Clay Travis: "Good news for Tennessee fans next week"

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DERELICK_MY_VOLS said:
Plowman confirmed the rumor about Manning involved in the new AD hire and HC hire. This whole quite what’s going on embarrassing last month apparently has been calculated and surgical behind the scenes. I actually believe Clay is right.
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But if coaches are reaching out to Clay Travis to get hired? What kind of pull does he have? These guys have agents. They have ways of contacting ADs. They don't need a snarky media twerp as personal reference. Clay Travis is like a Christmas turkey.
 
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volfannga said:
Something to add to he coach interest. Think about their boss for a moment. Who wanted to work for the past few AD's we've had vs Mr White? If you have incompetent or weak AD do you want to work for them? Do you know they have your back? Want your boss meddling? With an AD with his reputation, more coaches should be interested. Outside the investigation, this may be the best environment for a coach to step into since Majors and early in Fulmer's tenure. As I recall Fulmer was critical of UT leadership toward the end. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore and White mentioned it in his comments. So maybe we hit 2 home runs.
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Jeez dude, we get it!😉
GBO!!
 
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volfannga said:
Something to add to he coach interest. Think about their boss for a moment. Who wanted to work for the past few AD's we've had vs Mr White? If you have incompetent or weak AD do you want to work for them? Do you know they have your back? Want your boss meddling? With an AD with his reputation, more coaches should be interested. Outside the investigation, this may be the best environment for a coach to step into since Majors and early in Fulmer's tenure. As I recall Fulmer was critical of UT leadership toward the end. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore and White mentioned it in his comments. So maybe we hit 2 home runs.
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You did get 3 likes from me though.👍
GBO!!
 
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TNnative said:
But if coaches are reaching out to Clay Travis to get hired? What kind of pull does he have? These guys have agents. They have ways of contacting ADs. They don't need a snarky media twerp as personal reference. Clay Travis is like a Christmas turkey.
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He obviously doesn’t know any coaches...college or NFL. I mean he certainly has never met any nor interviewed any. Not saying he is being honest but it isn’t out of the realm...but it may have been HIM probing not them reaching out. Just as Jeff Fisher’s out of nowhere comments.
 
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I'm pleasantly surprised at the amount of supposed interest in the Tennessee job. Maybe its the lowered expectations of a string of bad hires and upcoming sanctions. Our fanbase is humbled and, in particular if the new coach has good credentials, they will be given a few years of security just to get things back to normal.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Schiano, if hired, would have been an improvement over Pruitt. Pruitt was just that bad. You would have actually saw prepared teams, decent lines, halftime adjustments, and teams not quitting. I'm not saying that he would have done great but I would suspect the following:

Y1: 7-6 (Schiano) vs 5-7
Y2: 9-4 (Schiano) vs 8-5
Y3: 6-4 (Schiano) vs 3-7

Through 3 years that's 22-14 vs 16-19
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Yeah because his schedule at Rutgers matches what Pruitt faced in the SEC. Get out. Schiano sucks just like Pruitt.
 
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DERELICK_MY_VOLS said:
He obviously doesn’t know any coaches...college or NFL. I mean he certainly has never met any nor interviewed any. Not saying he is being honest but it isn’t out of the realm...but it may have been HIM probing not them reaching out. Just as Jeff Fisher’s out of nowhere comments.
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Um how do you know Vlay doesn’t know any coaches or haven’t met any of them?
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Yeah because his schedule at Rutgers matches what Pruitt faced in the SEC. Get out. Schiano sucks just like Pruitt.
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Never said Schiano is a good coach or that he would have been a good hire here. Ultimately, it would have been an awful fit and it wouldnt have worked out. All of that doesnt change the fact that Schiano is a far better HC than Pruitt. That's not an endorsement of Schiano but an indictment of how bad Pruitt was...
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Schiano, if hired, would have been an improvement over Pruitt. Pruitt was just that bad. You would have actually saw prepared teams, decent lines, halftime adjustments, and teams not quitting. I'm not saying that he would have done great but I would suspect the following:

Y1: 7-6 (Schiano) vs 5-7
Y2: 9-4 (Schiano) vs 8-5
Y3: 6-4 (Schiano) vs 3-7

Through 3 years that's 22-14 vs 16-19
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He didn’t play 10 SEC teams.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Schiano, if hired, would have been an improvement over Pruitt. Pruitt was just that bad. You would have actually saw prepared teams, decent lines, halftime adjustments, and teams not quitting. I'm not saying that he would have done great but I would suspect the following:

Y1: 7-6 (Schiano) vs 5-7
Y2: 9-4 (Schiano) vs 8-5
Y3: 6-4 (Schiano) vs 3-7

Through 3 years that's 22-14 vs 16-19
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So we have reached the level of pure speculation based on absolutely nothing as justification. I am really curious what was the basis for this outcome?
 
