Cutcliffe's impact on the Vols

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#28
Reggie Ridley has no reason to be bitter. He was given a great opportunity to play at a school among the elite of college football and earn a degree from a school most here would love to have. Just because he did not have the talent to succeed he shouldn't be bitter.

If he is, he should quit advertising his restaurant as "former Vol Reggie Ridleys".
 
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immyaxl said:
A friend of mines brother played on the 98 national championship team. This guy was a starting D lineman. He told me Cutcliffe was responsible for recruiting him as well as many of the players on that team. Basically Cutcliffe was the coach the players liked and the reason for a lot of their success! He said Cutcliffe was twice the coach Fulmer was.
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2000 - Games/Started: 1/0...Played in fourth quarter of Louisiana-Monroe game ...

1999 - Games/Started: 0/0 ... Listed as reserve at center, he did not participate in any games ...

1998 - Redshirted ..
 
#30
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Darwin Walker, Billy Ratliff were the starting DTs.
Ridley was a backup and didn't see the field much if at all.
 
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Slydell said:
2000 - Games/Started: 1/0...Played in fourth quarter of Louisiana-Monroe game ...

1999 - Games/Started: 0/0 ... Listed as reserve at center, he did not participate in any games ...

1998 - Redshirted ..
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Butch should give him a call. Looks like he's got a Cole of years left. Lord knows we could use him right now.
 
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vol66 said:
I think Cutcliffe is a great QB coach and obviously he's a great x and o guy on offense. Prior to coming to coach at UT, he was a high school coach. By the time he worked himself to TE coach, Walt Harris was the OC.

In his six years, Harris helped the Vols to two nine win seasons and one ten win season. After a disappointing 5-6 season, Harris moved on and Fulmer became the OC for the "89 season. (Incidentally, Randy Sanders was the QB in 1988.)

29-6-2. That's Johnny Major's best 3 seasons and Fulmer was the OC for those three, '89-'91.

1992 was the year Majors was hospitalized, Fulmer went 4-0 in his absence, the rest is history.

In '93 Cutcliffe becomes Fulmer's OC. Cut's already been on the staff for 10 years!

From '93 to '98, the Vols went 63-11! Of course, '98 was the year that the "National Champions are clad in ORANGE!"

Cut would leave, in '99, for Ole Miss and the torch was passed to Sanders.

Offensively, a lot of principles were passed down. Obviously, when you're talking about Majors, Fulmer, Sanders, Chavis and the like, you're talking about quite a bit of football philosophy being passed down from the General himself.

The terminology of the offense was passed down too and that kind of stability is an advantage. This is not to say that Cut didn't bring anything new to the table, offense is always evolving...but he could keep it within the frame work of what everyone already knew because he'd been with the program for so long.

Obviously, if Archie Manning wants you to coach his sons, he has a lot of faith in you. Look where Manning went to throw after his neck surgery.

The truth is, Fulmer and Cut and Chavis were good together. They are obviously fine football coaches and gave their all, VFL etc...
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If I remember correctly , one of the major things about Cut was his attention to detail and insisting on fundamental excellence. It has to be a major point of emphasis. Practice to do it right every time, it becomes second nature. As they say, the devil is in the details.
 
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me_grag53 said:
If I remember correctly , one of the major things about Cut was his attention to detail and insisting on fundamental excellence. It has to be a major point of emphasis. Practice to do it right every time, it becomes second nature. As they say, the devil is in the details.
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Have heard the same kind of things. So far, Thad Lewis and Sean Renfree are both on NFL teams, basically the first two QB's Cut had made NFL rosters. Wonder when the last time that happened at Duke?
 
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wmcovol said:
Reggie Ridley has no reason to be bitter. He was given a great opportunity to play at a school among the elite of college football and earn a degree from a school most here would love to have. Just because he did not have the talent to succeed he shouldn't be bitter.

If he is, he should quit advertising his restaurant as "former Vol Reggie Ridleys".
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I think there's a whole lotta sum'n goin on. Assum'n makes n ass outta u n me.
 
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newandbetter said:
You do know he recruited Peyton Manning at UT and Eli at Ole Miss? This makes him a bad recruiter? I'd say leading Duke to the ACC Championship game would be a huge accomplishment as a head coach. Kudos to him.
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He wasn't a good recruiter here - u can count the guys he recruited on one hand and he was fired at ole miss because his recruiting was weak. I like him as an offensive coordinator and as a person but he isn't and wasn't a good recruiter.
 
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immyaxl said:
A friend of mines brother played on the 98 national championship team. This guy was a starting D lineman. He told me Cutcliffe was responsible for recruiting him as well as many of the players on that team. Basically Cutcliffe was the coach the players liked and the reason for a lot of their success! He said Cutcliffe was twice the coach Fulmer was.
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So what's the point of this thread?
 
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Sandvol said:
Think Cutcliffe is a really good coach and was a great asset to Fulmer, but these after the fact anecdotes annoy me. Not a lot of people supported hiring Cutcliffe because the rap on him was that he wasn't a recruiter. Now six years later he was a great recruiter? I mean I agree now after the fact he would have been better than either Kiffin or Dooley but not many were voicing their support for him at the time.
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Why does it matter if he was better than Kiffin or Dooley? He politely declined to be contacted about the position at Tennessee. People like us created more pressure than he wanted to have. At Duke if he has winning seasons half the time he is a rock star.
 
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In hindsight, after Kiffin and Dools, we should have looked to Cut. Cut and the Chief would have been great. We probably would have been turned away but I would have had complete confidence in them.

I like Butch. I think he should stay for at least 5-6 years good or bad. I can't say after the huge blowouts and Vandy loss that I have complete confidence. I wish I did.
 
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Fullfillmer said:
Cutcliff was a great offensive coordinator IMO.
He was a notoriously bad recruiter both here and at Ole Miss IMO and has always struck me as not being good head coach material for that reason. He has done a great job at Duke. He and Fulmer had different roles - his required more hands on coaching. Everyone likes the coach that recruited them - this is somewhat of a universal truth. Cutcliff really crippled our program both times that he left. Not his fault - but very bad timing both times he left.
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Hmm.... I wonder who recruited those Manning boys... and all of those players to Duke...

You know Duke is a really easy school to get into...
 
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CDC would have never came to coach at UT at the time we hired Kitten and Doofley....



There is no way in h@ll CDC would have worked under ADMH (Hammy)....
 
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immyaxl said:
A friend of mines brother played on the 98 national championship team. This guy was a starting D lineman. He told me Cutcliffe was responsible for recruiting him as well as many of the players on that team. Basically Cutcliffe was the coach the players liked and the reason for a lot of their success! He said Cutcliffe was twice the coach Fulmer was.
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Oh, you're still here?
 
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#46
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Cut is a perfect fit at Duke.

Great coach but poor recruiter, like LWS said, wasn't a big recruiter at Tennessee, and all can see his recruiting results from Ole Miss.

Had a heart attack several years ago, seriously doubt he would want the pressure of the Tennessee job. When offered he wanted to bring all his guys and we said no.

Wish him all the best, good assistant coach and coordinator at Tennessee but not meant to be our HC.
 
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newandbetter said:
You do know he recruited Peyton Manning at UT and Eli at Ole Miss? This makes him a bad recruiter? I'd say leading Duke to the ACC Championship game would be a huge accomplishment as a head coach. Kudos to him.
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He's done good but really? Look at his competation on his side of the Acc
 
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