Clawfense crushes previously unbeaten N Illinois

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memvol

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BGSU was 2-10 only three years ago. Clawson has turned them into MAC champions. This guy truly did and does know football. I will admit that I was very disappointed with his one and only year at UT. His success at not only BGSU but also at Richmond leads me to believe he was not given full control of the UT offense. They blistered N Illinois with very average offensive talent.
 
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It's a wonder that He didn't change professions after seeing Jonathan Crompton try to run his offense.
 
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memvol said:
BGSU was 2-10 only three years ago. Clawson has turned them into MAC champions. This guy truly did and does know football. I will admit that I was very disappointed with his one and only year at UT. His success at not only BGSU but also at Richmond leads me to believe he was not given full control of the UT offense. They blistered N Illinois with very average offensive talent.
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He's a great coach. Fulmer brought him to run an offense we never recruited for. It would have taken 3-4 yrs for Clawson's offense to work at UT but he was never given that long.

:good!:

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memvol said:
BGSU was 2-10 only three years ago. Clawson has turned them into MAC champions. This guy truly did and does know football. I will admit that I was very disappointed with his one and only year at UT. His success at not only BGSU but also at Richmond leads me to believe he was not given full control of the UT offense. They blistered N Illinois with very average offensive talent.
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Shows how Fulmer had let things deteriorate at UT. Clawfense was made a scapegoat.
 
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tennesseeduke said:
He's a great coach. Fulmer brought him to run an offense we never recruited for. It would have taken 3-4 yrs for Clawson's offense to work at UT but he was never given that long.

:good!:

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What is so complicated and specialized about that offense that would make it take 3 years to recruit for?
 
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And the Fulmer coaching tree gets stronger and stronger.

It's like a version of them trees down at Auburn that got poisoned.
 
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I'll never forget an open mic catching Josh McNeil in a sideline o-line meeting saying, "My God. It's just not that hard."
 
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GAVol said:
What is so complicated and specialized about that offense that would make it take 3 years to recruit for?
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One recruiting class.....in other words....Tajh Boyd :dunno:

Now we will never know.....2 tears in a bucket...I'm just saying.
 
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Fulmer handcuffed CDC to the Al Saunders offense that was the UT staple ...that incidentally , Cutt was the only person that really knew how to execute this offense...and he was not there .

The offense that Fulmer allowed claw to execute was a shadow of the 'Clawfense'. The Clawfense was waaay outside of Phils comfort zone and he was not going to allow it
 
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Gramps said:
I don't think one year on the staff of a dismal season makes him a part of the Fulmer tree.
I would call him more of a Fulmer experiment.
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Is this where I say the post was making fun of the Fulmer tree...you know.l.lbecsuse there really isn't one.
 
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allvol123 said:
Is this where I say the post was making fun of the Fulmer tree...you know.l.lbecsuse there really isn't one.
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I disagree. I consider Cutcliffe a part of the Fulmer coaching tree. There are several good assistant coaches that are patt of the Fulmer tree. Chief is one of the best DC's in the business.
 
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Gramps said:
I disagree. I consider Cutcliffe a part of the Fulmer coaching tree. There are several good assistant coaches that are patt of the Fulmer tree. Chief is one of the best DC's in the business.
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There's only one with a HC gig, and that is a gig no one really cares about.

His tree is rather fruitless.
 
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The guy has won everywhere he hasn't coached with Fulmer. If it's not clear to everyone by now who was responsible for the '08 debacle, then we'll just have to accept that a faction of this fanbase is terminally stupid.
 
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The Clawson hire never made sense to me in the first place. Fulmer hired a successful I-AA (now FCS) Head Coach at Richmond University to be Offensive Coordinator for the Vols. Sure, he was probably calling the offensive plays at Richmond, but his real job was Head Coach and running a program. BGSU hired him as head coach just 12 days after Kiffin fired him from our staff after our 2008 debacle. Does anybody remember who the other potential OC hires Fulmer could have legitimately picked? Chances are, if he picked any of them instead of Clawson, we might be waiting on Fulmer to retire still... and Clawson probably would have been hired at BGSU anyway.
 
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allvol123 said:
There's only one with a HC gig, and that is a gig no one really cares about.

His tree is rather fruitless.
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Well, it's hard to have a tree when you assistants rarely leave.

Much as I disliked Sanders as OC, Famous Jameous is doing okay under his tutelage at FSU. Chavis is doing well at LSU, Cut is killing it at Duke.

Name one other prominent Fulmer coach that would have had a shot elsewhere? Um, there aren't any. I don't know who preceded Chavis as DC, but from at least 1997 to the end of the Fulmer reign, the only coordinaters were Chavis, Cut and Sanders...and of course Clawson for one year.

Hard to have a "tree" with just three branches.
 
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majic73 said:
Fulmer handcuffed CDC to the Al Saunders offense that was the UT staple ...that incidentally , Cutt was the only person that really knew how to execute this offense...and he was not there .

The offense that Fulmer allowed claw to execute was a shadow of the 'Clawfense'. The Clawfense was waaay outside of Phils comfort zone and he was not going to allow it
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I think you are spot on. Clawson runs a very atypical college offense that Fulmer wasn't fully sold on. Georgia State or whoever it was that beat Florida ran a similar version of it. It's very effective against normal defenses who are young and/or undersized. The service academies run versions of the spread because of personnel, but Clawson's was a step above that. I don't think Fulmer would have ever fully took the gloves off, and to be fair, I don't think it would have had a sustaining effect against SEC defenses. But it would have been an interesting couple of years if we had been staffed for it.
 
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BanditVol said:
Well, it's hard to have a tree when you assistants rarely leave.

Much as I disliked Sanders as OC, Famous Jameous is doing okay under his tutelage at FSU. Chavis is doing well at LSU, Cut is killing it at Duke.

Name one other prominent Fulmer coach that would have had a shot elsewhere? Um, there aren't any. I don't know who preceded Chavis as DC, but from at least 1997 to the end of the Fulmer reign, the only coordinaters were Chavis, Cut and Sanders...and of course Clawson for one year.

Hard to have a "tree" with just three branches.
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Assistants rarely left because no one wanted them.

People werent backing the Brinks trucks up to Knoxville for poaching.
 
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I'm no cpf basher but people have always blamed the wrong people when it comes to UTs issues. He is due his earned respect for what he did at UT, but UTs dire situation over the last few yrs happened under his watch. Even more to blame then Hamilton.
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majic73 said:
Fulmer handcuffed CDC to the Al Saunders offense that was the UT staple ...that incidentally , Cutt was the only person that really knew how to execute this offense...and he was not there .

The offense that Fulmer allowed claw to execute was a shadow of the 'Clawfense'. The Clawfense was waaay outside of Phils comfort zone and he was not going to allow it
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The spread isn't some miracle worker that just makes you win games. The I formation still works. With that said, if fulmer didn't want to run the spread, he shoildnt have hired Clawson.
 
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