Rod Wilks stands out at Elite Camp..............

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lacrossepro70 said:
If you are underdrafted (like Jason Witten), then after a couple years if you produce well you will get a very nice contract. So it is much better to be drafted low and have a great career than to be drafted highly and be busts. If you disagree then you are wrong. And btw, Tennessee has had more players drafted( as the other guy mentioned) over the past 6 years. So not only have Tennessee players been more productive, we've had more drafted as well.
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NOT ON OFFENSE. GOOD GRIEF.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
Well most people would completely disagree with that. Our offense this past season was known as one of the more exciting and explosive offenses in the country.
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Those people would be wrong. As VolinArizona has pointed out multiple times, UT's yards per game wasn't much more in 2006 than it was in 2005. Regardless, UT's offense isn't anywhere near as explosive as USC's. That's looking back over the past year, or looking back over that past five years. Look at our most recent bowl games. USC played one of the top Big 10 teams while UT played a mediocre Big 10 team. Who scored more? I think the 57 TD's USC scored on Michigan slightly outmatch the pathetic output the Vols had against the Nittany Lions. The Trojans scored until Jarrett and Smith got tired of running and Booty got tired of throwing. Then, they scored some more. Comparing UT's offense to USC's is ridiculous. They would have hung 60 on Penn State. Something tells me they would have managed to score a bit more against Kentucky (one of the NCAA's worst defenses), as well.
 
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Back to the topic.I know Marsalous Johnson, Rod's brother, was on the sidelines whenever they won the state championship last year.I hope they are close enough whereby this pulls Rod to UT. :crossfingers:
 
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kptvol said:
Those people would be wrong. As VolinArizona has pointed out multiple times, UT's yards per game wasn't much more in 2006 than it was in 2005. Regardless, UT's offense isn't anywhere near as explosive as USC's. That's looking back over the past year, or looking back over that past five years. Look at our most recent bowl games. USC played one of the top Big 10 teams while UT played a mediocre Big 10 team. Who scored more? I think the 57 TD's USC scored on Michigan slightly outmatch the pathetic output the Vols had against the Nittany Lions. The Trojans scored until Jarrett and Smith got tired of running and Booty got tired of throwing. Then, they scored some more. Comparing UT's offense to USC's is ridiculous. They would have hung 60 on Penn State. Something tells me they would have managed to score a bit more against Kentucky (one of the NCAA's worst defenses), as well.
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By the end of the season, the offense was basically a joke. Ainge never really quite got back to where he was in the middle of the season. Before Arkansas, our offense was on fire. There's no denying that.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
Before Arkansas, our offense was on fire. There's no denying that.
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Unless of course, you watch the Florida game. Being on fire against the likes of Cal, Air Force, Marshall, and a UGA team that lost to Vandy and UK doesn't really make me think we're at the same level as the Trojans. Even if it did, that's just one year surrounded by a decade of mediocrity.
 
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kptvol said:
Unless of course, you watch the Florida game. Being on fire against the likes of Cal, Air Force, Marshall, and a UGA team that lost to Vandy and UK doesn't really make me think we're at the same level as the Trojans. Even if it did, that's just one year surrounded by a decade of mediocrity.
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First off, new offensive coordinater, new era. Second, when we played Georgia, statistically they had the number 1 defense in the country. Cal's defense was supposedly going to kill us, and we scored 31 in 3 quarters, so don't act like that was a throw away game. It was an exciting offensive game from us. And the reason Georgia lost to Vandy and Kentucky was their qb situation, not their defense. We also scored over 30 on a stacked LSU team. Btw I wasn't disputing that USC has a more exciting offense, just that UT's isn't as boring as you make it out to be, not at all.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
First off, new offensive coordinater, new era. Second, when we played Georgia, statistically they had the number 1 defense in the country. Cal's defense was supposedly going to kill us, and we scored 31 in 3 quarters, so don't act like that was a throw away game. It was an exciting offensive game from us. And the reason Georgia lost to Vandy and Kentucky was their qb situation, not their defense. We also scored over 30 on a stacked LSU team. Btw I wasn't disputing that USC has a more exciting offense, just that UT's isn't as boring as you make it out to be, not at all.
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If you want to talk about offensive coordinators, that'll be tons of fun. Cutcliffe failed at Ole Miss and returned to UT as a saint, although he was pretty well-maligned when he left. Sanders was fired and ended up as a position coach at football powerhouse UK. Look at USC last two OCs, and their current OC. Two of them were offered NFL head coaching positions. The other is an offensive coordinator in the NFL. Advantage: Trojans.
 
