VolNation Idiots

We were 2-18 against Vandy when he took over and he was told to even the score with them. He did.

 

from a non idiot (which of you wrote this?):

A valuable lesson Tennessee has yet to learn | VolNation.com

 

So Gruden's out?

 

I hear he has land in East Tennessee.

 

And they’re back.

 

Yeah they are surging. It reminds me of World War Z.

 

My favorite is the one where we should give Heupel $10 million a year as a show of good faith.

 

I am back over there now as this site has leaned more political than sports and have just been called ignorant by a poster who says the zone blitz dropping the de into coverage is a good call that we catch teams on often.

 

I always loved watching Pearce dropping back into coverage on obvious passing downs. Some 4D chess shit.

 

I get doing it once in a blue moon but he was dropping back as much as he was rushing.

 

dropping your sack leader into coverage on 3rd down won’t ever make sense to me.

 

Especially 3rd and long and you give the QB five seconds to pass or scramble because you are rushing 3. Idiotic.

 

Those examples are not universally applicable though. Two of them were before NIL and before you could lose half your roster in an offseason. Deboer hasn’t proved that he’s maintaining that program yet. It doesn’t matter who coaches at Ohio State because they are the standard as far as football programs are run.Every single element in lockstep for DECADES. THAT is the example Tennessee needs to follow before pondering on the state of the program. It needs a culture of boosters and admin, coaches and alumni that are all moving in the same direction, that direction being whatever it takes to make the program elite and keep it there. Alabama had basically a dictator that willed the program in that direction. Ohio State, and to a lesser extent Georgia recently, has a structure that will withstand whoever leads the program. You need the structure there. Josh Heupel would win championships at Ohio State. Why? Because not only do they demand it from every moment from every man, but there’s no hemming and hawing when the coach needs a little more from the university to land a player or an assistant. What coach needs coach gets, and what the structure demands in return, it gets back. 2022 was fantastic, a great time, the structure at Tennessee knew that they had found their man. But slaying the Saban dragon, mostly the attitude that came immediately after, led us to this point. Because we were healing as a program. Ohio State has never fallen to the depths we have had to crawl out of. As a matter of fact, Tennessee has never reached the structural stability that Ohio State enjoys, that Georgia enjoys, that Alabama enjoyed under Saban, that LSU enjoyed post Saban until Kelly. We were elite in the mid to late 90s, but we were never the standard, and the history of the program is largely a history of accumulation outside of Neylands era. Hell Alabama was in the worst slump of their program during Fulmers tenure and they still beat him on trophy count.

This isn’t an argument for or against Heupel necessarily, I just desperately need people to understand that Tennessee needs to fix itself structurally before it worries about its football program operating on the same level as an Ohio State.