From Ground Zero to Hitting on All Cylinders: Vols OC Golesh Shares Process for Tennessee to Implement New Offense

From Ground Zero to Hitting on All Cylinders: Vols OC Golesh Shares Process for Tennessee to Implement New Offense

Alex Golesh spoke with the Tennessee media for the first time on Wednesday afternoon and he opened up on how Tennessee's new staff will implement teaching their new offense, and how fast he expects the process to go during the media session. 

"The way we play is unique and it's been publicized by the people that saw what we were doing at UCF. You have to start a big picture on how we play, schematically and tempo, and then start to hone in on the run game and the passing game. We've already started on the big picture and then working back down on the fine details on how we operate," Golesh told local reporters during the session. "Being unique, that's where it all started. Lining up, splits, tempo, how we call things. You're starting at ground zero because it's so different from what the guys that have been here are used to. As we get closer to spring, we want to fine tune the fundamental technique part that we're doing. We want to start at that big picture standpoint then break it down into smaller pieces."

Golesh is well aware that until you get on the field and see what players can do, it does not matter what you go over from a big picture standpoint. "Until you get out there and do it day one of spring ball, day one of March or mid-March, until you get out there and physically see it, control it, run it, I think it's hard to simulate how fast we want to play. You're teaching it, explaining it and walking through it, but I think until there is wood on the fire and you're out there with no coaches around, I think it's really hard," he said.

So, when does he hop to have Tennessee's offense playing at the pace its new coaching staff desires? 

"My hope is by practice four, five or six of spring we are hitting at a high tempo, but like any scheme it doesn't matter because it's repetition over everything. The more reps these guys get, the better we are going to be and it's just force-feeding their program and letting these kids make mistakes and correcting them off the film. The hope is by the middle of spring that we're operating at a high level. We're just going to continue coaching and it's a process-based deal in terms of building the offense. By the time we get to August and September, we'll be hitting on all cylinders."

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