Noteworthy excerpts from Butch Jones’ press conference today

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roster said:
He also said, "the guys who do the best in practice will start". That was a blatant lie seeing as how three DBs did not even practice and yet they all three started.

Now, even honesty is starting to be ejected from the interviews.
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You dont give up TD's in practice in the training room...
So there ya go... Obviously the other db's did...
 
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81Bubbavol said:
JMHO

The difference between CBJ's comments about Josh Smith and many of our fans outlines the difference between a coach that knows how to build up mental toughness in a player and people who are just saying what they feel like or think is funny to a bunch of internet buddies.
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You hit the nail on the head. Keyboard cowboys getting their jollies when they don't know Jack. Justin Hunter dropped some critical passes last year and he is in the NFL. Yet the brilliant ones with a computer that mama bought for them jump on a freshman for doing the same. Go figure.
 
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37L1 said:
I've got to say, Butch Jones has his players' best interest at the fore front of everything he says. He builds them up, doesn't tear them down and ultimately that will return in performance improvement plus loyalty/buy in.

How refreshing.

GBO!
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He builds them up in public, but you can bet he is tearing some butt in practice this week. As it should be.
 
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The kid just might have the best hands on the team...in practice where he knows he's not going to get slobberknockered.

In the game he knows damn well he's going to get slobberknockered so he's more nervous and takes his eyes off the ball too soon to see where the D is coming from instead of staying focused and watching the ball all the way into his hands and totally securing it.

That's called eye discipline and many young players have the same problems but they learn, get more experience and suddenly their fear of the hit vanishes and they become a all SEC or a all American WR after they breakout and take their game from the practice field to the gameday field.

We've all seen this maturation process 100's of times over the years and some take longer to get it than others take.

Getting down on a freshman is really pathetic and these keyboard commandos couldn't catch a pass from 5 feet away much less play in the SEC so jusat ignore those that treat our kids with such classless disrespect.

Nobody wants to play really well more than the kids on our Vols team.

#BrickbyBrick...VFL...GBO!!!
 
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volroadwarrior said:
He builds them up in public, but you can bet he is tearing some butt in practice this week. As it should be.
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I can't help but love watching videos of Jones tearing into people during practice. It's so glorious. No one is spared, not even the coaches.
 
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roster said:
He also said, "the guys who do the best in practice will start". That was a blatant lie seeing as how three DBs did not even practice and yet they all three started.

Now, even honesty is starting to be ejected from the interviews.
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I wouldn't trust anyone on this board that did not have a Tenn team support or some Tennessee related icon to give sincere encouraging or objective comments for a new coach and team .
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
So Josh Smith has better hands than North? Is it April fools day and I just missed it?
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that was my first thought too, then I remembered the way Dooley $hit on the players to the media.

I'd rather have a coach that doesn't degrade the kids in the pressers.
 
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Vol fans are so fickle. If he blows up against AU (or anyone left this year) people will all pretend like they knew he'd be the second coming. The kid will be fine. He has a lot of time to put it all together.
 
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The circle of life. The fans tear you apart, the coach builds you back up.

Suddenly I had a flashback to the opening of The Six-Million Dollar Man. If only Butch could actually make them bionic.
 
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Bottom line is ... nobody gives a damn about the progress claiming to be made during the week in practice or how many balls Josh Smith catches during the week in practice, if we're getting the hell beat out of us Saturdays and he's dropping them on Saturdays.

Hopefully progress in both areas will be seen on Saturdays from now on.
 
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It is a coach supporting his player quit acting like he is an idiot ... Called motivation and it worked with a certain wayward kicker of our so lay off
 
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81Bubbavol said:
JMHO

The difference between CBJ's comments about Josh Smith and many of our fans outlines the difference between a coach that knows how to build up mental toughness in a player and people who are just saying what they feel like or think is funny to a bunch of internet buddies.
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Very true. Agree wholeheartedly! Butch is always building for the future and not just immediate comments which hurt, and even destroy players. He gets it!
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
I had no doubt whatsoever that no. 2 would be extremely difficult for many people to believe, but Butch seemed to be both very sincere and emphatic in making that statement. Furthermore, this observation clearly falls under the category of what we, as fans, do not see within the context of practice. If you recall, Zach Rogers had a similar problem with what appeared to be hands of stone, but he truly blossomed as a senior.
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That's true, but we cannot wait for all these receivers to be freaking seniors before they finally start catching the damn ball! I have to say it, for all the praise coach Zach Azzani seems to receive, I have been the least impressed with our WR progress (as a whole) this season, probably more so than any other unit on our team except maybe the OL! I didn't expect our young WR's to come in and dominate but I did expect them to consistently catch the damn ball!

