SQUANDERING PERFECT OPPORTUNITY

SQUANDERING PERFECT OPPORTUNITY

Never more obvious than today - we have a serious coaching problem

A win today at Alabama and Tennessee is alone atop the SEC EAST
Ranked 13th or better in the country
and well on the way to an SECCG and a possible BCS birth

Arian Foster - running through Alabama like Sherman marched through Georgia
7.5 yards per carry - he looked unstoppable.

So what does the Tennessee brain trust do?
3rd down near midfield Tennessee up 14 to 10
3rd and short who gets the rock?
Arian Foster right?

NOPE they don't have Arian in the game (Roper dope)
and Cutcliffe calls for the run with Creer - NO GAIN
But we can correct that mistake - bring in Foster and pick up one yard
NOPE - punt
Bama marches over our 'well coached' Chavis defense and it's 17 to 14

Halftime - our brilliant brain trust of coaching will adjust wont' they?

3rd quarter down 10 - Foster still running great at 7.5 ypc
Give it to Foster right?
Nope - Cut a screen pass that's blocked
Still we have Foster and short yardage for a fourth down conversion
GIVE THE DAMN BALL TO FOSTER
Nope - lets punt because our defense can hold them thinks Fulmer
Why? has our defense held them yet?
NOPE - and the rout is on.

There comes a time when fans have to recognize the futility of supporting a staff that has no ability to adjust to adversity during a game
We have to know that the inability to give the team a chance by putting the ball in the hands of our best chance (Arian Foster on 3rd and short) is a sure sign of a breakdown in basic intelligence.

This isn't the teams fault
And you cannot work to fix stupidity
Fulmer and his staff have been turned out by Meyer, Tedford and Saban and there is no sense in supporting an intelligence deficit.
Fulmer and company are never going to get any smarter
And all the film and hard work won't make a bit of difference

I really hoped up until today that CPF & company could luck out an get to Atlanta
It was clear at UGA and MsState we had figured out how to run
If was obvious in the 2nd quarter today
But our team cannot overcome a porous defense and a massive deficit in coaching guts and intelligence.

Those two 3rd and short opportunities
With Bama unable to stop Foster
showed that
1) the staff wasn't smart enough to run Foster
2) the staff doesn't have the guts to run Foster twice (on 3rd and 4th)
Our offensive team could have won that game if the coaches gave them the opportunity - our defensive "genius" was incapable of stopping Hall
You don't punt on 4th and one 10 points down when your defense can't stop the opponent.

The staff has no idea what a halftime adjustment is - they have to study film and work like heck and you can't do that at halftime. We require enough intelligence in a coaching staff to make adjustments without film and a week to work on a game that ended on Saturday afternoon
Our staff will study Alabama film this week and work like heck to fix it.
But we won't be playing Alabama next saturday.

I really feel sorry for Erik and Arian today
These guys should be having a great season
But our coaches don't seem to think so
In fact our coaches don't seem to think.

Tennessee should be ranked 13th and leading the SEC East as a favorite to beat USC at home this week. If the team had been allowed to do what they do best - have Arian Foster run the rock until he is stopped.
But we have a coaching intelligence problem so plain even I can see it

That's what I really think and I don't know Jack.
But I'm allowed to show my ignorance on a messageboard
and make an ass of myself
so there it is - your turn to explain how wrong I am
and how great our coaching staff really is.