Vercingetorix
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Very well summarized. I'm tempted to just say screw it, and hire Kippy Brown as HC. I like his attitude.
Very well summarized. I'm tempted to just say screw it, and hire Kippy Brown as HC. I like his attitude.
I haven't put Brown on the list because I assume that if he gets the job then Mike Hamilton's career at UT is over. No way he survives that. Nothing against Kippy, but that will seem like an abject failure. At this point I assume Hamilton would do anything to get anybody else even remotely credible in order to save his own arse.
I can't agree with you on this. I can absolutely understand the inhibition/reluctance, but I'm not counting him out yet.
I haven't put Brown on the list because I assume that if he gets the job then Mike Hamilton's career at UT is over. No way he survives that. Nothing against Kippy, but that will seem like an abject failure. At this point I assume Hamilton would do anything to get anybody else even remotely credible in order to save his own arse.
Something to chew on for tomorrow. I'm not a Vol fan and you can take it or leave it all you like...
Word here in Houston is that Houston head coach Kevin Sumlin is flying to Knoxville later this morning for an interview. No telling if a deal is imminent but I'm told to expect some very bad news as a Houston fan.
Word comes to me from someone that works in UH's athletic department. He's never been wrong in this sort of stuff. Sounds unbelievable, 2 years in CUSA straight to Tennessee, but I wouldn't have even bothered registering and posting if I didn't feel it was 100% solid and I thought you guys might like to not be surprised.
Also f--k Lane Kiffin.
Something to chew on for tomorrow. I'm not a Vol fan and you can take it or leave it all you like...
Word here in Houston is that Houston head coach Kevin Sumlin is flying to Knoxville later this morning for an interview. No telling if a deal is imminent but I'm told to expect some very bad news as a Houston fan.
Word comes to me from someone that works in UH's athletic department. He's never been wrong in this sort of stuff. Sounds unbelievable, 2 years in CUSA straight to Tennessee, but I wouldn't have even bothered registering and posting if I didn't feel it was 100% solid and I thought you guys might like to not be surprised.
Also f--k Lane Kiffin.
I like him. A lot. I think that if he could keep most of the leftover staff and flesh it out a little bit, we might be in business. But I just don't think that there's any way that if Mike Hamilton goes into this enormously pressure-packed job search, and scours the country with all the resources of the pissed-off UTAD brought to bear, and comes out of it with.......an assistant coach that Kiffin hired a month ago, that his tenure as AD is pretty much over. It's not that Hamilton can't screw this up, it's that he can't really afford to have it be even thought that he might have screwed this up. He desperately needs something that he can even semi-reasonably call a big hire, and Kippy Brown just isn't it.
I am seriously trying to put a summary of where we stand right now together. There's too much to keep track of. I welcome any other suggestions for oh, until I finish this beer, at which point I will go to bed. Somebody needs to do one of these every 12 hours until we have a coach, just to sort of try to corral the madness.
This is like trying to choose a new pope. There should be a Volnation browser plugin that shoots black smoke out of everybody's USB ports every hour until we have a new coach, at which point it would shoot out white smoke and start playing "Rocky Top."
1. Muschamp is out.
2. But wait, maybe Muschamp is still in! We don't know yet.
3. Actually, screw all that, Muschamp has taken the job!!! THE INK IS DRY ON THE CONTRACT!!!! (Special note to ORANGEKUSH and ROBVOLS, who will go in the ignore file if he's not the coach. The only reason I put people on ignore is asserting false rumors as fact.)
4. Gary Patterson is out. Except that his press release is just coachspeak, with the standard "I have not been contacted stuff," so maybe he's not really out. Nobody is really out as long as he has a pulse.
5. Troy Calhoun is the next guy up? Seriously? The players will all leave if Calhoun is the guy. But wait, they probably don't know that Calhoun was an OC in the NFL, and is only running the option at Air Force because his players suck.
6. Stoops would be willing to talk about the job. Maybe. (Which doesn't explain why Hamilton hasn't been in Norman all day waving suitcases of money around.)
7. New Volnation member ARTACO04 who joined today and has seven whole posts says that Houston Nutt is our next coach, don't be surprised y'all, with absolutely nothing to back him up other than his nonexistent reputation. Seems as believable as half the crap posted on here about Will Muschamp tonight.
8. Cutcliffe's name keeps being mentioned by all the media types, but there are no actual corresponding real rumors about him.
9. There are, however, rumors that Fulmer is engineering some sort of sinister backdoor coup to oust Hamilton and install himself back in some capacity. Which would throw every bit of everything into flux.
10. Lane Kiffin gave a press conference out in LA and was basically considered to be a douchebag by everybody there.
Did I miss anything?