Coaching announcement expected today -- UT confirms, press conference at 2:30

#154
#154
If this is the best we can do then so be it. May as well get behind the guy and give him his shot.
 
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IhateGA said:
I was against this hire at first, but after researching Jones more I have changed my mind. He seems to be a pretty good coach and his players like him. I will give him a chance. My only concern will be the staff he brings in. He needs to get a strong recruiting staff.
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What has he ever done?
 
#161
#161
This is some sick cruel joke. We hire the one guy Dooley beat! Seriously?!

Nothing against jones...can't blame him for jumping at the opportunity. No, there's one man responsible for this.
 
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#163
#163
The hire has been made and now we can fire Hart and Cheek and it should be today.

Now let's see how many of the Juniors declare. I'm guessing all of them.
 
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Channel 5 sports here in Nashville said ESPN has confirmed and that a Cinncy Station has reported they have removed his name from the web site.
 
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tennesseeduke said:
Yes and be on probation! He's the John Calapari of Football please stop!

If Butch Jones continues to follow the same path as Brian Kelly then we will be in the title game in 3 yrs and you will be eating #$%^. You are either for him & UT or you are not. It's time to decide.

I'm for him!

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Yay to three more years of these arguments... I'm so excited :popcorn:
 
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#167
I remember having this same sick feeling when the Niners hired Dennis Erickson years ago.Sometimes you just know when things aren't going to work.
 
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JVol76 said:
Just because he wants to be here doesn't mean he'll win and I just don't see him doing it.If people in front of me for a job with huge amounts of money available turn it down I'm going go start questioning why.
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You definitely have a valid point. My hope is his desire to be here will translate to his effort to not fail to build our program back.

We will know pretty early how well he will do. If he puts a good staff in place then at least he is off on the right foot.
 
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This is even more awful than I could have imagined. It's nothing against Jones, but this just continues a trend of an absolutely pathetic decision making process dating back to Hamilton and continues under Hart. This program has officially been aborted. The level of Hart's incompetence just reared it's head and has now been revealed for the rest of the world to see. I could not be more disgusted with Hart and this stupid process. There are a million people that could have done a better job on this search. How do the egomaniacs of Hart, Cheek and the big $$$ at UT get in the positions they do when they can't find their @$$ with both hands. Nice job guys...one and all. Good luck Butch Jones, not your fault and I hope you make me eat my words, but Hart and company will be breathing a sigh of relief if you succeed because they will know they got freakin' lucky.
 
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#173
Guys, let's face it.
This is NOT the hire that we expected.
Hart set very high expectations for us fans.
Am I glad we tried Gruden? Sure am, but he should have spoken and lowered expectations in regards to Gruden. He let it get out of control and the bar was set super high.
So we as fans, thanks Hart's mismanagement would not expect anyone but Gruden, Stoops as the grand slam and home run hires. Then once those were out of the picture, we had to start looking at names like Gundy, Strong, Fedora and Jones.
Because Gundy is a proven HC and Strong has coached in the SEC, we saw them both as excellent hires but not quite a home run, probably a triple. They both said no, and now we're down to Fedora, Jones which in my mind are doubles.

so yes, we were flexing to swing for the fences at the bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded, the ball was thrown our way and we swung and hit it but not as far as we wanted.

Had Hart set the expectations to the likes of Gundy, Strong, Fedora, Golden, Jones, we would have been disappointed that we got Jones but it would not be this horrible outcry that led to Tennessee fans to blast Jones' twitter account which that alone is absurd.

If anything needs to be blasted, it's Hart and Cheek, not Jones.
Not his fault he's been hired.
Looking him up, he has a winning record, he rebuilt Cincy after Kelly left and the talent level dropped off, he has beaten Strong 2 out of 3 years and is currently out recruiting him.

So, what we need to do as fans is:

- Express our outrage towards Hart and Cheek
- Support Jones until he gives us a reason not to.
- Blast Social Media, Message Boards and Radio Stations to push Hart and Jones to bring a Tennessee feel to his staff.
- Cheer, do our part.
- Call out the Grudenites that kept saying up until yesterday that he was coming, after Gruden's agent b*tch slapped Hart publicly. Those who believed Gruden was coming and had insider info, prior to Lamonte's comments, I have no problem with.

Just my two cents...
 
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He has a chance to win the fan base over by how he performs in the following areas/games:

Hiring a Staff (might be better to bring his UC staff, but the fan base will want UT guys)
2013 recruiting class (not really a fair judgement but a bad class will not look good)
Oregon game (want a W, but will be pleased with a competitive game)
Florida game (a W would seal the deal for everyone)

I am pleased with the hire. Regardless of how he did it, he is a "winner" and we haven't been able to say that about our coach in a while.
 
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IhateGA said:
I was against this hire at first, but after researching Jones more I have changed my mind. He seems to be a pretty good coach and his players like him. I will give him a chance. My only concern will be the staff he brings in. He needs to get a strong recruiting staff.
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A player who played for my son in HS plays for UC and has become one of his best players under Jones. I think he is a better coach than Strong and the other candidates other thn Gruden and Gundy. He will bring an offense that will stress defenses ad bring our offense into the modern level. Teams will no longer be able to play an eight man line and make our offense go for the big play on every set of downs. I do not know who he will get as the DC, but it will have to be better than we now have. He is a good communicator with both the players and coaches. He has appears to be well respected by the player's parents and will be better with the media. He will be able to recruit better at Tennessee and should exceed what has been done here in the last three years. I think the worm has turned and we will see much better days for our football program.
 
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