went 1-11 for the rest of your career.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I know, that that is on the coaches. Whoever is our conditioning coach should be fired.
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The conditioning coach should've been fired last year when he let all the O-line add about 50+ lbs. of blubber per man. Oh wait, it was CPF that told Long to get them that big. Face it, CPF's sticky fingerprints are all over the fiasco that is UT football of late. He is at the top and the buck stops with him.
 
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It's always something the past eight years; last year it was the offense, this year the defense, next year it may be the new kicker...........Eventually, someone may have to look at the engineer to figure out why the train keeps jumping track!
 
#13
#13
amen brother, Tennessee is a program in decline, it hurts me to say it but it's true
 
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