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kptvol said:
If you want to talk about offensive coordinators, that'll be tons of fun. Cutcliffe failed at Ole Miss and returned to UT as a saint, although he was pretty well-maligned when he left. Sanders was fired and ended up as a position coach at football powerhouse UK. Look at USC last two OCs, and their current OC. Two of them were offered NFL head coaching positions. The other is an offensive coordinator in the NFL. Advantage: Trojans.
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Once again! I'm not comparing USC to Tennessee. I wasn't saying that UT's offense is more exciting as USC's. I was arguing that our offense isn't mediocre like you made it out to be. And if you think coach Cut failed at Ole Miss, you are flat out wrong. He squeezed every little bit out of that team that he possibly could. For proof, compare Ole Miss's coach (FORMER USC ASSISTANT) to coach Cut's record, and don't turn it into an Eli Manning thing. Cut won with less talent than coach Oregon has. I guess you missed out on the Peyton Manning years, where cut developed his ability (just as he is doing with Ainge and he did with Eli) into the best in the country. As mediocre as our defense was last year, we would've lost several more games than we did without Cut.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
Once again! I'm not comparing USC to Tennessee. I wasn't saying that UT's offense is more exciting as USC's. I was arguing that our offense isn't mediocre like you made it out to be. And if you think coach Cut failed at Ole Miss, you are flat out wrong. He squeezed every little bit out of that team that he possibly could. For proof, compare Ole Miss's coach (FORMER USC ASSISTANT) to coach Cut's record, and don't turn it into an Eli Manning thing. Cut won with less talent than coach Oregon has. I guess you missed out on the Peyton Manning years, where cut developed his ability (just as he is doing with Ainge and he did with Eli) into the best in the country. As mediocre as our defense was last year, we would've lost several more games than we did without Cut.
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The offense last season was mediocre. In 2005, it was plain terrible. We really didn't put up many more yards per game in 2006 than in 2005. Coach Cutcliffe was fired. What more needs to be said? He's superior to Ed Orgeron. Who isn't? The guy was a great D-line coach at USC. That's where he should have remained. The fact that the same guy that hired Cutcliffe also felt that Orgeron was head coach material isn't a good sign.

As for Peyton Manning, that guy would have been successful wherever he went. He's got unreal talent and unparalleled motivation.
 
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4th in the SEC in scoring. 34th in the country is not mediocre. 12th in passing offense, and that's from the first year back. Running game was bad, but that happens when you install brand new block scheme, and lose 3 starters on the o-line. Our ypg may have been similar, but that stat is completely blown away by scoring offense.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
4th in the SEC in scoring. 34th in the country is not mediocre. 12th in passing offense, and that's from the first year back. Running game was bad, but that happens when you install brand new block scheme, and lose 3 starters on the o-line. Our ypg may have been similar, but that stat is completely blown away by scoring offense.
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You can't always expect to score if you can't get yards and move the chains.
 
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and Ole Miss's trouble in the passing game wasn't due to bad qb play, it was due to terrible WR play. They didn't have any recievers that finished top 10 in the conference in statistics.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
^ and coach Cut can't hold on to the ball for Arian Foster either.
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Arian isn't the only reason the Vols didn't score in the second half. As for Ainge's injury, it didn't seem to bother him against Vandy. Why then, was it bothering him so much the following week against one of the nation's weakest defenses?
 
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