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It would be sooooo Tennessee to hire a guy like Fisher, zero demonstrated ability to recruit or evaluate talent at the collegiate level which is one of the MUST have skills a college HC must have. Couple that with, do you honestly see or hear anybody beating down his door to coach their team? It was like when PF was done on The Hill, top job offers just did not come his way, Fisher is in that same category IMO.
 
Yeah, calling Steele Pruitt 2.0 is absolutely ridiculous. He ain’t Saban by any stretch but he sure ain’t JP bad. JP has, in the span of 6 months, become the worst hire in TN history (arguably). Even without the recency bias, he’s top three worst and the fact he’s even mentioned in the same sentence with DD is a stunning turn of events. I think we were all pretty happy coming out of 2019, or at least cautiously optimistic. That is what incompetence precipitates. Rapid descent. Competence is a bulwark against the inclination to make change.
Saban is a maniac. But he is like the guy with a perfect lawn who looks for every sign of damage and weeds and aggressively corrects it. He knows that complacency leads to mediocrity which leads to failure.

UT used to have standards. We fired a coach for losing 3 games, then wanted to keep a coach who only won 3.
 
HC - Freeze
OC / OL- Matt Luke
DC / LB - Kevin Steele
WR - Tee
RB - jay Graham
DL - Rodney Gardner

Malik Willis uses his one time transfer to come in. Bailey leaves. QB room of Willis, Hooker, Salter and Mauer.

Knoxville is about to get lit again.
 
The Sporting News list of potential head coaching candidates

Billy Napier
Gus Malzahn
Hugh Freeze
Joe Brady
Jamey Caldwell
Bill Clark
Lane Kiffin
Tom Herman
Scott Satterfield


The Sporting News said Scott Satterfield would be a good fit for Tennessee.
 
Sir, sir I repeat we have the brush 🔥 contained their has been a lull in the weather pattern. It looks that we have an opportunity to finally put this perpetual brush 🔥🚒 to rest. Yes, yes sir I know I've been fighting it for 15 yrs. Let's just hope they finally get this right before the wind starts 🍃 blowing again.
 
Absolutely uninformed post that ignores all of the context of a 20 year career as a head coach...
Uninformed? You can make excuses and rationalize WHY he’s career .500, but at the end of the day you are what your record says you are. I don’t know what message or credibility a past-his-prime NFL coach that is getting consideration by exactly zero NFL teams brings to a 17 year olds door. I like him JF, he seems like a good dude and I always appreciated how his teams competed, but dude is not the guy for a major college program.
 
In my opinion Freeze, and Kiffin are out due to past issues. Malzahn is out, due to Steeles involvement. I’d say Herman, Chadwell or Napier will be in play.
 
Hugh Freeze.
Under Freeze, the Ole Miss football program committed various recruiting and academic violations that figured in the NCAA's decision to expunge 27 of Freeze's wins and ban it from post-season play for two years. He resigned from Ole Miss after officials discovered that he had used a university cellphone to call escort services multiple times over the course of five years. NO
 
My dream scenario

AD - Blackburn
HC - Freeze
Under Freeze, the Ole Miss football program committed various recruiting and academic violations that figured in the NCAA's decision to expunge 27 of Freeze's wins and ban it from post-season play for two years. He resigned from Ole Miss after officials discovered that he had used a university cellphone to call escort services multiple times over the course of five years.
 
I would like to see Raheem Morris get a look. Good coach, seems to really get a lot out of players. Defensive success is documented, think he could be a home run.
 
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