Posted by txsvol on May 2, 2008 at 5:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Get well, William, even if you aren't ready until 2009. Anybody have knowledge of why, with the lack of depth in our DTs, Brimfield was moved to the OL, where he is third team? With his size, he could occupy two blockers. Go Vols! SAVol

Posted by TommyJack on May 2, 2008 at 6 p.m. (Suggest removal)

txsvol: I second the question.

Posted by elmovol on May 2, 2008 at 6:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)

William has been in slated for the O-line since he got here. He took Eric Young's number and wants to follow in Eric's footsteps (without any more injuries!).

Posted by ggriggs939 on May 2, 2008 at 7:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

He was moved because the coaches felt he was a better OL than DL player. You may not recall that Cosey Coleman came in as a DL and was about third team until the coaches told him that if he moved to OL he would be playing on Sunday. The rest is history.
Some guys are better suited to offense than defense and the coaches can spot the difference.

Posted by pdhuff on May 2, 2008 at 9:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

TJ, I third the question.

gruggs939 how would they know what a good DT is? Lol

Posted by orvol on May 2, 2008 at 11:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

UT has more DLs playing in the NFL than any other school right now. But then, some people always have an agenda.

Posted by BigOrangeJeff on May 2, 2008 at 11:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The way I see it, we have two options. One, we can go with the opinions of our coaches, who get paid lots of money to assess talent, coach the kids, develop players, etc. Or two, we can listen to the geniuses on this board who have no responsibility, no accountability, and no experience in coaching college football.

I think I'll go with opion one.

Posted by DadwasaVol on May 3, 2008 at 8:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Option one, also.

Posted by DaddyVol on May 3, 2008 at 8:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I don't understand why we keep movingguys from DT to O-line. It's hard for me to believe that Vlad richard can't play DT. The way he pulls with such atheleticism. Robbing peter to pay paul. The depth at O-line was a problem, but that seems to be fixed, plus we got some O-line in this recruiting class. Not 5star O-line, but what did we do for DT? This guy was highly touted coming out, so we move him to 3rd string O-line why we have no clue who fits into our 2nd string rotation at D-line?????? 6-5 320, that could help us stop teams from putting up 160-180 yards per game.

Posted by General_Fritter on May 3, 2008 at 10:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Fulmer is simply the best coach in the country. Hands down, bar none. No other coach works em like heck, charts their progress and wins the big ones like Coach Fulmer. How fortunate are we to have him as the leader of our young men.

Posted by Phowell23 on May 3, 2008 at 11:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The way I see it we have one option...hope the coaches make the right decisions.

Posted by oldsarge on May 3, 2008 at 11:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)

To answer the question why high school defensive linemen become college offensive linemen.

Offense = assignment football

Defense = reaction football

You pick your HS team in the following manner.
Quarterback, Defense, Offense

In HS the best athletes play defense. In college, these same players might be better suited playing offense only.

This is probably as clear as mud.

Posted by DaddyVol on May 3, 2008 at 2:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Lets see how good we can make this O-line. D-line does not matter. I can't wait till the season when the same people are crying about us giving up 200 on the ground. We have o-linemen that can play 2 or 3 different spots. How deep are we at DT? How many O-linemen did we let get out of our state this year? We may not be as rich in talent as other states, but we produce a lot of dominant O-linemen. We would have to go elsewhere for skill positions, but this state has talent at o-line. Who's to say that some of those guys wouldn't turn into good DT's. I guess Nick saban will find out, since he seems realizes how good our in state recruites are!!

Posted by sjt18 on May 4, 2008 at 4:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

If I understand correctly, Brimfield only had a few years of organized football. He was considered very raw. I'm fairly certain that if there was any chance he could develop into a Chavis-style DT... he wouldn't have been moved. We all recognize that is a significant position of need.

If you had a DC with a different philosophy and style... he might not have been moved. Chavis doesn't like his DT's to be that big. He wants them smaller and quicker. I don't like it... but that is the way it is.

Posted by sjt18 on May 4, 2008 at 5:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)

DaddyVol, there are some kids UT is going after this year on both lines from Tn. Many of them won't be highly rated- probably a bunch of 3* which hurts UT's chances of having a top 10 recruiting class. If UT gets them, there are folks here who will howl over the low class ranking.

But who are you thinking of as far as "dominant O-linemen" from Tn? I'm not sure about the rest but: McNeil- MS, Richard- FL, Scott- GA, Johnson- IL, Parker- GA, Sawtelle- MI, Shaw- LA.

Myers, Foster, and McClendon are the only current OL's I know of from Tennessee that look to get serious playing time.

Posted by Brama on May 5, 2008 at 11:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

HE must be too slow or he is not mean enough. that is normally why someone is moved from Defense tackle to offensive line