The Next Coach...

#77
#77
(bleedingorange @ May 9 said:
i guess i will keep it short and simple, Pat Hill would be my first choice.
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Pat Hill does have an excellent handle-bar mustache.
 
#78
#78
(hatvol96 @ May 9 said:
That doesn't show a lack of heart, it shows an abundance of good sense. Why should Jamal do something that might jeopardize his ability to get a big payday? To make a bunch of jealous, ungrateful, wannabes.... er fans happy? I admire guys like Jam that understand it's a job, nothing more. I wish NFL players would start going to fast food joints, auto body shops, etc. and start heckling the Joe SixPacks there because their hearts aren't into preparing fries and doing lube jobs enough. I'd like to see Barry Bonds get to sit in the first seat behind the slobs who heckle him every night and curse at them as they try to do their meaningless jobs.
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To seriously compare any professional athlete's job to a "normal" job is laughable. when you've made the type of money jamal has made is it really about money any more? i mean how much more money does a person need? i would think by this point it would be more about accolades and records and that type of thing than anything else. that's why atheletes turn pro isn't it?? to win super bowls and world series championships or whatever the case may be??? i've never heard a kid say he wanted to be a pro athlete so he could make millions but maybe that's just me. and back to NFL player's ripping on "regular" people, they dont pay them to watch them perform their jobs and they are not constantly in spotlight. every pro athlete knows (or should know) that regular criticism is part of what they do.
 
#80
#80
Did you study anthropology, NeanderVol? It seems like that's the only place I've seen Neandertal spelled without the "h".
 
#81
#81
(IBleedOrange @ May 9 said:
To seriously compare any professional athlete's job to a "normal" job is laughable. when you've made the type of money jamal has made is it really about money any more? i mean how much more money does a person need? i would think by this point it would be more about accolades and records and that type of thing than anything else. that's why atheletes turn pro isn't it?? to win super bowls and world series championships or whatever the case may be??? i've never heard a kid say he wanted to be a pro athlete so he could make millions but maybe that's just me. and back to NFL player's ripping on "regular" people, they dont pay them to watch them perform their jobs and they are not constantly in spotlight. every pro athlete knows (or should know) that regular criticism is part of what they do.
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Jamal already has his Super Bowl ring and 2,000 yard season. I'm pretty sure he still holds the NFL single game rushing record. Now's the time to get paid. Let guys without rings (cough, Peyton, cough) spend their time worrying about such things.
 
#82
#82
(hatvol96 @ May 9 said:
Jamal already has his Super Bowl ring and 2,000 yard season. I'm pretty sure he still holds the NFL single game rushing record. Now's the time to get paid. Let guys without rings (cough, Peyton, cough) spend their time worrying about such things.
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well i would guess with the amount of money he has already made at this point in his career, any more beyond this point is just for greed to pay for a 100'' big screen and a couple of more cars he doesn't really need and things like that and he no longer enjoys the game there for doesn't enjoy his job and he needs to find something else to do and quit wasting his teammates' time
 
#83
#83
some very harsh ways of looking at things there folks.

in this day and age, if anyone thinks that pro atheletes are doing anything for the "love of the game" as the SOLE motivator, that's a bit naive imo. I don't think there's too many guys that don't love the game, but at the same time, it is thier job, and as such, if you are one of the better skilled people at that job, then by all rights, you should seek higher comepensation if it is available.

I can tell you this, i like my job, but i don't get up and go to work for the "love of trucking". And if some other company wanted to pay me more money to do the same job....well, i'd either expect to get a raise at my current employer, or i'd be playing for the other team.

and you can blame that on free agency. it's good on the one hand that it makes the league ultra competitive (remember when it wasn't too long ago when the Tampa bay bucs and NE Patriots were TERRIBLE franchises?), but on the other hand, it has taken away the dynasty affect that fans of teams like SF, Dallas, Pittsburgh etc...fell in love with, because the same players were going to be there year after year, and developed that team loyalty stuff referred to above.
 
#84
#84
(kptvol @ May 9 said:
Did you study anthropology, NeanderVol?
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As of this upcoming Sunday, I will have a Ph.D. in biological anthropology, so I guess you could say that. :dance2:

(kptvol @ May 9 said:
It seems like that's the only place I've seen Neandertal spelled without the "h".
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Sorry to go off topic again, but I feel I should clarify. If this doesn’t interest you, just skip ahead.

