Gundy talks with Chris Low about flirtations with Tennessee and how he looked at the program..

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TNHopeful505 said:
Dunno, he said we put together an "unbelievable package." Sounds like we did what we could.
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Money isn’t everything. Word got out that Hamilton let Kiffin bend him over in contract negotiations and then tried to meddle in Cuts coaching staff, resulting in the Dooley hire. We were a loser program that let a head coach hand pick his own AD,and what happened next was predictable. The only smart thing Mike Hamilton ever did was pick up the phone when Grunfeld called him and recommended a basketball coach.
 
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Leave it to Chris Low—a ”journalist” that totally embarrassed himself with weak questions asked to Greg Sankey on The Nation after the Ole Miss game—to rehash garbage with a coach most of us never wanted and one that never intended to be here.
 
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brockytop said:
Leave it to Chris Low—a ”journalist” that totally embarrassed himself with weak questions asked to Greg Sankey on The Nation after the Ole Miss game—to rehash garbage with a coach most of us never wanted and one that never intended to be here.
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Low hates Tennessee he will bag on us and run us down any chance he gets.
 
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Low opened up this box by asking about UT...in fairness to Gundy....and Gundy took advantage of it to brag about how much Vols wanted him. He's got an ego like most other coaches. Then he brags about "other schools" wanting him too. He's a good solid coach...but not "great."
 
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Doberman said:
Hopefully now that AD White is running the show, the days of Tennessee bufoonery, and stepping on our own Johnson's is

Cue ""Yakety Sax"
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He’s an average coach in an average conference. Never wanted him. When you shout out your a man your not the guy we need. SEC would eat him up.
 
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beachvol23 said:
Yes it would be great if somebody had the fortitude to call out Mullet publicly for it!!! Of course Chris Low won’t never call anything like it is. Thes softy media people are pathetic. Why can’t people just say things matter of fact instead of beating around the bush?!?!... It’s ridiculous.
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Now that T Boone Pickens passed away not sure where their money is coming from? Maybe if BIG goes to 20 teams they might be a catch. Much prefer Clem, Miami, FSU & NC.
 
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djohnnyg said:
Low opened up this box by asking about UT...in fairness to Gundy....and Gundy took advantage of it to brag about how much Vols wanted him. He's got an ego like most other coaches. Then he brags about "other schools" wanting him too. He's a good solid coach...but not "great."
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He ain’t that great. TX, OK, OR, USC & Miami offer? Will FSU offer him after they fire Norvell? Will Mich offer after Harbaugh leaves for the NFL? Even Auburn wouldn’t touch him.
 
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On point, the “man” has an over-inflated impression of himself and he’s simply not (and was not) going anywhere….. many people on here don’t wanna admit it, but Brutus Fulmer is a great parallel.
 
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He wins just enough to keep from getting fired, good enough to gain a little demand from other schools which gets him salary increases. He would be a fool to leave that job unless he desires a national championship.
 
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If we ever draw them in a bowl matchup, it should be epic, for the backstory as much as anything else
 
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brockytop said:
Leave it to Chris Low—a ”journalist” that totally embarrassed himself with weak questions asked to Greg Sankey on The Nation after the Ole Miss game—to rehash garbage with a coach most of us never wanted and one that never intended to be here.
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Chris Low became a turd to me when he tired to tie Ainge’s drug addiction to when he played at Tennessee.
 
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Gundy is a great coach. Give him credit for it. He made the smart play against UT as well. Our incompetent admin would have hindered him. Compare that to OkSt where he gets free reign.

The only hitch for Gundy is OkSt offers no super conference any incentive to add them due to low population. That may leave them on the outside looking for the re-alignment in motion. But it was still better for him to be a great coach in a below average conference, than just another coach in a great conference. I believe he could have won the East here. He really is a great coach who coaches his talent up above their recruiting ranks. He also outcoached better teams pretty often.
 
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SpookyAction said:
Gundy is a great coach. Give him credit for it. He made the smart play against UT as well. Our incompetent admin would have hindered him. Compare that to OkSt where he gets free reign.

The only hitch for Gundy is OkSt offers no super conference any incentive to add them due to low population. That may leave them on the outside looking for the re-alignment in motion. But it was still better for him to be a great coach in a below average conference, than just another coach in a great conference. I believe he could have won the East here. He really is a great coach who coaches his talent up above their recruiting ranks. He also outcoached better teams pretty often.
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Gundy would’ve failed at Tennessee and in the SEC
 
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I don't like Gundy, but I would have liked him as our coach. He coaches a very effective offensive attack and his defenses are above average most years. We love our coach and he hasn't delivered the above defense yet.

Courting Gundy was no different than those rumors after 2001 (probably planted by Fulmer and his agent) that he was being courted by other teams, both college and NFL). He was never going anywhere, but used the story to his advantage. Fulmer leveraged whomever was offering him a position to pad his nest in Knoxville.

I used to resent Gundy, but he was playing with a strong hand in the situations. His quotes from the article are very complimentary to UT and his respect for the program. His tweets made us look weak and foolish years ago, but he was just promoting himself and his football program. So screw him for that, but that is the price an AD and university pays when they court big time coaches. We aimed high and missed. He said Our admin made big package offers that were big time offers. I figured our offers were inadequate, but he does not imply that at all. We were just trying to get a coach in the catbird seat, and it wasn't happening.

I think Gundy would have won here and contended some years. Nothing I see from his teams makes me think differently. OkSt is the only B12 team I watch and his teams play like blue chippers when they are average at recruiting at best. That kind of coach could have made UT great again. We have that kind of coach now and I don't pine for Gundy. But the last decade would have been much more fun to watch if Gary Patterson or Mike Gundy had been the head coach. They are both legit great coaches and built great teams with cores of less than elite talent. They did it with real coaching and excellent gameday planning and players that were drilled to execute the plans very well.

And Gundy made OkSt a dangerous team to play that shouldn't even sniff the playoffs, but they are in the hunt regularly now. If he can lead OkSt to contend for the playoff, he could have been a winner in Knoxville. No doubt. He is getting to that point in his career where his assistant coaches are being poached and it will be harder to keep making homerun hires come to Stillwater. Fulmer reached that point and it only takes a few unsuccessful assistant hires to bring a team down a peg.

You say he would have failed here, but you are putting down a future College Football Hall of Fame coach. Bold move. How many other Hall of Fame coaches do you say would also fail at UT?
 
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