What makes UT attractive?

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TAF said:
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Ding Ding Ding
 
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As someone who went to Tennessee and is not from the area—I would say that the culture is incredibly impressive.

East Tennessee especially during football season has such a unique character.

I brought my family to Tennessee for the first time this past Bama game and we rented a luxury cabin in sevierville and hit up Anakeesta in Gatlinburg, and it was honestly perfect.

The amount of money flowing into East Tennessee is tremendous.
 
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AshG said:
I've been here through four actual and a couple pretend coaching searches and have read quite a bit about the things that make UT and attractive place to coach and play and the things that turn off coaches and recruits. It's been a while, and I'm wondering what the consensus is on these issues.

My thoughts and understandings:
Positives
- Competes in the SEC
- Some of the top facilities in the country, with regular improvements being made
- The Grand Cathedral of College Football, Neyland Stadium
- Near several recruiting hot spots, and in state quality is improving
- Quality land grant institution
- Quality local schools (for coach's children)
- Local access to air travel

Negatives
- Seemingly constant University/AD turmoil
- Limited shopping
- Limited nightlife
- Distance to the beach, large city amenities and activities

What's on your list, and what can actually be fixed to make it a more attractive place overall?
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Limited shopping and nightlife? you mean unlike Tuscaloosa and Gainesville? Are we looking for a football coach or a fashion consultant??
 
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AshG said:
I've been here through four actual and a couple pretend coaching searches and have read quite a bit about the things that make UT and attractive place to coach and play and the things that turn off coaches and recruits. It's been a while, and I'm wondering what the consensus is on these issues.

My thoughts and understandings:
Positives
- Competes in the SEC
- Some of the top facilities in the country, with regular improvements being made
- The Grand Cathedral of College Football, Neyland Stadium
- Near several recruiting hot spots, and in state quality is improving
- Quality land grant institution
- Quality local schools (for coach's children)
- Local access to air travel

Negatives
- Seemingly constant University/AD turmoil
- Limited shopping
- Limited nightlife
- Distance to the beach, large city amenities and activities

What's on your list, and what can actually be fixed to make it a more attractive place overall?
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If I'm 18 you just broke my heart
 
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DougAtkins91 said:
Tuscaloosa, Athens, Baton Rouge, Gainesville are real hot night spots! Shouldn’t be there for the night life anyway. Go to school, practice, watch film, lift weights, go home, church on Sunday and be in bed by 10:30 pm. Repeat. Zero else needed.
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Right...
 
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Southeastern VFL said:
I agree to bad we couldn't have been the one with Black and Gold that would have been sweet. I would have even settled for the Blue and Gray that Memphis has but nope Orange and white WHY!!.
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GTFO

Black and Gold

Ugly lame and unoriginal.

Blue and gray, uninspiring, lame and unoriginal.

Tennessee orange and white.

Bold, easy on the eyeballs and completely original. The most original color scheme in all of sports. How can any vol fan not like it. It is beyond me. Must have bland character.
 
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USF grad in TN said:
I've heard someone say it's so you can get out of prison and go straight to the game without changing clothes. I said "or straight from hunting".
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Many, many, many, many years ago an Auburn fan (no room to talk) told me the best part about about being a UT fan is you can go hunting on Friday, the football game on Saturday, and pick up trash on Sunday and and wear the same shirt. I told him to go Fark himself!
 
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What if we look at like a job for yourself? If we were to list negatives to uprooting and starting a job somewhere what would be your concerns? Would uppermanagement having constant turnover at your position over the last 2 decades be a negative? Speaking for myself it would be the biggest negative possible, but that's me. Not moving my family, starting kid in a new school, selling my house and buying a new one. My opinion is everything from the firing of Fulmer to now is why we are having problems in the coach searches. Oh and don't forget the quality of the team during this time frame, when we were winning regularly with quality players we were probably a desirable destination, just very hard in this "we want it all now" generation to count on turning around a ****** team and making it a winner in 3 years even if the administration is very good and solidly behind you. This is my thinking as to why we should look closely at what we are doing before the knee jerk reaction to this season.I'm like the rest of you, don't understand why the DB's looked worse this year with the same players. I don't think a coach with his experience coming from the defense should try telling the O what they should be doing. Still don't know if that's what happened or if Chaney felt he was limited in plays due to QB play.I have several other questions but none of that outweighs (in my mind) throwing it all out,possibly getting a coach with a different personnel requirements so we need to turn over the players AGAIN. If we have a signed contract from someone we feel is a can't miss then fine, lets do it. Does anybody believe that to be the case? If you do then you are where I was about 12 years ago and I feel sorry for what you still have to come to grips with. Hope I'm wrong but sure feels like every other football coaching search, we go cheap, you know "diamonds in the rough".
 
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