Special on Fox Sports South

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I watched a special on Fox Sports south last night, and they were talking SEC football. They picked Auburn to win the SEC and pegged Florida as "the team to watch out for." The segment on Tennessee was interesting. It mainly covered coach Cut and the offense. They said that Ainge would get back on track, but not until about halfway through the season. I disagree with that. Ainge and the rest of the offense have seemed to really buy into to watch coach Cut is bringing to Knoxville. No offense to Randy, but when the season begins we will all see just how bad of a job Randy Sanders was doing. Personally, I think that coach Cut's approach to offense will allow that group to be productive right out of the gate. He is a no non-sense coach with simple and proven ideas. I guess we will just have to see how it all plays out. GO VOLS!!!
 
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I hope you're right, but I'm not quite as confident. If we open the season with a loss it could take quite some time to recover, given our schedule, a win and we could take off.
 
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How do we know how the team has responded to Cut's changes? He (Cut) said that the spring game was vanilla at best. The coahing staff is keeping a tight seal on any press releases this off season (thank god). No one has any idea how this team will respond. Ainge is a head case that needs to regain his "swartz" if you will. Crompton is a redshirt and that is a coin toss. We don't have any proven HEALTHY RBs and our offensive line is pretty green as well. WR, well they either need to catch or sit down. So we have no real idea how Cut has changed this team until about 53 days. Until then, all speculation. I don't see any visits from ESPN and preseason press hype from the coaches this year.
 
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(bigdaddy @ Jul 11 said:
How do we know how the team has responded to Cut's changes? He (Cut) said that the spring game was vanilla at best. The coahing staff is keeping a tight seal on any press releases this off season (thank god). No one has any idea how this team will respond. Ainge is a head case that needs to regain his "swartz" if you will. Crompton is a redshirt and that is a coin toss. We don't have any proven HEALTHY RBs and our offensive line is pretty green as well. WR, well they either need to catch or sit down. So we have no real idea how Cut has changed this team until about 53 days. Until then, all speculation. I don't see any visits from ESPN and preseason press hype from the coaches this year.
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Fox Sports had a fairly in depth interview with Ainge. He is VERY confident in Coach Cut and said that there is no doubt the offense will be ready when the time comes. They have responded well to coach Cut.
 
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Let me remind you that QBs have said the exact same thing about Randy Sanders in the past. It is a sports cliche' to be "very" confident in your OC. Let me see them prove it on the field. I have no faith in a preseason interview after last season.
 
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(bigdaddy @ Jul 11 said:
Let me remind you that QBs have said the exact same thing about Randy Sanders in the past. It is a sports cliche' to be "very" confident in your OC. Let me see them prove it on the field. I have no faith in a preseason interview after last season.
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I feel a lot more comfortable with a quarterback being confident in David Cutcliffe than Randy Sanders. This offense will be a well oiled machine. Cutcliffe is a perfectionist and will not have it any other way. It might take a few series to get the jitters out, but they will be very productive. They will run "gap" all day long. I think Cut deserves some respect.
 
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(smoke_em06 @ Jul 11 said:
I watched a special on Fox Sports south last night, and they were talking SEC football. They picked Auburn to win the SEC and pegged Florida as "the team to watch out for." The segment on Tennessee was interesting. It mainly covered coach Cut and the offense. They said that Ainge would get back on track, but not until about halfway through the season. I disagree with that. Ainge and the rest of the offense have seemed to really buy into to watch coach Cut is bringing to Knoxville. No offense to Randy, but when the season begins we will all see just how bad of a job Randy Sanders was doing. Personally, I think that coach Cut's approach to offense will allow that group to be productive right out of the gate. He is a no non-sense coach with simple and proven ideas. I guess we will just have to see how it all plays out. GO VOLS!!!
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I do think that the offense will perform better in the long-run because Cut has brought in a more disciplined approach. However you said "simple and proven ideas".... Sanders ran the same offense a Cut with minor divergence. Heck Tennessee has run the same offense since majors with some minor variances. I know Cut has picked up some things since he was here before but I guarantee you want really see different formations and different plays. you may say a new wrinke here and there.

I am not bashiing anyone but I do not think that the Vols will be gang busters right out of the gate. they have only had three weeks of spring practice with Cut. Yes I think they will be better but it may take a few games.
 
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I am not bashiing anyone but I do not think that the Vols will be gang busters right out of the gate. they have only had three weeks of spring practice with Cut. Yes I think they will be better but it may take a few games.
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That is exactly what I am pointing out here. It is all rhetoric and hearsay about our great bounds and leaps on offense. I am just not buying that after three weeks of practice that we are back on track. As for a getting better after a few games, it is hard to be much worse than they were last season.
 
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(patrick @ Jul 11 said:
I do think that the offense will perform better in the long-run because Cut has brought in a more disciplined approach. However you said "simple and proven ideas".... Sanders ran the same offense a Cut with minor divergence. Heck Tennessee has run the same offense since majors with some minor variances. I know Cut has picked up some things since he was here before but I guarantee you want really see different formations and different plays. you may say a new wrinke here and there.

I am not bashiing anyone but I do not think that the Vols will be gang busters right out of the gate. they have only had three weeks of spring practice with Cut. Yes I think they will be better but it may take a few games.
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I agree that the offense Cut will run is similar to that of Randy Sanders. However, with the exception Jason Witten, the tight has been silent at UT. Cut should do a better job of implementing Chris Brown into the passing game. Also, you will see Meachem, Smith, and Swain on the field a lot longer. Sanders did not allow the receivers to develop any kind of rhythm. He will expect a lot from those guys. However, so did Randy and we all saw what happened there. I doubt that the offense will be flashy. Especially right out of the gates. However, they will be very efficient. That will be Cutcliffes's first priority.
 
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Look man, I want to see us come out and destroy teams but there is no evidence that THIS team can do that. The good side is that if they are men of integrity, then they will come out and play like all-stars instead of a bunch of jokers like last season. I believe that the ego got the best of that team last year. Can Cut provide that direction, we will see. Will someone step up and be a team leader, who knows. But from time Cut took the job until now there is not any imperical evidence that THIS team is any better on offense. And without having the extra practice from a bowl game appearance, three weeks is not enough for them to grow.
 
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Am optimistically cautious. Cut will bring positive changes. Question is how quick. One we all wish we knew. A confident Ainge will play 100 times better then last season which will translate into better receivers and then running. Just crossin' the fingers until Sept-2 and waiting for practice to start.
 
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