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Pride85 said:
So we have reached the level of pure speculation based on absolutely nothing as justification. I am really curious what was the basis for this outcome?
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I explained it earlier but we wouldnt have quit against Vandy in Y1, lose to GSU in Y2, and not continue to roll JG out there in Y3 against UK, Arky, and Auburn.

A coach with half of a brain and the slightest bit of competence wouldnt have kept rolling JG out there in 2020. Even mediocre (at best) coaches that would have been a bad fit know better.
 
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vanillagorilla said:
So Urban Meyer is gonna pull a Saban?
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No, Danny White's gonna pull a Mal Moore and park out front of Urban Meyer's house with a dump truck full of money until Meyer says yes. Then Urban Meyer be like:
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VOL_Lyfe said:
“Realistic expectations for Tennessee football hire?”

Not surprisingly, I’ve gotten a ton of questions all week about the Tennessee football hire.
Let’s begin here with something that will blow the media’s minds. It’s possible for Jeremy Pruitt to have been a bad hire and for Greg Schiano to have been a bad hire too. In other words, one hire isn’t necessarily connected to the other.

If you told me today that Tennessee was hiring Greg Schiano to replace Jeremy Pruitt, I would still be opposed to it, and I suspect the majority of Tennessee fans would too. I still believe he would have been a bad hire for Tennessee.

And while there has been a ton of discussion about the Pruitt firing, I think it was the right decision, whether he’d violated NCAA rules or not. By year three, you know whether a coach is going to work out. Pruitt wasn’t going to work out. He was a poor hire — the Kentucky and Arkansas performances alone demonstrated that — and I was afraid Tennessee was going to give him a fourth year and leave everyone hanging in the breeze.

With the firing out of the way — potentially with no buyouts in play at all — as I’ve been saying all week, I think Tennessee will hire its most accomplished head coach since Johnny Majors. That is to say, the number of proven and high quality coaches who are interested in this job has blown me away. I’m not reacting to any media reports on this coaching interest. I’m talking about coaches who have directly reached out to me to talk about the Tennessee job and express interest in it.

That’s why I haven’t publicly endorsed any Tennessee coaching candidate. There are several of those coaches who have reached out to me that I’d be ecstatic if Tennessee hired. It’s not my decision whom to hire, but I think Tennessee fans are going to be happy with the end result, solely based on the number of quality candidates out there interested in the job.

Indeed, I think this is the best bunch of potential coaches Tennessee has had interested in the job since Phil Fulmer was fired back in 2008. I know the doom and gloomers in national media didn’t believe it, but I told you before the Danny White AD hire was announced that Tennessee was going to be in a good spot with this hire. Now after the Danny White hire, which impressed everyone, I feel even better about the options out there.

That’s especially the case because it appears Tennessee is finally committed to deploying the Travis dump truck of cash theory and finally paying big money to accomplished coaching talents, as opposed to hiring lesser known candidates, paying them less, and hoping they work out.

Which is why I’m telling you that I expect Tennessee to hire its most accomplished head coach since Johnny Majors.

Remember, since Majors, who had won a national championship at Pittsburgh, Tennessee has hired: Phil Fulmer, the then-Vol offensive coordinator who had never been a head coach before; Lane Kiffin, who had been a head coach of the Oakland Raiders for just over a year and gotten fired there; Derek Dooley, who was coming off a 4-8 season as a head coach at Louisiana Tech; Butch Jones, who honestly, was the most accomplished head coach since Majors hired at Tennessee and Jeremy Pruitt, who had never been a head coach before.

When Tennessee announces their next coach, which I think will happen next week, I think all the doom and gloomers in the media are going to flip their takes and be praising Tennessee for making a great football hire and pairing him with a great AD.

And, by the way, I love the quiet way Tennessee conducted its AD search. No real leaks, no wild rumors, just an orderly process that led to a very solid hire. So far, the same thing has been true of the head coach search as well.

Which is why I think good news is coming for Tennessee fans early next week.

All That and a Bag of Mail – OutKick
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I just read this too and it was a great read. I can only say that I hope he's right, but my decade of optimism is getting harder to keep on the rails.
 
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