It's also hard to gauge the development of players regarding last season when just about every player that we had was injured at some point in time. I'm not disagreeing with you on some of the question marks you have, but last year was the biggest disaster from a personnel injury stand point over any season in my lifetime.

I have never seen anything like what happened to us last year. It was miserable.

Josh Malone absolutely got better and better every year. He's one of the few role players who remained healthy besides Dobbs and Barnett last year. All 3 had terrific seasons.

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Posted by Torch

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Posted on 6/29/17 at 11:30 am to TRUERockyTop

Agreed. Many factors went into our poor play this last season. I guess poor player development is just a feeling that I get. Fate conspires against Butch Jones, and then he goes ahead and makes dumb decisions and says dumb things to add to it.

I really want to like the guy and I want him to be wildly successful, I just don't think it's going to happen. I guess I'm left wondering if it is just a random confluence of negative circumstances, simply bad coaching or poor player development. Not enough hard evidence to tell IMO.

I want the guys who come to Knoxville to get a solid product from the coaching staff because I think that's what we always were. Come to Tennessee and the Pumpkin King will make you the best football player you can be. If the current coaching staff isn't turning out the caliber players based on the potential they have, players will look elsewhere.

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