What Sporting News' Dave Curtis has to say about our collection of all star coaches

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FOURTH DOWN: The assistant coaching carousel continues. What has been the best assistant coaching hire so far?

Hayes: Gus Malzahn, Auburn offensive coordinator. The best hire by a landslide. Gene Chizik wasn't the popular choice to replace Tommy Tuberville at Auburn, and he made -- let's not undersell it -- a giant hire in Malzahn.

Malzahn changed Arkansas' offense three years ago, and the Hogs played in the SEC championship game. For the last two years, Tulsa has had the nation's most prolific offense this side of Oklahoma. Malzahn knows the SEC and has recruited in the South, and high school players know about him and his offense.

Curtis: Tennessee's coaching staff is, if nothing else, a neat sociological experiment. Lane Kiffin has brought in one of the NFL's most respected defensive coordinators, a former SEC head coach and a bushel of recruiting coordinators from around the league (including Lance Thompson, from rival Alabama). We're taking the over on number of times those alpha dogs butt heads in meeting rooms over the next few months. These guys could get the Vols into the top 10 in two years. Or the arrangement could combust into a series of 6-6 seasons. We'll be watching


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Applicable?

I don't think 6-6 is realistic under any circumstances.


Also we want hear about the butting of heads.I'm sure it has always been this way,anywhere!
 
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Dave Curtis is a joke and attempts to earn a living with shock value headlines. The guy looks like he has never played a sport in his life and at school in gym he was the last one chosen for dodgeball.
 
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As long as you have football coaches...you will have people butting heads. I don't care if it's a Division III program...coaches are going to disagree.

I think this is being extremely overplayed...
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There will be a lot of head butting I'm sure of it, but at the same time conflict is not always a bad thing. If they're butting heads over the best way to coach athletes and a team to victory I'm all for it.
 
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Chris Farley ... young fella, I'm gonna twist off your head and spike it onto the floor so for a nightmare you can't even imagine, I will gasp at you inside the 6 sided winds of fire, unless you move from this area, far and fast, NOW!
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Pretty much the same line of Yaw Yaw come spring practice when a defensive player makes a mistake.
 
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I have been concerned with the butting of the heads too. If, Kiffin can get a long with people he didn't want on his staff. I think he can work well with people he chose for his staff.

We want a lot of teams coming after our coaches in the next few years. It means we are extremely successful.
Kiffin can reload in coaches and recruits.

I am ok being an NFL pipeline and coaching pipeline. As long as we are extremely successful. I would define extremely successful with three SEC titles and two NC titles every ten years!
 
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Head butts or butt heads. Makes no difference to me. CLK & his staff are in charge, & the opponents are freaking out! I'm loving it. Coach Fulmer had the opposition licking their chops, while the KIFFIN regime has them licking their backsides. GO VOLS!
 
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A Georgia fan in my office told me "it's not fair" that UT is spending so much money on coaches, that "other schools can't afford to pay." LOL!!
 
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VolsRule said:
A Georgia fan in my office told me "it's not fair" that UT is spending so much money on coaches, that "other schools can't afford to pay." LOL!!
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Look at our total staffs compensation vs UGA. Then tell him what an idiot he is.
 
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I don't know about you all, but I get fuzzy when I imagine a room full of Type A's getting hype on each other ready to rips necks apart trying to prove their point. Better than the Mayberry PD sitting around "staying the course."
 
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Business said:
I don't know about you all, but I get fuzzy when I imagine a room full of Type A's getting hype on each other ready to rips necks apart trying to prove their point. Better than the Mayberry PD sitting around "staying the course."
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I agree. It just says to me that Kiffin has confidence in himself and has no trouble with listening and learning from subordinates. Unlike Fulmer, who refused to surround himself with other than "yes men" and people he had no fear of taking his job.
 
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Gus Malzahn's spread offense was working at AK because they got a very talent running game players: two NFL 1st-round RBs, the best young FB in NFL and a dominating O-line including Tony Ugoh (basically also a 1st-round pick). How talented is this group? They had the guts to ditch the one of the best WRs and one of the best QBs in the country that year because they knew their spread offense would send them to the SECCG. I don't see any of the above from the Miss.St squad.

Back to the eternal theme in SEC football: whether it's spread or pro-style it doesn't matter; talent is the king! That's what Kiffin and his staffs are working on.
 
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honestly, i don't see what the big deal is. he said we'd get in the top 10 in the next 2 years if they mesh well, or we'll go 6-6 if the formula proves to be a "too many chiefs, not enough indians" kind of deal. i believe that.
 
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all of the coaches are high achievers, and like most high achievers probably have big egos. some personal conflicts could develop that would be detrimental to the end result.

i'm pleased with what CLK has done so far, and am very optimistic that we will see great things from this group of coaches, but there is no guarantee.
 
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