Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[theutvolunteers]

Everybody doing pretty ok?

 

[BruinVol]

Mullen would be crazy to leave Florida. He must have his reasons though.

Yea
Gainesville is a **** hole

 

[Smokeytom]

Both have expressed interest through back channels. Chadwell is a Tennessee guy to his core. Up until now the Tennessee brass has elected to stick with Jeremy over those two. If this investigation really turns south, my money is on one of those two being your next head football coach. Wouldn’t be shocked if it was Malzahn though either.

I would be ecstatic with either Napier or Chadwell...

 

[Smokey123]

When has this happened?

Fulmer was an elite recruiter until the mid 2000s, even when his teams were, as you said, not meeting lofty expectations. His recruiting fell off a cliff after he had a couple below .500 seasons - "below lofty expectations" is putting those seasons very mildly.

Kiffin left after one year. Dooley left after 3 terrible years. Butch's recruiting fell off a cliff during his disastrous 2017 season when he went 0-8 in conference play.

Where does this notion that we "run off coaches after one bad season" or that we run off coaches too early come from? Tennessee's problem is with who we hire on the front end, not when we fire people.

If anything we kept Butch and especially Dooley too long. If we give Pruitt another year we will have kept him a year too long also.

 

[CoalVol2020]

Everybody doing pretty ok?

 

[smokeyz1]

We are so dysfunctional .. that we are like a landlord who is willing to burn his own house down to get rid of a bad tenant.

 

[ndubvols]

Gus had as much, if not more, talent at Auburn than he’d have here and plays essentially the same schedule, except he also gets Florida every year (to go with GA and the inbreds). That’s gonna be a no from me, dog.

To be fair the west has been significantly better than the east in his time there. Bama, UGA, Florida isn’t any harder than Bama, UGA, LSU, Texas A&M

 

[05_never_again]

If anything we kept Butch and especially Dooley too long. If we give Pruitt another year we will have kept him a year too long also.

Especially Dooley. I mean, the dude supposedly offered to turn in his resignation after his second season.

 

[JCP201]

Yea
Gainesville is a **** hole

Smells like hot dog water?

 

[volsagain]

That’s all i got guys. Idk if he’s being fired or not. Seems like it wasn’t a very serious possibility until very recently.

So the crap has hit the fan now we got to see where it lands . I hope we don't go bargain basement again please .

 

[Batman1948]

I haven’t been keeping up lately, what have I missed?

AV dropping a bomb about the investigation. Said Pruitt is in the crosshairs now. Don't know where they get their information from but if an attorney is leaking it, that in itself is not a good look for attorneys.

 

[Tennessee Stud]

I would be ecstatic with either Napier or Chadwell...

I’d have reservations with both but short of UT hiring Meyer or Saban I’d have reservations with just about anyone. Chadwell is particularly intriguing to me. I’ve always felt that Tennessee athletics as a whole is at its best when there is orange blood at the top. If you study our history, you’ll find that to be the case. Chadwell’s blood runneth orange. If he was the hire, he would be the first head coach we’ve had since Phillip who truly valued the Tennessee job above all else. I could get behind it.

 

[Smokey123]

Especially Dooley. I mean, the dude supposedly offered to turn in his resignation after his second season.

Not sure how you can go 5-7 and lose to Kentucky for the first time in 30 years and come back. And went 6-7 the year prior

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

So all we had to do...?

Yeah...just threaten to hire pure garbage....any "Meh" guy looks like a heavenly gift next to that garbage.

 

[rekinhavoc]

Rumor is UGA turned us in for something with Mims, other “rumor” is that Tee leaked the investigation to Trey.

We have the same source lol.

 

[05_never_again]

Not sure how you can go 5-7 and lose to Kentucky for the first time in 30 years and come back. And went 6-7 the year prior

Because idiot Hart thought that'd be firing him "too quick" (like some people seem to think we do), so Dooley figured he'd stick around for another year and collect some checks.

 

[Catbone]

I think UT is done for another decade at least. There is no leadership and we are just a huge laughingstock. It sucks

No question.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

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[2xVol]

Urban Meyer asking for $12m a year. Wow.

That would be a steal if you think about it. Guaranteed $20M+ annual revenue jump at a place like Tennessee and no risk of a looming buyout etc. Not that it matters.

 

[m1al]

If something crazy happens, and Pruitt does get let go, I’m not sure where we go. I’d start getting prepared for Fulmer to step in on an interim basis and get the band back together. Let’s ride.

 

[RiotVol]

Both have expressed interest through back channels. Chadwell is a Tennessee guy to his core. Up until now the Tennessee brass has elected to stick with Jeremy over those two. If this investigation really turns south, my money is on one of those two being your next head football coach. Wouldn’t be shocked if it was Malzahn though either.

Given your choice of username name, and these nugs that you claim to have - you have either got to be oblivious, completely FOS, or the most interesting new poster we've had on here in a minute.

 

[smokeyz1]

Not sure how you can go 5-7 and lose to Kentucky for the first time in 30 years and come back. And went 6-7 the year prior

two or three more cycles of new coaches every 3 years at UT .. and we will be happy to beat Kentucky. Hell. we would have been happy this year.

 

[sona]

Yea
Gainesville is a **** hole

Have to say I know nothing of the city. Moving to Florida but inland cities are not even a consideration.

 

[90 Vol]

Only on VN do we have ridiculous celebrations about potentially awful news

Fair point to an extent. Getting rid of Pruitt would be cause for celebrating. However, I do hope that the outcome of the investigation doesn’t hinder us in finding a suitable replacement.

 

[Smokey X]

None of Saban's guys know how to be their own coach with the exception of Jimbo Fisher. Saban hires order-takers and rule-followers. When his guys go other places, they default to attempting to recreate what they did under Saban, and it doesn't work.

These guys suck at coming up with their own "process" and culture, and it's because Saban doesn't hire guys with those skillsets. He doesn't need guys to come in and help develop a process because Saban has it figured out and just needs minions to implement what he's developed.

that's what I think as well....and if there is fire at the smoke trail which appears to be the case, then CJP's defense is....."well that's how Nick does it at UA".