Charlie Strong-RECRUITING

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govols'96 said:
I'm not in the know or anything like that, but I'm hearing a rumor of a Charlie Strong interview today. Has anyone else heard this? Maybe there was something on VN about it that I missed.
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He already interviewed yesterday my friend. We're hoping skeeter gets some news on how it went this morning. Also rumored that Hart interviewed Fedora yesterday. Hubbs could only confirm the Strong interview. :good!:
 
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dgcarter43 said:
Charlie Strong and Larry Fedora are probably the two most reasonable expectations at this point and both would do a good job at Tn. Two other possibilities would be Gary Patterson and Tommy Tuberville, even though both would be harder to pull away from their current positions. ! expect an announcement will be made by the 10th of Dec.
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I think Patterson wants to get Mack Brown's job and Tubbs sank his chances with his little sideline b!tch slap of his GA.
 
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jc4vols said:
Would be a good fit if we get Strong

The O staff would put up points

Strongs D would of won us 2+ games this year
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Am I missing something, his D at louisville is middle of pack IN THE BIG EAST! How does that translate into him turning ours around?
 
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volinexile17 said:
I wouldn't mind keeping all of the offensive staff.
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This, if Chaney will commit to running the ball more. There were a couple of times (Florida, Miss St.) when I thought we got away from the run too quick. It virtually disappeared from our play calling. Really, this is the only criticism I have of the Offense, this year. It was a complete turn around from the year before. I credit Pittman and Graham for that mostly, but the whole offensive team seemed to jell well.
 
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audiowhiz said:
Hinshaw is a great recruiter. I would love for him to stay, and he will given a chance. He has 2 daughters in high school now and he probably would not want to relocate them at least until they are out of high school.:good!:
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I doubt thaemy keep him around Charlie strong has a really good staff he would bring. I think. Jay Graham is probablybthe on guy whobwould stay. Strong's recruiting coordinator was vote as recruiter of the year last season
 
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I see some valid points, but I don't get real excited about strong or any other candidates currently being pursued by UT. Why is our coaching list so lame. Keep hinshaw, Graham, pittman(maybe Chaney, I don't know) then hire some good defensive staff. Its just...Fisher, Briles,Golden,strong, Fedora-nothing exciting at all about any of those. Just lame , really lame
 
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Donvolson said:
I see some valid points, but I don't get real excited about strong or any other candidates currently being pursued by UT. Why is our coaching list so lame. Keep hinshaw, Graham, pittman(maybe Chaney, I don't know) then hire some good defensive staff. Its just...Fisher, Briles,Golden,strong, Fedora-nothing exciting at all about any of those. Just lame , really lame
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It looks like that because of Gruden. Take his name out and the rest of the list doesn't look bad at all.
 
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GBO Vols said:
Sorry if I sound ignorant here, but can someone explain why Strong would immediately help recruiting? His recruiting classes at Louisville have been pretty subpar especially this year.
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They have 4 and 5 star players coming to Louisville. His recruiting coordinator was the recruiter of the year last year. He can get good player believe me man.
 
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Donvolson said:
I see some valid points, but I don't get real excited about strong or any other candidates currently being pursued by UT. Why is our coaching list so lame. Keep hinshaw, Graham, pittman(maybe Chaney, I don't know) then hire some good defensive staff. Its just...Fisher, Briles,Golden,strong, Fedora-nothing exciting at all about any of those. Just lame , really lame
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Who do you want? I mean we can't expect a coach to drop a good job to come here. That is unrealistic. Besides Bama and Carolina no one made big tidme hires they made realistic ones
 
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ORANGE & WHITE said:
HG since you're familiar with Strong's background at Florida, I'd like to get your perception of him as a recruiter in the state of Florida? Outside the state?
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He landed Top 150 guys like Bridgewater, K Brown, Michael Harris, Gerrod Holliman, Eli Rogers in Fla and Dominique Brown, Nick Dawson from Va and NC. He's classes have averaged 9 players from Fla and 6 from strong recruiting grounds Ga and OH per cycle.

When CCS was at UF he went into UM strong holds like BTW, Southridge,Dunbar and STA a took players. He started the Lakeland and Armwood pipeline. Remember when he left Jeff Luc committed to FSU. J Jenkins, Bostic and Major Wright all say they came to UF bc of CCS.

To sum it up it's not a better recruiter in Central and SoFla than CCS. It L'ville can get Sfla kids then UT would get their share with Strong. He also knows how important it is to get guys from Car and DMV.
 
