Zach Azzanni

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Can they coach? Can they coach together? Can they win?

Those are the measures of the "best staff in college football".

They won at Cincy. Jones won at Central Michigan and really made those guys look good.

If they don't win at UT then we'll do this again in 2 or 3 years. When Fulmer finally and definitively proved that he could not right the ship either on or off the field... UT was destined to take a ride on the coaching carousel. You always hope the first one is a good one. You hope for that "homerun" hire. But the fact is most programs go through a few coaches before finding the right guy who steps into the right situation.

How many coaches with various levels of success were from V Dooley to Richt? Bryant to Saban? Switzer to Stoops? McKay to Carroll? Can you even name the last "successful" coach at LSU prior to Saban?


You might as well resign yourself to hoping for the best while being realistic about where UT is as a program. No one knows when the stars will align. Maybe Dooley was UT's Zook and Jones will be their Meyer? Maybe it takes 3 more changes. But getting angry about not getting gratified isn't going to change a thing. The only people in the whole thing to be angry at are Fulmer and Hamilton (for giving Fulmer that big buyout and affirming the complacency that destroyed the program). Everyone else is probably giving a good, honest, whole hearted effort toward fixing things... they may still fail but there's no reason to show hate toward them for that. Just hold up the standard and move on until someone can meet the standard.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Wish you lizard tards would quit doggin this man for not being able to turn the crap wrs UF had into gold. Not very many great WRs wanted to go watch Tebow run off tackle all the time.
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Wish sone of you would understand that most of our posts, at least mine, is an honest opinion and not a comment designed to anger people.

Like trying to inform people that ronald powell was not florida's best defensive player and the florida defense would be fine this season.
 
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sjt18 said:
you hope for that "homerun" hire. But the fact is most programs go through a few coaches before finding the right guy who steps into the right situation.

How many coaches with various levels of success were from V Dooley to Richt? Bryant to Saban? Switzer to Stoops? McKay to Carroll? Can you even name the last "successful" coach at LSU prior to Saban?
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I've always thought you don't want to be the guy who follows a legend. Fulmer gets let go and I think we can just sort of combine Kiffin's cup of coffee in that mess. Dooley is the coach who came in and took the lumps of what was left behind. Jones will hopefully be the coach who now builds upon and creates a successful program since some space has been created between regimes. My only worry is that our defense is a total wreck.
 
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SOON!!!

VR will break the news at any moment that sources say that boosters are at the table with Tee right now and this was all a smokescreen waiting for the dead period so he could REALLY stick it to Kiffin!

BOOM
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Well I don't know about my math skills but the MAJORITY of his coaches are from his staff at Cincy. You can say what you want but this is not the all world staff that he claimed he would have. I am not bashing him. I don't care if he heads out to the local Pee Wee field. He will be accountable in the end for the performance on the field.

Oh and by the way....his strength coach is over there too. SO that makes 7 of 10 for 70%.
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I don't disagree that this isn't the best coaching staff in America. I think most people listening to a press conference like that would have taken that quote with a grain of salt. He said a lot of things that he thought sounded good and that people would want to hear. He may not have realized at the time that nothing gets by UT fans (lesson learned). I still think with keeping CJG and adding Thigpen it has a chance to be a solid coaching staff. The coaches he did bring from Cincinnati are very good coaches for the most part. I'll be disappointed if he leaves Jancek at DC as it appears right now. Since we missed on Tee I think there's still a chance CBJ makes a run at another DC and shuffles someone else to WR and Jancek to LB'ers. It isn't surprising that over half his staff was with him at Cincinnati.
 
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With a name like Azzanni, he doesn't sound like he was fast enough to know anything about being a wide receiver.:D

This is a weak attempt at humor. Look at Butch Jones' history. He's won every where he's been. Until proven otherwise, I trust his judgement on these things.
 
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GLDunlap said:
I don't disagree that this isn't the best coaching staff in America. I think most people listening to a press conference like that would have taken that quote with a grain of salt. He said a lot of things that he thought sounded good and that people would want to hear. He may not have realized at the time that nothing gets by UT fans (lesson learned). I still think with keeping CJG and adding Thigpen it has a chance to be a solid coaching staff. The coaches he did bring from Cincinnati are very good coaches for the most part. I'll be disappointed if he leaves Jancek at DC as it appears right now. Since we missed on Tee I think there's still a chance CBJ makes a run at another DC and shuffles someone else to WR and Jancek to LB'ers. It isn't surprising that over half his staff was with him at Cincinnati.
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I agree and I am not criticizing his staff. He just raised my expectations that this staff would wow you and it hasn't.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
I agree and I am not criticizing his staff. He just raised my expectations that this staff would wow you and it hasn't.
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How many times can the same thing be said over and over again for days on end? He doesn't have the best staff in the country by any experts opinion that's for sure but that doesn't matter. What matters is for the staff to be sold to recruits as being elite and for that staff to perform in that way. Time will tell on that and until then why don't we abstain from saying the same obvious thing countless times!
 
