Tennessee football: Five positives from Vols promoting Joe Osovet to TE coach
2. Analytics
Jeremy Pruitt is a hard-nosed coach, hired by an athletic director in Phillip Fulmer who was a hard-nosed coach. That toughness mentality is what drives all the great SEC coaches, and Pruitt is building Tennessee football’s staff largely in that mold. After the failure of Butch Jones, the hire was a very welcome one for fans all across Rocky Top.
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However, in Joe Osovet, Pruitt has a guy who can complement all the hard-nosed toughness coaches on his staff. Being a junior college coach in New York, Osovet obviously brings a different perspective as an offensive mind. He comes in with a focus on analytics, and that’s why he has been a big X’s and O’s guy in an off-field role over the past couple of years.
One key thing for Osovet stands out here. He is cutting edge. Nearly two decades ago, Osovet was the guy who actually invented RPOs. At the time, it was called manipulation, but that was back in 2001, and it is widely used across the nation by coaches regardless of the schemes they run. That’s the way Osovet thinks, and it’s what the Vols needs.
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With guys like Pruitt, Jim Chaney and so many other young, energetic coaches who like to recruit and bring a certain level of fire, Osovet is going to be the guy to think about things analytically. That’s a big deal and adds another major element to UT’s staff that many SEC programs don’t have. As a result, the Vols may have gained an advantage.