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Huepel was a dream coach from day one. We needed an offensive guru in the worst way after Pruitt and his return to Fulmer ball. Fortunately, we got one of the best scheme guys I've ever seen. I'll be surprised if there aren't 30 or 40 programs trying to run this offense in three or four years.
 
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Huepel has also benefitted greatly by the emergence of NIL and the transfer portal, which allows him access to the players necessary to properly run this type of offensive scheme rather than wait on a 5 year rebuilding job to catch the attention of recruits, boosters and sponsors who you would want to draw to your program. The unbridled success and financial riches of the SEC and their media, bowl and marketing alliances have made the Tennessee jobs more appealing to a number of talented coaches who couldn't program Knoxville into their GPS if they had to. White Danny seems to be able to understand the Tennessee football traditions and actually embraces it rather than simply paying lip service to it. We will not hear the excuses that became so familiar, i.e. gotta wait until he gets his guys on the team, brick by brick, this is the SEC, there is no waiting, your table is ready.
 
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I will be honest, I was kind of excited about getting Elliot. Coming from Clemson I thought it would be great for offense and recruiting. I didn’t know who Heupel was.

Yeah I am extremely happy we didn’t hire Elliot.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Huepel was a dream coach from day one. We needed an offensive guru in the worst way after Pruitt and his return to Fulmer ball. Fortunately, we got one of the best scheme guys I've ever seen. I'll be surprised if there aren't 30 or 40 programs trying to run this offense in three or four years.
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Exactly what I've been saying for a few weeks now. In a copycat sport, there will be a slew of Heupel wannabe's coming out of the woodwork in the next couple of years, and some established programs will hire offensive coordinators to install this system.
 
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TartanTurff said:
Huepel has also benefitted greatly by the emergence of NIL and the transfer portal, which allows him access to the players necessary to properly run this type of offensive scheme rather than wait on a 5 year rebuilding job to catch the attention of recruits, boosters and sponsors who you would want to draw to your program. The unbridled success and financial riches of the SEC and their media, bowl and marketing alliances have made the Tennessee jobs more appealing to a number of talented coaches who couldn't program Knoxville into their GPS if they had to. White Danny seems to be able to understand the Tennessee football traditions and actually embraces it rather than simply paying lip service to it. We will not hear the excuses that became so familiar, i.e. gotta wait until he gets his guys on the team, brick by brick, this is the SEC, there is no waiting, your table is ready.
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You can say that 5 yrs from now but this year has little to nothing to do with NIL. Yeah I know Hooker & others are getting $ but they were here before. Heupel was limited in the portal this past year cause Tennessee cut their scholly by 12 during 2021-22 school yr. This year is his first with 80+ scholarships.
 
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Dabo did Elliot no favors. The Ivory Tower class at Virginia has a tradition of kicking Wahoo athletics in the gonads. That is a difficult job for even the most proven of coaches, one reason I respect George Welsh and think he is one of more underrated coaches in college football history. A winner at Navy in a downtime for service academy football, a winner at Virginia where winning has never been easy.

Elliot is going to have to grow up fast as a head coach or the job will kill his future in that role.

Glad he turned us down. Had the potential to be the offensive version of Squidbilly, trying to do things exactly the way his mentor did them.

We were fortunate to get a coach with experience and confidence in his own unique strategic approach to the game. That ended up being exactly what was needed.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
I wasn’t high on him much as other people.

Don’t think we’d be better off than we are now.
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I never trust the sports media when they start campaigning for coaches. I remember them telling UT to hire Mike Mcyntire, and where is he now? They were pushing Randy Edsall in 2008. They have their little network and get sweet on coaches (esp coaches who they know will give them info) and tell schools and fanbases what to do and then get mad when fans don't care about the opinion of some dweeb with a journalism degree who knows little about the sport. They pushed Elliot b/c they eat out of Dabo's hand and Elliott is a really nice guy at a power program and they always assume that success will transfer over. It rarely does. Glad I got that off my chest.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Huepel was a dream coach from day one. We needed an offensive guru in the worst way after Pruitt and his return to Fulmer ball. Fortunately, we got one of the best scheme guys I've ever seen. I'll be surprised if there aren't 30 or 40 programs trying to run this offense in three or four years.
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It won’t be that long. In fact unless Golesh gonna be tough to hang on to after this year IMO unless he has that Venables type loyalty he had for years at Clemson. If I’m Nebraska I’m going at him hard…their scheme in Big 10 equalizes their talent deficit.

Also part of the beauty of being a guru…High school coaches want to learn his schemes…and JH does hs clinics for coaches who may happen to have some opinions where their star players may flourish in college.
 
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wmcovol said:
Fall on your knees & thank God for Dabo talking Tony Elliott out of taking the Tennessee job.

5 plays & 2 turnovers tonight
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Not gonna lie, i was terrified we were going to hire him...I just wasn't sold on his coaching ability....He didn't seem sure of himself...I had flashbacks of Pruitt and hiring a top assistant coach instead of a established head coach.
 
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I’m very happy the Volunteers football team have talented players, and a great Head Coach that has proven successful at getting the Volunteers to play great including winning close games, and the offense playing terrific since we’ve seen a consistent high scoring offense shown in all 6 games.


The Volunteers in the Post Fulmer Era repeatedly underachieved because of not having a great Head Coach.
 
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TartanTurff said:
Huepel has also benefitted greatly by the emergence of NIL and the transfer portal, which allows him access to the players necessary to properly run this type of offensive scheme rather than wait on a 5 year rebuilding job to catch the attention of recruits, boosters and sponsors who you would want to draw to your program. The unbridled success and financial riches of the SEC and their media, bowl and marketing alliances have made the Tennessee jobs more appealing to a number of talented coaches who couldn't program Knoxville into their GPS if they had to. White Danny seems to be able to understand the Tennessee football traditions and actually embraces it rather than simply paying lip service to it. We will not hear the excuses that became so familiar, i.e. gotta wait until he gets his guys on the team, brick by brick, this is the SEC, there is no waiting, your table is ready.
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It's so nice for Tennessee to be sitting at the SEC big boy's table
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Huepel was a dream coach from day one. We needed an offensive guru in the worst way after Pruitt and his return to Fulmer ball. Fortunately, we got one of the best scheme guys I've ever seen. I'll be surprised if there aren't 30 or 40 programs trying to run this offense in three or four years.
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It’s Heupel
tennessee football head coach - Google Search
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Huepel was a dream coach from day one. We needed an offensive guru in the worst way after Pruitt and his return to Fulmer ball. Fortunately, we got one of the best scheme guys I've ever seen. I'll be surprised if there aren't 30 or 40 programs trying to run this offense in three or four years.
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To add to this, I think it’s just absurdly refreshing to see brilliant play calls on offense literally every single game. There wasn’t a person in that stadium that saw that 2-point conversion play coming against Bama, it was absolutely brilliant.

What’s scary is that we still have plays from early this season (like the pitch play) and last season that are still in the bag, just waiting. It’s unreal.
 
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He took Brennan Armstrong who threw for 4800 yards last year and looked like a top 5 to 10 QB in the nation and turned him into JG with a crappy pro style offense. Thank God!
 
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mad4vols said:
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The weird thing about it that by getting rid of Heupel, they got Lincoln Riley. He bolted on them after getting to playoffs a few times and then flaming out.

Not sure Heupel does any better as HC at OU last 5 years or so.

He does kind of seem like the loyal kind of chap though who probably would not have bolted away from OU and left them in a real mess.
 
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