Outkick: Where Does UT Go From Here?

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Wolfeman_Vol said:
If you go the interim route.. How in the world do you recruit? Not knowing if *any* staffer recruiting you is going to be there when you set foot on campus. That's a path to failure.
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Agree. Also, I would think it would be difficult for Steele to hire competent assistant coaches not knowing if he's going to be the future head coach.
 
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VOL_Lyfe said:
Chad Withrow: Big Moment for Tennessee and the NCAA – OutKick
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Great read. This pretty much sums up how I feel about this whole situation. If the NCAA drops the hammer on UT, it will set a bad precedent and no one will ever self report or self investigate. I would add another group of coaches, though. The "semi-successful but can't get past the first couple of rounds of the playoffs so they were fired" NFL coaches.

Is Jerod Mayo really that good of a coach????
 
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from the linked article: "Tennessee would have been better off saying nothing and daring the NCAA to do something."

There are more than 12 million reasons Tennessee decided to "fall on the sword". That's over 12 million dollars they WILL NOT have to pay out, and they can use these funds to make a great hire instead of paying out an undeserving head coach that did a horrible job. I think it's clear they wanted Pruitt gone early on. Pruitt shot his big toe off, and UT was smart about it and put the all the little pieces of the puzzle together. It was most definitely time to move on from Pruitt and right the ship.
 
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99gator said:
Steele will be interim coach for a year while they find a coach.

They won’t rush to hire another Dooley. They learned their lesson there.

All other desirable options will not want this job at this time. Perhaps it will be different in 12/21.
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Hiring an interim with the new one time, no penalty transfer portal rule could gut the roster to intramural talent levels
 
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Where do we go from here? We make smart hires! We make the right AD hire, we make the right head coach hire, and in turn HE makes smart hires for his staff. Everything else will take care of itself from there.
 
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mrredskin said:
75k round trip from knoxville to flint? that's about the standard award rate with DL these days
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I got a real good explanation about that once at an instructor meeting as to why they changed it. It actually makes a lot of sense, and it rewards those that are more 'valuable' to the company.

Suppose you are a businessman that has to fly to CLT every once in awhile, but doesn't have a set time, and it might be spur of the moment. As we all know, airline seats 'spoil' the moment the flight pushes back, so the airlines have to maximize their revenue last minute by charging more for the remaining seats. (There is the volume argument, but it doesn't apply here). So you walk up and buy a $500 ticket from ATL to CLT... about 220 miles. Now... Traveler #2 has a month to make up his mind and buys a $200 ticket from ATL to LAX which is about 1900 miles. Which passenger is more 'valuable'? I get the mileage argument. But I also realize that it is a business, and they are rewarding those that spend the most.
 
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After thinking further, it’s going to be Steele.

What new head coach is going to take the job and in addition to all of the other mess, is going to be told who is on his staff.

So, why hire Steele to the the staff in the first place?
 
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99gator said:
After thinking further, it’s going to be Steele.

What new head coach is going to take the job and in addition to all of the other mess, is going to be told who is on his staff
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Lets wait and see what the punishment is first before we make this determination. I have a feeling we won't make a HC hire until we know this anyway. I think the AD hire will happen pretty quickly. The HC hire may take a little longer.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I got a real good explanation about that once at an instructor meeting as to why they changed it. It actually makes a lot of sense, and it rewards those that are more 'valuable' to the company.

Suppose you are a businessman that has to fly to CLT every once in awhile, but doesn't have a set time, and it might be spur of the moment. As we all know, airline seats 'spoil' the moment the flight pushes back, so the airlines have to maximize their revenue last minute by charging more for the remaining seats. (There is the volume argument, but it doesn't apply here). So you walk up and buy a $500 ticket from ATL to CLT... about 220 miles. Now... Traveler #2 has a month to make up his mind and buys a $200 ticket from ATL to LAX which is about 1900 miles. Which passenger is more 'valuable'? I get the mileage argument. But I also realize that it is a business, and they are rewarding those that spend the most.
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i'm just talking specifically about what they charge for rewards. same destination on AA or UA would be 25 to 30k. it's why DL miles are worth half or less of other airlines
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Lets wait and see what the punishment is first before we make this determination. I have a feeling we won't make a HC hire until we know this anyway. I think the AD hire will happen pretty quickly. The HC hire may take a little longer.
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The punishment is irrelevant to this point.

If I am Coach X, I want my staff. So, I don’t want to take the job and be forced to accept other staff I don’t want.

Even if there is no ncaa mess, it’s still a mess
 
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Doberman said:
The interim for a year path is risky.

if Steele snuck in a 7-5 regular season, and beats some limp team in a lower tier bowl, finishing 8-5, we will get stuck with him as the new full time head coach. Ugh.
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They’ll be no bowl game this year..we’ll be banned from that
 
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99gator said:
The punishment is irrelevant to this point.

If I am Coach X, I want my staff. So, I don’t want to take the job and be forced to accept other staff I don’t want.

Even if there is no ncaa mess, it’s still a mess
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There's absolutely no evidence that shows our future HC will be forced to keep certain personnel from the current staff.
 
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99gator said:
The punishment is irrelevant to this point.

If I am Coach X, I want my staff. So, I don’t want to take the job and be forced to accept other staff I don’t want.

Even if there is no ncaa mess, it’s still a mess
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Steele is only on for 450k per season for 2 seasons....
 
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Considering how fubared the last search was, not having an AD yet, the beating the program will take moving forward with these allegations coming into more focus and that most good coaching candidates are already off the table, an interim sounds like the better bet. No matter how good the recruits are, they will flop with the wrong coaching hire.
 
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