Rumor About Ausmus

[alwaysorange81]

For crying out loud Tenn! While I know I don't have 3000 post like you, I know a thing or two about coaching and the game. All I see in your writings is bashing Coach Dooley and the hires he has made. What gives? You are not even giving the man a chance to be successful. While you are as entitled to your opinion as the next person, the gloom and doom you are always preaching is a little tiresome. It seems to me that you would find something wrong with anything Coach Dooley does. Everyone on this site knows that. You don't like the hire. I guess you would have found something wrong if Jesus had been hired.

Ignore list is always the best policy. Every time I consider removing someone like TENN just out of curiosity about what he's posted...he posts, and its never good.

 

[TENNaciousUTfan]

Because I don't run through the forums shaking the Dooley Pom-Poms at every turn, and gushing about how great a guy he is...despite a losing record where he came from...I'm in the wrong, huh? Because I'm not a stupid sheep, but can think for myself and have the nads to go against the grain, even if it's not so popular? I'd rather be right....than popular.

If Dooley does something impressive, I'm not skeer'ed to say so...and neither am I when he makes a hire or move that is a colossally bad one. It's that simple. There was absolutely no reason to break up the continuity here, just for the freakin sake of bringing in someone new or one of his buds. Why leave Ausmus hanging like that? Why not just tell him from the start, that you're looking for someone else? This is but one of Dooley's gaffes in just 2 weeks time. Again...that's my opinion, and I have no compulsion to try and roast anyone here for having a contrary opinion.

 

[alwaysorange81]

See he just posted something. I'm sure its something to do with something about him being right about something and stuff happening and whatnot and so forth. Luckily I dont have to be bothered with it....because of the handy ignore tool. Thanks for that Freak BTW.

 

[ChattVol89]

The poster who said that Ausmus was not that good does not have a clue. Aaron is one of the best S&C coach in the Nation. However, he is not the only S&C coach who can get the job done. There are a lot of young S&C coaches trained in the Stuckey school of thought, including the one at La T, who can come in and we would not miss a beat.

The results on the field did not tell me he was good at his job. OL and DL got pushed around. We had to call TO's because our players were gassed.

 

[Big Orange Bo]

Tenn: you must have some difficulty with reading comprehension because I did say in my post that you were as entitled to your opinion as much as anyone. However, it seems to me that all of your post are negative in nature. Coming on here and continually screaming this hire sucks and that hire sucks does nothing to promote or forward the discussion. It just means you are a record with the needle stuck in the same groove. Voice your discontent till the end of days, really what have you accomplished except to make yourself look small and bitter.

I agree that we have the right to our opinion. Some of Tenns' post says I agree with and some of yours I do as well.

However your last statement of " If Jeseus was hired" was abit in bad taste and underminds your entire point.

This is the South young man and Jesus isn't to be used as a prop or too make a point on a football message board. JMO and GBO...

 

[Big Orange Bo]

Because I don't run through the forums shaking the Dooley Pom-Poms at every turn, and gushing about how great a guy he is...despite a losing record where he came from...I'm in the wrong, huh? Because I'm not a stupid sheep, but can think for myself and have the nads to go against the grain, even if it's not so popular? I'd rather be right....than popular.

If Dooley does something impressive, I'm not skeer'ed to say so...and neither am I when he makes a hire or move that is a colossally bad one. It's that simple. There was absolutely no reason to break up the continuity here, just for the freakin sake of bringing in someone new or one of his buds. Why leave Ausmus hanging like that? Why not just tell him from the start, that you're looking for someone else? This is but one of Dooley's gaffes in just 2 weeks time. Again...that's my opinion, and I have no compulsion to try and roast anyone here for having a contrary opinion.

I take alot of heat as well Tenn, even though I am a moderate compared too you. LOL

I believe your entitled to your opinions even if they are unpopular.

I have never understood people slamming each other over opinions. Opinions are what makes conversation and too often conversations here turn ugly. Try to stay above the fray and maybe not be so harsh yourself. JMO

 

[Big Orange Bo]

See he just posted something. I'm sure its something to do with something about him being right about something and stuff happening and whatnot and so forth. Luckily I dont have to be bothered with it....because of the handy ignore tool. Thanks for that Freak BTW.

If you have him on the ignore list, Then why are u referring to his posts.

Kind of counter productive... Ignore is a simple english word that means "evade, do not recognize.."

Just sayin...GBO

 

[VolAlumNGatrland]

What...by offering a difference of opinion? Please? That's what is so troubling about this forum...so many juveniles, that try to drag you down to their level. Can't have a decent discussion without folks throwing a fit like this guy simply because you have a differing perspective. So, you choose to take the blind optimism route...fine. I don't see why I need to blast you and poke fun at you for it.

No...Dooley was not hired to be the Anti-Kiffin. He was hired to replace a coach that left to coach elsewhere...PERIOD. He wasn't hired because we didn't fancy Kiffin. On the Contrary, if one were to browse through your posts prior to his departure...you're likely singing his praises...so give your lecture at some other classroom. I ain't flying around here.

Are some folks glad that he's not as brash as Kiffin and seems to be less of a threat to get us into trouble with the NCAA...sure. But that would be the case with A-N-Y of the other candidates to replace Kiffin as well. Dooley doesn't have the market cornered in character. Wittingham, Peterson, Patterson, etc, etc...all have more character than Kiffin. Character or no character, the job was to fill the spot left vacant voluntarily.

Back to the point...you extol the values of hiring an MTSU/Memphis coach....great. That's fine if you're looking to replace a coach in the OVC or Sun Belt conference...but the last time I checked, the SEC was the most competitive, meatgrinder of a conference....who will chew these lower level coaches up and spit them out. Need some proof? Two words should do the trick...1) Dave and 2) Clawson

Thank you ladies and gents...you are too kind. :hi:

I agree - open discussion and differing opinions are fine.

As far as being a Kiffin supporter - I will hands down agree that I may have been one of the biggest. I liked most everything I saw and heard. I figured the off field crap was just that - I want results too, and I thought the last staff was moving the program in a good direction from a football standpoint. I loved the brash cockiness and the swagger. I will also say, that after seeing how they have acted with a lack of any class or even respect for UT and the sleezy way they continue to act toward UT, my opinions have greatly diminished.

However -I am not arguing my personal feelings for either guy. I am stating what the administration was looking for. From an image standpoint they wanted a guy with character and class and a guy that would be, in the public eye, all the things Kiffin wasn't. Is Dooley the ONLY guy that fits that bill, obviously not. Is Dooley the only guy that fit the bill that wanted to come to UT unequivocally? I believe so. Hamilton was going to get a guy that would be here a while, and one that would take on the challenge of our current "emergency" situation. Its near impossible to get a top name coach from a top tier program to leave with 2-3 weeks left before signing day. Most have a bit more integrity than that. (CLK & Co. excluded)

To your last statement - I wasn't really extolling the value of hiring a little known coach from a mid major conference. I was simply pointing out that, by far and away, the most important thing a position coach needs to do is teach technique. If a coach has a resume filled with stops in the ACC, SEC, Big 10, etc. well great. What if those stops were at Duke, Miss. St., and Minnesota where they've had less than stellar QB's. Or maybe you get a QB coach with stops at "lesser" programs that have turned out good QBs...NOT that this is the case currently. All I'm saying is you can't just automatically dismiss a coach due to resume. As to Dave Clawson...yeah, his offense did not translate to the SEC well. But like I said prior - Hinshaw is not going to be the OC...for that position I agree we need a proven coach with a great track record...but Hinshaw will be a QB coach, work on mechanics, timing, reading defenses, etc...then Chaney will coach'em up in the system itself.