I'm feeling optimistic!

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For a while I've been saying that it would take longer than a year before we started to look like a good team again no matter which coach we pulled in. Now that Sal is gone and we're working with a completely new defensive plan, I honestly think with hard work we could prove to be a very decent team in 2013. Not flawless by any means but we will definitely see improvements. I'm saying this despite whoever "miraculously" gets drafted from our current team. All of the coaching hire rollercoaster aside, I think I'm content, at least for a couple years, with the decisions that have been made.

GBO!
 
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i'm cautiously optomistic. i think we will be better under this coach than DD. i just wish he would have kept the ol coach.
 
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I feel like Charlie Brown staring at Lucy and her dang football. She's holding it, smiling. "Come on Charlie Brown, you know you want to." I guess ya just gotta believe. Go Vols!
 
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I feel good about the long term. I think Butch Jones is a very good hire. However, I'm not optimistic we will have a great season next year. Installing a completely new offense and defense against what has to be one of the hardest schedules in the country. I will be content with 6-6 and a bowl game.
 
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I have to agree with the OP, the more I look at things and think about it I am feeling much better for our future.

I really have grown to like the fact that CBJ brought a lot of his staff with him, I think that means good things for us because his staff knows his system and has had success.
This has to be so much better than building a whole new staff from scratch and then teaching them what you want before they can coach the kids. I think that will prove to be very important for us and will help us have a much better year next year that most people think.

I also like the fact we are going back to the 4-3 defense , our players know this defense and it will be easy for them to get right into things. I think our defense will be greatly improved next year.

As for the offense , well having his own staff with him from CU will definitely help get the offensive scheme working faster than a new staff and we have talent on both sides of the ball.

I just like what I am seeing so far and I am beginning to feel that we really made a good hire.
 
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I'm not optimistic by any means.We have to get on the field and perform well. Given our schedule/situation 6-6 with a bowl would be fine with me
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vol2002 said:
I feel good about the long term. I think Butch Jones is a very good hire. However, I'm not optimistic we will have a great season next year. Installing a completely new offense and defense against what has to be one of the hardest schedules in the country. I will be content with 6-6 and a bowl game.
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I agree.
 
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I like the hire, but I will feel like I'm walking into a movie that I haven't seen one trailer or ad for.......I have no idea what to expect.
 
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I'm much more optimistic about the Jones hire than I was about the Dooley hire, but there's still some apprehension. Jones has confidence and a clear plan for the future. He's hired on assistants that know his system and are energetic. Jones, himself, seems to bleed orange. I never saw this during Dooley's tenure, though I did want him to succeed. Sure, he had the orange pants and embraced UT tradition, but he always seemed lost. It was always "we're not a very good team" and "we have to get better." There never seemed to be a clear plan.
 
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coug said:
For a while I've been saying that it would take longer than a year before we started to look like a good team again no matter which coach we pulled in. Now that Sal is gone and we're working with a completely new defensive plan, I honestly think with hard work we could prove to be a very decent team in 2013. Not flawless by any means but we will definitely see improvements. I'm saying this despite whoever "miraculously" gets drafted from our current team. All of the coaching hire rollercoaster aside, I think I'm content, at least for a couple years, with the decisions that have been made.

GBO!
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Never mind!
 
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vol2002 said:
I feel good about the long term. I think Butch Jones is a very good hire. However, I'm not optimistic we will have a great season next year. Installing a completely new offense and defense against what has to be one of the hardest schedules in the country. I will be content with 6-6 and a bowl game.
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Hate to compare but look at Saban's first year at Bama. With a all new staff and system along with trying to sell new recruits on that. Throw in doing the same with current players who have gone thru the last three years of getting their butts kicked in SEC play and not beating a Top 2o Team.

I believe the big motivator on all this is CBJ, Staff and even players know everyone outside the team really doesn't believe they can do anything the first or maybe the second year. We and everyone else might be in for a surprise...hope so.
 
