Article:Cutcliffe.."I haven't heard from anybody"

[orange+white=heaven]

Plus a couple of other bits...

tfpOnline:No One's Contacted Cutcliffe

Cutcliffe said Wednesday he has not been contacted for any open head coaching jobs, including ones at alma mater Alabama and UAB, which is in his hometown of Birmingham, Ala.

"I haven’t heard from anybody," Cutcliffe said, "so anything you read or anything you see is false from my perspective."

Cutcliffe has been on the road recruiting and preparing for a New Year’s Day meeting with Penn State in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla.

"All I’m doing is working. That’s all I’m doing," Cutcliffe said. "I don’t have anything to report. Nobody is contacting me."

Cutcliffe, who returned to his old post under Phillip Fulmer before this past season, is under a two-year contract at Tennessee that pays roughly $300,000 per year — a deal that will likely be increased and/or extended. UT athletic director Mike Hamilton said he will have formal contract talks with Cutcliffe in late December or early January. "He knows he is thought of very highly here," Hamilton said. "He knows that as a fact."

Fulmer said he expects injured UT outside linebacker Jerod Mayo to return once bowl practices begin in Tampa on Dec. 26. Mayo hurt his knee during the Vols’ Nov. 18 victory at Vanderbilt. UT’s staff first thought Mayo had fractured his kneecap and needed surgery, but the eventual diagnosis has proved much more promising for the Volunteers’ third-leading tackler.

"Some things showed up on the MRI," Fulmer said, "but the doctors did a great job of not jumping the gun and doing something too quick because they couldn’t quite necessarily, completely identify on the MRI and on the CAT scan.

"So thank goodness."

Starting tailback LaMarcus Coker said he finally feels 100 percent after spraining his knee Oct. 21 against Alabama. He played that way during Wednesday’s physical practice in full pads.

"He looked better," Cutcliffe said of Coker. "I thought he was quicker and more physical. It was good to see."


"I don’t think I’ve reached my full potential yet," Coker said. "A lot of people have been saying things like, ‘Don’t fall into that sophomore slump next year.’ But I kind of look at it as I’ve been down the last two years with injuries and things like that, so I should be getting ready to come out of my slump rather than go into one."

UT has approximately 400 tickets remaining for the Outback Bowl, according to the school’s ticket office. Purchases can be made through the UT ticket office at 1-800-332-8657 or online at utsports.com. Tickets are $60, and bowl officials in Tampa announced last week they had sold out of their portion.

It's good to finally see some news coming out of Knoxville...

 

[VolTSX23]

Yes it is... Thanks for the updates.

 

[volfanbill]

thanks for the updates. good to hear for both mayo and coker. and if nobody wants cutcliffe, that just gives him the chance to prove i'm wrong about him next year

 

[hohenfelsvol]

I for one am glad no one is contacting him. He is the reason for the turn around. Healthy Coker and Mayo will definately help in the Bowl game. Good reading all the way around.

 

[tidwell]

Danke. Would love to keep Cutcliffe around as the ol QB coach.

Really good news about Mayo and looking forward to seeing Coker at 100% again.

 

[Crakaveli]

getting 2 good WRs has to make you think about Cut's future. maybe they know something we don't know.

 

[TravisHenryCBlockedMe]

Or maybe he wants to wait out the 4-6 years Fulmer said he wants to coach before he retires. Or if he gets canned before that.

 

[jakez4ut]

no where does it say that no one has talked to Cut's represenative, if he has one???? i would assume he does, but don't know for sure....

also, just to stir the pot, if he had talked to anyone or anyone had talked to him, do you really think he'd go public with it???

either way, i do believe that he, personally, hasn't heard from or talked to anyone.

 

[orange+white=heaven]

no where does it say that no one has talked to Cut's represenative, if he has one???? i would assume he does, but don't know for sure....

also, just to stir the pot, if he had talked to anyone or anyone had talked to him, do you really think he'd go public with it???

either way, i do believe that he, personally, hasn't heard from or talked to anyone.

Legitimate points.
While I obviously can't say with any certainty, I really don't think his, or his agent's, phone is ringing. I would have thought there was going to be some interest in him out there, but I just don't get the sense that he's being sought out...

Mind you, I ain't complaining. I hope they all leave Chow the heck alone as well...

 

[GAVol]

Do Assistant Coaches have agents? This is a serious question . . . I wouldn't think he'd necessarily even have representation.

 

[jakez4ut]

Legitimate points.
While I obviously can't say with any certainty, I really don't think his, or his agent's, phone is ringing. I would have thought there was going to be some interest in him out there, but I just don't get the sense that he's being sought out...

Mind you, I ain't complaining. I hope they all leave Chow the heck alone as well...

Me neither, save the Tom O'brien hire at NCSU, regardless of how quiet the candidates and programs want to keep these conversations, they rarely do.

if he was a serious candidate for one of these jobs, it would be out there somewhere....

and i ain't companin' either.

 

[VolTSX23]

no where does it say that no one has talked to Cut's represenative, if he has one???? i would assume he does, but don't know for sure....

also, just to stir the pot, if he had talked to anyone or anyone had talked to him, do you really think he'd go public with it???

either way, i do believe that he, personally, hasn't heard from or talked to anyone.

I am pretty sure he is represented by Jim Sexton. He is the same guy that has Fulmer, Saban, and others....

 

[orange+white=heaven]

Do Assistant Coaches have agents? This is a serious question . . . I wouldn't think he'd necessarily even have representation.

You know, just based on his having been an HC, I'd guess he probably has someone. And I imagine with more and more coordinators getting contracts, that more of them are now represented...

just a guess...

 

[jakez4ut]

You know, just based on his having been an HC, I'd guess he probably has someone. And I imagine with more and more coordinators getting contracts, that more of them are now represented...

just a guess...

that was my line of thought as well.

 

[GAVol]

You know, just based on his having been an HC, I'd guess he probably has someone. And I imagine with more and more coordinators getting contracts, that more of them are now represented...

just a guess...

You're probably right. I'm just wondering if a guy making a coordinator's salary (not that it's still not a lot of money) would be as apt to give up a chunk of it to an agent.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Every time I read one of these statements I think about Tuberville at Ole Miss.