Butch jones is underrated

Not Hotdog?

 

Haha.

I love that show.

 

I could just about watch Jen Yeung clips all day. "It is water animal".

 

In the fourth paragraph he says Barnett was the 25th player taken overall. That's not true (14th overall), and can so easily be checked by an editor. How does stuff like this happen?

Anyway, stopped reading after that.

 

Laziness

 

I mean, if you want to defend some hot take, at least get your basic facts right.

 

I stopped at the touting of having coached JJ Watt. Very misleading

 

This piece honestly reeks of "i'm going to buck the trend to get clicks." Defend the indefensible just to get people to come and laugh at him.

 

Watt played Te and felt misled by coaches, who said he would get to score touchdowns. They then tried to switch him to offensive tackle after recruiting him on being able to score tds at cmu, and he transferred. Then he played de. Had he stayed with butch, we probably wouldn't know his name. He's an indictment of butch, not a credit.

 

He also spells Hurd as Heard. I agree that it's pretty hard swallow him having an expert opinion on UT.

 

personally I don't find the "he developed nfl players" argument too compelling. your job is to win college games, not produce nfl players. if anything having a lot of nfl players and not winning means you suck at coaching

 

It's not as if Barnett was some underdeveloped diamond in the rough. He dominated from day one in Knoxville. Same deal with Sutton and pretty much with JRM. Josh Dobbs saw his career sabotaged at every turn in favor of Worley and that guy that transferred to Memphis. You could argue Malone got better during his time here, but I think a lot of his draft status was based on God-given speed more so than college production. If you really want to talk about how these guys develop NFL talent I'd take a look at Nathan Peterman.

 

Couldn't feel it.

 

If we were only a farm league

 

He coached JJ Watt into transferring because he tried to switch him to TE.

 

I think he WAS a Te because Jones told him to come to CMU and play TE and he would score lots of touchdowns. That didn't happen because Jones doesn't throw to wide open TE's. He then told Watt he should move to OT. Watt said "nope."

 

I think everyone is missing the point that since Watt broke his back, he'll probably suck the rest of his career so Butch was really right all along about wanting to move on.

 

That's right. If I'm going to rag him, I should at least get my facts straight.

 

Yeah, Watt isn't a good example of Butch finding a gem

 

You can't so consistently underachieve and be underrated at the same time. That isn't how it works.

Butch Jones:

1. Loses games he should win.
2. Doesn't win games outside of the ones he's suppose to, beyond SC his first year.
3. Can't get to the SEC championship game despite it being ripe for the taking.

How does that equal underrated? It equals overrated, he still has a job he can't meet the expectations for. The above should be the minimum expectations for Tennessee football. Win the games you're suppose to, pull an upset every now and again, and go to the SEC championship game. If you aren't going to try to live up to the history of the program, find someone that will.

None of the arguments in this article have any true justification of making the claim he's underrated. It's clickbait trash.