Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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vol2002 said:
Tennessee is a place where if it were possible, it could be viewed as a hidden gem in the coaching world. Great proximity to talent, great facilities, beautiful campus. Hasn’t been consistently good in a while so there’s a chance to distinguish yourself. People have won big here before.

But the problem is that it has millions of rabid fans, many of whom watch and love to second guess every move. It has a local media presence that rivals an NFL team that is constantly drumming around for content both good and bad to pass off to that rabid fanbase. And the traditional schedule is terrible, as it is frontloaded with elite inconference programs and has a permanent game against Bama in a series our fans expect to turn quickly (and smugly believe we will win 7 straight against soon just like before - “it’s streaky!”).

I can see the hesitancy to put your career on the line to step into this volatile mess.

I think that is what Currie faced as much as anything.
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I agree with everything except the bolded - I don’t think Curry “faced” anything. In hindsight, it seems to me he focused only on SchiaNo as directed.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Does she even coach?
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No, but she’s legitimately one of the best basketball minds in the world. She calls a lot of NBA games now for the Wizards and has been approached to be on NBA staffs.

I also think she’d be the best recruiter we could get.

I don’t know if she’d be interested in taking the job but she would be my first call.

Admittedly I’m not sure of other top women’s basketball coaches around the country that would leave their current job.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Seems logical on the men’s side for sure. If Barnes wants to hand this thing off to someone they should let him. Lanier is qualified.

Women’s side is different. I could see someone like Kara Lawson being the top target.
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I would imagine Lanier is CRB's choice to replace him when he retires, assuming someone hasn't hired him away by then. But he may already have already been told he is the coach in waiting to ensure he sticks around until then. I would be good with him. He has been CRB's right hand for a long time.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
I’ll be interested to watch as Phil has to make decisions for other sports. Could conceivably have coaching changes for both basketball programs within the next handful of years.
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Yep. Depends on how long Phil hangs around really. I think Barnes is happy here and has the program in a good way. I think when he leaves it will be on his terms, its just a matter of when he's ready. Holly is a different story. He may actually have to make a decision on her.

Pruitt could buy him a lot of grace in 2 or 3 years.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
I suppose one could see it that way.

Like I said, I’ll be interested to see how Fulmer handles it. Does he see Barnes as a version of himself? Would he have liked to have been able to pick his predecessor?
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You think Fulmer would have picked someone other than Majors?
 
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Kingston Vol said:
I suppose one could see it that way.

Like I said, I’ll be interested to see how Fulmer handles it. Does he see Barnes as a version of himself? Would he have liked to have been able to pick his predecessor?
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They shouldn’t just let Barnes pick his predecessor if he wants. No coach should.

Bass take.
 
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engineerVOL said:
Them’s fighting words. Who dis?
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just saying when you have an OL that cant run block or pass block, it's hard to judge the OC, the RB or really much of anything else on the offensive side of the ball with any kind of certainty. Give us LSU or UGA or Bamas OL, and how much different does our offense look?
 
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chavisut said:
They shouldn’t just let Barnes pick his predecessor if he wants. No coach should.

Bass take.
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Yep. By all means, interview him, seriously consider him. But don’t default to an internal hire. Barnes conceivably will have the basketball program in the best place it’s been for a hand off. Go make the best hire you can.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
There was a big turn on this board. The first half of the coaching search was everyone saying that Currie is a ninja, a superstar, who wouldn’t let money stop him from hiring the best coach in the world. Heck, we might even get Gruden. If not Gruden, we’ll pay Chris Petersen 10 mil to coach here! We were confident.

Then there was the other half after we learned that Currie was an incompetent fraud being ordered around by Haslam and his ilk and that he didn’t care about winning at all, just money and buildings. During the Schiano/borin Doeren debacle, we would have taken almost anyone else. We went from confident to desperate real quick. Thankfully papaw Phil saved us.
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I couldn’t believe they wouldn’t publicly dispell the Gruden rumors. To use that as a smokescreen was asinine.
 
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Predecessor?

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SouthKnoxVOL said:
No she doesn't but apparently a lot people think just because they played at UT they' re gonna be the next Summit. If it comes to letting Warlick go...they better throw money at a proven coach that wins at a high level.
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I would go get Dawn Staley from South Carolina.
 
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BeecherVol said:
I don't know if the want to will be there, but he got stonewalled at the goaline on Schiano. The perception by the majority of fans and other influential people at UT was "Bad hire, bad fit, bad guy" and Haslem was the reason it almost happened. If Fulmer replaces that with a guy that fixes the program he'll have a ton of support from the fans to the majority of boosters. He may want to, may even try but a successful Pruitt and Fulmer will be darn near impossible to make that happen.
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Are there not enough power players involved who can overrule Haslam consistently on stuff like this? Why do people cower down to him?
 
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