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HialeahGator said:
He landed Top 150 guys like Bridgewater, K Brown, Michael Harris, Gerrod Holliman, Eli Rogers in Fla and Dominique Brown, Nick Dawson from Va and NC. He's classes have averaged 9 players from Fla and 6 from strong recruiting grounds Ga and OH per cycle.

When CCS was at UF he went into UM strong holds like BTW, Southridge and,Dunbar STA a took players. He started the Lakeland and Armwood pipeline. Remember when he left Jeff Luc committed to FSU. J Jenkins, Bostic and Major Wright all say they came to UF bc of CCS.

To sum it up it's not a better recruiter in Central and SoFla than CCS. It L'ville can get Sfla kids then UT would get their share with Strong. He also knows how important it is to get guys from Car and DMV.
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Thank you sir. :hi:

I hold him in high regards as a recruiter and appreciate your perspective. Just wondered if you shared that belief. Sounds like you do. :good!:
 
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VFL44 said:
It looks like that because of Gruden. Take his name out and the rest of the list doesn't look bad at all.
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Ok. i see the logic. I just wanted Gruden and now everybody else seems smalltime. I'm thinking , no matter who it is , they will win more games than DD
 
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GBOVOLS said:
Who do you want? I mean we can't expect a coach to drop a good job to come here. That is unrealistic. Besides Bama and Carolina no one made big tidme hires they made realistic ones
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agree. the gruden stuff made other coaches less exciting
 
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ORANGE & WHITE said:
Thank you sir. :hi:

I hold him in high regards as a recruiter and appreciate your perspective. Just wondered if you shared that belief. Sounds like you do. :good!:
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JMO he should have been a HC long before L'ville but his ego early on and "other" things stopped him from mid-level jobs. L'ville was a blessing for both sides...he got his chance at a BCS school and l'ville became a good program again. I'll root for CCS at UT except for the 3rd game of the year. Gotta beat that azz :)
 
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GBO Vols said:
Sorry if I sound ignorant here, but can someone explain why Strong would immediately help recruiting? His recruiting classes at Louisville have been pretty subpar especially this year.
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The 3 previous recruiting classes before Strong arrived at UL averaged 55th in the nation, since Strong arrived they average 29th in the nation. The 3 previous classes before Strong arrived UL signed 1 5* & 4 4*, since Strong arrived they have signed 10 4*. Strong singed the highest ranked class in UL history, I think it was 23rd overall. AT LOUISVILLE!
 
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Charlie Strong would be a tremendous hire and would give us a great chance to upgrade considerably our recruiting class.

While Corn Elder appears to have zero interest in UT we could still land Jalen Ramsey, whose commitment to SC must be at risk given the recent defensive staff upheaval out there. For a similar reason we could also find ourselves back in the running for that DL out of Louisville Trinity. In other words, we would have a shot at adding two potential immediate contributors where we need it most, and we're not even bringing up Green.

One can only hope that Coach Strong can look past the collective insanity over Jon Gruden and focus on what's great about the fan base. Unfortunately, the imbecilic 5% is a lot louder than the faithful 95.
 
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HialeahGator said:
They sure don't want Strong over in the UT Coaching Rumor/Spec forum.
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That forum will not support anyone except Jon Gruden. They've worked themselves up into a rabid state. I can understand some of their frustration. I really wanted Gruden b/c of the instant credibility he would add. I don't want to discount Strong though. He's a serious upgrade in my eyes.
 
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audiowhiz said:
Hinshaw was the QB coach.... He coached Bray . Check
Then moved to receivers--- Hunter and Patterson. Check

A far as recruiting, he is doing good recruiting under the current and previous circumstances. What recruit would want to come here not knowing if the coach is going to be here next year or not. It is also hard to recruit when the school has a losing record 2 years in a row, and not going to a bowl game.

Hire a good coach, and Hinshaw's job will become much easier.

He is from FL and can pull the good FL recruits given the chance.
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Whoever ends up being the receivers coach needs to teach our receivers how to run passing routes. We had all this talent at receiver this year, but when we had to have first downs all our guys knew how to do was run long. We've got high school coaches that can teach route running better than that!
 
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Just throwing this out there....UH...you guys have looked at Coach Strong's record this year havent you....I mean...literally beat no one...and the ones he did beat, most were really, really close...and got the stuffings beat out of him by Syracuse, not a power house by anybodies imagination...now I think Coach Strong is a good man and probably can recruit as well....but don't we need a coach with a stronger resume??? Just asking.....
 
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