Jim McElwain has been fired (confirmed)

#76
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Pumpin That Shine said:
I hope they DO get Gruden! Butch is a battle-tested college coach and Gruden is just a desk jockey! He hasn't coached in years and only won a SB because he had Dungy's players! Knoxville should party if Gainesville lures the Gru! :rock:
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Butch is definitely battle "tested" all right ! Seen his test scores lately ? They are Fs
Why would you want a super bowl winner indeed ?
 
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#78
As the fire Butch Jones watch crowd continues to swell following a fourth straight loss by Tennessee Saturday, a new report suggests the university has not been idle on this front. According to Oliver Connolly of The Read Optional, the Vols*have “offered over $10 million a year to Jon Gruden.”

Gruden likely has little interest in going back down to the college ranks. He’s been linked to numerous NFL head coaching vacancies in the past few years but has shot down those rumors in the past. It seems highly unlikely he’d head back to the place where he started as a graduate assistant, way back in 1986.
Still, this rumored interest in Gruden, and the price tag associated with it, shows just how desperate Tennessee is to turn things around on the gridiron.
Tennessee has underwhelmed in a major way since Butch Jones took over for Derek Dooley in 2014. And things are devolving quickly now that the program is 3-5 and hasn’t won a conference game since last year.
It seems like only a matter of time before Jones is fired. But we’ve been saying that for a handful of weeks now. Perhaps those in charge of these matters are hoping they can offer up a huge prize in exchange for the season of misery and are waiting until they secure said prize before letting Jones go.
All the while, Gruden continues to look like he’s enjoying himself in the booth. Don’t hold your breath on this, Vols fans.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
They weren’t firing him for 6-6 year this year. He got fired for the lie.
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He isn't completely blameless for credit card fraud suspensions either, as it happened under his watch.

There was also the weird press conference where he said a player was injured (Goolsby?), followed by the player tweeting the injury was "news to him". Bizarre.

The fake death threat allegations was the cherry on top of a season long $h!t sundae.
 
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JMSqb11 said:
Without the lie, he is still on the sidelines next year.
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Without the lie, getting him off the sidelines next year would have been more expensive.

I think 6-5, preceded by two East titles...minus the lies...would have been enough to bring him back for 2018.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
He got fired for the way he handled his death threats. What a little baby!

As a grown man, unless you win a NC like Tebow, you can't go around crying about football and complaining about death threats.
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Butch is far worse about using excuses and talking out of both sides of his mealy mouth. We as a fan base and the sycophantic knoxville media just accept the BS and don't apply pressure and turn thr thumbscrews quite like those in Gainesville.

Botch would have been chewed up and spit out in about 1 and a half seasons in Gainsville.

They don't mediocre ball down there.
 
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TennVols423 said:
Smh, Gruden is not worth 10 million.

I want him but not for that price tag, I’d say 7 million would be fair.

If not him give Campbell or Frost
5 and an open checkbook for assistants
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You act like it's your money?
 
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AtlasVol said:
Has never been demanded at UT and never will. The university makes more money than any athletic department in the SEC despite having the lowest performance of any athletic department in the SEC. Why would they change anything? Hire another mediocre coach and say we are rebuilding and 100k people will continue to shell out cash hand over fist. Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s a great business model.
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We have fired 2 NC winning coaches. Has Florida ever done that?
 
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I don't know what it really matters if we fire butch this week or next...so long as we've made the decision to move in and are actively searching for his replacement behind the scenes. And of course only time will tell if that's definitely the situation
 
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Yes doesn't that make everyone feel better the movers and shakers of the Tennessee football program are the same people who own and run the Clevland Bowns.
 
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Yep. Its going to be awhile until we beat Georgia and Florida again. I would say we will be along side Missouri as the bottom feeders in the East for quite sometime.

UF has an actual AD that cares about their program. They proved it today. Meanwhile at good ol Rocky Top, we have yet another idiot that could care less. It is what it is.
 
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And Butch is still our coach. UT athletics continues to signal that a winning football program is not a priority. As long as that is true, watching UT football and buying anything UT related is not a priority for me.
 
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#99
#99
Exactly why fl will be back on top and we will in the basement gutting it out against vandy
 
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