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NormalVol said:
I think we should give Butch Davis a look. Can build a program and recruit the Carolinas. His baggage isn't that bad - remember, he was brought in to clean up the U's image and win games. He did both.
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I agree, but I think it's a long-shot. After Bruce Pearl, Lane Kiffin, and all of our issues of recent years, I just can't see the AD taking a chance on anyone with any baggage.

Fwiw, I think Butch Davis was treated a bit unfairly in the whole debacle at UNC. It does not appear that he was involved in any wrongdoing, but was pushed out anyway, since there was some wrongdoing going on within his staff.
 
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Besides the show cause, name a huge discernible difference between Tressel and Bob Stoops.
 
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Hart said there would be no questions of integrity.......You really can't have Tressel and integrity in the same sentence
 
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soda23 said:
Hart said there would be no questions of integrity.......You really can't have Tressel and integrity in the same sentence
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Just adding to this Hubbs mentioned this morning that despite what anyone might think Butch Davis is not even in consideration. The guy has been in trouble everywhere he's coached. You can lump him in with Petrino and Tressel. I tend to agree.
 
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Jim Tressel to Tennessee?
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Names to watch

Bobby Petrino - Former Arkansas head coach
Sonny Dykes - Louisiana Tech head coach
Tommy Tuberville - Texas Tech head coach
John Chavis - LSU defensive coordinator
Butch Jones - Cincinnati head coach
Neal Brown - Texas Tech offensive coordinator
Brent Pease - Florida offensive coordinator
Gus Malzahn - Arkansas State head coach
Dirk Koetter - Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator
Mark Stoops - Florida State defensive coordinator
Willie Taggart - Western Kentucky head coach
Mike Bellotti - former Oregon head coach
Kliff Kingsbury - Texas A&M offensive coordinator
Gary Andersen - Utah State head coach
Jon Gruden - ESPN announcer, former Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach
Kirby Smart - Alabama defensive coordinator
Dan Mullen - Mississippi State head coach
Chad Morris - Clemson offensive coordinator
Jim Tressel - former Ohio State head coach

UPDATE: Jim Tressel could get back into coaching, and Tennessee may be the program which takes the chance of the former Ohio State head coach.

"This is a very real possibility," Matt Hayes of the Sporting News wrote. He wants back in, and his NCAA show-cause sanctions aren?t the kind that will impact the program. Think future, Tennessee. The guy can flat out coach. He can recruit, he can build an elite staff, he knows what it takes to build a champion."

The show-clause could certainly impact the program if it can't provide sufficient reason why Tressel is needed to help their program, or the coach is eventually hired and any NCAA violations would be treated as severe.

A Jim Tressel hire could be seen as desperate. But Tennessee may have reached that point.

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UPDATE: Duke head coach David Cutcliffe has the experience Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart prefers in his next head coach. Cutcliffe, of course, has a history in Knoxville serving as a Volunteers assistant from 1982-'98. He could be perceived as a safe hire for the program. But Cutcliffe isn't interested.

"I can tell you right now that I'm going to be coaching at Duke next year," Cutcliffe told CBSSports.com. "I'm very happy here, and this is where I'm going to be. I can put that to rest because that's a fact."

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UPDATE: Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart specifically stated he wanted an experienced head coach to replace Derek Dooley.

"I think it's very, very difficult to come into the Southeastern Conference without (prior head-coaching experience) being present," Hart said. "This league, it's a different world."

The obvious candidate up to this point was Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart due to Hart's ties to the Crimson Tide. But Smart doesn't have previous head coaching experience which may rule him out as one of the top options. The qualification would also rule out higly sought after coordinators such as Clemson's Chad Morris, Texas A&M's Kliff Kingsbury and Florida's Brent Pease.

Former Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden would be a homerun hire, but it's all dependent on whether the NFL analyst would actually be interested in coaching on Rocky Top.

Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen resurrected the Bulldogs' problem, but it's been rumored he could jump at a chance with a SEC East program due to the perceived glass ceiling his current program has in the SEC West.

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It's been obvious for weeks now that Derek Dooley's time as head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers was coming to an end, and the school made it official on Sunday morning following a 41-18 loss to Vanderbilt. "We very much appreciate the effort and energy that Derek Dooley and his staff have poured into our football program at the University of Tennessee," athletic director Dave Hart said in a release. "Derek and I met early this morning, and I informed him that I believed a change in leadership, despite the positive contributions he has made to the overall health of the program, was in the best long-term interests of Tennessee football. We will immediately begin the search for the best possible candidate to assume this leadership role."

The numbers for Dooley's tenure are pretty ugly. The Volunteers (4-7, 0-7 SEC) are assured of a third straight losing season. It marks the first time the Vols have gone below .500 in three straight years since 1909-11. The 44-year-old Dooley posted a 15-21 record that sorely lacked quality wins over conference foes. Dooley was 4-19 in Southeastern Conference games and 0-15 against Top 25 teams. Tennessee is 1-14 in the SEC over the last two years.

Who might be the next boss for Tennessee? The usual candidates will surface (most of whom are also candidates for the Kentucky job), but ESPN.com national writer has some new suggestions for Hart and the rest of the Tennessee brass to consider:

- Vince Verhei

Travis Haney

Possible coaches for Tennessee

"The names that Tennessee could at least pursue: Jon Gruden, Kirby Smart. The names it might actually have a shot to reel in: Dan Mullen, Butch Jones. Offense is exciting, too. Can it afford the buyout and Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris?"
 
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Orange_Vol said:
Jim Tressel to Tennessee?
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Possible coaches for Tennessee

"The names that Tennessee could at least pursue: Jon Gruden, Kirby Smart. The names it might actually have a shot to reel in: Dan Mullen, Butch Jones. Offense is exciting, too. Can it afford the buyout and Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris?"
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"Might actually have a shot at Butch Jones."

Yes, clearly these guys are in the know....
 
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Tessel has a pretty impressive resume at Ohio State...94-22 in ten years and 10 Bowl appearances but....there's that little matter of the NCAA violations in 2011 and this particular clause attached to Tessel....

NCAA also imposed a five-year show-cause penalty on Tressel, which means any NCAA member that wants to hire him would have to "show cause" for why it shouldn't be sanctioned for hiring him, and could face severe penalties if he commits any further violations during that time. The order stands until December 19, 2016; given past precedent, it will likely have the effect of blackballing Tressel from the coaching ranks until the 2017 season
 
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I like Tressel but just can't fathom Hart putting his job on the line by hiring a guy with NCAA issues and bringing him into a program that is on probation.
 
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