David Shaw (merged)

#77
#77
My first choice also...what his team did at Oregon was special.

Overachieved all year too.
 
#79
#79
Gruden was my choice but Shaw runs a very close second for me. I would love to see this cat roaming Neyland and think he would put UT back on the championship map. I mentioned in another thread that being a Stanford alum, he may view Stanford as his dream job as far as college goes, but, I would think that any coach would be intrigued by competing in the best conference in the land, SEC. I would go hard at this guy and make him say no as well.
 
#80
#80
I would be disappointed if he has not been contacted yet. Personalty, I'd drive a armored truck to his house and knock on the door, hand him a contract and ask him where he wanted us to put all this.
 
#82
#82
LLcoolDave said:
Gruden was my choice but Shaw runs a very close second for me. I would love to see this cat roaming Neyland and think he would put UT back on the championship map. I mentioned in another thread that being a Stanford alum, he may view Stanford as his dream job as far as college goes, but, I would think that any coach would be intrigued by competing in the best conference in the land, SEC. I would go hard at this guy and make him say no as well.
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He may say no thanks, but you gotta see if there's anything you can do to hire him.
 
#84
#84
Shaw insists now, as he did when he was hired in January, that Stanford is his “dream job” and the “first and only head coaching job” he wants. He understands credit will never come his way this season, not with Luck headlining a roster stacked with NFL talent, and that’s perfectly fine by Shaw.
The way he sees it, if his name is never mentioned for a more high-profile job, that’s just one less distraction.
“It does nothing for me. I don’t get excited about it. I don’t go, ‘Ooooh, that’s kind of cool,”’ Shaw said. “I don’t care. I don’t need anyone to give me any credit for what I’m doing. I don’t need my name to be bounced around for anything. I couldn’t care less. I want to dig my heels in here and hopefully they’ll drag me away from this place and force me into retirement at some point.”

Give up on that dream guys and move on
 
#86
#86
David Shaw would be a great hire.....his team plays lights out defense and runs the rock with authority.....hmmmm sounds like some SEC teams I know....I would support this hire if we could land him....
 
#88
#88
Volwark said:
Truth.

He is still quite a risk, and definitely not a home run as some have suggested. Time is needed to see how good he really is. And therein lies the problem. Even if he were open to coming here, the timing is not right at this point in time for UT. Not with the position we're in.
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He pulled in the #5 class in the country last year, with 4* and 5* players from TN, GA, FL, TX, MN, VA, MO, and IL. Im pretty sure that means he knows how to recruit nationally and well.
 
#89
#89
Vols4life said:
Shaw insists now, as he did when he was hired in January, that Stanford is his “dream job” and the “first and only head coaching job” he wants. He understands credit will never come his way this season, not with Luck headlining a roster stacked with NFL talent, and that’s perfectly fine by Shaw.
The way he sees it, if his name is never mentioned for a more high-profile job, that’s just one less distraction.
“It does nothing for me. I don’t get excited about it. I don’t go, ‘Ooooh, that’s kind of cool,”’ Shaw said. “I don’t care. I don’t need anyone to give me any credit for what I’m doing. I don’t need my name to be bounced around for anything. I couldn’t care less. I want to dig my heels in here and hopefully they’ll drag me away from this place and force me into retirement at some point.”

Give up on that dream guys and move on
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WE KNOW IT'S A LONGSHOT.




Just because it's not likely means we can't discuss it?
 
#90
#90
Vols4life said:
Give up on that dream guys and move on
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I agree it's not at all probable, but you have to throw $ at the guy like it's going out of style. No excuse not to. $4 mil+ a $3mil+ pool for assistants, biggest recruiting budget and top facilities in NCAA could change the game for a guy like that. Throw on top playing in the SEC where winning the conference championship almost assures you of a national championship ticket. Also, Shaw seems like a guy that would really revel in the tradition of UT and keep up with and expand the good things that the VFL program has done.

I also have it on good authority that he knows where Rommel is.
 
#91
#91
He is a great coach. I would love to see him here. I know he is at his dream job. Money talks though. Enough money will at least make him consider it. Like most people said already at least contact him. Whatever is meant to happen will happen. At least we can say we tried.
 
#92
#92
He's making 1.5 at Stanford. Call him up and say you got 3.5 waiting on him and see what he says. He might not say "yes" but he might say "let's talk". The worst he can say is "no".
 
#94
#94
Shaw is only making 1.5 mil at Stanford, offer him a 3 million dollar raise (4.5 mil). I'm sure a raise that big would make most people think about it, even if the coach was coaching at his alma mater. Have to at least make coaches like Shaw, Patterson, and Petersen say no before you move on to lesser candidates.
 
#95
#95
IndianVol said:
Shaw is only making 1.5 mil at Stanford, offer him a 3 million dollar raise (4.5 mil). I'm sure a raise that big would make most people think about it, even if the coach was coaching at his alma mater. Have to at least make coaches like Shaw, Patterson, and Petersen say no before you move on to lesser candidates.
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So easy to say "Throw $4.5 million at him." Hard pill to swallow to make a coach the 4th highest paid in the country and have never even played for the National Championship much less won it.
 
#96
#96
INVolsITrust said:
So easy to say "Throw $4.5 million at him." Hard pill to swallow to make a coach the 4th highest paid in the country and have never even played for the National Championship much less won it.
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UT was willing to throw 5+ mil at Gruden, I think Shaw is less risky than Gruden. Shaw has shown he can recruit nationally (landed a top 5 class at Stanford last year, if he can recruit to Stanford he can for sure recruit to UT) and coach at the college level.
 
#97
#97
Stanford cant draw flies. This is their stadium during the PAC 12 championship game. Maybe he would be open to coaching at a place where they actually care about football.

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#98
#98
IndianVol said:
UT was willing to throw 5+ mil at Gruden, I think Shaw is less risky than Gruden. Shaw has shown he can recruit nationally (landed a top 5 class at Stanford last year, if he can recruit to Stanford he can for sure recruit to UT) and coach at the college level.
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Didn't say I could quite understand paying Gruden that much, but at least he has a super bowl ring and much, much more hype around him. You are saying though t pay him more then Les Miles, who even with his faults, still has a BCS championship. A million more then Chip Kelly who at least has played for the championship. Just doesn't make sense.
 
#99
#99
INVolsITrust said:
So easy to say "Throw $4.5 million at him." Hard pill to swallow to make a coach the 4th highest paid in the country and have never even played for the National Championship much less won it.
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Gruden never paid in a national championship game either
 
#100
#100
efeezell said:
Gruden never paid in a national championship game either
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Like I said, don't know if the risk = the pay. My thinking is that there are only two people, outside of Saben that deserve his money in the college game, Stoops and Carroll. Everyone else is a big question mark.
 
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