Seeking interviews for prospective short documentary - Schiano Sunday

[lincolnb03]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

 

[Brave Volunteer]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

Get in touch with radio host Tony Basilio. He was a huge part of that day. I'd start with him.

 

[TNRazor]

Try to interview any of those morons at CBS sports who roasted us for being tired of mediocrity

 

[ShelbourneVol]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

You may want to check out the Penn State and Jerry Sandusky scandal for back ground information, but you probably already know this.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

I can't wait to see your documentary.

Some key tidbits for you to include:
-- Greg Schiano just went 7-6, again, at Rutgers
-- He has a losing record, lifetime, as a college head coach: 94-101 (.482)
-- Meanwhile, Josh Heupel's 2024 campaign went 10-3, and his lifetime record as a head coach is 65-23 (.739)
-- And that doesn't even include the vast differences in their value systems.
-- Yes, we had to go through 3 years of Pruitt to get here, but it was certainly worth it. Much better than rusting in mediocrity with Schiano for any length of time.

Go Vols!

 

[BigOrangeCrazy]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

I emailed you a guy's number who worked with Basillo during that time. He'll tell you what he knows and put you in touch with the man himself.

 

[AstonRoyal]

I can't wait to see your documentary.

Some key tidbits for you to include:
-- Greg Schiano just went 7-6, again, at Rutgers
-- He has a losing record, lifetime, as a college head coach: 94-101 (.482)
-- Meanwhile, Josh Heupel's 2024 campaign went 10-3, and his lifetime record as a head coach is 65-23 (.739)
-- And that doesn't even include the vast differences in their value systems.
-- Yes, we had to go through 3 years of Pruitt to get here, but it was certainly worth it. Much better than rusting in mediocrity with Schiano for any length of time.

Go Vols!

Yeah I was more objective to the hire for the Sandusky thing more than anything else. Pretty sure that’s why congressmen or whatever got involved

 

[njvols]

I remember driving my son back to college when the news broke, and I told him he wasn't going to make the cut...and he said what are you talking about, UT just said they're putting the offer together, and I told him to just wait, b/c it ain't gonna happen...that was my immediate reaction. The PSU stuff was cover...but valid cover. At the end of the day, he was viewed as Butch 2.0, and the thought of having another "brick by brick" quoting coach w/ mediocre success, who had a player revolt as NFL coach, just set him up in a bad situation where AD Currie had zero self-awareness on the pulse of Vol Nation. In retrospect, he'd have been much better than Pruitt though...but that ain't saying much.

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

Yeah I was more objective to the hire for the Sandusky thing more than anything else. Pretty sure that’s why congressmen or whatever got involved

The day before Schiano Sunday my sister asked me what it would take to get me to stop rooting for the Vols

I said we’d have to have a Sandusky scandal like Penn State

Then the next day the hire of Schiano leaked…

I felt cursed

 

[taylorvol]

#SchiaNO went viral that day thanks to a caller suggesting that twitter hashtag to Mr Tony Basilio. It was an epic day where the fans overrode a hire despite that hire being approved and endorsed by Jim Haslam, Peyton Manning, and UT.

@lincolnb03

 

[lincolnb03]

You may want to check out the Penn State and Jerry Sandusky scandal for back ground information, but you probably already know this.

You know, I figured that would be a nice bit of info to include

Just jokes haha

 

[brockytop]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

Lincoln, never forget that Schiano, although he supposedly had a done deal with Tennessee, NEVER, EVER SUED. He wasn’t going to do anything that put him under oath about what he knew went on at Penn State. Too many people forget or neglect this fact.

 

[DiderotsGhost]

I can't wait to see your documentary.

Some key tidbits for you to include:
-- Greg Schiano just went 7-6, again, at Rutgers
-- He has a losing record, lifetime, as a college head coach: 94-101 (.482)
-- Meanwhile, Josh Heupel's 2024 campaign went 10-3, and his lifetime record as a head coach is 65-23 (.739)
-- And that doesn't even include the vast differences in their value systems.
-- Yes, we had to go through 3 years of Pruitt to get here, but it was certainly worth it. Much better than rusting in mediocrity with Schiano for any length of time.

