Recent content by dougatkinsrevenge

You have to understand why the staff moves were made, and you are demonstrating in your argument that you do not understand. Jones hired people that amounted to coaching 'yes men.' No one ever questioned, including most of the people on this board, that Jones controlled and was running his...

That $27 million contract states otherwise. I don't know why people keep saying that it was a 'cheap' move to go with Schiano. You may argue he wasn't worthy of a contract that lucrative, or that we should have gotten a more proven, better coach for that kind of money, but please stop using...

I call it the "Jeff Fisher Corollary." Look at the Rams and how well they are playing after Fisher was fired. The talent was clearly there. I think there is considerable talent on the current Tennessee team, and we may see a marked improvement in consistency in very short order...if the staff...

Dooley was a panic hire, but again, it was the best of the rest situation. Kiffin runs out on us at the 11th hour, with sanctions looming over the program. Also, only a year after the administration boots Fulmer in an ugly civil war. Which everyone knew was a sh*tshow between the athletic...

I appreciate your reservations, but Saban is a thin-skinned control freak. We'd take him in a second. Most coaches are thin skinned, and many are control freaks. It's inherent in the business. We got likely one of the better coaches we could have hired given the debacle that is the last...

Still don't get the love affair with Gruden. This is infinitely a better hire than Gruden. Gruden would have been another disaster.

This is nonsense. ESPN is one of Disney's most profitable properties. Layoffs are the consequence of other failing business units. Wake up Vol nation. Sun doesn't rise and set on the Smokey mountains.

THIS! Les needs a creative mind to run the offense, and he needs to give the guy the room to do so. Likely what he and Fulmer would discuss, as well as who he would tap to run the defense. Again, all hypotheticals, but it seems logical to ask Miles these questions to plant the seed that he...

This is an echo chamber narrative. ESPN is not losing money. ESPN is a.) not making money as quickly as was projected when it was bought by Disney and b.) ESPN is suffering cuts given the parent company's losses in other business units (namely ABC). When profits don't meet projections, every...

Yes, we are certainly losing. The university has spent over $10 million to fight among each other, ruin our reputation nationally, make the job and the environment toxic, and get what a week ago would an otherwise pedestrian hire. Again, too many fans want to win a battle at the cost of...

God I hope this is sarcasm...

I have said this on other threads. If Fulmer: - undermined Currie by calling other coaches and advising they not take the job - was involved in undermining Currie in the interview/hire of Gundy and/or Leach - goes and hires a coordinator to coach UT my opinion of Fulmer will be...

Who is Gruden to so many of you, good God. A guy who was a grad assistant here almost 30 years ago is the savior, and has input in to every decision the program makes? Currie's biggest mistake was not dispelling these Gruden rumors a month ago. Gruden is nothing more than that girl that...

Fulmer does not get a pass in this if he was going through back channels to discourage coaches from taking the Tennessee job. If we hire Martin, an OC, after having a shot at Gundy and Leach, it's worse than simply hiring Schiano. If we were going to target a coordinator as head coach when...

This is why we have to beg for scraps like a Purdue and NC State coach with records in Power 5 conferences no better than Schiano. This "all for Tennessee" crap is echo chamber nonsense. The optics on this all over the country are TERRIBLE. Again, who wants to walk in to a job (yes, that...