Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Volsdeep4]

Took a Syracuse team that had been worst in its conference for 5+ years and made them conference champions in year 4. If the current goal is to bring in a steady influence/right the ship/establish culture type hire, we could do a whole lot worse.

Personally, I would prefer Napier among the realistic options, but again, we could do much worse than Marrone.

Mediocrity for 4 years again. We need a splash hire that will move the needle. With the coaches out there right now he’s bottom tier.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

That guy is satire

 

[BleedorangeinGA]

Well, here we go.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

I think Doug Marrone would be a great program manager if he can surround himself with the right people, which I believe he has good relationships with everyone. He's better than what we have now, Pruitt is just dumb and there's no other way around that

 

[SLICKYINC]

Please tell me that the boosters are NOT about to pay this buy out for fn Doug Marrone!

 

[snowvols]

That kind of worries me that Thamel mentioned us specifically. Marrone was here for one season 19 years ago, why not mention that he coached at UGA and GT too?

 

[SLICKYINC]

That kind of worries me that Thamel mentioned us specifically. Marrone was here for one season 19 years ago, why not mention that he coached at UGA and GT too?

You already know why.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

The program is separate from the administration. This is a good program by virtue of its brand, historical success, and resources. However, it is run by incompetent, overly conservative people with no sense of urgency.

100% agree. The problem is they are the ones who make the changes and hire our coaches. So they are making us less and less relevant every year.

 

[MarcoVol]

Mediocrity for 4 years again. We need a splash hire that will move the needle. With the coaches out there right now he’s bottom tier.

Who is this splash hire of the coaches that are out there right now in your opinion? And no I’m not at all saying we should hire Marrone. Just curious what other peeps think

 

[Smokey'sHandler]

I am lost. I am offline for almost a day and we are back in the coaching search mode? CS 2020/2021 is like the hot girl who is never going to give you a chance in the sack but continues to hang out with you and lead you on like there’s a possibility.

 

[InVOLuntary]

babyvol15

So we have an "assistant coach on the hook"????

Surely we've learned our lesson. On the other hand, probably not.

 

[HankHill]

Marrone would be a very solid Rick Barnes style hire. Making an AFC championship with Blake Bortles as your QB isn’t luck. After losing Campbell and trading Ramsey... they have been in tear down mode anyway so i don’t think it’s as simple as “he went 1-15 and has 3 straight losing seasons”

 

[snowvols]

So we have an "assistant coach on the hook"????

Surely we've learned our lesson. On the other hand, probably not.

I think he means an assistant for Pruitt.

 

[TechnoVol]

So we are supposed to believe Fulmer has backed Pruitt throughout this entire deal until Marrone is available? Now that he's available, he'll fire Pruitt and bring in his buddy Marrone? If this happens, it will confirm that we are a dumpster fire.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Well if we hire Marrone, at least the O line should be good.

 

[MrVolton]

Mediocrity for 4 years again. We need a splash hire that will move the needle. With the coaches out there right now he’s bottom tier.

Not a splash hire, but might be exactly what our program needs. He had a good run at Syracuse.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Marrone would be a very solid Rick Barnes style hire. Making an AFC championship with Blake Bortles as your QB isn’t luck. After losing Campbell and trading Ramsey... they have been in tear down mode anyway so i don’t think it’s as simple as “he went 1-15 and has 3 straight losing seasons”

He would be an underwhelming hire.

Don’t try to spin this in a good way.

 

[Smokey'sHandler]

That kind of worries me that Thamel mentioned us specifically. Marrone was here for one season 19 years ago, why not mention that he coached at UGA and GT too?

Remember when Schianos name was floated out there by the media to see why the reaction would be just as we were about to sign him?

Is this the same thing happening?

 

[05_never_again]

History is just that...history. It is in the past and has no implications to the future of this program now.

Heck, you worried about the Spanish Navy? Historically, the Spanish Armada was quite a fleet as well.

My point is that our program has a recognizable brand. That's an asset. We haven't been good in a long time, but if you wear that Power T somewhere people go "Oh look, that guy has a Tennessee shirt on." It still has implications now because your brand can be used to help resurrect the program; you don't have to create a brand from scratch.

 

[InVOLuntary]

By request, an attempt to change the mojo.

@frank, it didn't work. Just fyi.

 

[MrVolton]

So we are supposed to believe Fulmer has backed Pruitt throughout this entire deal until Marrone is available? Now that he's available, he'll fire Pruitt and bring in his buddy Marrone? If this happens, it will confirm that we are a dumpster fire.

Good background/relationship with the AD might be a bigger factor in winning than all of us on this side of the office door realize.

 

[CoachClick]

So we are supposed to believe Fulmer has backed Pruitt throughout this entire deal until Marrone is available? Now that he's available, he'll fire Pruitt and bring in his buddy Marrone? If this happens, it will confirm that we are a dumpster fire.

We need more confirmation?

 

[HankHill]

Why is Thamel randomnly linking the two. Big media members doing that gives me pause.

I’d be fine with Marrone personally. I think he’s a good coach.

Agree.

 

[SLICKYINC]

Remember when Schianos name was floated out there by the media to see why the reaction would be just as we were about to sign him?

Is this the same thing happening?

Yup

 

[HankHill]

So we are supposed to believe Fulmer has backed Pruitt throughout this entire deal until Marrone is available? Now that he's available, he'll fire Pruitt and bring in his buddy Marrone? If this happens, it will confirm that we are a dumpster fire.

or could he fulmer has been talking to Marrone and this could have been in the works. Who knows.