Coverage Roundup: Weather and Vol fan spirits both cloudy

So the editor reads these other editors and makes an assumtion that he has a consensous of the Tennessee fans? He left out the tea leaves.
No one thinks Tennessee was going to be a conference contender the first year of re-building. Why do they write such? Just to fill the column?
I for one think we are building the foundation of our future team.
GBO

People who get on here and bash the TN program no absolutly nothing about football and dont deserve to called a fan! If you really expected TN to win the SEC or whatever then you set yourself up for the disappointment you feel now! THIS IS A REBULIDING YEAR! Next year should be somewhat better, but dont count on going to SEC Championship for about three years. Give this staff some time and patience. Rome was not bulit in a day! I suggest you read Meat Market...about Coach O. We will get the talent it takes...and when we do all you fair weather fans will be living high then!

UT is down now. But I'm proud of the team going out game after game and playing with a sense of purpose. Keep it up boys!

As for the pretend fans who behave like little more than fair weather friends and spoiled self-centered children the moment thing don't go their way, LEAVE. The football program under Fulmer went to pot via the laxness of a coach who'd grown too comfortable in his position to care enough to maintain high standards in either recruit quality, discipline quality, or coaching quality to lead kids in his care to the next level. He was a great guy in so many areas but he just slipped farther and farther down as a coach. We're now paying the price and some of us are too dimwitted to understand that the new people need to actually REBUILD what was once a great program. There's no magic to this. It takes both time and sweat and genuine fan support. Anything otherwise hinders the program not help it. So all you folks out there being a hindrance, just LEAVE. Maybe even become Gator fans or something. We don't need or want the disease of negativism at the UT. Take it somewhere else.
I'm severely disappointed with the team's fortunes like most fans. But I believe better days are coming and the kids playing now and their coaches are laying the foundation for it. True fans will praise the team's effort, yell lustily at every positive play and encourage the team when it isn't playing well. You think none of our players read these forums? You think the poison spewed here has no effect on them and by default talented friends they might convince to commit to UT? That's why the poison here should be weeded out. Hopefully the moderator or owner of this site will institute measures for filtering said poison and soon. Vols forever!!!!!!!!!!!

the good thing is that this program is on its way up...kiffin isnt playing his guys hes playing fulmers..kiffin said that this will take time...ive got kiffins back...hes going to be great

Rebulding is an excuse. The difference between the Auburn team and the Vols last year was razor thin. New coaching staff and 12 months, the difference is vast. Auburn executed on Offense, we did not. Auburn special teams contributed to the win, ours contributed to the loss. I believe it is all about coaching. Auburn coaches found a way to put basically the same players in a winning postion. Our coaches have not. Special teams is where coaching shows up the brightest. Our special teams have been...well, not very special. Even a poor talent team can protect the kicker, and prevent huge yardage on returns if they are well coached. Saturday our coverage was all over the field except where the runner was. Yes, players execute the plan but it's all about the coach. I'm beginning to see that we hired a team of recruiters to coach a football team. If they continue to perform this poorly on the field, they will begin to fail in the living room as well. I just hope they get this straight. I'll keep wearing Orange and going into the games with the anticipation of a child on christmas. Unfortunately reality sets in quickly when the offense goes three and out over and over and kick off returns leave the opposing team playing on a short field.
The present was wrapped nicely and the excitement was built but Coach Kiffin forgot to buy batteries.

WE ARE GOING TO BE GREAT!

Just give this staff some time, I believe that we will see improvement across the board as the season progresses.

We will take our lumps along the way, but keep smiling and know that this staff will field dominate teams in the very near future.

It's great to be a Tennessee Vol!

Bleacher report re OC is on the money.

Jumping to conclusions a lil bit ain't ya. Even got the name for it, that's sad dude! 5 games he's coached, 5 games and your ready to fire him. I believe he's tryin to coach with what he's got, Fulmers leftovers. I agree with you when you talk about not hurting someones feelings, JC needs to be benched. But the talk of fire Kiffin is a little bit too far fetched yet. Lets play a few more games! Go Vols

Exactly. Nooga paper has a couple of good scribes.

After watching the horrific offensive play (if you can call it that) of UT, I think it's time to bench Crompton and a few choice receivers who can't seem to catch a cold much less a football. Put in some 2nd stringers who are hungry to play. And, CLK, start showing some emotion and quit looking down at you play sheet constantly! Demand respect and better play from your men!

Okay, let's talk reality. G Jones ran his trap all week and the staff gave in and made him a vocal point. How many drops did he have on big plays?? Teague has shown he can catch but because Jones ran his trap, Teague got 1 ball thrown his way? Now it looks as though Warren has taken a page from Jone's book. Great coaching. Crompton! Great coaching. Lincoln! Sucked last year and still starting! Great coaching. 3rd and 10, we play a 15 yard zone! Great coaching. Nuke gets 41 yards on opening play in the nugun formation, not tried again! Great coaching. Playing defensive starters on special teams when they are already playing about 80 snaps a game, great coaching. Now I am not saying I expected to win the SEC but I did expect things to work differently than last year. CLK yaps about playing his freshmen but all I can see is them on special teams and the upper classman making all the mistakes and setting bad examples and they continue to play and the freshmen continue to ride the pines. Crompton is considered to have a great game when he fumbled a snap, fell down on a hand off, and completed less than 50% of his passes and the new staff REFUSES to even give anyone else a chance. Great coaching. USC beat us once with a converted defensive player at QB but we cant even give a backup QB a chance. Next year Crapton will be gone and we will have backups at QB that never see the field or a true freshman, well, if he dont jump ship. If our backup QBs suck so bad that they cant get a chance with Crapton playing, how can this staff justify running off Boyd, especially when we may only get one QB this year and we will lose our BEST QB? Finally, how can we get behind a HC that was happy with just not being blown out by UF and was outcoached by another 1st year HC with similar talent from last year? After all, we did have a better recruiting class than Auburn did last year and we only lost to them last year because of a Crapton fumble.