I love CBJ but the comments by him on Josh are nothing but pure rhetoric!
 
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yoyoyoyo said:
North has had numerous drops as well this year. People need to get a grip about a freshman dropping passes.
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No one wants to believe this. However, just like with QB when it comes to WRs the next guy in line is always better. The biggest difference between Smith and North is that North has been thrown longer balls that many consider 'hail mary's' to begin with and his drops have come at less critical points. A few he should've grabbed for easy TDs but they were long balls on less critical downs and he's made some utterly amazing catches in coverage deep that overshadow any easy drops.

That said, Smith is superb at getting open and -- often WIDE OPEN (North typically has a defender at least in camera range) -- and it would be great to see him fed the ball under less pressure where he can rebuild his confidence. I have little doubt that with Josh Smith we're seeing a guy with nothing more than a mental block and a few key drops is all it takes to undo even a great WR for quite some time.

Throw him Smith confidence builders where continuing the drive isn't on him. Hell. have him visualize/meditate catching those balls in clutch situations. Get those under him a few reps under pressure if it will help but I can't see benching him. The kid has potential and pretty good stats for a true frosh WR but what he doesn't have is enough clutch plays.

Do whatever it tales to get his confidence there as it's obvious that he's experiencing a mental block. If we're blowing out UK or Vandy that would be a great time to solve his issues.

Unfortunately, we haven't had big blowout games to help him out.
 
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I will add my yearly comment that most of those posting on VN don't seem to have kids, or haven't had them long enough to make you pull out your hair and bang your head against the wall, and then stand back in amazement when they suddenly bloom and jump forward a year or two or four.

People (including football players) don't grow along a smooth predictable curve. It's more like 2 steps forward, 1 back, another two forward, another two back, two BACK (we're in negative numbers here, folks), one forward, SIX forward, two back, three forward, and on and on.

Be serious and think about your own lives: didn't you ever had some dead stretches, where you wondered if you would ever be able to pull on your socks without falling over?

Geeze Louise, stop writing players off after 5 or 6 games. smh :no:
 
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Listen whiny fan faction:

1. Unlike the previous, CBJ isn't throwing his team under the bus and thus killing team morale. {Darn it! Broke on of my own D-rules}

2. You people who are bashing Josh Smith on a very personal level, are no doubt the same herd that bashed Palardy. Now, what does CBJ say? That MP is the same guy he always was but his mental toughness is key to his success and confidence now. Did you whine things ever stop to think that JS might be in need of the same mental toughing MP got? And that CBJ on realizing this is already set to make it happen? NO! You just have to condemn, verbally crucify, hate, verbally lynch, and verbally murder yet another member of your own team.

Personally, I haven't been happy with not just JS but other of our receivers too who have flat out failed to hang on to VERY catchable balls. But unlike you whine herders, I won't banish them to the realm of eternal flames. I'll trust the coach to get this fixed. It starts with a player believing in themselves enough to apply the coaching and making plays they should be making. Jonathan Crompton had to be reprogrammed too. Da' Rick Rogers refused to be reprogrammed. It certainly appears accurate to say certain categories of the Vols fanbase can't be reprogrammed. Those fans have to engage in instant spite toward players who so much as sneeze with an anshu instead of an achoo. Telling them the sneezer had a mouthful of blackeyed peas at the time. Thus cause of the unusual sneezing sound only serves quadruple the spite.
 
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Again, fellas, these keyboard commandos are gonna post what they do when they do no matter what, cause you cant fix stupid you know.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Listen whiny fan faction:

1. Unlikely the previous, CBJ isn't throwing his team under the bus and thus killing team morale. {Darn it! Broke on of my own D-rules}

2. You people who are bashing Josh Smith on a very personal level, are no doubt the same herd that bashed Palardy. Now, what does CBJ say? That MP is the same guy he always was but his mental toughness is key to his success and confidence now. Did you whine things ever stop to think that JS might be in need of the same mental toughing MP got? And that CBJ on realizing this is already set to make it happen? NO! You just have to condemn, verbally crucify, hate, verbally lynch, and verbally murder yet another member of your own team.

