Intresting Comments from Tuberville regarding UT.

#52
#52
UNAVol89 said:
Tubbs was a good coach, but just couldn't break through in the SEC. I think he'd be great in the ACC or Big East.
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Pretty sure Auburn won the SEC Championship and went undefeated in 2004. What the heck do you consider "breaking through"?
 
#57
#57
dantheman617 said:
I will agree with most points other than UT not recruiting GA. We may not have been recruiting to the extent we should have been, but regardless we were. Eric Berry is a great example. It is hard to get 5 star players from GA to come to TN when we are playing mediocre football.
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I can't say if we were or not but Berry came here because he is a legacy.
 
#58
#58
volfan4evr said:
UT started loosing recruits when Richt went there, and took Garner away from CPF. Garner was the reason we got so many great players from that state. After he left, we got the scraps from UGA, UF, and other schools. On a side note, if you remember, CLK tried to lure Garner away from UGA when he came here. Kinda think he might just with he'd taken that job in a couple years.
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I thought Richt had Georgia on lockdown earlier this decade... Or is that just my imagination?
 
#59
#59
vf-17 said:
Wait a minute... I forgot!!
I live around the Lou. area and I've been hearing on most of the radio talk shows that Gruden is the next HC of the Louisville Cardinals....seriously.
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Wanting and getting are 2 different things. Odds are Gruden is biding his time for another NFL HC job.
Cleveland's due for another change, yet again, and the Redskins will likely come calling as well.
 
#60
#60
VolinDawgland said:
Berry came as a legacy. Tubby's statement is accurate. We were still getting some GA talent, but it dropped way off after Gardner left. The huge part of the foundation of our great 90's run was GA players. When Fulmer was having his best recruiting success was when some of our major competitors were a bit down like Georgia and Alabama. When Georgia got it's act together Fulmer didn't seem ready or capable of sustaining the fight.
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You referring to Rodney Garner? He is at UGA---musta lost his touch. Bet he wishes he had taken Kiff's offer.
 
#63
#63
mcadamsrob said:
Tubbs is a perfect fit for the CU Buffs. Being from TN and growing up a Vol all my life, I'm always a Vol first but as an alum of CU I'd like to see them hire him. Or Kendall Gill. Tubbs is a good recruiter and a good coach. But you have to be great to hold down a job and compete in the SEC.
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Hopefully he can bring some of that "Flying Illini" magic with him. Maybe bring along Nick Anderson as his OC.
 
#65
#65
TENNaciousUTfan said:
Wanting and getting are 2 different things. Odds are Gruden is biding his time for another NFL HC job.
Cleveland's due for another change, yet again, and the Redskins will likely come calling as well.
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Unless Gruden just wants a change of lifestyle to that of a college coach, there's no way he doesn't end up back in the NFL. The only reason he wouldn't this year might be that he wouldn't be enamoured of the opportunities available. After all, he will likely be in competition with guys like Shanahan and Cowher for the top flight jobs that are likely to open up, i.e. Redskins and Cowboys.
 
#66
#66
JAllen18 said:
Tommy Tuberville was on George Lapides this AM and had some interesting observations:

1.Kiffin and staff did a great job of coaching Crompton, finally figuring out that he could only see, study, half of the field instead of the entire field, thus increasing his competency.

2. Monte Kiffin has been great all year but his weakness is still the opponents spread offense.

3. Every school in the SEC, except LSU, has to recruit the state of Georgia, Georgia has so such great high school football, diamonds in the rough, good coaches.

4.While at Auburn, he noticed the past 4-5 years that Tennessee was not recruiting in Georgia, which in his mind, contributed to Tennessee's downfall-with UT concentrating on California and all over the country instead of such a close treasury as Georgia

5. While speaking to the Athens Ga. Touchdown Club last night, and they didn't want to hear this, "I told them that UT was the school in the next 4-5 years that they should worry about; that they had such great recruiters. Eddie Gran, now on UT's staff, worked for me for 10 years, told me that he was the 6th best recruiter on UT's staff, so loaded is UT with great recruiters."
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Well spoken from a man in whom is coaching where again? Opps. Yeaaaaaaaaaaa........:clapping:
 
#68
#68
volinbham said:
He was fired because he didn't keep getting the talent. Auburn's recruiting really fell off the last few years. They are thinner than we are.
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13th, 10th, 7th, and 20th ranked classes his 4 years after the 2004 run, compared to 4th, 23rd, 3rd, and 35th ranked classes for us. Maybe not lights out but pretty consistent I would say. Averages out to a top 12 class every year, I wouldn't say that recruiting fell off.
 
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