Phil Bennett endorses Frank Cignetti Jr. for OC job

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For what its worth I think this Volswire should not be a credible source. Have they gotten anything correct? Linked to USA Today is poison...
 
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tnburban said:
The guy who was Aaron Rodgers QB coach this year while Aaron has not been all that great. And Eli's QB coach before that for two years when Eli became a bottom tier QB. And before that the OC for the Rams who had 4th fewest points for in NFL during his tenure.
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Well see, he’s just better suited for college football! I’m really, really trying to be positive about this OC search. Bear with me...
 
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tnburban said:
The guy who was Aaron Rodgers QB coach this year while Aaron has not been all that great. And Eli's QB coach before that for two years when Eli became a bottom tier QB. And before that the OC for the Rams who had 4th fewest points for in NFL during his tenure.
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Sounds about right. What are we waiting for?
 
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illvol said:
If only I could like this post a thousand times. It never ceases to amaze me how much people, who haven’t the SLIGHTEST idea about running a major college program, know about what it takes to run a major college program and how long things should take.
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This may have escaped your notice...The football program of the University of Tennessee has been run with less than unparalleled brilliance the last thirteen years or so. When the eleventh-most-valuable program in the country according to Forbes is a running joke to the rest of college football, it tends to cause some of us "dumber" fans to respond with less than blind faith, in moments when all appearances point to yet another instance of incompetence being in progress before our eyes.
 
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lifeisdeep said:
This may have escaped your notice...The football program of the University of Tennessee has been run with less than unparalleled brilliance the last thirteen years or so. When the eleventh-most-valuable program in the country according to Forbes is a running joke to the rest of college football, it tends to cause some of us "dumber" fans to respond with less than blind faith, in moments when all appearances point to yet another instance of incompetence being in progress before our eyes.
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UT isn’t the “running joke to the rest of college football” you believe it to be. You can read a lot of places where many believe we are on the rise and have a solid staff in place who are making the right moves. The running joke i see often are the vocal minority among our loyal fanbase who insist the worst is happening despite not having the slightest clue what goes on behind the scenes so in the absence of news they create their own narrative and run with it as though it’s truth. This may have escaped your notice but Pruitt and this staff have nothing to do with the past 13 years.
 
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Breaking news...


Yep, hold on a minute Peyton is on the phone:

“I’d like to officially announce that Tom Moore is a serious candidate for the OC at Tennessee”

I’m Peyton and I endorse this message
 
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illvol said:
UT isn’t the “running joke to the rest of college football” you believe it to be. You can read a lot of places where many believe we are on the rise and have a solid staff in place who are making the right moves. The running joke i see often are the vocal minority among our loyal fanbase who insist the worst is happening despite not having the slightest clue what goes on behind the scenes so in the absence of news they create their own narrative and run with it as though it’s truth. This may have escaped your notice but Pruitt and this staff have nothing to do with the past 13 years.
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Exactly!^
 
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I remember Frank Scagnetti, he got killed at the end of the movie, so I don't think he's available.
 
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Pound ball and go play action. Sounds like a system that can hang 40+ and keep up with the modern offenses of our opponents /blue
 
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illvol said:
UT isn’t the “running joke to the rest of college football” you believe it to be. You can read a lot of places where many believe we are on the rise and have a solid staff in place who are making the right moves. The running joke i see often are the vocal minority among our loyal fanbase who insist the worst is happening despite not having the slightest clue what goes on behind the scenes so in the absence of news they create their own narrative and run with it as though it’s truth. This may have escaped your notice but Pruitt and this staff have nothing to do with the past 13 years.
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I totally agree. A lot of folks on these forums mistake emotion for thinking.
 
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GBOVFL88 said:
This whole conversation will be over in a day or so with any luck, and I cant wait for that. This had gotten so old, and highlighted a problem with our administration and their ability to be decisive about hiring for key coaching positions. Makes our program look sloppy TBH. I know that there are some schools of thought that this is to keep the attention on recruiting as the priority, but it still makes us look silly.
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I am not sure speed is the first priority in hiring an OC. I think that when the job is done is when praise or blame should begin.
 
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illvol said:
UT isn’t the “running joke to the rest of college football” you believe it to be. You can read a lot of places where many believe we are on the rise and have a solid staff in place who are making the right moves. The running joke i see often are the vocal minority among our loyal fanbase who insist the worst is happening despite not having the slightest clue what goes on behind the scenes so in the absence of news they create their own narrative and run with it as though it’s truth. This may have escaped your notice but Pruitt and this staff have nothing to do with the past 13 years.
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Everything you have written above could be said about each of the last three coaching staffs. There were multiple pundits who stated that Dooley would bring us back; there were several that stated the same about Jones who then proceeded to run the program into the ditch deeper than at any point in its hundred-plus-year history. And it was a constant narrative during the tenure of both of those coaches that they weren't responsible for the mess they had inherited.

I haven't by any means given up on Pruitt, and I believe he is a better coach than the last two we have had, and has a shot to turn it around. But believing he has a shot does not thereby require me to believe that everyone in or connected to the UTAD that has any influence or say in the hiring of the OC is competent, or that they're suddenly going to dazzle us with an amazing hire when they have done anything but with the hires they have made for the football program in the last thirteen years.

Anyone who looks at the way the search for the OC has progressed thus far and sees no problems, is either willfully in denial or just not very bright. If we end up with an experienced OC who has a stellar resume deserving of this position at the eleventh-most-valuable D-1 football program, I will gleefully admit I was wrong. Right now that's not looking too likely.
 
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