Personally, I haven't been happy with not just JS but other of our receivers too who have flat out failed to hang on to VERY catchable balls. But unlike you whine herders, I won't banish them to the realm of eternal flames. I'll trust the coach to get this fixed. It starts with a player believing in themselves enough to apply the coaching and making plays they should be making. Jonathan Crompton had to be reprogrammed too. Da' Rick Rogers refused to be reprogrammed. It certainly appears accurate to say certain categories of the Vols fanbase can't be reprogrammed. Those fans have to engage in instant spite toward players who so much as sneeze with an anshu instead of an achoo. Telling them the sneezer had a mouthful of blackeyed peas at the time. Thus cause of the unusual sneezing sound only serves quadruple the spite.
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Good post. Bottom line is the guys doing the bashing never had to catch anything in front of 100K screamers. They probably wet their pants when they get their annual review at work, or take their final exams (that is if they have jobs or are able to be in school, which is iffy).
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
(1) On balancing the instant gratification mentality with incremental day-by-day progress, which is, for the most part, not visible to the public:

“I want it now, let's make no mistake about it. I want it now, our players want it now, our former players - our Vols for life want it now, our fan base wants it now, our administration wants it now, we all want it now but I see the positives each and every day. People in our industry that really study the game see it. Some days larger than others but I see improvements and sometimes you don't see it in the win column. . . . We have to put our heads down, eliminate all the clutter and just keep getting better as a football program. I'm just as encouraged right now as I've ever been. I see growth, I see maturation, I see attracting the best of the best student athletes who have great competitive character that want to be in the process of getting Tennessee football back so I'm extremely encouraged. Do we have a lot of work to do? You guys see what I see but I'm also encouraged by where we're going."

(2) With respect to Josh Smith’s dropped touchdown pass and other drops throughout the year:

"Josh, I'll tell you right now, has the best hands on our football team. . . . He's extremely difficult and hard on himself which we want, that's a mark of a great competitor. Now it's taking the practice field to the game field and he's a young man with a tremendous amount of upside. . . . It just so happened that his mistake was magnified because he was in the open field and it was a touchdown. I believe in Josh Smith, he's going to be fine."

(3) Examples of player development and the sometimes lengthy process of building mental toughness:

“We were blessed and fortunate my last year at Cincinnati to basically have a first round draft choice at defensive tackle and a third round draft choice at defensive tackle. Derek Wolf and John Hughes both start. One starts for the Cleveland Browns and one is a good friend of Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos. Their junior years, . . . they were both soft mentally and we challenged them and the way they developed in a year's time is probably the most development I've seen in two individuals . . . John Hughes is a young man we spoke about a couple weeks ago who wasn't even being considered for the National Football League. His senior year he made a decision mentally and physically and we challenged him.”

. . . . "I can sit here and tell you John Hughes illustrations and Derek Wolfe stories, but let's talk about our players, Michael Palardy. Here's an individual for whatever occurred in the past, it occurred in the past. He's the same individual physically, gotten stronger, but mentally he's completely different. . . . He's playing with a lot of confidence and belief right now and that's a great illustration for every player in our football program, that development process” (Butch Jones Press Conference (Nov. 4) - UTSPORTS.COM - University of Tennessee Athletics).
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So--does this mean that Palardy should be playing Josh's position as WR???

I kid, I kid....

Being desperate fans wanting to get the instant gratification of a quick turnaround (like Auburn) blinds folks to the bigger picture and reality.

It is painful and frustrating to watch dropped passes over and over--but CBJ KNOWS that football players are not throwaway commodities and always keeps the big picture at the forefront. It's called MATURITY, and is one of the reasons the players and RECRUITS seem to love him (he got their back). It's also genuine from CBJ and the players know it--and coach Fulmer had the same character trait! Great things coming for the VOLS!

GO VOLS! :salute:
 
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josh smith is a greal slot wr and can get open and is fast him dropping passes is about mental issues rite now and Butch is coaching him up..thats what we need this is the difference Dooley would bash players and call them out that didnt work and wont work unless you are a proven winner and everyone respects you alla saban he does this and can get away with it doolet couldn't..

I like the Jones angle treat them with respect and show confidence in them and they will play hard and give you there all. some say coach speak but i say its coaching.
 
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Based off this season's performance so far, if Josh Smith has the best hands, I'm seriously worried about our receiving corps.
 
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