Coaching Rumors/ Openings Thread

[VolCalls]

With the current track record of coaching management by Danny White, I hope he’s gone before Barnes retires. HE ran off TV, botched baseball hire until intervention, Caldwell is bad and Heupel was 5th? Choice and was at same school before….

DW is great at driving revenue. Heupel was the right guy at the right time for the football program, but whether he's the long-term solution remains to be seen. This season is huge.

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

Schertz would be great. He was actually targeted by Louisville after Dusty May told them no and went to Michigan, but he had already signed a term sheet with SLU with a hefty buyout, so both he and UL were stuck. I think he'd take the UT job in a heartbeat.

He would in a heartbeat. I got to know him a little when he was at Indiana State and he said he loved ISU but his end game was a SEC or B1G job. I'm hearing his name rumored for possibly Syracuse right now.

 

[VolCalls]

He would in a heartbeat. I got to know him a little when he was at Indiana State and he said he loved ISU but his end game was a SEC or B1G job. I'm hearing his name rumored for possibly Syracuse right now.

If that's the case, he'd leave Syracuse for us, too. Which would be fine by me.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

Not sure what to think about Schertz...year 2 at Saint Louis with great results...would kind of like to see him in year 4 or 5 somewhere when he's had a bit of a reset of roster and see if he can keep the ship steady.

3 years at ISU and each year they improved
2 years at SLU and each year they've improved

Sometimes that climb to the top is easier than staying there and he's not stayed anywhere long enough to see if that's something he can maintain yet.

 

[Pennheel]

I read where the AD at Miami (OH) gave Steele a contract extension through 2033-34 which should keep him where hes at. I read they're wanting to compete as a good mid major. After a great year so far and a good one last year,thats smart.

 

[YankeeVol]

Damn. LSU would owe McMahon $8 mil if they fire him this year.

 

[jackaro]

KO was a good coach that could have had a great deal of success at UT with a supportive AD.

Mears was a small college coach that won a natty. Devoe was a Bobby Knight disciple (when Knight was the most successful coach in the country). Houston was the best recruiter in the country. Buzz was Michael Jordan’s roommate. Jerry Green was about the 6th option when KO decided to grind his axe with Dickey and burned UT in the process. Donnie had the NCAA run as well. Cuonzo checked the boxes and had mid-major success.

It’s a crap shoot. The next coach will be youngish, well spoken, stylish, liked by players, and hopefully a tireless recruiter that knows the Xs and Os better than the other SEC coaches

From what I remember Kevin O'Neil had a toxic personality and did not last long wherever he coached.

 

[beachvol23]

DW is great at driving revenue. Heupel was the right guy at the right time for the football program, but whether he's the long-term solution remains to be seen. This season is huge.

agree!

 

[VolGee4]

CKC's failings have shaken my confidence in ADDW's ability to find a replacement for RB once he hangs it up.... we give him a lot of credit for "hiring Nate Oats" at Buffalo before he got big, but what if that was an anomaly?

I am just going to present the facts in light of some probably thinking I just support our AD no matter what. Danny White hired Bobby Hurley, Lance Leipold, and Nate Oats at Buffalo. He hired Scott Frost, Johnny Dawkins, Greg Lovelady, and Josh Heupel at UCF. Now, no AD will hit 100% on hires, and you have to analyze the hire at that instutition and not necessarily what that coach ended up doing at other schools.

His hires at Buffalo were all successful. Hurley hasn't been really successful at ASU but is still there for now. The other two have gone on to bigger schools and succeeded.

Scott Frost went undefeated at UCF while not working at Nebraska. Johnny Dawkins hasn't had great success, is still their basketball coach, but UCF is surprsingly holding its own this year in the Big 12. Lovelady was a bit of a disappointment and was fired. Heupel went 22-4 in his first two years at UCF, and we know his history at UT.

So, his history of hires has been really good. I am not in the "Caldwell was a bad hire" yet. She overachieved last year with a makeshift roster. She is relying on more youth this year and had to dismiss a veteran. She signed the #2 player in next year's class and has recruited light years better than our previous coach. People can speculate on the Vitello exit, but the bottom line is that Tony doesn't go anywhere if a MLB team (with a friend as an executive) doesn't come calling. DW didn't divert funds away from baseball; he just gave the Lady Vols their just percentage of revenue sharing unlike other schools, who don't care about women's basketball. Time will tell if these hires will be very good or not.