Why do Vol fans not like Cutcliffe?

#51
#51
Some perspective. A Duke message board has a thread that spans 2 days and has a total whopping 93 posts, concerning the beloved Cutcliffe. And people wonder why we would be enraged if this guy is hired.
 
#52
#52
Some perspective. A Duke message board has a thread that spans 2 days and has a total whopping 93 posts, concerning the beloved Cutcliffe. And people wonder why we would be enraged if this guy is hired.

That doesn't mean anything. Does anybody have a message board like us? Does Duke even have football fans? It's a small school, with no football history. 93 seems like a lot to me, considering.
 
#54
#54
I love to compete with Florida and Alabama not get hammered by them. I would love to win an SEC championship. Cut isnt going to do either!

The man was 25-23 in the SEC. He had Eli Manning for christsake. The best he could do with a Manning is 10-3. I hate to break it to everyone, he wont even have eli manning. We will become like South Carolina, Mississippi State, and Kentucky: Mediocre and happy with 7 win seasons.
 
#55
#55
Cutcliff is disliked more due to PF, than Cutcliff himself.

Lane Kiffin blew up in UT's face. His minimal success, (in his short time) was due to his staff, and his future success here, (had he stayed) would have been due to his staff. CLK does not coach here without his father, and the zerO. And would not be at USC, without his father and the zerO.

Cutcliff is a better football coach IMO, can he assemble the staff that CLK could? Hard to imagine that he could, and that would the drawback to hiring him IMO, if he could not.
 
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#56
#56
I don't understand...

Duke has had more success with Cutcliffe than in any time in recent memory. They won 9 games in 2 years... before that they had won 10 games in SIX YEARS! SIX YEARS! That is a HUGE improvement.

He had a good record at Ole Miss, and lead them to THEIR ONLY 1st place finish in the west since the divisions split. He was 2-0 against Florida as well! (although that was the Zook era). He was also 4-1 in bowl games.

He was the OC at Tennessee in one of the most successful runs in CFB HISTORY! From 1993 to 1998 he was OC and UT was 63-11, which is one of the better runs in the history of the sport.

So, I just don't understand why everyone here poo-poos him. I mean, since he left, UT has done almost NOTHING.

So maybe you should consider your situation. The team is about 40 scholarship players short going into signing day, and any coach that comes in has very little time to secure the recruiting class, AND has to face the UNREALISTIC expectations of a fanbase that believe that UT is still an elite school that should finish top 5 every year, when in fact, times have changed and UT is barely hanging on as a top 15-25 type school.

Maybe you should realize that only someone that really loves the school would want to come into a situation like that. Or someone that no one else wants as HC.
 
#57
#57
If we hire Cutcliffe... We go from a 14-month old douche rag to a grandpa that'll be in Depends his entire tenure!!!

The Pendelum needs to hang somewhere in the middle...
 
#58
#58
He has proven to be a good head coach. Problem is that Saban and Meyer are great head coaches, and were in the same division. Saban has already chewed up and spit out two SEC champion coaches in Fulmer and Tubberville, so I can't image what they'd do to Cut. Plus he is an older coach, I don't know if this is the guy that we can count on to be here for the next 16 years like Fulmer and Majors.
 
#59
#59
I don't understand...

Duke has had more success with Cutcliffe than in any time in recent memory. They won 9 games in 2 years... before that they had won 10 games in SIX YEARS! SIX YEARS! That is a HUGE improvement.

He had a good record at Ole Miss, and lead them to THEIR ONLY 1st place finish in the west since the divisions split. He was 2-0 against Florida as well! (although that was the Zook era). He was also 4-1 in bowl games.

He was the OC at Tennessee in one of the most successful runs in CFB HISTORY! From 1993 to 1998 he was OC and UT was 63-11, which is one of the better runs in the history of the sport.

So, I just don't understand why everyone here poo-poos him. I mean, since he left, UT has done almost NOTHING.

