Connor O'Gara on Finebaum says

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amaralfan1 said:
I have my doubts that this report is true. Why would we bring in a homerun AD hire to tell us to stick with what we have? Pretty dangerous territory for someone just settling into the job.
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It means he was told no everywhere he looked
 
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If you promote Kevin Steele to interim coach, you are admitting that you had a national coaching search and could not hire a candidate. That does far more to damage the perception of the program than if you just hire a Lance Liepold and say he's the guy you wanted all along.
 
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RhodesVol said:
If you promote Kevin Steele to interim coach, you are admitting that you had a national coaching search and could not hire a candidate. That does far more to damage the perception of the program than if you just hire a Lance Liepold and say he's the guy you wanted all along.
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Or you decided not to make another huge mistake and getting deeper in debt to a coach you’ll likely fire in 3 years. Take the time to find the best guy.
 
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volfanhill said:
It means he was told no everywhere he looked
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It also means I'm wondering if DW had someone on the hook before he said yes to UT. If he didn't I'll be sad.
Of course, things don't always go as planned so I'm going wait and see.
 
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Mose Phillip's Watch said:
We may not but its a HUGE fear by potential coaches. I personally think we get hammered
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Coaches, AD and everyone involved knows the NCAA isn't bringing the hammer down on us. A couple years probation and a reduction in OVs is about it. The coaches involved will get hammered.
 
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Big coaching search going on. Tennessee fans get crazy for coaching searches.

Most of these guys gots NOTHING to sell........therefore their trying to sell “anything.”
 
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I dont think Steele will be the guy, I did before but I dont think so now, why would we be going thru the motions of pretending to do a coaching search unless were going to bring in someone....
 
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DERELICK_MY_VOLS said:
If you are supposed to be one of the Top 5 Premier AD's in college athletics and you hire the guy Fulmer brought on before you got here.....

WE NEED A REFUND.
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We have a lot of delusional fans in my humble opinion that think coaches would give up 4 or 5 million a year to come to TN for maybe a million more a and put up with being bashed by 50 percent of us. As you see we don't have elite coaches lined up for the job. As a vol fan who was born In fla but grew up outside of ooltewah and went to many games in the Doug dickey, bill battle and Johnny majors era I have seen the fan base wanting the coach fired and I was one but at that time we were more prevalent then we are now. I know no one cares what I think but I would like us to hire a young ambitious offensive coach with a good dc.
 
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Mose Phillip's Watch said:
We may not but its a HUGE fear by potential coaches. I personally think we get hammered
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Well, you are wrong. Nobody gets "hammered" anymore unless the NCAA has cited a "lack of institutional control". There isn't room for that since these violations are being self-reported by the administration.

... and I highly doubt that Steele is about to be named the head coach, even on an interim, one year basis.
 
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If we’ve stuck out and are truly down to Steele being the HC, why not hire Fisher? Let him coach until the air clears and try again. He’s interested and would give a better look to recruits and the media than just sticking with Steele. In other words, let Fisher be the bridge as opposed to the “do nothing” option of promoting Steele. Worst case, you did SOMETHING...best case, Fisher actually does well.
 
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DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Or you decided not to make another huge mistake and getting deeper in debt to a coach you’ll likely fire in 3 years. Take the time to find the best guy.
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That may all be true, but the perception of the program won't be that we made a smart decision. It will be widely deciminated that we got shot down by PJ Fleck, James Franklin, Sonny Dykes and Tony Elliott, and then we had to settle on a guy with a 9-38 (or something equally horrific) coaching record because the organization is a nightmare.

Then, we get NCAA sanctions.

Then we realize that we can't recruit with an interim coach that is selling...what? There's not recruiting pitch. "Come to Tennessee, they'll figure it out, I think."

Then we take an already depleted roster and add virtually nothing to it.

You're not getting a better coach after that than we can find right now. The pool will only get worse.

Kevin Steel for an interim year is program suicide.
 
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RhodesVol said:
That may all be true, but the perception of the program won't be that we made a smart decision. It will be widely deciminated that we got shot down by PJ Fleck, James Franklin, Sonny Dykes and Tony Elliott, and then we had to settle on a guy with a 9-38 (or something equally horrific) coaching record because the organization is a nightmare.

Then, we get NCAA sanctions.

Then we realize that we can't recruit with an interim coach that is selling...what? There's not recruiting pitch. "Come to Tennessee, they'll figure it out, I think."

Then we take an already depleted roster and add virtually nothing to it.

You're not getting a better coach after that than we can find right now. The pool will only get worse.

Kevin Steel for an interim year is program suicide.
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Ole miss did it and landed Kiffin.
 
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Vol423 said:
The problem is that it's not going to get better in the next few years.
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That's one concern and it's what would make this a tough decision. If we go this route, I see us with a Kentucky roster in 2-3 years. I'm okay with that because I think what's holding us back right now is the recruiting violations becoming public. I don't think having a poor roster would be too much to overcome in a future search IF that's the only red flag for coaching candidates. Big if.
 
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