According to Sports Illustrated, Tennessee is not a "destination" job

#51
#51
I dont get thier concept at all. Tennesee is a hugely popular well known and recognized icon in college sports. I can see it not being seen as destination. As a head coach, if you make it happen here, you'd be splashed all over the media, Pat Summit is a great example. Sometimes I wonder what ESPN is thinking.
 
#52
#52
It seems like the guy just made a list of successful schools in the last few years combined with how easy it is to win right now and prestige. All the schools have been title contenders for the last couple of years except for the last 3, and Michigan and Notre Dame are two of the most prestigious schools in college football.
 
#53
#53
I think the destination jobs are from an old school line of thought. These days where ever you go is where you are. Perhaps the financial downturn will change the mobile trend...but who knows.
 
#54
#54
This is what I perceive to be the definition of a "destination job:" a place you DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE, for whatever reason. I could easily see Notre Dame as a destination job, just because saying "I am the head coach of Notre Dame" somehow still carries a lot of weight (Insert Charlie Weiss joke here). UT should be on there.
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#56
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OHvol40 said:
This guy must have started watching CFB 6-8 years ago. But that wouldn't explain FSU. So he must just be dumb. No SEC schools in the so called "platinum standard". What a joke.
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I'd say the FL recruiting base could be a factor when determining attractiveness.
 
#58
#58
there are attributes to support both sides:

Pros: facilities and tradition

Cons: 5150
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#59
Godfatha said:
I nominate this for the dumbest post of the day award.

Fulmer had two losing seasons in four, and had not won a damn thing or even been to a BCS bowl in ten years, but that's been well discussed already.

No other team in the conference has had the stability of Tennessee at the HC position in the modern era, so your statement is further erroneous.

Bill Battle was taking the program down the crapper. Losing to Alabama wasn't the only factor there.

Tennessee is not considered a destination job because of the last 10 years of mediocrity, not because of how well we treat our coaches. If a head coach wanted to go to a place where he could come and coach forever, it would be UT.

Still, this article is very stupid and is nothing more than a silly popularity contest.
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Yo, Gotfatter;
Hate the game; not the playah.
I stand beind the accuracy of my comments 100%, and will accept your "Dumbest Post of the Day Award" if you can unemotionally articulate a counterpoint that is either logical or based on fact.

#1- I recall beating Ohio State a couple of years ago.
While it may not have been for the national chamionship, it still held national implications.
#2- To state that Fullmer had 2 losng seasns in 17 might ne "misleading" to you, doesn't make it untrue.
#3- I think if you'll do some research, you'll find several programs which have truly "tendured for life" HC positions, such as Floridaa State, Penn State, and a couple schools of character,( i.e; Ivy League, Military Academy, etc.)
#4- When you make a blanket statemnt like "no other team in our conference has had the stability of the Tenn HC position n the modern era." (Would be absolutely correct if the mdern era happened to end this pst Dec. ) So therefore I suggest we count this year as part of the modern era.
#5- I'm not exacly sure what your statement, "Bill Battle was taking the program down the crapper, nor how t respond, except for my own paticular memory of losing to Alabama, then meeting Coach Majors at a subseqent press conference.
#6- Perhaps you are corect in saying the manner inwhich the Tennessee coaches are treated like kings, and are welcome to say as long as they want is basically correct if you add a astericks *as long as they keep us in conduistent prominence for national/conference champiosships/BCS Bowls.
 
#63
#63
It's very obvious what this list is based off---recruiting bases.

All these schools have more fertile high schools for plucking out recruits.

ND/OSU/Michigan recruit the north.

The state of Texas had over 400 division one signees in 2009.

TN has to go to Georgia, Virginia, Florida and so forth to build its classes.

TN is a great football school, but it's not as easy to be successful there as the schools that made that list.
 
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Tennessee Jack said:
It's very obvious what this list is based off---recruiting bases.

All these schools have more fertile high schools for plucking out recruits.

ND/OSU/Michigan recruit the north.

The state of Texas had over 400 division one signees in 2009.

TN has to go to Georgia, Virginia, Florida and so forth to build its classes.

TN is a great football school, but it's not as easy to be successful there as the schools that made that list.
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