Why Tennessee will not be next year's Michigan: A rebuttal to T Kyle King

by rustytanton on Mar 4, 2009 7:50 AM EST Comment 12 comments

Since college football fans take on the demeanors of their coaches, I thought I would take this opportunity to turn T Kyle King in for a recruiting violation. YER A CHEATER, T KYLE, SAYIN' AR VAWLS IS GON BE THIS YAR'S MICH-A-GIN.

Commence crocodile tears in 3... 2... 1... ... ... ... ...done? Good.

T Kyle King offers two premises for why this year's Tennessee team will be much like last year's Michigan, imploding at historic lows, only more so:

1) There is no evidence to suggest Lane Kiffin can coach at all.

2) Karma dictates that since Kiffin has gone around ticking off all of his colleagues that he will get his comeuppance.

Number two is irrelevant. Bulldog fans and Volunteer fans have been ticked off at Urban Meyer/Billy Zane for quite some time. He may not actually be a cheater like Lane Kiffin says he is, but he is a smug jerk who runs up the score every chance he gets.

Number one is true. But it's also irrelevant, because there also is no evidence to suggest he can't coach either.

Why Tennessee won't be this year's Michigan: Because the Vols were already last year's Michigan, sinking to near-historic lows under the weight of an over-complicated offensive system with a quarterback not suited to run it. While neither you nor I have read Lane Kiffin's offensive playbook, the PR line is it's a "pro style system so user friendly that freshmen can be plugged into it." We'll see if that turns out to be true, but the coaches have been discussing keeping it simple this year to build our quarterbacks' fragile egos back up.

If Tennessee fails to put together a decent season next year, and it may, it likely won't be for the same reason Tennessee and Michigan were lousy last year.

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HOW DARE HE ASSOCIATE OUR FINE PROGRAM WITH CHARLES WOODSON

(however tangentially)

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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.

by Holly on Mar 4, 2009 12:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Can't believe I missed that angle

Them’s fightin’ words

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Mar 4, 2009 12:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You forgot the fact that . . .

Monte Kiffin was Bo Schembechler’s junior high P.E. teacher. That’s another association.

So is it safe to say that the newly hatched Kiffin era is now the Schrodinger’s cat of college football? Dead? Alive? No, without tangible proof going either way, it is both dead and alive in separate universes.

Oh, and since T. Kyle recruited me to write for his blog, I can assure you there’s no cheatin’ over there. In the words of former Georgia Southern head coach Erk Russell: “Cheating takes money, and down here we don’t have any.”

by MaconDawg on Mar 4, 2009 3:29 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Wow

"Schrodinger’s cat " is a fancy reference for a college football blog. +1 to you sir.

Or, in my all caps redneck voice, WHO YEW CALLIN A PU… (falls off chair)

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Mar 4, 2009 3:41 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

If'n Kiffin replicates SC coaching experience...

If the sales point for Kiffin is that he learned at the knee of Norm Chow, there’s nothing especially complex about that offensive approach – just look for mismatches, occasionally pass to set up running plays, and none of this spread offense nonsense. As for relative difficulty of putting in an underclassman quarterback, Matt Leinart’s first pass in a college game was a touchdown against Auburn. So it’s completely reasonable to think that you could put a freshman in that scheme and it wouldn’t be overwhelming – so long as there’s someone picking out the mismatches for him and he’s at least somewhat talented. I will defer to this site’s community’s greater knowledge of your team as to whether or not your QBs come from a factory school like Mater Dei in Santa Ana.

by DC Trojan on Mar 5, 2009 2:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for adding some perspective.

We won’t have a freshman coming in this year, but since the offense is brand new, we can consider all the QBs to be effectively freshmen for the sake of argument. Kiffin continually preaches that the offense is easy to pick up, which is gold to the ears of Vols fans after last year.

As to the source of QBs – the answer is “sorta”. Especially when Cutcliffe was here (when all the QBs were recruited), we got that caliber of QB into Knoxville. We now have a 2-year gap in QB recruiting, so we don’t know what next year’s guy will be like. We’re hoping for Heaps, but so is every other school in the nation.

by Hooper on Mar 5, 2009 8:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

agree with one point

That last year TN was as bad as Michigan..and yes you did sink to unbelievable lows…I mean for your program to become so pathetic so fast is quite mind boggling…..but heed this prediction….next year you will lose 4/5 games…is that quite as bad as Michigan?…no but who cares its still pathetic and makes you guys a meaningless program in the SEC…..get used to it ….. tell Monte to rip his shirt off and then Ill be a believer

Jealousy is the thread that holds TET threads together!

by The Voice of Reason on Mar 6, 2009 2:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs