Lots of hate here for
Greg Schiano, including people threatening to 'turn in their fan card,' or something. First of all, if you're going to stop following UT over a coach, sorry but you were never much of a fan in the first place. Sure, I would have preferred Frost, Gruden, Kiffen, or especially Chris Peterson, but if UT hires Schiano we need to get behind him and look at the positives - and there are PLENTY.
To those who say nobody wanted Schiano, consider this
Meyer quote before the start of the year:
"He was offered two head coaching jobs -- two significant head coaching jobs -- and he made a decision to come back," Meyer said when asked by NJ Advance Media. "I've known Greg for a long time -- and he's a head coach. He will be a head coach (again)."
One of these included Oregon before Taggart was hired.
Schiano is a guy who knows how to build a program, and succeeded massively at a place (Rutgers) that had zero football tradition. If he can recruit Rutgers, I think he can recruit Tennessee.
And he's a solid recruiter.
This piece calls Schiano Ohio State's 'unsung hero' on the recruiting trail.
And how about
this headline from last year: "Urban Meyers best recruiting job at Ohio State: Keeping Greg Schiano for 2 years."
Also,
this piece about Mark May giving Schiano a lot of credit for what Ohio State has accomplished this year.
The Penn State stuff is hearsay at best, but Schiano is a serious hire, a great recruiter who is well regarded in the coaching community. Even discounting what we know about how previous coaches actually would end up performing at UT, Schiano has a more solid resume than any previous hire since Majors.
So, if Schiano is the hire let's get behind him and give him a shot. Expressing hate on Volnation and elsewhere isn't going to do any good and certainly isn't going to help recruiting.