re: How long will Butch Jones last for the Tennessee FootVOLS?

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he's made some other strange calls... the 4th down call in second half of the Auburn game was pretty bad... then the next series he punted after AU scored a TD. The game was still relatively close at that time, IIRC.

The poor OL play given all that talent is another curious situation.... not all players buy into a new coach and scheme, but there aren't many good excuses for being that bad up front on offense.

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4th down calls are statistically more successful despite going against traditional wisdom. We weren't going to win that game so I have no problem with taking that kind of risk.

Our oline bought in but they had a couple of things happen: 1. they were never the same after the Bama game (remember those guys had started every game of their career with little substitution for a breather and were beat the hell up from a brutal arse schedule - they were tired and injured) 2. our oline had never really learned to run block because of Dooley/Bray/Chaney (nor had they had the same coach for two consecutive years their entire career). All Bray ever did was throw. 3. when Worley went down Dobbs opened up the play book and unfortunately our oline was not very good at the new blocking schemes - Tiny false started so many times after the Bama game it was pathetic (now we know why since it's come to light he was hurt) but those false starts killed any hope of giving our freshmen a chance to get a drive going. Mental errors plagued the team the latter games of the season.