So maybe you should consider your situation. The team is about 40 scholarship players short going into signing day, and any coach that comes in has very little time to secure the recruiting class, AND has to face the UNREALISTIC expectations of a fanbase that believe that UT is still an elite school that should finish top 5 every year, when in fact, times have changed and UT is barely hanging on as a top 15-25 type school.

Maybe you should realize that only someone that really loves the school would want to come into a situation like that. Or someone that no one else wants as HC.

Cutcliff sucks plain and simple --- he is the worst possible candidate because he is the most boring, least dynamic person I have ever witnessed. He is alright as an offensive coordinator but is not an SEC head coach nor will he ever be one. He can not recruit. Is that important you say for a school like Tennessee? It is the most -- the most -- important criteria of any candidate for the position of head coach at Tennessee and he will be an epic failure.

I got screwed once by Kiffin and once by Hamilton. Who is advising this idiot. Does anyone know if there is a committee or anything and who is on that committee?
 
#61
#61
Gotta say I'm not excited about Coach Cut. He's a good man, good quarterback coach and a disciplinarian. And I guess with a couple of really great recruiters on his staff, we'd do okay. But 7-5, 8-4 just really wasn't what we were hoping for and I think that's what we'd be looking at with Cufcliffe as head coach. Do you get the feeling that everyone Hamilton really wanted turned him down and Cut is the best he can do right now?
 
#62
#62
The man was 25-23 in the SEC. He had Eli Manning for christsake. The best he could do with a Manning is 10-3.

That was Ole Miss's first (and only) 10 win season since Archie was there. 1971, dude. Thanks for bringing that up. +1 for Cut.

He was 44-29 at Ole Miss (.603). Ole Miss was 29-27 the 5 years prior (.519) and 28-33 since (.459).
 
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#63
#63
Cutcliffe had the best record of any Ole Miss head coach since John Vaught. It wasn't even close. And he's got Duke playing better football than it has since a fluke eight-win season in the mid-'90s.

This isn't the direction I would go, and if Hamilton does hire Cut, he might as well resign himself, because there will soon be a palace coup that will bring Fulmer back as AD. But Cut can coach. It's no coincidence that Fulmer's great seasons and the 2005-06 renaissance were with Cut around.

I always thought they were great as a team, complemented each other's strengths and weaknesses. Fulmer could recruit and delegate to those he trusted; he trusted Cut. He wasn't a good disciplinarian. By all accounts, Cut was big on discipline, but he couldn't recruit. Put the two of them together, and you go 82-19.

Hiring Cut could work, if we get some good recruiters on staff. I don't advocate it, but it could work.
 
#64
#64
It's not that I dont like him, I loved him as the OC. I just think he lacks the experience and luster that we need in an SEC coach to get the big recruits
 
#65
#65
Well, it seems the only problem with Cut is that he is:
1. Boring
2. Not a great recruiter....

Well, it seems you can hire good recruiters on the staff and that would be fine. And then you just have to get over the fact that he is "boring."

But his coaching ability is being VASTLY underrated on this board. You talk about 10-3 at Ole Miss like it's nothing special. When was the last time Ole Miss won 10 games in a season? Cut won 10 in 2003, but before that, OLE MISS HAD NOT WON 10 GAMES SINCE 1971!!!!
 
#66
#66
Personally I don't like him for the simplefact that he cant recruit....Thats why he got fired at Ole Miss...Couldnt recruit at the level they wanted
 
#68
#68
It's a dead deal now, but the reasons I didn't want him are:

1. 3 steps backwards, not even 1 step forward.

2. Already left Tennessee.... TWICE.

3. Can't recruit.
 
#69
#69
Personally I don't like him for the simplefact that he cant recruit....Thats why he got fired at Ole Miss...Couldnt recruit at the level they wanted

No, actually he got fired because they went from 10-3 with Manning to 4-7 the next year without Manning. All the brass wanted Cut to fire some coaches. Being loyal as he is he refused. They fired him for not throwing his assistants under the bus. He isn't a great recruiter, but I think he would be great for Tennessee.
 
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