Again Lets Revisit Coach Mathews comments, which conflict with Volquest.
The guy they want to hire, the decision has been made on
that from the University of Tennessee standpoint,” Mathews stated. “Yeah, they’re interviewing some people, but that decision’s been made. I said Wednesday it was 95 percent done.
There’s some things to work out. Maybe they’ve already been worked out. There’s no hurry to hire this person.
The person they’ve got identified and the person Coach Pruitt wants, again, I think that’s a done deal.
I don’t know who it is, but I know it’s been decided.”
“Jeremy Pruitt’s gonna make the decision. He’s made that decision, in my strong opinion,” Mathews said.
“They know who they’re gonna hire. When they’re gonna do it, I don’t know.”
“I stand by what I said before
. Tennessee knows what they are going to do at OC. Maybe it’s a coach that’s coaching for a championship, maybe there’s a buyout to work through, but they know who they are going to hire.”- Doug Mathews
…his staff doesn’t talk to anyone in the media
. There are no leaks. That’s why you aren’t seeing a lot of meaningful information coming out.”
After reading these comments, it appears everything is from university’s side…(i.e. we know who we we want, but not that the desired candidate has agreed to be our OC).
I do agree that whomever it ends up being Mathews has plausible deniability.
The Vols reportedly know which offensive coordinator they're hiring, so who could it be?