If CBJ is gone, why not Mike Macintyre??

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Rockytoptalker said:
All these people who don't know who Mike Macintyre must not keep up with absolutely anything outside of UT. All he did was win AP coach of the year last season.
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I've honestly never heard of the guy... and looking at his record and where he is, I can see why.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
He had one good year. And he clearly hasn’t continued that upward trend this year.
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I know nothing about him, but looking at his record, you wonder how he stays employed. In his first 7 seasons, he's won 5 or less 5 times and he's already got 3 losses this year.
 
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George Michael MacIntyre (born March 14, 1965) attended Brentwood Academy and played quarterback and defensive back on the football team. After graduating from Brentwood in 1984, Mike MacIntyre played college football at Vanderbilt, which was coached by his father, for two seasons as a free safety. After his father resigned, he transferred to Georgia Tech, where MacIntyre earned a bachelor's degree in business management in 1989.

MacIntyre played college football at Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech and began his coaching career in 1990 as a graduate assistant at Georgia. From 1992 to 2002, MacIntyre held various assistant coaching positions at Davidson, UT Martin, Temple, and Mississippi. From 2003 to 2007, MacIntyre was an assistant coach in the NFL, first as defensive backs coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2006 and then in the same position with the New York Jets in 2007. MacIntyre returned to college football as defensive coordinator for Duke from 2008 to 2009.

Hired by San Jose State in 2010, MacIntyre became a head coach for the first time in his career. As San Jose State head coach from 2010 to 2012, MacIntyre coached a program that improved from a one-win season in 2010 to a 10–2 record in 2012. San Jose State also earned its first-ever BCS Top 25 ranking and first bowl invitation since 2006. After the 2012 regular season but before the 2012 Military Bowl, MacIntyre resigned from San Jose State to accept the head coach position at Colorado.

On December 10, 2012, the University of Colorado announced that it was hiring MacIntyre to replace coach Jon Embree, who was fired after two seasons. On September 2, 2013, MacIntyre won his opening game over Jim McElwain and rival Colorado State on a neutral field at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver. His positivity and decision-making during the game were praised. Coming off a 1–11 season in 2012, Colorado posted a 4–8 record in 2013. On February 20, 2014, the University of Colorado Board of Regents extended MacIntyre's contract through the 2018 season. Colorado then went 2–10 in 2014 and 4–9 in 2015.
Everything came together for Colorado in 2016. On October 22, Colorado became bowl eligible for the first time since 2007 after beating Stanford 10–5. Two weeks later, they clinched their first winning season since 2005 with a 20–10 victory over UCLA. On November 26, 2016, MacIntyre led the Buffaloes to a 27-22 victory over Utah, clinching the first Pac-12 South Division Championship in school history. MacIntyre was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year for 2016 after the Buffaloes were picked to finish last in the division prior to the season. He was also awarded the Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award becoming the second Colorado coach to earn the award, on a team led by his first recruiting class, assembled just weeks after his hire.
On January 10, 2017, MacIntyre signed a 5-year, $16.25 million contract with Colorado that will see him under contract with the Buffaloes through the 2021 season.
 
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MacIntyre is a good coach who might be interested in Tennessee. Like many others, though, far from a "home run hire" and it's difficult to ascertain how he'd do in Knoxville. (For the record, I don't think there's a true "home run hire" available.)

MacIntyre took San Jose State from a 2-win program into an 11-win season with a top 25 ranking. He turned Colorado from one of the worst programs in the P5 conferences and got them back near the top of the Pac-12 for one season. Unfortunately, that's really the entirety of his resume. He's taken two bad programs and made them each good again for 1 season.

Like Butch Jones, we know MacIntyre can rebuild a down program quickly. What we don't know is if he can take a program to the next level. Colorado truly was a "7 year rebuilding job" (they were really really really bad when he took over; much worse than us in 2013). It's just really tough to say how he'd fare here. Could end up being a great hire; could end up being Butch Jones, Part 2.