Now please enlighten me as to what skilled positions are being held by freshmen????????????????????????????

I'm just responding to clear up an allegation, since you're just a troll.

We lost a single recruit this week. He was a JC commitment who didn't have a math course credit that is required by the SEC, so he started looking elsewhere. I wish him good luck wherever he goes, but I have complete faith in our coaches to find a replacement.

To look at Auburn's recruiting vs. our recruiting the last few years and conclude that their coaches are superior isn't entirely accurate. They do have great coaches, but they still had plenty of talent on their roster and an offensive coach who is more attuned to teaching young players, having come from high school, rather than the pro-style coaching of our coaches. Also keep in mind Auburn's much weaker schedule to date and you can see that they were able to ease into the season, while Kiffin's group had to immediately compete against elite defenses out of the gate. I think we'll see in the next 7 games how well these coaches have turned around the team. When they've got veterans to bring the new kids up to speed next year, we'll be able to truly judge the skill of our coaches in developing leaders, which is the ultimate test of a coach.

When you talk of a much weaker schedule are you including UT? LOL Yes it was apparent that their offensive coach is much much much better than what UT has. You talk about talent on their roster, are you talking about the same team that only beat us last year because of a Crompton fumble? The team that went 5-7 just like us? Looks like after UT, they were still easing into the season. The score did not tell the story as to how bad they beat us.

Witchee seem to disappear same time as Hooker....Hmmm?

The bleacher report article is the stupidest thing I've ever read. If you can't watch the game and see clearly what the problem is you should go to football school or something.

The play calling has been excellent. Well balanced. Running game good despite no passing game. The team isn't committing anywhere NEAR the penalties and stupid mental mistakes of last year. If you cannot see how clear it is that this team lacks a QB and receivers right now you are blind.

If Crompton and the receivers could complete 70% of the throws with a TD-INT ratio of just 6, there would be no-one complaining today. This offense is dramatically improved in fundamentals and blocking - it lacks playmakers. They are coming.

So you are saying that last year's class was a joke and they cant play? I think they were good players but are being coached by bad coaches. We have lost the season so whyy not let the freshmen play and bench the WRs that drop passes? Why not play a Jr QB and get him ready for next year? This year is lost and we will be lucky to win another game.

Vols 30 Dawgs 10

Let's just compare the coaches at the Auburn game.
Offense Auburn outcoached
Defense Auburn outcoached
Special Teams Auburn outcoached
Class Auburn wins that too

This ticket deal worked out great, I just bought fifty tickets and bringing a bus of load of Bulldog fans to the game.

So let me get this straight. The QB cant throw and the WRs cant catch and yet they continue to play with the bench full of players that maybe just maybe could do it better and that is not bad coaching? I want a coach that is willing to TRY to win games. I dont think anyone thought we would go undefeated but I really did think we would wind at least 6 games and I dont think anyone thought we would go 2 and 10 or 3 and 9.

Attended the game and took my 7 year old son to his first UT game. Before the game we hiked the Chimney tops, also a first for him. I could hardly believe he had enough energy left to scream for the Vols like he did in the 4th quarter. By the end of the game, he was one piiisssed of little dude. 7 year old quote of the weekend: "By halftime I thought we were going to get taken to the woodshed daddy, but they didn't give up and they still had a chance to win at the end"
Best quote that mom won't hear: "I want to whip the sheeiit out of the dawgs next week!"

Don't quite see it that way. Auburn players outperformed some of our guys. Our coaching staff in solid (despite the JC boondoogle).
Before you jump on the Aubie bandwagon, consider this: We could very well have won the game in spite of playing the worst QB in the history of the league.

lets see , when we win a game we are going to beat everyone, play in the sec championship game, play for a national championship, then go to the super bowl lol,,if we loose a game we need to get rid of crompton which may not be a bad idea, fire the coaches who really said they had to keep it simple this year with what they had before the season started,, if we happen to beat ga saturday all the posts on here change just like they do from week to week,, everyone in the know i listened to before the season started did say tn was hurting especially on offence,, lets say kiffen done everything said on here played other players gave em all a chance and we still lost wouldn't some of you still say the same,,damned if you do damned if you don't as they say,,i do remember a few games ago reading ,, fulmer didn't coach players up to their potential,, now we have someone who does,, now i read the coaching staff can't coach,, maybe some here should apply for a coaching job somewhere because you sure are waisting your talents sitting at home posting on here, the team does have some big problems and the coaches have to work with what they got,,maybe with better recruits that suits the coaching style of this team we get better, that is the time you evaluate what the coaches can do, anyone can second guess what should have been, like crossing a road and getting hit by a car ,, if i only looked to see if it was coming,,a true fan takes it as it comes ,stands behind his coaches who are paid to know more about it than i,if we won em all it would get a little old after 5 or 10 years lol

well ok then