TN can make a STATEMENT.

#77
#77
Dougie_D said:
Our next OC, has to be HOME-RUN hire.
If we want to make a statement and be competitive like Bama we need to be THAT TEAM where the top minded football coaches go to.
If we take an up and comer or promote within inside, we will keep sliding down.
I'm pulling for Kilff right now.
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Many said the next HC needs to be a HOME RUN hire. Did we get that? Nope. The OC hire isnt going to be a home run hire. No Freeze or any other big time OC. I still be.ieve its going to be Friend or Osovet. It is what it is.
 
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#79
Volfan76 said:
Pruitt's future here depends on this hire. If he doesn't understand that, he isn't ready to coach at this level.
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I tend to think this is exactly why JP is unlikely to promote someone from within. Coming off a 5-7 season, if he hires from within, he’s cutting his own leash awfully short. Hiring from outside all but guarantees 2-3 more years minimum, plus gives him an out if choose an OC who doesn’t perform.

Not saying it will be a HR hire either, the choice will most likely disappoint and underwhelm as usual ....but promoting Friend or Weinke is just a poor career decision for JP.

Would think JP gets that side of it...but then again.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
I guess we need to define what is a home run hire. Everyone has a different opinion on what that is. I can't imagine that CJP would go after Kingsbury, because he is the exact opposite of the smash mouth pro style that CJP wants to run.
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I really think Pruitt needs to choose an OC that has SEC experience and can recruit at a high level in the Southeast.
 
#83
#83
Like 3-4 people in this thread read the suggestion of "Kliff", as "Kiffin".

Then took an opportunity to lecture on Kiffin, based on an assumptive leap or bad comprehension

Maybe he is still living rent free in vol fans heads.
 
#85
#85
VolInNW said:
Guys. This is Tennessee. It's Will Friend. MAYBE Weinke. Then a quick staff shuffle, and a quiet positional hire to fill the open slot.

That's how we roll.

Meanwhile, I fully expect the SEC office to miraculously pronounce Freeze 'cleared' after our decision, and he will end up an 'analyst' with the Gumps.

That's how the SEC and Bammer roll.
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This is exactly how it plays out IMO.
 
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Dougie_D said:
Our next OC, has to be HOME-RUN hire.
If we want to make a statement and be competitive like Bama we need to be THAT TEAM where the top minded football coaches go to.
If we take an up and comer or promote within inside, we will keep sliding down.
I'm pulling for Kilff right now.
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it better be someone, home run or rookie, who can be in tune with the head coaches philosophy. If they aren't in synch expect more of this year's headaches.
 
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Remy said:
There's no way the present day UT AD is going to allow Lane Kiffin on his staff.
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I haven't spoken with Fulmer, so I won't speak for him. I imagine he's got bigger worries, like putting fans in seats, resurrecting the program, and gilding his legacy.
He has plenty of incentive to not let emotion get in the way of those goals.
 
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#98
For Pruitt this is a VERY tricky and potentially a VERY dangerous situation to be in and here's some things to seriously THINK about...

1...On our current staff we have 3 people that could maybe take over as our OC...
A...Osovet who is proven to know how to recruit the right guys for his system and can run a high scoring O.
B...Weinke, a Heisman winning and a National Championship winning QB with ties into the IMG Academy that might turn into a good OC and recruiter...maybe.
3...Friend who's been a decent OC before and is a good friend of Pruitt.

2...Most good, experienced OC's will naturally want to hire guys they know and trust to help recruit and coach up the players they want and need to run their type of O system.

Therefore going outside of our current staff could end up as a total mess and being forced to hire several new assistants.

Doing that could easily LOSE us some good coaches who are good recruiters and that could also LOSE us some good recruits that we now have coming in.

3...Anything that Pruitt does now could easily have either a good or a bad domino effect on our current coaches and our current recruits, especially this close to the new early signing day and we do NOT want to lose some good recruits and after the early signing day be scrambling for the best of the leftover scraps of recruits to fill in our 25 players we're allowed to recruit this cycle.

4...If Pruitt decides to promote our new OC from our current staff then there's the risk that he pisses off 1 or 2 others on our current staff and they go job hunting and we're into another coaching search to try to get a really good coach that's also a good recruiter.

5...Helton is gone BUT now we have to wonder if we lose any of our other coaches to WKU and if we LOSE any of our current recruits to WKU.

6...Losing anymore coaches also means we COULD lose more recruits too.

Yes my friends, Pruitt s in a VERY tricky and dangerous situation right now so we need to hope and pray that whatever he does turns into a O staff boost for us having good coaches/teachers that can take recruits and turn them into rock solid SEC type players and guys that are also great recruiters to help turn our player roster over faster and get us back to where we EXPECT to get the WINS over UGa and Bama and anyone else consistently.

Come on Pruitt, we still believe you can do it!!!

VFL...GBO!!!
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
The guy with the SEC experience has already formed relationships with the people he needs to in order to recruit the area.
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I think Pruitt and staff has those contacts, and the new OC can piggyback just fine onto them. We just had a guy who recruited the region well. The primary thing the OC has to do is be able to coach at a high level, and recruit *anywhere*.
 
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