Recent content by oregonvol

I think this exchange (from a "mega-donor") shows what the real issue is...It's not just the Haslams. It's the fact that all of our major donors and decision-makers seem to be utter mental cases when it comes to the reality of modern day football. Fulmer would be neck and neck with Saban...

So yesterday I made the mistake of flipping over to the Sports Animal. They had this Barrett Sallee guy on there saying how the best thing about Fulmer as AD is that he realizes UT shouldn’t be one of the high profile teams in their division (of course neither host challenged him on this)...

I know battered vol syndrome is a real thing and people here just want to feel positive about whatever they get at this point, but I don't feel that we've benefitted in any way by ignoring logic and facts over the years, so I figured I would point out why other schools weren't interested in...

You probably don't want to admit it, but Butch's resume was more impressive. That's why alot of other colleges wanted him, whereas no one was chasing Pruitt.

It's better to lose the whole class than to hurry and end up with a guy who isn't going to win anything and put us back in the same situation a couple years from now.

As compared to…? I mean, yeah, he hasn't coached big games like Nick Saban or Gus Malzahn have coached big games. But, he has taken on Power 5 teams and top 25 ranked teams, which are pretty big games for a Group of 5 team like Memphis, and he has done pretty well in those games. As a...

If it's quick, it's probably going to be a really bad hire. If Fulmer is serious about getting the right guy, he's most likely going to need to spend time selling him on the program, building confidence that the athletic department is now stable. I'm hoping we'll go a week without hearing...

All of those guys were much more qualified for the head coaching job when they got it. No other power 5 school would even consider Tee Martin for their job. Would you even consider him for this job if not for his playing career? Of course not. Why do you so desperately want someone who is so...

Yeah, but there is no way hiring a coach as unqualified as Tee Martin could possibly work out in the long run. After a couple of years of dismal results, the fan enthusiasm will be gone and the program will be in worse shape than it is now, with even more money wasted on more buyouts.

Dooley had actually been a head coach before.

USC’s three-headed monster leads to seamless play-calling – Daily News "Offensive coordinator Tee Martin calls plays on first and second down. If third down is a passing situation, quarterbacks coach Tyson Helton calls the play while his brother, USC coach Clay Helton, offers...

It's pure insanity here these days. Tee Martin isn't even allowed to call plays on third and long. He isn't running his own offense. There is no evidence he could run a football program, much less a power 5 football program. No other power 5 program would consider him for their head job at this...

Tee Martin is less qualified for this job than even Dooley was when we hired him. Would be an absolute disaster.

Probably because no one in our AD can judge coaching talent. They would rather give the job to an old has-been or a guy who has decades of kind of average results rather than one of the young up-and-comers. That's the only reason I can think that we're seeing names like Cutcliffe and Doeren...

I looked into this when they were taking about him for AD. Basically most of Fulmer's good assistant coaching hires were simply promoted from within. When he did have to search for a coach (see:Clawson), the results were pretty dismal. I'll hope for the best, but I don't think Fulmer is a...