Recruiting Forum Football Talk XLI

[volfanCLT]

Article was and still is trash.

It wasn't that everyone disagreed with what was said. It was the low rent manner in which it was done.

Screw Haney.

I really don’t remember the article.

How should it have been done? Was he right about what he wrote or did he just throw a bunch of stuff and some of it stuck?

 

[RockyTopInBham]

Possibly a public records request was made by Hyams for the letter?

Or Jimmy just asked Antone and he explained what he wrote and why he's leaving.

 

[BeecherVol]

Y'all still doubt that Haney article?

Entire program is disfunctional.

Didn't doubt it when it came out.

Truth hurt a lot of feelings at the time. That hasn't changed.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Article was and still is trash.

It wasn't that everyone disagreed with what was said. It was the low rent manner in which it was done.

Screw Haney.

Yeah. It was irresponsible journalism, even if the underlying allegations had some truth to them.

 

[SportsVol]

5020 is owned by Jimmy.

There is a huge house right down with a ton of acreage. I found an old article that made it sound like the prez lived there. UT owns it. My assumption was the president lives there. Does that thing just sit empty?

Yes, it sits empty. Sad but apparently too expensive to rehab. It belonged to the Coca Cola heir and was willed to UT with stipulations. Shouldnt have been surprised that Jimmy lives on Cherokee.

Can’t see Gruden on Lyons View unless it’s gated. Sequoyah Hills seems like a more peaceful place to live.

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Hopefully this helps Currie make a decision about Butch. He has to fire him. There’s no coming back from this.

Not after all the public support for Davis from the players parents. This is why I don’t think we’ve lost many recruits.

 

[BruinVol]

I have a feeling Currie is sitting back and piling up evidence and bad PR and is gonna find a way to fire Jones with cause and not pay him a dime (or at least a fraction of what his buyout is).

If Davis was asked to break rules that would do it

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

I have a feeling Currie is sitting back and piling up evidence and bad PR and is gonna find a way to fire Jones with cause and not pay him a dime (or at least a fraction of what his buyout is).

The master plan presses on

 

[WarMachine]

Antone Davis, the Brett Kendrick fiasco, 0-5 in the conference. I predict Saturday night will be Butch's farewell. Homecoming for everyone else.

 

[BigZiti09]

I really don’t remember the article.

How should it have been done? Was he right about what he wrote or did he just throw a bunch of stuff and some of it stuck?

Honestly I don't remember it all but I remember thinking at the time that even if every single thing he wrote was true it was still a bs article.

 

[Kingston Vol]

Didn't doubt it when it came out.

Truth hurt a lot of feelings at the time. That hasn't changed.

Yeah, I took some flack around these parts for standing up for it.

 

[volfanCLT]

Honestly I don't remember it all but I remember thinking at the time that even if every single thing he wrote was true it was still a bs article.

I’m not sure I understand this line of thinking.

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Haney was right and needs his job back.

Anyone think Antone was the source for Haney’s article?

 

[BigZiti09]

I’m not sure I understand this line of thinking.

Responsible Journalism

 

[BigZiti09]

Anyone think Antone was the source for Haney’s article?

I think he may have been the source for Clay Travis article this week.

 

[HankHill]

Anyone think Antone was the source for Haney’s article?

That was Spags.

 

[Ron Swanson]

We need to end the Butch Jones era on Sunday. Win or lose this weekend.

I'm with ya but has a coach ever been fired mid-season immediately after a win?

 

[volfanCLT]

Responsible Journalism

Is the truth, correct?

You said if everything in the article was right it would still be a bs article? I can’t agree with that

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Here’s a post from Boro in the Gruden thread. I know many give him a hard time, but this is spot on and how many of us feel. It’s not about Gruden.

I don't want Frost, or any other young dynamic upstart. If UT was a young dynamic upstart that would be ok. We're not that. We are a blue-blood legacy SEC power, with facilities and funding to rival anyone in the country. We've moved away from seeing ourselves that way because of our self-inflicted decade of misery. It's time to change the perception in the same fashion that Alabama did.

I want an established, proven, championship level coach who will compete for championships against the best our conference has to offer. Who my list includes is irrelevant...but it doesn't include anybody at a current mid-major program, with less than 3 years of D1 experience, or who has started being spoken of because they are beating up on the scrubs at a non-P5 conference.

I still hold us to a higher standard than that....even if the powers that be don't seem to. I'll continue to, or I'll cease to care.

 

[chavisut]

6 weeks ago what is the reaction to this news on here?

 

[Kingston Vol]

6 weeks ago what is the reaction to this news on here?

#theygonlearn

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

6 weeks ago what is the reaction to this news on here?

Outrage at Davis, a call for a revoking of his VFL card, and constant criticism at him and Hyams for publishing it.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

#theygonlearn

Really regret that I didn’t make shirts and sell them to you suckers

 

[UTJoe]

Antone is a good guy. He's a source for a couple of posters on this board.

Butch asked him to do some sketchy stuff, Antone declined, and he was blacklisted.

I'm telling yall, there's more of this stuff about Butch. He treats people like dogs behind the scenes.

I think it's all part of the booster's "pressure" plan they have going with MIT, AV, et al. :loco:

 

[BigZiti09]

Is the truth, correct?

You said if everything in the article was right it would still be a bs article? I can’t agree with that

Because it was a hit piece. Nothing at stake for the people making claims. Haney could have made stuff up or added his own extra details to it. What’s it matter? Nobody can fact check it. Can’t write a scathing huge article like that without having something concrete. It was irresponsible. He’s still a douche bag for it.

Doubled down not long later with something similar and his employer showed him the door.