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BruinVol said:
How many times can the same thing be said over and over again for days on end? He doesn't have the best staff in the country by any experts opinion that's for sure but that doesn't matter. What matters is for the staff to be sold to recruits as being elite and for that staff to perform in that way. Time will tell on that and until then why don't we abstain from saying the same obvious thing countless times!
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Like you just did?
 
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BruinVol said:
How many times can the same thing be said over and over again for days on end? He doesn't have the best staff in the country by any experts opinion that's for sure but that doesn't matter. What matters is for the staff to be sold to recruits as being elite and for that staff to perform in that way. Time will tell on that and until then why don't we abstain from saying the same obvious thing countless times!
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Bruin, I like you. Don't always agree with you but I respect your opinion. I think you know how I feel about this hire. I have refrained from expressing my opinion on this hire as an attempt to give him a chance. I have said on numerous occasions that I hope he succeeds at the highest level but I have no confidence that he will. He is going to have to prove it to me starting with national signing day. I don't think he was the right hire at this time in Tennessee's history as we needed a much bigger name to prove to recruits and college football in general that we are serious about football. I personally don't think this hire said that. This hire had "budget" and "settle" written all over it.

Hope you don't mind me saying this but here you go:

What is starting to bother me with your opinion is your seemingly blind following of this AD and his coach. I am starting to believe if he had hired Sandusky to lead the Vols you would have stepped in line. That is the appearance that you portray. :hi:
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Bruin, I like you. Don't always agree with you but I respect your opinion. I think you know how I feel about this hire. I have refrained from expressing my opinion on this hire as an attempt to give him a chance. I have said on numerous occasions that I hope he succeeds at the highest level but I have no confidence that he will. He is going to have to prove it to me starting with national signing day. I don't think he was the right hire at this time in Tennessee's history as we needed a much bigger name to prove to recruits and college football in general that we are serious about football. I personally don't think this hire said that. This hire had "budget" and "settle" written all over it.

Hope you don't mind me saying this but here you go:

What is starting to bother me with your opinion is your seemingly blind following of this AD and his coach. I am starting to believe if he had hired Sandusky to lead the Vols you would have stepped in line. That is the appearance that you portray. :hi:
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I certainly have concerns about jones as well. I do not blindly approve of the hire even though I am cautiously optimist. My biggest concern right now is the spread and how IMO it doesn't win big without an exceptional qb that doesn't come around but once every 25 years or so. I want to win big more than once every 25 years but I am not going to make it a daily routine to argue that point like this one seems to be argued by yourself. Concerns are plenty legitiment to discussed but when it becomes a seemingly daily crusade it becomes an agenda IMO.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Bruin, I like you. Don't always agree with you but I respect your opinion. I think you know how I feel about this hire. I have refrained from expressing my opinion on this hire as an attempt to give him a chance. I have said on numerous occasions that I hope he succeeds at the highest level but I have no confidence that he will. He is going to have to prove it to me starting with national signing day. I don't think he was the right hire at this time in Tennessee's history as we needed a much bigger name to prove to recruits and college football in general that we are serious about football. I personally don't think this hire said that. This hire had "budget" and "settle" written all over it.

Hope you don't mind me saying this but here you go:

What is starting to bother me with your opinion is your seemingly blind following of this AD and his coach. I am starting to believe if he had hired Sandusky to lead the Vols you would have stepped in line. That is the appearance that you portray. :hi:
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while this hire may have budget and settle written all over it that is hardly the coaches fault and doesn't require people to constantly complain about them on these forums. If you want to complain about something complain about the fact that Cheeks has looted the football program for his frivolous and unnecessary academic programs. That's why we only have 1.9 million in reserve and why we cant afford to spend 5 million a year on a HC.

CBJ is our coach and all the whining in the world wont change that, so what Bruin is trying to say is how about supporting the coaches we have and give them a chance before crying about them.
 
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