The one thing you can say is that he's never really had great recruiting. He has "coached 'em up" so to speak. He's a David Cutcliffe disciple; coached defense under Cut at Ole Miss and Duke. I wouldn't be opposed to him, but I'd say it's a 50-50 coin-flip on whether he succeed in Knoxville.
 
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IMO a guy like MacIntyre should be outside our top 10. You only call him if you've completely depleted all your other options. He would gladly take the job and probably at a bargain, too. It would be a huge gamble for us and probably wouldn't end well.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
MacIntyre is a good coach who might be interested in Tennessee. Like many others, though, far from a "home run hire" and it's difficult to ascertain how he'd do in Knoxville. (For the record, I don't think there's a true "home run hire" available.)

MacIntyre took San Jose State from a 2-win program into an 11-win season with a top 25 ranking. He turned Colorado from one of the worst programs in the P5 conferences and got them back near the top of the Pac-12 for one season. Unfortunately, that's really the entirety of his resume. He's taken two bad programs and made them each good again for 1 season.

Like Butch Jones, we know MacIntyre can rebuild a down program quickly. What we don't know is if he can take a program to the next level. Colorado truly was a "7 year rebuilding job" (they were really really really bad when he took over; much worse than us in 2013). It's just really tough to say how he'd fare here. Could end up being a great hire; could end up being Butch Jones, Part 2.

The one thing you can say is that he's never really had great recruiting. He has "coached 'em up" so to speak. He's a David Cutcliffe disciple; coached defense under Cut at Ole Miss and Duke. I wouldn't be opposed to him, but I'd say it's a 50-50 coin-flip on whether he succeed in Knoxville.
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Chip Kelly, Les Miles (with a solid OC), Mark Dantonio, Bobby Petrino, Chris Peterson, Dan Mullen (with 3 and 2 star talent coaches them up to be solid every couple of seasons...really love to see him with our level of talent like he had at Florida).....there are some HC's that have a proven track record and have proven they can coach up below average talent like Mullen and make them solid competitive players playing solid as a complete unit on both sides of the ball.
 
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Wtf is wrong with you people? The guy has a win loss record reminiscent of Derek Dooley. Tennessee is like a Fortune 500 company looking for a CEO and you're wanting to hire a McDonald's manager because he has local ties. It's mind boggling.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
If it gets to the point that we're looking at guys like this we're in worse shape that I thought.
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Considering we hired a guy with a losing record from La Tech (even though Kiffin left super late, that's still no excuse to hire a dud who couldn't even win at the WAC level) and followed that with a coach who basically followed in the footsteps of his mentor without ever building a team on his own... I'd say theres a lot of people over-estimating how attractive this job is to elite HCs. Hence the reason we keep settling for these crap-tastic coaches who think themselves better than they actually are.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
Considering we hired a guy with a losing record from La Tech (even though Kiffin left super late, that's still no excuse to hire a dud who couldn't even win at the WAC level) and followed that with a coach who basically followed in the footsteps of his mentor without ever building a team on his own... I'd say theres a lot of people over-estimating how attractive this job is to elite HCs. Hence the reason we keep settling for these crap-tastic coaches who think themselves better than they actually are.
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Oh, I agree completely. I think we'll end up botching this hire just like the last few.
 
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Not only is he an up and coming offensive mind, players and coaches seem to like him, he is a friggin ex tn qb, and he would instantly have best head coaching name in the sport! Get behind our ad to make this risky hire!!!!! Seriously though WHY NOT JBC!!!!!!!
 
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jeffreync said:
Not only is he an up and coming offensive mind, players and coaches seem to like him, he is a friggin ex tn qb, and he would instantly have best head coaching name in the sport! Get behind our ad to make this risky hire!!!!! Seriously though WHY NOT JBC!!!!!!!
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If you are truly serious, why do we never hear of Jim Bob visiting his alma mater? You know? Attending alumni events or athletic ceremonies? He doesn’t appear to have an attachment to this place and it would take some kind of bond to win over a NFL candidate that has his career arc.
 
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