Here goes:
Neandertal can be spelled with or without an h, but it should always be pronounced Neander-TAL. That’s because the name Neandertal comes from the site where the first Neandertal remains were recovered in 1856: a series of caves known as the Feldhofer Grottos, which are located in a region of Germany near Düsseldorf known as the Neander Valley. The German word for valley is tal, hence the name, Neander-tal. However, at the time the Feldhofer remains were discovered, the German word for valley was spelled t-h-a-l. It was changed to t-a-l around the turn of the century (1900, not 2000) to reflect it's pronunciation. That's why you will often see both spellings. Most of the people I've worked under don't use the h, so I normally don't use it either, although both spellings are acceptable. However, if you consider Neandertals to be a separate species from modern humans (as most people today do), the appropriate species name to use is Homo neanderthalensis (with an h), which was proposed by William King in 1864, and according to the laws of zoological nomenclature must remain as it was originally proposed. You will also note that I capitalize Neandertal. That’s also due to its German roots. In German, all nouns are capitalized.

A lot of my research deals with the Neandertals, and seeing that I am a lifelong Volunteer fan, I thought that the moniker NeanderVol was an appropriate choice (a bit dorky, but appropriate nonetheless).

Any further questions, PM me.

As a bit of a caveat here, I'm not trying to brag or anything about having a Ph.D. The sheer sense of relief that I'm going through right now after seven years of graduate school is enough to make anyone celebrate. Cheers. :toast:
 
#85
#85
(NeanderVol @ May 9 said:
As of this upcoming Sunday, I will have a Ph.D. in biological anthropology, so I guess you could say that. :dance2:
Sorry to go off topic again, but I feel I should clarify. If this doesn’t interest you, just skip ahead.

Here goes:
Neandertal can be spelled with or without an h, but it should always be pronounced Neander-TAL. That’s because the name Neandertal comes from the site where the first Neandertal remains were recovered in 1856: a series of caves known as the Feldhofer Grottos, which are located in a region of Germany near Düsseldorf known as the Neander Valley. The German word for valley is tal, hence the name, Neander-tal. However, at the time the Feldhofer remains were discovered, the German word for valley was spelled t-h-a-l. It was changed to t-a-l around the turn of the century (1900, not 2000) to reflect it's pronunciation. That's why you will often see both spellings. Most of the people I've worked under don't use the h, so I normally don't use it either, although both spellings are acceptable. However, if you consider Neandertals to be a separate species from modern humans (as most people today do), the appropriate species name to use is Homo neanderthalensis (with an h), which was proposed by William King in 1864, and according to the laws of zoological nomenclature, must remain as it was originally proposed. You will also note that I capitalize Neandertal. That’s also due to its German roots. In German, all nouns are capitalized.

A lot of my research deals with the Neandertals, and seeing that I am a lifelong Volunteer fan, I thought that the moniker NeanderVol was an appropriate choice (a bit dorky, but apropriate nonetheless).

Any further questions, PM me.

As a bit of a caveat here, I'm not trying to brag or anything about having a Ph.D. The sheer sense of relief that I'm going through right now after seven years of graduate school is enough to make anyone celebrate. Cheers. :toast:
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It ain't bragging if you've done it. Congratulations.
 
#87
#87
(hatvol96 @ May 9 said:
It ain't bragging if you've done it. Congratulations.
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Thanks, that's a good way to look at it.

You all might see me around here a bit more now that the dissertation is done.
 
#91
#91
I've been thinking about this some more and I have a legitimate suggestion. Why not Bill Bates? He has the UT connection and special teams coaching experience at the highest level.
 
#92
#92
I like Bill Bates' enthusiasm, but I'm not sure I could handle having a head coach whose previous head coaching position was in the Arena League.
 
#93
#93
(VolunteerHillbilly @ May 12 said:
I've been thinking about this some more and I have a legitimate suggestion. Why not Bill Bates? He has the UT connection and special teams coaching experience at the highest level.
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I haven't been following this thread closely enough. Are you saying Bates as a special teams coach? If so, I'd say heck yeah!!!
 
#94
#94
Jack Del Rio fired him for some reason! I don't know if it was job perfomance or what!

Hey, why don't we hire Neal Clabo he was a heck of a punter! :p
 
#95
#95
(crimedawg12 @ May 12 said:
Jack Del Rio fired him for some reason! I don't know if it was job perfomance or what!
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The Jags probably ran out of tranquilizer darts. Bates is a little overexcited at times from what I've seen.
 
#96
#96
(NeanderVol @ May 9 said:
As of this upcoming Sunday, I will have a Ph.D. in biological anthropology, so I guess you could say that. :dance2:
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Congratulations on your PH.D! That's a great accomplishment!
 
#97
#97
(VolunteerHillbilly @ May 12 said:
I've been thinking about this some more and I have a legitimate suggestion. Why not Bill Bates? He has the UT connection and special teams coaching experience at the highest level.
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This is the guy that they should have been begging for years to come back to UT to be the special teams coach. He would make a great special teams coach or defensive coordinator, but I don't think he'd be ready to jump into a head coach position. Does anybody know exactly what Bill is doing these days? I think the last I heard was that he was on some NFL coaching staff, but I could be wrong.

Edit - I see that several of you are saying that he was at Jacksonville. That sounds right. I kept thinking Tampa Bay, but I knew that wasn't right.
 
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