Who strikes first? Tennessee or Florida?

#51
#51
Who the hell cares what Florida does? Don’t understand the infatuation on what they do or who they hire. Tenn just needs hire the right coach and the rest will take care of itself
 
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A-RodWiLks said:
Looking like Florida has at least offered Kelly...we better all hope he stays out west
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Just read on another news site that he reached at least a verbal agreement with them and had already turned down an offer from us. Said he still has window to back out if he chooses.
 
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UTClem08 said:
Who the hell cares what Florida does? Don’t understand the infatuation on what they do or who they hire. Tenn just needs hire the right coach and the rest will take care of itself
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Since we play them annually and they’ve beaten us 12 of the last 13 years, not to mention that they are recruiting the same kids we are I think it’s quite important to care who Florida hires.
 
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#57
Florida more stable program. They will get the cake and we get the crumbs.
 
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Tennessee Volunteers Football Coach Search:

An Unofficial Report

November 22, 2017


Introduction

Lyle Allen Jones Jr. As the Tennessee Volunteers football program coach. This resulted in wild and insane speculation on his replacement runs rampant. They range from a misguided, vain desires of fans to see Jon David Gruden as their coach to current college coaches at successful programs. Having recently emerged from a period of a financial deficit, the university is in no position to wantonly throw a massively amount of money for a new coach and assistants. However, to appease fans, the athlete director must seek what is termed as a splash hire without returning the program to a new deficit funds state. Knowing this, coaches at successful programs are unlikely to defect to the University of Tennessee. Their current employees will force the university into a bidding war it is unlikely to win. This report is based WoodsmanVol’s Roaming Online News and Speculations of Tennessee’s Coach Search (3rd edition).

Grumor Trumors

Jon Gruden isn’t coming to the university as a coach. His current job is safe and relatively stress-free. Being an SEC coach and especially at the University of Tennessee, puts Jon in a position of high stress. Finicky fans want and expect near instant success and would turn on him if they don’t get it. It could then find himself unemployed and out of the TV limelight he likes so much. He’s not stupid and he’s not coming.

Current Successful Coaches

Coaches at other successful programs have no true incentive to leave their competitive programs in relatively benign conferences. The dog eat dog competition in the SEC makes coaching a 24/7, 365 day job that consumes time and nearly everything else. That may be true of other conferences as well but the SEC is uniquely rabid in this area. Further after a decade of irrelevance, UT fans are rabid for success, hence extremely short on patience. No right thinking coach would leave a safe job for such an atmosphere as dense and fraught with a threat of failure as this. Not to mention the dangers such stress places on the health. Staples, Andy. “College Football Head Coach: The Most Dangerous Job.” SportsIllustrated.com. Andy Staples: College football head coach: the most dangerous job in sports | SI.com (accessed November 22, 2017).

Conclusions

Based on the above findings, the university will hire a coach from the professional football ranks. One big reason for this is the university only in recent years saw higher ranking players willing to come to Tennessee during the Butch Jones era. Already some recruits believing the UT is in the same or similar pre-Jones turmoil have decommited. To get them back and obtain others, players must be convinced the program of conductive to their goals to win and be eligible for the NFL draft. A sure way to promote that perception is to hire from the pro ranks. However, Currie must be very careful to select one seriously dedicated to coaching at the college level. Not one who mistakenly thinks that just because he was in the NFL his job, especially recruiting will be easy. He must get one who is determined to win and do so within the perimeters of NCAA rules. And finally, one who dedicated to the UT. Possibly a position coach that has ties as a former player or coach at the university is Currie’s best bet.

Kirk, Jason, 15 Reasons NFL Coaches Don't Want to Become College Football Coaches.” sports Blog Nation.com
15 reasons NFL coaches don't want to become college football coaches - SBNation.com (accessed November 22, 2017).


Bibliography
WoodsmanVol, Author.
The Search For the Vols Idenity
Smyrna, Tennessee: JRW Publications 2017
 

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Stephen A Smith said:
That's more a reflection on Foley than anything.

How much success does one expect when they hire Zook, Muschamp and McELwain.

UF could've probably had their pick of coaches and he chose those 3.
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Not really. It's not easy to hire away an established successful head coach regardless of who you are. Florida offered Bob Stoops in January of 2002 and then offered Mike Shanahan of the Denver Broncos. Ron Zook was Foley's third choice.
 
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gr82batnvol said:
And get it’s top coach. And will the second to the dance get the consolation prize? It’s an interesting time if you are a fan of either of these two schools.
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Remember our list of candidates may not be the same list that Florida has. In that case we will not get the consolation prize Also recently Florida has not exactly been hitting home runs with Zook Muschamp or Mc
 
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VolFan4Life87 said:
Pressure at Florida > pressure at UT. Spurrier made them spoiled rotten to the point he couldn't wait to leave (as HC).
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'Glad you noticed that, too, VF4L87. If Currie manages to nail a biggie HC before or by Saturday's W over Vandy, then all this pressure will be gone...at least 'til we see how team 122 pans out. It's not only UT fans that turn on a dime when our boys lose a few. UF (buckle up...this is truf') has probably the most turn-coat fans I've ever seen. Butch was given 5 seasons to stack those bricks. Has UF been so kind to their failed HCs? You nailed it, bro. I see Kelly to UCLA or FSU, Fisher to either TAMU or UT, Frost or Kiffin to UF. Focusing on UT if Fisher doesn't sign here, Mullin, Kiffin or one of the senior guys, IE Miles or Cutcliff. I'm missing some since other firings are possible. Who's going to take over at TAMU is one of the biggest mysteries. Smoke 'em if you've got 'em, kids. These next two weeks are going to get interesting.
 
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