Fulmer’s Clawson search lasted 28 days

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Barring someone doing something stupid well into the offseason and getting fired or forced to resign, or thr odd untimely death that has triggered a vacancy, what is the longest period any FBS team has gone with the OC spot being vacant?

I wouldn't panic of there isn't a hire this month or into early February even if you factor in coaching changes in the NFL, but if this drags on until say late February or sometime into March, how bad would that be?
 
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Which Coach won our last NC????

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Pruitts problem is he is thinking about thisbhire like he is still at Bama. At Bama they could wait as long as they wanted and go offer any coach they wanted and that coach would jump at the chance to join a highly successful, been dominate team. UT isn’t even close to that right now and coaches aren’t gonna sit around waiting for our offer, in fact we have to sell them on taking the career risk of joining a team that has had 2 losing seasons and a lot of bad PR in the past few years.
 
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JFBanicki said:
Pruitts problem is he is thinking about thisbhire like he is still at Bama. At Bama they could wait as long as they wanted and go offer any coach they wanted and that coach would jump at the chance to join a highly successful, been dominate team. UT isn’t even close to that right now and coaches aren’t gonna sit around waiting for our offer, in fact we have to sell them on taking the career risk of joining a team that has had 2 losing seasons and a lot of bad PR in the past few years.
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Yeah I'm sure he has no idea how bad we suck. Especially after being around the team the last year. How arrogant of him. Smh
 
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JFBanicki said:
Pruitts problem is he is thinking about thisbhire like he is still at Bama. At Bama they could wait as long as they wanted and go offer any coach they wanted and that coach would jump at the chance to join a highly successful, been dominate team. UT isn’t even close to that right now and coaches aren’t gonna sit around waiting for our offer, in fact we have to sell them on taking the career risk of joining a team that has had 2 losing seasons and a lot of bad PR in the past few years.
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Wasnt it pretty obvious that Pruitt didnt allow Helton to run his offense? If so, why would anyone good OC want to come here and be blamed for an offense they dont orchestrate?
 
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Jack Burton said:
Hamilton was too tight with money. Really was a major contributing factor for our decline since we couldn’t hire assistants at market value.
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He was trying to undermine Fulmer. A year later he let Kiffin make Monte on of, if not the first million dollar coordinator in the country.
 
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if i takes 90 days i dont care as long as the Clawfensw remains safely, far away...in space.
 
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JFBanicki said:
Pruitts problem is he is thinking about thisbhire like he is still at Bama. At Bama they could wait as long as they wanted and go offer any coach they wanted and that coach would jump at the chance to join a highly successful, been dominate team. UT isn’t even close to that right now and coaches aren’t gonna sit around waiting for our offer, in fact we have to sell them on taking the career risk of joining a team that has had 2 losing seasons and a lot of bad PR in the past few years.
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Do you have a link for that?
 
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jackcrevol said:
if i takes 90 days i dont care as long as the Clawfensw remains safely, far away...in space.
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If it takes 90 days, the Super Bowl will have come and gone by that point. I can understand maybe waiting until the bowl games are over and the NFL is almost done to see who all might suddenly be out of a job or whatever. But if someone hasn't either been promoted from within or hired from outside by late February, going into March, that's starting to push it a little bit.

Doesn't mean that a good outside hire or internal promotion can't still come about, but it wouldn't be giving that person, especially someone not already at UT, a lot of time to work with the players and other staff members going into spring training and gearing up for the 2019 season.
 
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TNfan#2 said:
If it takes 90 days, the Super Bowl will have come and gone by that point. I can understand maybe waiting until the bowl games are over and the NFL is almost done to see who all might suddenly be out of a job or whatever. But if someone hasn't either been promoted from within or hired from outside by late February, going into March, that's starting to push it a little bit.

Doesn't mean that a good outside hire or internal promotion can't still come about, but it wouldn't be giving that person, especially someone not already at UT, a lot of time to work with the players and other staff members going into spring training and gearing up for the 2019 season.
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was sarcasm
 
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Dave Clawson is a phenomenal coach. I was sold after seeing his work at Richmond. He built a solid program by recruiting outstanding players and developing them. His Richmond team won the FCS national championship the year after he left. They won 13 games that year. It was Tennessee`s loss when he left Knoxville.
 
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volfannbama said:
Wasnt it pretty obvious that Pruitt didnt allow Helton to run his offense? If so, why would anyone good OC want to come here and be blamed for an offense they dont orchestrate?
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Seems UT has a long and storied history of HC's handicapping offensive/defensive coordinators..
 
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Volfan76 said:
Did Trooper Taylor sire and leave some illegitimate but loyal children in Knoxville or something? What is this ridiculous admiration of him?
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People must like watching grown men wearing hats backwards and jumping up and down on the sidelines waving towels in the air...
 
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I still think the sticking point is the ready made staff in place. Most good OC's have probably said no thanks to that. Reminds of when we could of got David Cutcliffe if we had let him bring his guys instead of Fooley. What could have been.
 
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AGAIN, Fulmer did not hire Clawson. Yes, the money was not allocated as Hamilton tried to burn things down (and that has been public knowledge for sometime......Ainge even said how they tried to recruit him into the get Phil club) but Hamilton forced Clawson on Phil and named him secretly the coach in waiting. Clawson is a good coach but his success has come at good academic schools. In other words, the SEC type kids are not a fit for him and his system. This is a very bad analogy. Pruitt will get it done. Relax
 
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FortSanders said:
Dave Clawson is a phenomenal coach. I was sold after seeing his work at Richmond. He built a solid program by recruiting outstanding players and developing them. His Richmond team won the FCS national championship the year after he left. They won 13 games that year. It was Tennessee`s loss when he left Knoxville.
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Um, did you happen to watch any UT games for which he called the offensive plays? To call our offense that year a disaster would be understatement.

Your argument is every bit as valid as stating that because Nick Saban excelled at LSU prior to going to the NFL, he must have been an excellent coach for the Miami Dolphins even though they went 15-17 under him.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
FWIW, Fulmer wanted DeBord. Hamilton insisted on someone that could be a coach-in-waiting. Pushed Clawson. Fulmer relented. Ended up costing everyone their job.
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The magic of Mike Hamilton. It just never stops echoing down the years.
 
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