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I think the only time one of us on here got a coaching hire right was back in 2006, when the great Hatvol96 said that if Nick Saban became available, he should be pursued at any cost. That was probably in October or November of 2006, when the Vols were 6-1 or 7-1 and only had a one-point loss...

We had this situation once, with a QB who'd have been All-State and All-American if practice was all that counted. Get him out there on a Friday night, and it was like putting a freshman making his first start against a top-tier opponent. It got to a point where we had to bench him. Every...

In the last 20 years, the only time that this program has had a decent OL coach was the brief period of time under Dooley when Harry Hiestand was here. I will never understand the idea of just shuffling offensive linemen among the various positions like it's a video game.

The reality is that in the last decade, this program has sunk to the level of the MAC in a huge conference. MAC schools don't have excellent coaches beating down the door to get there; they have to go out and find an excellent coach from the levels of coordinators or of lower-level coaches...

The rule, technically, is that a college can't profit off a player's likeness and image. Some have taken that to mean that they can't sell anything, even game-used gear, with a player's name still on it. Others have taken it to mean that as long as they're not actually generating a profit from...

It's uncommon, but not necessarily without precedent. Ideally your head coach is the emotional leader of the team. But at the same time, it's easy for them to fall into the trap of hiring friends as coordinators or assistant coaches, even to the detriment of the team and the program. I know...

16 years at the helm with what was, at worst, the second-best talent in the East while the West was mostly floundering around. And that's all there is to show for it. The list of highly-touted recruits who failed to develop is jaw-dropping, and the fact that this program ended up tumbling down...

So that's where that vile smell comes from.

2009 was the year that the Marching 110 were booed coming onto the field and wildly cheered coming off it. I can't load video since I have high security on my browser, but those are out there somewhere too.

Just for comparison, Florida under Spurrier when overlapping with Fulmer (1993-2001) produced: * Bob Pruett * Bob Stoops * Ron Zook * Carl Franks * Charlie Strong That's not including Rod Broadway, who became a 1-AA head coach; Jim Bates, who was an interim NFL coach; or Buddy Teevens, who'd...

Ohio University's Marching 110 is legendary. And when the Bobcats played at Neyland a few years ago, there were a lot of our fans who said that it was by far the best band to have ever played there.

Wait until December 23. If Toledo knocks out Appalachian State in their bowl game, giving the Rockets a 12-win season for the first time in 46 years, that should be where the coaching search should zero in.

Why? It's only the second-best band at a school whose name contains the word "Ohio".

In sixteen years as a head coach of a nationally-contending SEC program, Fulmer hired exactly three assistants who would later become head coaches elsewhere. Those three coaches were on staff at UT for a combined four years. Lovie Smith - defensive backs coach, 1993 and 1994. Became Chicago...

Charlie Weis at Notre Dame Ted Tollner at USC Ron Zook at Florida Larry Coker at Miami Ed Orgeron at Ole Miss Ted Roof at Duke Ellis Johnson at Southern Miss