Where do you want the next Vols coach to come from?

[vols1071]

I feel Elander has that quiet fire about him... Doesn't show it on the outside but inside amd internal talks has the same fire Tony had

 

[cardvolfan]

As many have stated.. it's Elander.. PERIOD. As long as he is willing to take the job that is 100% who you offer. It's going to be virtually impossible to replicate not just the record but the culture of what Tony V built. However, if there is someone that could potentially keep that same culture rolling it's Elander. Great recruiter. Great hitting coach. I hope he gets the job.

Also a really good person.

 

[Rocky Top T]

What did I miss I thought Danny White was good for Tennessee Athletics?

Not now he's not

 

[Rocky Top T]

Elander first. Then maybe Chris Burke if Elander isn't an option. Maybe Frank runs the show this year as an interim while Elander gets ready to take over next year.

Chris Burke is not going to coach

 

[Rocky Top T]

Looks like people are turning on DW like a pack of rabid dogs.

He deserves it

 

[VawlsYall]

Elander for sure

 

[PowerT4me]

He said today he'd be interested in the job but only if the current staff weren't option. He tried to get the job before Tony.

 

[livefaith]

When the coaching search that brought Tony Vitallo here was on ... I wonder how many on VN posted about choosing Tony Vitallo?

 

[PowerT4me]

Chris Burke is not going to coach

He said today he'd be interested in the job but only if the current staff weren't an option. He tried to get the job before Tony.

 

[volfan411]

for me it will be in this order as of right now.

1. Elander
2. if Derosa doesn't get the Braves job, give him a call
3. Bruce Bochy (at least give him a call)
4. Coastal Carolina coach
5. Burke.
6. at this point, it will suck either way


4 and 5 are interchangeable but Coastal does have the experience edge.

Agreed I want Elander but if not him then I like the Costal Carolina coach.

 

[BigOrangeCrush32]

When the coaching search that brought Tony Vitallo here was on ... I wonder how many on VN posted about choosing Tony Vitallo?

at that time, no one really cared about the baseball team. it was an afterthought. a "check to boxscore" sport. TV made it relevant and a National Brand.

 

[Volador]

How bout Gruden? He wants to coach in the SEC again, right???

 

[tennesseeduke]

What if Elander doesn’t want the job?

 

[TheMookieMonster]

If not Elander then Rob Vaughn would dominate here. And it would hurt Bama. Doubly good!

I’m not that enamored with Vaughn. Think he’s all hype, little substance. He’s done a fine job at Alabama but I don’t think it’s anything that would get me excited.

 

[TheBigOne10]

I’m not that enamored with Vaughn. Think he’s all hype, little substance. He’s done a fine job at Alabama but I don’t think it’s anything that would get me excited.

I think he’s a good recruiter and high energy. He also built Maryland up from basically scratch. He’s not the first choice on the list obviously but I think he’d be successful.

 

[FortWorthVol]

Elander should be announced as soon as the ink dries. Half the pizzaz as Tony, every bit the recruiter. Team stays whole and best chance Frank holds over imo.

Josh is aggressive. He may not be Italian like Tony but he is just as competitive. If Tony Vols were loud villains, Elander’s Vols would be stealth strikers along with Frank’s continued sharp shooters. Turn around and you are down 10-0.

I love the current staff. They’ve earned the right to all move up a notch. While I am happy if Tony is happy, I am disconsolate over the loss of Tony he resurrected a dead program and I don’t want him to go. I don’t want to lose that feeling that once Christmas is over, it’s time to think about getting ready for opening day of BaseVol season!

DW needs doesn’t need to look anywhere. The answers are already in the dugout.

Danny says he listens to players and I truly hope he does. However, this thread, as another poster has said, is pretty much unanimous if not unanimous about Elander. I have long recognized most these posters names. This is a cross section of those persons who are truly invested in this program. DW, L-I-S-T-E-N!

 

[ETNVolunteer1]

If you want players (current and former) happy, along with fans, you hire Josh Elander. Give him a chance. If he fails so be it. But the man deserves a chance here.

 

[Pawleysvol]

Our dugout. It's who the current and forever players want. If it's not Elander changes are A LOT of our curvy team will leave. I know of one personally and know there will be others

Where are they going? If they transfer they have to go down a level.

 

[Orange.]

Nope his ego has blocked his hearing

Wrong

 

[vegasvolfan]

In house?
Another SEC school?
A non-SEC coach from a big school?
Major League Baseball?

Wr should test the waters with TV’s best assistant. Even if the plan is for him to leave with V.

 

[AthensVol2007]

When the coaching search that brought Tony Vitallo here was on ... I wonder how many on VN posted about choosing Tony Vitallo?

Vitello was my number 1 choice and most outside my household will never believe me and that’s fine. The formula for success in this league, at the time, was to hire/promote guys who understood this league; Mingione, Cannizzaro, Thompson, Bohannon all came from within the league and found immediate success/improvement over the prior HC. Tony was the best logical successor within that mold, but his recruiting success was on a completely other level from those other guys. When you look back at the success of the programs he came from, it was the teams after he left that took that next step, as his recruiting classes matured. When his 2nd-3rd recruiting classes were 3 years down the road as Jr-Sr’s, it was easy to see how integral his eye for talent and his ability to connect with recruits and families was to the immense success of those programs.

 

[VolBallGuy]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Anderson go to the Giants.

 

[tnvols72]

If its not Elander LNS will look like this

 

[Volle]

If TV and DW clashed, and JE was TV’s anointed one, I could see DW choosing FA to spite TV, if that makes sense.

 

[CAVPUT]

As I sit here sipping coffee as the sun rises, I find myself on the VN baseball reading about a coaching search to replace Tony Vitello.....a COACHING SEARCH! It's just surreal and I have the same thought running through my brain on a loop...this can't be real. Just can't. How the hell did White let it get to this point? A man my age and experience expects bad crap to end up in the fans laps because this is UT. It's what we do. Yet, never in my wildest fits of gloom and doom did I ever expect it to be the loss of Tony Vitello. Dude was as sure a thing as that sun that's about to rise. Not sure how to process this to be honest. What little positivity I possessed has died. Geez. that sunrise is gonna look awful this morning.