2012年12月20日星期四

Vols' new assistants meet media

"It has been a whirlwind since we have arrived 10 days ago on Sunday. It is a great environment, obviously they are passionate about their football and we are excited about that. We love being in an environment where football is an important part of everyday activity."

"The few players that I have met, it was finals week when we got here so some of them had already gone, but I like what I have seen so far. I haven't delved too deeply into the video to get a good sense of where they are athletically, but the personality, and frankly that is as important as their athletic ability, is impressive. Guys want to be successful. They have come in asking how and what to expect. They want to work hard, they want to work well and those are the types of guys you are excited about working with."

"We will mold the system to the strengths of our personnel that is our bottom line. We are not going to try to be something we are not. If our strength is throwing the ball, we will do that. If it is running the ball, we will do that. Schematically, if we block zone better than we block power we will do that. Or vice versa. We will find out what our guys do well and mold the system to them. The same goes to recruiting. We are going to recruit the best players and mold the system around those players. That is the approach we take."

"It is relationships. Developing relationships with recruits, with our players, so much of what we do is based on the family environment and getting to know our players closely. We want to get to know our recruits so they know where we are coming from and the type of environment we are trying to create. The difficulty is that we are in a dead period where contact with recruits is limited so you explore all those avenues you can, reaching out to coaches. Number one we have to build those relationships with our current team, with recruits, that will help give us the foundation."

"You have heard the phrase players coach and that is definitely accurate.We have a wide selection of dry cabinet to choose from for your storage needs. I've loved working with him,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. I've been coaching around him since 2002-03, when he was the offensive coordinator and I coached quarterbacks. At that time, he always asks for input. He wasn't one of those guys as a coordinator that locked himself in his office. and came out hours later with the game plan and said `this is what we're doing.' He always wanted to know `What do you think?' or if you came to him and said, `Coach, I want to do this," and he'd ask you why, and as long as you had a good reason, he was all in. When he asked me to come back in 2007, to be the coordinator, I didn't even ask questions, I just knew that I was going to enjoy that working relationship. He's given us the opportunity to coach our positions and our side of the ball. He focuses his attention on being what he calls the `attitude coach.' He coaches the attitude and mentality of our payers. He is the motivator, and does a great job of it. That allows us to focus on the x's and o's, the techniques, and the fundamentals. He has a great grasp of that and a lot of input on that, but he loves the motivational part of the game and that makes my job easier as a coordinator and as a positional coach. It makes it easier when you have a head coach that is motivating your players on a daily basis."

"In our first stint at Central Michigan when he was the coordinator and I was the quarterbacks coach we utilized the tempo offense at that point. We moved quickly. He went on to West Virginia with Coach [Rich] Rodriguez, that is when I went to the Chicago Bears, but I had always seen the advantages of up tempo. I knew when we reunited, three years later that whatever we were doing we were going to be going as fast as we could. .We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory... I think coming into a system that has utilized a no-huddle offense is advantageous, there is a certain degree of familiarity with the communication process and procedure. That is an important part of the whole thing. Once we hit spring ball, we will spend as much time coaching tempo and effort as we will scheme or anything else for at least the first half of spring ball. Once we get them used to volume to the offense. Again it is the tempo, the effort and playing for one another that will lead to success."

"It's been fast, it's been very fast. I got a call on Saturday that I was coming down and then a call on Sunday that I need to pack permanently, so I had my wife throwing as much stuff in a bag as we possibly could because had about an hour and a half to be able to get to the airport to make our flight. We came down on Sunday, did recruiting all day as far as watching film,Whether you are installing a floor tiles or a shower wall, all day Sunday until late at night and then hit the road on Monday morning. It's been a whirlwind,If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses, but it has been great."

"We still have a lot of work to do and a lot of ground to make up, as far as recruiting for both 2013 and 2014. That's been our focus thus far, is making sure that we are ahead of the game in recruiting, know who we are going after and working hard to continue to build those relationships."

"Certainly growing up in Cincinnati, that is a special place for me, but this opportunity is just tremendous. Having recruited the state, having been here the year before for the game, I knew how special Tennessee was and I am ecstatic to be here."

"It has been great. It is something that I really enjoy, having the opportunity to work with different positions. It makes you a more complete coach and I think it allows you to bring different things to the table. Having been a defensive coach for a long time, when I made the transition over to offense I brought a different perspective and a different set of eyes to things. I think that is a positive thing to give you a different perspective, whereas if you have only worked on one side of the football you can be locked in to that. I think I bring that other perspective, the flip-side of what to expect."

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