ESPN/Chris Mortensen report

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#101
Jewbaccah said:
I am not saying he cannot coach. Clearly in an even playing field he is winner. In Big Time college coaching to win you need to be able to get the athletes his biggest fault is recruiting. So when you look at our situation a team that does not have in state talent to keep it going our guy has to get recruits well it has to be a strength. If he does not immediately come in and win we are dead in the water.
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By "come in and win", do you mean 6-6 in 2009? What would be your idea of a successful season next year, conidering the slop we have this year?
 
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utmba93 said:
For what it's worth, I heard 'the.'

He does say that rather quickly, so whether Mort parsed his words as carefully as you have (and I agree with your parsing), I don't know.

Mort was discouraging UT from pursuing Gruden saying he 'had a little flirt in him,' in comparison to Lovie in which that simply wasn't going to happen... and then went to his statement about Kiffin.

Also...Mort noted that Tennessee was engaged in a broad search contacting NFL coaches and these three were 'included' in those contacts.
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This is exactly what I took from it and it makes me happy. I am just bracing for a Kelly like announcement so hopefully this means Hammy knows the stakes
 
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The schedule next year should lend itself to a coach being able to come in and restore order.
 
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rbroyles said:
If a new name is to be thrown in the mix, then Hamilton has not made a definite choice, which means "the people in the Know" don't know as I have suggested.

Can we designate them as PINKs to save time & space?
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I like that. A new entry into the internet language system... :dance2:
 
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Jewbaccah said:
I am not saying he cannot coach. Clearly in an even playing field he is winner. In Big Time college coaching to win you need to be able to get the athletes his biggest fault is recruiting. So when you look at our situation a team that does not have in state talent to keep it going our guy has to get recruits well it has to be a strength. If he does not immediately come in and win we are dead in the water.
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We've had a coach that was a ace recruiter and a crappy coach. I don't know about you but I'd like to mix that up a bit.

I honestly think this whole "big daddy recruiter" theory is getting almost out of hand. People are acting like Tennessee is in freakin' Bahgdad or something.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
By "come in and win", do you mean 6-6 in 2009? What would be your idea of a successful season next year, conidering the slop we have this year?
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Well, if we get a recruiter then he can go 7-5 and survive to fight another year--A guy who is not an ace recruiter and well he needs to go 9-3 or so in my mind just to keep recruits interested.
 
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Business said:
We've had a coach that was a ace recruiter and a crappy coach. I don't know about you but I'd like to mix that up a bit.

I honestly think this whole "big daddy recruiter" theory is getting almost out of hand. People are acting like Tennessee is in freakin' Bahgdad or something.
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Knoxville is roughly 4 hours away from Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville. And about 6 hours away from Memphis, Cincinnati and SC. We are centrally located. Instead of looking at Knoxville as a geographical negative, why aren't these recruiting fiends realizing the advantages we offer?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Knoxville is roughly 4 hours away from Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville. And about 6 hours away from Memphis, Cincinnati and SC. We are centrally located. Instead of looking at Knoxville as a geographical negative, why aren't these recruiting fiends realizing the advantages we offer?
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Charlotte? Hey we got CJ Leak, baby.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Knoxville is roughly 4 hours away from Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville. And about 6 hours away from Memphis, Cincinnati and SC. We are centrally located. Instead of looking at Knoxville as a geographical negative, why aren't these recruiting fiends realizing the advantages we offer?
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I think step one for the new coach has to be taking back Memphis and Nashville. Insert Jay Graham.

Edit: I'm sure he'd also have connections in western NC and now near Cincy. Problem solved.
 
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I don't understand the Tidewater Pipeline that we have. Anyone know what player or coach opened that up. I know Steve DeLong came from from there, which is actually the same school that Jerrod Askew is coming from, given he brings it on down to Knoxville.
 
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#117
If we can find someone who can comprehend more than one check down, throw the ball to receivers and not the ground or the other team. Next year's schedule is a good one to get some respectability back. Florida, georiga, SC all having bye weeks before us was rough. Hopefully it doesn't fall like that again next year.
 
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Smashville said:
I stopped reading this thread at "Al Groh is doing a great job".
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He does not have the horses and he is competing. He wins out and he goes to BCS. He beat Butch and Tech, so no he is not changing the world in VA but to say he is awful is not so. He is coaching at a Vandy basically and competing.
 
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Jewbaccah said:
He does not have the horses and he is competing. He wins out and he goes to BCS. He beat Butch and Tech, so no he is not changing the world in VA but to say he is awful is not so. He is coaching at a Vandy basically and competing.
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No, he's coaching at a school that hadn't had a losing season in 15 years when he inherited it and he's driven them to three. A school that was a consistent top 25 school when he inherited it. A school that won the ACC 5 years before he became their head coach.

And Groh has never taken a team to a BCS bowl...I don't know where you got that idea.
And he's driven it into the ground. The only reason UVA is in the bottom of the ACC is their coach.
 
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