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Tennessee football: Ranking Vols 6 offseason staff changes for 2019

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 08: Head coach Jeremy Pruitt of the Tennessee Volunteers brings his team onto the field prior to a game against the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers at Neyland Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennesee won the game 59-3. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - SEPTEMBER 08: Head coach Jeremy Pruitt of the Tennessee Volunteers brings his team onto the field prior to a game against the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers at Neyland Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tennesee won the game 59-3. (Photo by Donald Page/Getty Images) /
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Tennessee football’s 2019 staff changes are official. Here is a ranking of all six Volunteers staff changes based on the positive impact they should have.

After just one year under head coach Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee football is changing up its staff dramatically. The Vols have three new assistant coaches and none of the coordinators from 2018 are in the same role for 2019. Pruitt announced all these changes on Friday, finally making them official after weeks of speculation and news reports.

This isn’t to say that Pruitt hasn’t maintained some level of stability, but it is pretty incredibly how much things changed. To be fair, he’s seen this before. Nick Saban seems to change coordinators every year with the Alabama Crimson Tide, including from his first year to his second year, when he replaced both coordinators.

As Saban has shown, the success of a program is about the head coach and the programs, not the assistants. You can always find good assistants when you have the right head coach. And when you have the wrong coach, as in Butch Jones, great assistants all of a sudden look like a problem, such as Bob Shoop.

Simply put, Pruitt’s abilities will determine how good his assistant coaches look. However, these staff changes are still significant to the program and could change a lot of things. So what do they mean for Tennessee football?

In this post, we’re going to analyze all six staff changes to the Vols and rank them. Our criteria for this ranking includes the potential impact the changes could have on the program and how good of moves they were.

It’s hard to see any of these changes having a negative impact on the program, but some of them weren’t moves worthy of approval. Again, we aren’t anybody to judge what Pruitt wants to do, but these were indeed lots of changes.

So which ones were the biggest deals? How well will they all work out? Let’s go ahead and break all of that down here. This is our ranking of all six Tennessee football on-field staff changes during the offseason heading into 2019.

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