R.I.P. Tennessee Football

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OrangeUTopia

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The perception, right or wrong, is that Tennessee's rabid fan base will revolt and run off any coach they don't deem a home run hire.

It's not going to matter if people have good intentions and don't want Schiano because they feel he looked the other way helping cover for Sandusky.

National perception will be our fans are going to revolt because we didn't get a Gruden or Kelly.

We weren't going to get a top tier candidate. But good luck with even getting a 2nd tier candidate now. Perception is of a toxic dumpster fire. Anyone other than an FCS or DII assistant would be surprising at this point.
 
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Our AD probably needs to address this sooner rather than later. We're a fan base that stood up against hiring a coach that didn't have the moral fiber to stand up against a pedophile. And we're wrong?
 
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OrangeUTopia said:
The perception, right or wrong, is that Tennessee's rabid fan base will revolt and run off any coach they don't deem a home run hire.

It's not going to matter if people have good intentions and don't want Schiano because they feel he looked the other way helping cover for Sandusky.

National perception will be our fans are going to revolt because we didn't get a Gruden or Kelly.

We weren't going to get a top tier candidate. But good luck with even getting a 2nd tier candidate now. Perception is of a toxic dumpster fire. Anyone other than an FCS or DII assistant would be surprising at this point.
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I appreciate where you are at. But I'm pretty sure we were a toxic dumpster fire after 0-8 in the SEC and literally the worst season in UT history.

Actually we were a toxic dumpster fire after we hired Dooley.

We NEEDED a homerun hire. Its not about what the fans wanted. UT football is DEAD FOREVER without a homerun hire.
 
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it all started when fans revolted and had a NC coach fired just 10 months after taking us to to the SECCG. When you have that kind of dumb azz fans, you're gonna only get a dumb azz coach. We might as well start looking at the resume from fired Vandy coaches.
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
You are wrong on so many levels.
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He is dead on. JON GRUDEN IS NEVER COMING TO TENNESSEE! EVER! These idiot nutjob fans that are hanging onto his nut sack are making this fan base look ignorant and completely out of control! This is the most toxic environment in all of college football! What coach would want to take a job where the fan base is so consumed with wanting Jon Gruden that anyone named not Jon Gruden would be a disappointment? The answer is BUTCH JONES!
 
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Currie created this toxic environment by having GS on his list of coaching candidates. I think the fan base revolting is just the opposite of "ignorant".
 
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The fan base revolting is the appropriate response to the AD giving the fanbase the middle finger...again.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
Our AD probably needs to address this sooner rather than later. We're a fan base that stood up against hiring a coach that didn't have the moral fiber to stand up against a pedophile. And we're wrong?
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Thats simply a convenient cop-out because his name is not Jon Gruden! Do you even know what anything about that situation? Its all hearsay and are you really ready to perpetuate the killing of a career over hearsay?
 
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FLSTF-VOL said:
He is dead on. JON GRUDEN IS NEVER COMING TO TENNESSEE! EVER! These idiot nutjob fans that are hanging onto his nut sack are making this fan base look ignorant and completely out of control! This is the most toxic environment in all of college football! What coach would want to take a job where the fan base is so consumed with wanting Jon Gruden that anyone named not Jon Gruden would be a disappointment? The answer is BUTCH JONES!
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You are right. The hatred that posters show on this board will turn coaches away.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
Our AD probably needs to address this sooner rather than later. We're a fan base that stood up against hiring a coach that didn't have the moral fiber to stand up against a pedophile. And we're wrong?
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and you are embarrassing the university with your idiotic complaints. Schiano was an assistant coach--it was not his responsibility to do anything. He was not a decision maker. Get off your high horse.
 
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Currie had plenty of time to search... there are many worthy candidates out there... they may not be the home run hire, but they have excellent resumes... and don't have baggage. He messed this up big time... not the man for the position he was hired to administer.
 
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OP, et al that are lambasting the fan base, make no mistake about it, the fans DID NOT create this situation. A tone deaf AD with the amateurish thought process of his mentor (Hamilton) created this situation. He's a lawyer by trade and he asked a question to which he did NOT know the answer.
 
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armchair said:
and you are embarrassing the university with your idiotic complaints. Schiano was an assistant coach--it was not his responsibility to do anything. He was not a decision maker. Get off your high horse.
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So it was not his responsibility to report what he saw? Interesting take there. Forget assistant coach, how about as a human being?
 
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armchair said:
and you are embarrassing the university with your idiotic complaints. Schiano was an assistant coach--it was not his responsibility to do anything. He was not a decision maker. Get off your high horse.
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Wow!

If children are being molested, he has a responsibility as a HUMAN BEING to speak up.

I'm not sure what he knew if he knew anything at all. But using his job title as justification for him turning a blind eye is ridiculous.
 
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armchair said:
and you are embarrassing the university with your idiotic complaints. Schiano was an assistant coach--it was not his responsibility to do anything. He was not a decision maker. Get off your high horse.
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Guy was also 25 and reports are that he did report it to Bradley..now you can criticize him for not going higher up the chain but still he was young and did speak up
 
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armchair said:
and you are embarrassing the university with your idiotic complaints. Schiano was an assistant coach--it was not his responsibility to do anything. He was not a decision maker. Get off your high horse.
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Is that how you enlightened northern liberals handle these things?
 
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Anyone other than Gruden would have been a let down for many however all the new hire had to do was start producing wins and the starved fans would get behind him. But don't bring in someone like the report said today that is related to one of the worst college football scandals in modern day history!
 
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I do think this is a black eye on TN football. But this was brought on by Currie, not the fans. The friggin White Hourse Press Secretary is talking about it. And regardless of your thoughts on Trump or his administration, it's pretty clear the national perception on Schiano is not a good one.

May be some big name coaches might be gun shy now, but coordinators and small school coaches looking to make a name or increase their wallet size will still jump to take this job. Tee, Venables, Norvell, Brohm, etc are still in play here. It's not our 1st choice, but given the situation Currie has put us in, they are still quality choices.
 
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