Go Vols!

Honestly think the key context that is normally lost with the media is that it was as much about Haslam as it was about Schiano. Haslam had dictated the previous 2 disastrous hires and Schiano was finally the straw that broke the camel's back. He seemed like a terrible fit from the get-go, even ignoring his issues at Penn State and Tampa.

 

[lincolnb03]

Lincoln, never forget that Schiano, although he supposedly had a done deal with Tennessee, NEVER, EVER SUED. He wasn’t going to do anything that put him under oath about what he knew went on at Penn State. Too many people forget or neglect this fact.

Woah, never really considered the weight of that inaction.

If this gets picked up, that's going in for sure.

 

[woodpusher]

I can't wait to see your documentary.

Some key tidbits for you to include:
-- Greg Schiano just went 7-6, again, at Rutgers
-- He has a losing record, lifetime, as a college head coach: 94-101 (.482)
-- Meanwhile, Josh Heupel's 2024 campaign went 10-3, and his lifetime record as a head coach is 65-23 (.739)
-- And that doesn't even include the vast differences in their value systems.
-- Yes, we had to go through 3 years of Pruitt to get here, but it was certainly worth it. Much better than rusting in mediocrity with Schiano for any length of time.

Go Vols!

I would hope that if you're doing this for a class project, that these facts are not particularly relevant.
If you're trying to get visitors to your youtube channel, it might be OK.

Maybe someone at the News-Sentinel? I recall they reported that Haslam was on the plane when they went to sign Derek Dooley. The Schiano Sunday seems to be a rank-and-file revolt.

 

[woodpusher]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

Are there going to be protests this semester? As in January-April 2025?

 

[apevol]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

find the first guy holding a shotgun and wearing overalls; let him babble about pedophiles for 30 minutes straight and you'll be halfway home

 

[05_never_again]

Lincoln, never forget that Schiano, although he supposedly had a done deal with Tennessee, NEVER, EVER SUED. He wasn’t going to do anything that put him under oath about what he knew went on at Penn State. Too many people forget or neglect this fact.

It wasn't a done deal. Davenport never signed the contract.

 

[aaronvol]

If people were really honest, they would admit they didn't really even know about the Schiano/Sandusky connection until after it was mentioned. It was really that as Vol fans we wanted a better coach. It was an attempt to make us look more ethical, but really, we just thought he was a horrible coach.

 

[brockytop]

It wasn't a done deal. Davenport never signed the contract.

From Schiano’s perspective it was a done deal.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

In retrospect, he probably would have been better than what we got.

 

[will-you-shut-up-man]

Good luck kid. I’ll watch it when you put it out.

 

[VOLLeeann]

Hello fellow Vols,

My name is Lincoln Bohrer, and I am a senior journalism student at UT. I am hoping to make a documentary on the Schiano hire of 2017 and the resulting protests this upcoming semester. If you attended the protests, live near (within 90 minutes of) the Knoxville area, and are okay with being on camera, please send me an email at lrbohrer21@gmail.com so I may add you to a list of potential interview subjects.

Thanks and go Vols!

Lincoln

Establishing your identity will go a long way to getting credible sources.

 

[loservol]

Probably better not to touch on this sensitive subject, until so many more years on down the road. Long story short, fans listen to their conscience and took a stand against evil. For a lot of people in Tennessee, this was personal and went above and beyond Tennessee football.

 

[Old Geezer]

A huge element was Haslam's influence. Haslam being a whale donor, was perceived to be the driving force behind the Schiano decision. Haslam (Browns owner) was not appreciated for his football coaching acumen or personnel decisions. Haslam reportedly chose Schiano based upon a recommendation of a local professional connection in his Browns orbit.
Fans were outraged that our AD never conducted a serious coaching search despite promises to spend weeks to find the best candidate. It seemed the AD deferred to Haslam's pick, which was very uninspiring. Fans felt that the AD wasted the coaching search opportunity to land a quality candidate during that critical period.