Hammered on ESPN

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#176
remember when ESPN actually reported the news instead of making news and telling universities who they should and shouldn't hire while bashing fan bases? Yeah... those were the times. Ratings were a lot better then too.....justsayin
 
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#177
Truth hurts. Because a portion of our fan base acted like a wild, ignorant mob, we all look stupid. What pi$$es me off is the way all the talking heads act like this could only happen at UT. Just proves they’re as stupid as the mob they’re critical of.
 
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NickZ4UT said:
Bizarre that they can't wrap their head around the idea that a fanbase doesn't want to hire a guy who helped enable a pedophile. If that makes us a bad fanbase then fine.
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That's because the fans weren't protesting for that. Yea, that was the excuse, but really it's because Schiano isn't the name hire you wanted.


When you are throwing out unrealistic names like Gruden (yes, unrealistic because he hasn't coached in a decade and don't you think he'd coach a pro team. it's easier, than a college team?), Peterson (will never leave the Northwest) Patterson (deep roots in Fort Worth), etc. you are not going to like the hire.

Tennessee is not a name school anymore. Tennessee is not going to get a name coach until Tennessee gets good again.
 
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Vol4ever said:
Booger McFarland and Mike Golic took the UT fans to the woodshed this morning. Booger said no coach would want the job now unless its a lower level assistant.
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I could GAS. Who cares? What matters is this next hire.

Many, myself included, laughed very loud when Rich Rod rejected bammer in 2007. We all know how that turned out. :)
 
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jamescoburn said:
Jokes with millions of listeners and watchers...and I also agree with their assessment...and like it or not we are a laughing stock of college football.
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What the public at large thinks isn't important here. This is a family matter. We're talking about the University of Tennessee, our university, and our football program.

Much of the spark behind the weekend uprising resulted from ten years of broken promises, incompetent leadership and unacceptable performance within our university's football program. When it became apparent we were headed down the same road again, the frustrated fan base finally stood up and shouted, "That's enough!"

With his decision to hire Schiano, Currie proved that he's no athletics professional, but rather that he's just another "suit" trained by Jimmy Meek and Mike Hamilton. Despite his repeated, strong assurances to acquire a first class coach, he chose Schiano whose poor record as a head coach speaks for itself.

Many fans, including myself, yelled foul! I’m embarrassed to admit how much money I’ve spent on UT football over the past ten years, and looking back I have to wonder, why? For what? Currie did not deliver on his promise, but he and the university still expected me to remain silent and shell out thousands of dollars to support a terrible hire. I'm not going to do it.

Schiano's association with the Penn State disaster isn't a damning indictment of the man, but it raises the question, should Greg Schiano serve as the public face of Tennessee football, and to a large degree, the face of our university? The fans response to that question might not be fair but their concern for their university was genuine.

Maybe you're right that the nation looks at us as a laughingstock, but that reflects their shallowness not ours.
 
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