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10ecVol said:
Quick Kiffen story: a friend of mine was at a guy's "get acquainted with Lane" party right after Kiffen was hired. They were passing around a jar of moonshine and everyone was taking pulls from the jar. Kiffen refused to drink from the jar-wanted it poured in a separate glass.
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So he doesn't get his corn from a jar...don't want!
 
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10ecVol said:
Quick Kiffen story: a friend of mine was at a guy's "get acquainted with Lane" party right after Kiffen was hired. They were passing around a jar of moonshine and everyone was taking pulls from the jar. Kiffen refused to drink from the jar-wanted it poured in a separate glass.
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Confirms his doucheiness
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Forget Harbaugh to Tennessee, that's silly.


But this does raise a very interesting sea change in NCAA football:

The early reporting period being AHEAD OF the end of each NFL regular season is going to make NFL-to-NCAA coaching moves much less easy. Therefore, less likely.

And I'm not talking about NFL head coaches to become NCAA head coaches, we all know that's already very uncommon. Talking more about NFL coordinators taking NCAA head coaching gigs and the like.

If you need that new coach by the first part of December, but you can't get him until the end of December ... well, it's just a big sabot in the gearing.

That lightbulb didn't come on over my head until I read this tweet you linked.
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Like I said earlier some of the names I've heard would definitely be surprises after Gruden
 
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Pete Carpet said:
Everyone seems a little anxious today.Hang in there we have come this far,especially the 2012 bunch. Last night was good to see the people getting tixs enjoying themselves. I think we take for granted sometimes that everyone on here has gone to games before. Glad everyone had a good time, especially the kids. Still remember my first game,cold and windy and almost just like this Saturdays game. Johnnys first year Vandy-Tennessee to stay out of last.Still after all the games I've gone to it's still one of the tops because it's was the first time in Neyland to see the Vols! To many of those people yesterday they will feel the same way in years to come! Kudos to everyone making that possible.
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I still remember my first game vividly. It was Peyton's last game at Neyland Stadium, and a 17-10 win over Vandy. Interestingly enough, I won the tickets from a drawing at Kroger that was sponsored by a bread vendor. Thanks, Colonial Bakery.
 
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Sent a tweet to see if I could convince Currie to give us an answer. Maybe it will work, but doubt it.
 

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The story I'm hearing is that the daddy rabbit boosters have embarked on a true long term plan to resurrect the program. A twenty year plan. Gruden is coming. His staff will incude many ex vols. Tee is being courted as a "Head coach in waiting". One of the major reasons for the delay in announcing Gruden is the desire to allow Tee, Dale Jones and others to finish their seasons without the distractions of being questioned about Tennessee.

Remember, when and if Gruden is announced it will be a media circus. It will be one of the top ten biggest football stories of the year in college and the NFL. When a story is this big everybody involved, and there are a lot of them, wants the timing of the announcement to be optimized for the greatest impact on the program. It will be the story that dominates the college football off season.

I hate to use cliches but tifwiw.
 
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Squints said:
I still remember my first game vividly. It was Peyton's last game at Neyland Stadium, and a 17-10 win over Vandy. Interestingly enough, I won the tickets from a drawing at Kroger that was sponsored by a bread vendor. Thanks, Colonial Bakery.
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Funny. I don't remember my first game.
 
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76vol said:
The story I'm hearing is that the daddy rabbit boosters have embarked on a true long term plan to resurrect the program. A twenty year plan. Gruden is coming. His staff will incude many ex vols. Tee is being courted as a "Head coach in waiting". One of the major reasons for the delay in announcing Gruden is the desire to allow Tee, Dale Jones and others to finish their seasons without the distractions of being questioned about Tennessee.

Remember, when and if Gruden is announced it will be a media circus. It will be one of the top ten biggest football stories of the year in college and the NFL. When a story is this big everybody involved, and there are a lot of them, wants the timing of the announcement to be optimized for the greatest impact on the program. It will be the story that dominates the college football off season.

I hate to use cliches but tifwiw.
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Exactly.
 
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Glad I’m not in Currie’s position. Around here everyone knows what they got for Christmas by Thanksgiving Day. I just can’t help myself. I want to see the look on everyone’s face so bad I just sing like a canary. Kudos to Currie for not saying a word. Not one. And God I hope he knows what he is doing.
 
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On the "plan A or plan B" versus "plan and follow-on plan" question:

I don't know, this really all comes down to semantics which is pedantic and boring, BUT...

...in all the plans I've been a part of helping to devise and/or execute in my career, I never executed two separate plans in direct sequence. Rather, we kept adding new phases to the existing plan as we needed them. Over the decades I served, it even became formalized, so that (for instance) Phase III was always decisive combat operations, and Phase IV was establishing stability and transitioning to civil control. And then there would be a phase 4.b. when needed...and maybe 4.c...4.d....

Just kept adding to the tail end of the plan. We never had Plan A -then- Plan B ... when that terminology was used, it was Plan A -or- Plan B. Like hostile invasion of Haiti with the 82nd Airborne if the warlords don't cede power, or friendly invasion using the 10th Mountain Division if they agree to give up.

Like I said, just semantics. But it explains why his Atlanta Vol's wording led me to believe we were talking either/or, not one-then-the-next.
 
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76vol said:
The story I'm hearing is that the daddy rabbit boosters have embarked on a true long term plan to resurrect the program. A twenty year plan. Gruden is coming. His staff will incude many ex vols. Tee is being courted as a "Head coach in waiting". One of the major reasons for the delay in announcing Gruden is the desire to allow Tee, Dale Jones and others to finish their seasons without the distractions of being questioned about Tennessee.

Remember, when and if Gruden is announced it will be a media circus. It will be one of the top ten biggest football stories of the year in college and the NFL. When a story is this big everybody involved, and there are a lot of them, wants the timing of the announcement to be optimized for the greatest impact on the program. It will be the story that dominates the college football off season.

I hate to use cliches but tifwiw.
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Tee is going bowling. We could be waiting a while.
 
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