If for No Other Reason...

[altidore17]

...This is why Raleigh should be fired. The utter lack of recruiting the state of TN is ridiculous. He pretty much let a team of SEC caliber players leave the Knoxville area in the past 4 years. Luckily they signed Bennett and Williams from Farragut, because I honestly think those two signings saved Raleigh this year. Maybe he will finally start recruiting talent that is in his back yard.

(From South Doyle):
Chad Bell- (Walters, Texas Rangers)
Chad Zurcher (Memphis)
Ryan Holland (Memphis)
Bryce Brentz (MTSU)

(From Farragut):
Rob Catapano (UNC)
Michael Williams (Kentucky)
Joey Delmonico (Georgia)
Jordan Cooper (Ole Miss)
Curt Powell (Vandy/Georgia)
Cade Stallings (Louisville)
Mac Thoreson (Miami-OH)
Nicky Delmonico (Georgia)
Phillip Pfeifer (Vandy)

(From Bearden):
Justin Miller (MTSU)
Ryan Ford (MTSU)
Dawson Holliday (Yale)
Matthew Scruggs (ETSU)

And I could go ON and ON and cover the whole state, but there's no need. That is simply absurd. All of these players could be contributing right now, in one way or another. Not to sign a one of them out of high school is grounds for firing all in itself.

 

[YankeeVol]

That's sad....another reason to despise Raleigh....

 

[Domestic Silence]

Yeah, someone screwed up big time on the Bryce Brentz recruitment.

 

[SimpleOrange]

Hamilton did the right thing, IMO. Never pay 2 coaches in a non revenue sport. One more year can't really hurt that much.

 

[bamacheats]

Obviously he wasn't getting the Delmonico kids. The kids from Memphis can't be considered as in our back yard and the rest are not allstars.

It doesn't matter if ReTodd had a Yankees roster, he'd still miss the post season.
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[altidore17]

Obviously he wasn't getting the Delmonico kids. The kids from Memphis can't be considered as in our back yard and the rest are not allstars.

It doesn't matter if ReTodd had a Yankees roster, he'd still miss the post season.
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Every kid on that list is from the Knoxville area and all play at the D-1 level and in the highest level of competition in summer ball. And if it had not been for some comments he made after his hire, he definitely could have gotten the Delmonico's to go to UT.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Hamilton did the right thing, IMO. Never pay 2 coaches in a non revenue sport. One more year can't really hurt that much.

Maybe, but it doesn't excuse him from the fact it was a bad hire from day 1.

 

[CardassianVol]

Hamilton did the right thing, IMO. Never pay 2 coaches in a non revenue sport. One more year can't really hurt that much.

Because losing is fine when the accountants are happy. Hamilton fired Delmonico regardless of the financial situation. I think he's just giving 'his guy' a longer leash when he shouldn't.
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[volbeast33]

Because losing is fine when the accountants are happy. Hamilton fired Delmonico regardless of the financial situation. I think he's just giving 'his guy' a longer leash when he shouldn't.
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Raleigh has done a good job recruiting for Tennessee and has fixed the academic side which had us basically on probation with the lost scholarships.

He changed the whole team around from the small ball of Delmonico to trying to build a more powerful team.

Yes the wins need to come by next yr but he has done his job in other key areas.

I have heard rumors on both sides about how he treats players so I dont know what to believe there.

I thought he deserved another year.

 

[CardassianVol]

Raleigh has done a good job recruiting for Tennessee and has fixed the academic side which had us basically on probation with the lost scholarships.

He changed the whole team around from the small ball of Delmonico to trying to build a more powerful team.

Yes the wins need to come by next yr but he has done his job in other key areas.

I have heard rumors on both sides about how he treats players so I dont know what to believe there.

I thought he deserved another year.

There is irony in that you say he has done a good job at recruiting when this thread is about the very fact that he has done a pitiful job at recruiting the Knoxville area and the state of Tennessee as a whole. Unless he puts a winning product on the field, then he has not done his job in the other areas either. Changing from a poor smallball team to a bad powerful team is no miracle. The academic side could have been accomplished by many, many other coaches that Hamilton could have brought in.

If he is to stick around then I think he deserves no better than a probationary period. If a fourth year isn't enough to put a winning team on the field then he will have failed even more miserably. This team has shown no real improvement in three entire seasons. I'm not holding my breath.