Les Miles campaigning?

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If you are on Twitter....you saw the Les Miles coaching clinic last night. And if I didn't know better I'd swear he was campaigning for the job at UT. Someone made the comment that Butch had Les' time management skills without the dumb luck....maybe that has some merit. But lots of UT fans on twitter last night were openly begging Currie to reach out to him.

Not saying I agree....but it's an interesting discussion
 
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I don't think the Vols need another stubborn Michigander who refuses to change up his offense.
 
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At the end of the day, Les would be the best coach in the SEC East. The risk/reward with him is that he would be a bigger/better name for recruiting over Butch. However, there is the risk with how he would build a coaching staff and game management. Also, his next job will be his last so maybe he will get the wake up call to change his style. I would take him over Butch just for the fact he would be the best coach in the SEC East by a long shot over Jimmy Mac and Kirby.
 
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For the record.....I don't want him either...but it was fun to watch the back and forth on Twitter last night from our fans and Les. Kudos to MB Stadium for STELLAR wifi that allowed me to track the conversation during the 8 minutes drives from GT
 
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volfanstuckinga said:
If you are on Twitter....you saw the Les Miles coaching clinic last night. And if I didn't know better I'd swear he was campaigning for the job at UT. Someone made the comment that Butch had Les' time management skills without the dumb luck....maybe that has some merit. But lots of UT fans on twitter last night were openly begging Currie to reach out to him.

Not saying I agree....but it's an interesting discussion
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Wow, I hope that our AD has some intelligence and ignored their request. We are hands down the dumbest fan base in the world, regardless of the sport.
 
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Les is a real good guy, he is funny, he's an idiot at times, he was a good coach.... by next year he will be pushing 65. His time is over, its time for younger guys to get a chance. If you hire him for head of recruiting, player relations, etc.... good solid hire... as head coach... good luck.

LSU would love nothing better than a team to hire him, his payout is reduced from his salary over the next 5 years.
 
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Only Tennessee fans would refuse a coach with a pretty impressive resume' including a natty in favor of a guy who lost to USCjr and Vandy last year.
 
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Hiring a coach that was fired from his last job due to not meeting expectations is an embarrassment. It's not working out for our basketball team. Won't work out here.
 
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fade route said:
Only Tennessee fans would refuse a coach with a pretty impressive resume' including a natty in favor of a guy who lost to USCjr and Vandy last year.
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We are not beating South Carolina or Vanderbilt if we play as bad as we did last night vs them
 
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tnmarktx said:
Wow, I hope that our AD has some intelligence and ignored their request. We are hands down the dumbest fan base in the world, regardless of the sport.
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You are so right. These negavols would be calling for Les' head before his first season is over.
 
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Les is in the same boat as Chip Kelly. Both are coaches that had a win percentage of 75% at one power 5 school when they left/no longer employed. Only two coaches before them have had a win percentage of 75% or better and jumped to another Power 5 school. Their names are Nick Saban and Urban Meyer. Kelly is definitely going to win at a high rate close to his 86% win. Especially, since Kelly would coach laps around the other other SEC East coaches and would be right under Saban in the conference as a whole. Miles would be riskier, but history would be on his side. Honestly, Les with a solid offensive staff would be worth the gamble. However, I think Les is coaching option 4 or 5. Not in the top 3 if we make a swap. My biggest fear is that Florida potentially looks to change and goes after Kelly. For all the Kelly haters, they would rather face him in our own division than have him and win in our division. It is not a perfect world or anything personal. It is a business. People who don't treat it as a business are the same people who hire the likes of Butch Jones....
 
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Stubborn guy with National and SEC champs is less preferred than the stubborn guy who can't win a division when its gift wrapped for him. Guess everyone loves an 8-4 ceiling.
 
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Truth of the matter is, Butch has won more than the previous 2 coaches we've had. Is he the coach to lead us to the promise land, that remains to be seen. Most Tennessee fans appear to think we are entitled to win the national championship or bust. That's just not us right now. If we wanted a proven coach, we should've never fired Fulmer. That being said if you think that Fulmer would have us winning championships, you are insane.
 
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tnmarktx said:
Truth of the matter is, Butch has won more than the previous 2 coaches we've had. Is he the coach to lead us to the promise land, that remains to be seen. Most Tennessee fans appear to think we are entitled to win the national championship or bust. That's just not us right now. If we wanted a proven coach, we should've never fired Fulmer. That being said if you think that Fulmer would have us winning championships, you are insane.
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If we wanted a proven coach we should have opened up the wallet instead of playing it cheap. We paid for mediocrity and its what we have.
 
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tnmarktx said:
Truth of the matter is, Butch has won more than the previous 2 coaches we've had. Is he the coach to lead us to the promise land, that remains to be seen. Most Tennessee fans appear to think we are entitled to win the national championship or bust. That's just not us right now. If we wanted a proven coach, we should've never fired Fulmer. That being said if you think that Fulmer would have us winning championships, you are insane.
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One note, anytime Fulmer had a season of 8 wins or less, the following year he went 11 wins from 8, 11 wins from 8, 10 wins from 8, 9 wins from 5. To me, Fulmer and Richt and Spurrier at USC for that matter, were the coaches that just wanted to get to Atlanta because then you have a chance to make a run. We may not have made a dominant run under Coach Fulmer, but I would bet any amount of money that we would have had 4-5 more SEC Championship appearances since 2007.

He always bounced back in the coaching and recruiting department. Not to beat a dead horse, but his recruiting was vastly underrated his last two years. He made a bad hire in Clawson in 2008. Fulmer was a UT guy through and through. During a bad season (8 wins or worse), he always bounced back strongly.
 
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