This is starting to feel alot like the last search

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Last search started off with big names. current NFL coaches etc. Then as it went on the names got smaller until we all had to use Google to figure out who our coach was. As Han Solo said about ten times in star wars....I got a bad feeling about this.
 
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NEOCON said:
Last search started off with big names. current NFL coaches etc. Then as it went on the names got smaller until we all had to use Google to figure out who our coach was. As Han Solo said about ten times in star wars....I got a bad feeling about this.
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Neo I've had that same feelin also, and you're sometimes pretty hard to agree with at times..
 
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NEOCON said:
Last search started off with big names. current NFL coaches etc. Then as it went on the names got smaller until we all had to use Google to figure out who our coach was. As Han Solo said about ten times in star wars....I got a bad feeling about this.
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Man I soooooooo agree with you. We're gonna get a no name and roll the dice for another 3/4years. We are now watching a Vandy program routinely outrecruit us and now kicking our donkeys on the field. Tell me again why it was so great we brought in an assistant AD from Bammer to be our AD, we're so low THAT's what we attract to hire? After all the greats have gone through our athletics department and university, we hire someone with no ties to it? Ain't that a lot like working at Coke but keeping Pepsi in the fridge at home? I gotta bad bad feeling about this as well ... on a lot of levels.
 
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This search has a different timetable. I also don't think we're being rejected by every candidate we contact. I'm to the point where I just want someone hired because I'm ready to move on.
 
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The part that confuses me is that everyone always thinks its gonna be different. It doesn't register with our fan base that we have dropped into the doldrums. Every season it has been oh I think we will win ten games this year, oh I think we will beat bama, fl, etc., oh gruden will be the next coach. I'm praying we turn this ship around but at the same time we can't be this delusional all the time.
 
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Seems entirely too early to panic. Last games prior to bowls happened TODAY.

Just because VolNation works themselves into a frenzy over a big name NFL coach (who is commentating now and isn't in the NFL anymore) doesn't mean that we're doomed.

Is there a team that has named a new coach at this point that you would have been happy with?

Relax. Let's see what happens within the next two weeks.
 
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DC_Vol said:
Seems entirely too early to panic. Last games prior to bowls happened TODAY.

Just because VolNation works themselves into a frenzy over a big name NFL coach (who is commentating now and isn't in the NFL anymore) doesn't mean that we're doomed.

Is there a team that has named a new coach at this point that you would have been happy with?

Relax. Let's see what happens within the next two weeks.
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This. Our top 2 candidates coached today! We weren't going to interview them before the season is over. We're getting a good hire this time, because the candidates this time around are a major upgrade over last time.
 
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joshc said:
This. Our top 2 candidates coached today! We weren't going to interview them before the season is over. We're getting a good hire this time, because the candidates this time around are a major upgrade over last time.
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Yes Petersen and Patterson both coached today. And, by "top 2 candidates", I dearly hope those are the 2 you were referring to.
 
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Please, over reaction like always. Before a bunch of coaches turned the position down. The top two candidates were coaching today like said above. WAY to early to panic
 
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joshc said:
This. Our top 2 candidates coached today! We weren't going to interview them before the season is over. We're getting a good hire this time, because the candidates this time around are a major upgrade over last time.
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Correction, our second and third candidates coached today.
 
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DC_Vol said:
Seems entirely too early to panic. Last games prior to bowls happened TODAY.

Just because VolNation works themselves into a frenzy over a big name NFL coach (who is commentating now and isn't in the NFL anymore) doesn't mean that we're doomed.

Is there a team that has named a new coach at this point that you would have been happy with?

Relax. Let's see what happens within the next two weeks.
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Arkansas has named 2 or 3.
 
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Our best bet is to wait until the NFL season is over. Most of the homerun hires in the SEC in the last 20 years have been former NFL guys.
 
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Yes this place overreacts and it leads to all the idiotic "Bring back Fulmer" posts.
 
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I don't think it feels like the last search. Last search was a mad last minute scramble, and looking back now in hindsight, the results from the hire that was made are entirely predictable.

This search is maddening because Hart should have known the direction he wanted to go in late October after the loss at Mississippi State cow college. In theory, Hart has had over a month to get his sh*t together and make a great hire. In reality, he has botched arguably the most important coaching search in Tennessee football history by allowing a PR nightmare and not pursuing the obvious best candidate with guns blazing.

Looking back on this coaching search in three years, what we really should point to with our vitriolic criticism is the day Hart was hired. He is clearly woefully inept at some of the key aspects of being an AD - having a pulse on the desires of the fan base, communicating with the fan base, and managing the expectations of the fan base.
 
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Remy said:
Man I soooooooo agree with you. We're gonna get a no name and roll the dice for another 3/4years. We are now watching a Vandy program routinely outrecruit us and now kicking our donkeys on the field. Tell me again why it was so great we brought in an assistant AD from Bammer to be our AD, we're so low THAT's what we attract to hire? After all the greats have gone through our athletics department and university, we hire someone with no ties to it? Ain't that a lot like working at Coke but keeping Pepsi in the fridge at home? I gotta bad bad feeling about this as well ... on a lot of levels.
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I couldn't agree more. I'd like to see more tied to UT within the administration. Doug Matthews and Phil Fulmer I'd start with
 
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NEOCON said:
Last search started off with big names. current NFL coaches etc. Then as it went on the names got smaller until we all had to use Google to figure out who our coach was. As Han Solo said about ten times in star wars....I got a bad feeling about this.
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This is completely different. We dont have a complete idiot running it this time.
 
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