Coaches speak confidentially about Tennessee football ($The Athletic$)

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5 Coaches opinions on the attractiveness of our job:

Coach: “I’ve always thought it was one of the best jobs in America, my entire coaching career. The passion, the alums, the fans. Like Nebraska or Arkansas, a school in a state where it really doesn’t have any competition. Great history, tradition, facilities. And there isn’t enough talent in-state, but you draw a circle around Knoxville and go 300 miles in any direction, you’ve got more than enough.”

Coach: “I mean, you’ve got 107,000 people showing up at your games in a non-COVID season. These are true fanatics, and you just don’t have that at many places.”

Coach: “In my opinion, you need someone in there who looks at it like being governor of the state. You need someone who can rally an entire state around that program again.”

Coach: “You can win a national championship at Tennessee. I firmly believe that.”

Coach: “I mean, it’s irresistible. Are you kidding me? You’ve got all the ****ing tools to be great.”

These five coaches represent different backgrounds, jobs, conferences, experiences and perspectives. One thing that binds them: Like all but maybe a couple dozen people in their industry, they’d drop everything right now and give it a shot at Tennessee.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
5 Coaches opinions on the attractiveness of our job:

Coach: “I’ve always thought it was one of the best jobs in America, my entire coaching career. The passion, the alums, the fans. Like Nebraska or Arkansas, a school in a state where it really doesn’t have any competition. Great history, tradition, facilities. And there isn’t enough talent in-state, but you draw a circle around Knoxville and go 300 miles in any direction, you’ve got more than enough.”

Coach: “I mean, you’ve got 107,000 people showing up at your games in a non-COVID season. These are true fanatics, and you just don’t have that at many places.”

Coach: “In my opinion, you need someone in there who looks at it like being governor of the state. You need someone who can rally an entire state around that program again.”

Coach: “You can win a national championship at Tennessee. I firmly believe that.”

Coach: “I mean, it’s irresistible. Are you kidding me? You’ve got all the ****ing tools to be great.”

These five coaches represent different backgrounds, jobs, conferences, experiences and perspectives. One thing that binds them: Like all but maybe a couple dozen people in their industry, they’d drop everything right now and give it a shot at Tennessee.
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Ta-daa!
 
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Church upgrades, cash handshakes, cash wires, family jobs, leased cars for $1, Taco Bell, nice suits, jobs that don't exist but pay well. What we've done isn't new and we've played the game for a long time. The irony is when other schools fans like to point it out when players flip at the last second. They don't get those kids because of academics and atmosphere.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
5 Coaches opinions on the attractiveness of our job:

Coach: “I’ve always thought it was one of the best jobs in America, my entire coaching career. The passion, the alums, the fans. Like Nebraska or Arkansas, a school in a state where it really doesn’t have any competition. Great history, tradition, facilities. And there isn’t enough talent in-state, but you draw a circle around Knoxville and go 300 miles in any direction, you’ve got more than enough.”

Coach: “I mean, you’ve got 107,000 people showing up at your games in a non-COVID season. These are true fanatics, and you just don’t have that at many places.”

Coach: “In my opinion, you need someone in there who looks at it like being governor of the state. You need someone who can rally an entire state around that program again.”

Coach: “You can win a national championship at Tennessee. I firmly believe that.”

Coach: “I mean, it’s irresistible. Are you kidding me? You’ve got all the ****ing tools to be great.”

These five coaches represent different backgrounds, jobs, conferences, experiences and perspectives. One thing that binds them: Like all but maybe a couple dozen people in their industry, they’d drop everything right now and give it a shot at Tennessee.
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That tells me the coaching world knows this was a case of the head coach screwing things by being reckless rather than an instance of a program intentionally railroading a coach because they didn't like his record.

Get the right athletic director in place and this may not be a difficult thing to sell to a quality proven coach.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
5 Coaches opinions on the attractiveness of our job:

Coach: “I’ve always thought it was one of the best jobs in America, my entire coaching career. The passion, the alums, the fans. Like Nebraska or Arkansas, a school in a state where it really doesn’t have any competition. Great history, tradition, facilities. And there isn’t enough talent in-state, but you draw a circle around Knoxville and go 300 miles in any direction, you’ve got more than enough.”

Coach: “I mean, you’ve got 107,000 people showing up at your games in a non-COVID season. These are true fanatics, and you just don’t have that at many places.”

Coach: “In my opinion, you need someone in there who looks at it like being governor of the state. You need someone who can rally an entire state around that program again.”

Coach: “You can win a national championship at Tennessee. I firmly believe that.”

Coach: “I mean, it’s irresistible. Are you kidding me? You’ve got all the ****ing tools to be great.”

These five coaches represent different backgrounds, jobs, conferences, experiences and perspectives. One thing that binds them: Like all but maybe a couple dozen people in their industry, they’d drop everything right now and give it a shot at Tennessee.
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It sounds nice, but without knowing who they are or at least what they do it's kinda pointless. 5 statements out of hundreds of coaches.

I'm sure a G5 head coach making 1.5 million a year or a position coach making 500k a year would drop everything to take a head coach job at Tennessee.
 
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Cartervol,The big ten(twelve) doesn't cheat?Hell,they cannot even count their number of teams right.Check out the name Jim Tressel for one.You believe anything,I guess.
 
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TheDeeble said:
It sounds nice, but without knowing who they are or at least what they do it's kinda pointless. 5 statements out of hundreds of coaches.

I'm sure a G5 head coach making 1.5 million a year or a position coach making 500k a year would drop everything to take a head coach job at Tennessee.
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I see what you’re saying, but I doubt that they are the only ones that share that same opinion.
 
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Pruitt probably (rightly) figured that he had to max out cheating wise to get us out of the hole. It had never been a problem at his former stops. I am not even really sure that what is being described is "flagrant" compared to every other top program. The only real difference is that we somehow "caught" ourselves.

The bigger surprise is that we had such pathetic performance.
 
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Gandalf said:
Pruitt probably (rightly) figured that he had to max out cheating wise to get us out of the hole. It had never been a problem at his former stops. I am not even really sure that what is being described is "flagrant" compared to every other top program. The only real difference is that we somehow "caught" ourselves.

The bigger surprise is that we had such pathetic performance.
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He wouldn't have been "caught" had he been successful and not such an ass. Combine losing and being a grade A azzhole and people start looking at ways to take you down.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
It is the principle of the matter. Why do I need an entirely new app when I already have a web browser? I am sick of junking up my phone with what is basically a custom browser for each website I visit 😤
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No argument from me. I totally get it.
 
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Cartervol said:
Seems to be the pattern with Bama assistants. I wouldn't hire anymore of them ever. You can't duplicate what they do down there.. Most places don't have everyone in the whole state pulling one direction. Must be nice.
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It's like a SWAMP.
 
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Now you all understand how Gator fans feel about the 80s probation.

We hired a Bama guy that played by Bama rules and that wasn’t allowed to fly.

Never mind that everyone else was doing it.

SMU was playing by the same rules as everyone else in SWC at the time too
 
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onevol74 said:
I have a feeling that Donde Plowman is about to reset the SEC.
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You mean she will get Will Wade his due??? It's been almost two years.
The SEC and NCAA are corrupted by money and power in much the same way as the high paid coaches and high flying alumni. If anyone really believes the SEC and NCAA want to expose the underworld at their major schools, well, you must already own a lot of bridges.
Ms. Plowman is no David.
 
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Just the notion that we paid a couple of kids that didn't even sign with us... If that's not quintessential Tennessee of the past 15 years, I don't know what is
 
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