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I like what I'm seeing so far from the new guys. I think we have a chance to be back on top within 2-3 years. We shall see
 
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coug said:
For a while I've been saying that it would take longer than a year before we started to look like a good team again no matter which coach we pulled in. Now that Sal is gone and we're working with a completely new defensive plan, I honestly think with hard work we could prove to be a very decent team in 2013. Not flawless by any means but we will definitely see improvements. I'm saying this despite whoever "miraculously" gets drafted from our current team. All of the coaching hire rollercoaster aside, I think I'm content, at least for a couple years, with the decisions that have been made.

GBO!
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You are at the wrong place for optimism. This board is for glass mostly empty types. I am sure by now peolple have beaten down your optimism.
 
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The defense COULD be better. MAYBE. Losing 4 big time players will hurt the O. Hopefully a new offensive scheme and philosophy will offset the losses. The schedule will not be easier. Maybe the new coaches can squeeze out an upset or 2.
 
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coug said:
For a while I've been saying that it would take longer than a year before we started to look like a good team again no matter which coach we pulled in. Now that Sal is gone and we're working with a completely new defensive plan, I honestly think with hard work we could prove to be a very decent team in 2013. Not flawless by any means but we will definitely see improvements. I'm saying this despite whoever "miraculously" gets drafted from our current team. All of the coaching hire rollercoaster aside, I think I'm content, at least for a couple years, with the decisions that have been made.

GBO!
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Lathers will 'miraculously' get drafted from our current team!
 
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DocVol said:
Miraculously gets drafted???
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How many balls did Hunter actually hold onto this year?
Head case of a QB.
CP's still not where he needs to be from route running and being the complete receiver ready for the NFL

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The defense COULD be better. MAYBE.
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You apparently missed ALL of this season. The defense could't have been worse in my opinion. This means there is nowhere to go but up.
 
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I've been asked by all my Clemson friends about my feelings about CBJ and our future as a team. The more I answer their questions, the more I find myself getting excited and optimistic about our future. I'm in the 6-6 boat though for next year. Mainly because the therapist I started seeing after this past season said for me to set realistic and attainable goals.
 
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I'm optomistic and will keep a positive mental attitude about our footVol program.

I will not OVERexpect like so many did for this last season and I won't expect alot on their 1st recruiting class or on the 1st year on the field.

I do expect that we'll be back in a bowl game and I think that somewhere along the way next season we'll surprise somebody and totally ruin their seasons expectations, LOL.

Coaching staff is a TEAM and I like that most of the coaches CBJ hired already know what he expects and how he expects them to get the players at each position where he wants them to be.

I also like that he brought in some good position coaches that are also good recruiters and that they have knowledge and experience in the SEC which will help the coaches alot in their first year in the SEC.

We have to admit that we're totally rebuilding again and that it's going to take 3 or 4 years to really see what CBJ can do on the field as we slowly climb back up towards the top again in the SEC.

Having to travel all the way out to Oregon and play them next season won't help us but we'll see where we stand against the best in the PAC 12 or whatever they'll be next year.

Many wanted Strong as our next HC but head to head on the field CBJ did Win 2 out of 3 games they played and the more I research the more I think we got a really good HC with solid plans this time.

VFL...GBO!!!
 
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Volzilla said:
Hate to compare but look at Saban's first year at Bama. With a all new staff and system along with trying to sell new recruits on that. Throw in doing the same with current players who have gone thru the last three years of getting their butts kicked in SEC play and not beating a Top 2o Team.

I believe the big motivator on all this is CBJ, Staff and even players know everyone outside the team really doesn't believe they can do anything the first or maybe the second year. We and everyone else might be in for a surprise...hope so.
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When are you going to learn UT isn't Bama and CBJ isn't CNS. TN doesn't have the #1 WR recruit, the #1 LB recruit and the #2 CB recruit in state like Bama had that year and 8 more 4* recruits too. CBJ might get you back to being good again but it's not going to happen over night.
 
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