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The Big Orange Roundtable Volume Whatever
Posted by Thomas the Terrible on September 3, 2008
This weeks Big Orange Roundtable is being hosted by our friends at Southeastern Sports Blog. Since football season has begun we are going to trimming the questions up which in all honesty makes since to me unlike the way I witnessed Tennessee play this past Monday night. With that said let’s go to the roundtable.
“Who/what were you most disappointed in at UCLA, and what is your greatest concern for this team going forward?”
That’s a loaded question if I have ever seen one.
I’m most disappointed in the coaching staff particularly in Fulmer and Clawson. The play calling when you’re on the road, you CANNOT play it safe in OT…….you’ve got to go for the throat!
As I stated before the choice to kick two field goals that were over 50 yards was horrid, especially the second one. We were pounding them with the running game and yet for reason we stopped and said let’s go for the pass.
Just where was this new offense at anyway? We are still running the same plays that we did when Sanders was the OC.
I’m not the only one who is thinking that GoVolsExtra has set up a frustration hotline and I’ve called five times it’s been busy every single time.
Now its possible Fulmer was overriding some of the calls Clawson was sending out. That being said the progression of Crompton is still nil. In fact he looked worse than he did two years ago against LSU.
Every play had him standing in the same position after the snap, no freaking wonder he was bothered most of the night.
I’m concerned about simply winning. Does this team have the talent? Yes! Does it have the coaching? Right now no!
The Mountain Messiah looked like a high school freshman playing last night. His mechanics were horrible and I’m forming the Colemanauts, which are an elite team of fans who want to see what “Huge Hands” Coleman can do. However if there is improvement over the next several weeks we will back off unlike the Cromptonites who never backed off when EA was the QB
I have no faith in “Fumbling” Foster either. I believe Hardesty should be the new starter until he gets injured which will happen.
Right now my greatest concern is nothing will change with the play calling, coaching or coaching staff. We should have won that game Monday night and we should have won big. Heck we made Clemson look good. (No offense Tiger fans)
Be sure to check out all the other Big Orange Roundtable members and their sites for their response to this weeks question.
- Loser With Socks
- 3rd Saturday in Blogtober
- Fulmer’s Belly
- Gate 21
- Rocky Top Talk
- SouthEastern Sports Blog (Host Site)
- The View from the Hill
- Moondog Sports
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zigzag said
All that hype and Crompton was terrible. Poorly prepared. Sluggish. Out of sync. Confused. Coaching? Non-existent.
Mike said
Crompton was pretty bad and he had no help from the play caller. He was out of synch and the running game was working so why not keep it on the ground. I haven’t seen coaching win us a game in 10 years, but I have seen it lose us plenty.
As a Volunteer living in Florida it was embarassing to have to appologoze to the Gators I work with for how poorly we represented the SEC (AGAIN) against an out of conference team we should have had no problems with.