Mel Tucker extension

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Boston Vol said:
Michigan State starting quarterback Payton Thorne and last year’s leading wide receiver Keon Coleman both entered the portal today. That fully guaranteed $95 million that Tucker looking like a great decision on State’s part.
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if it wasn't for Jimbo stinking the place up there would be a lot more complaints about what Michigan State is doing. One good year does not a coach make, honestly I am still worried the curse on the Vols is still hear and we just agreed to pay Huepel like MSU did with Tucker. hopefully just the BVS, but the thought crops up.
 
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LouderVol said:
if it wasn't for Jimbo stinking the place up there would be a lot more complaints about what Michigan State is doing. One good year does not a coach make, honestly I am still worried the curse on the Vols is still hear and we just agreed to pay Huepel like MSU did with Tucker. hopefully just the BVS, but the thought crops up.
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Kind of apples to oranges. Tucker took lemons and made lemonade in a really bad conference, Heupel took old rotten lemons and made a high dollar lemon-flavored wine in the toughest conference in all of football.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
Kind of apples to oranges. Tucker took lemons and made lemonade in a really bad conference, Heupel took old rotten lemons and made a high dollar lemon-flavored wine in the toughest conference in all of football.
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I think the biggest difference is that Heupel's expertise is on offense, and he is running his system - which led the nation in scoring and total yards last season. He is not a figurehead. He won't be as vulnerable to high staff turnover.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
Kind of apples to oranges. Tucker took lemons and made lemonade in a really bad conference, Heupel took old rotten lemons and made a high dollar lemon-flavored wine in the toughest conference in all of football.
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I really hope you are right. but we have had flashes before. Not that we have to go 11-2 again or I think Huepel is a hack. but time will always set us straight.
 
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LouderVol said:
I really hope you are right. but we have had flashes before. Not that we have to go 11-2 again or I think Huepel is a hack. but time will always set us straight.
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Those “flashes” are not on the same planet as 11-2 with an Orange Bowl victory and win over Alabama. And recent success is “time setting us straight.” It’s the bad years that were the aberration.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
Those “flashes” are not on the same planet as 11-2 with an Orange Bowl victory and win over Alabama. And recent success is “time setting us straight.” It’s the bad years that were the aberration.
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15 years was a long time of aberration. especially for young Vol fans like me who never knew the good times.
 
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LouderVol said:
15 years was a long time of aberration. especially for young Vol fans like me who never knew the good times.
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If you were suggesting that the best seasons under Kiffin, Dooley, Jones and Pruitt were comparable with 2022? Then that is kind of silly.
 
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Anyone know if we would make a run at Keon Coleman? A lot of good weapons at WR already but curious if we would be interested
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
If you were suggesting that the best seasons under Kiffin, Dooley, Jones and Pruitt were comparable with 2022? Then that is kind of silly.
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didn't say they were comparable. just saying we have seen flashes before. Jones beat for Florida for the first time in forever, even going back to the Fulmer days. That wasn't supposed to be a flash in the pan either. We were worried each one of them was going to be hired away. Dooley was going home to Georgia, Jones was going to ND or Ohio State, Pruitt was going to replace Saban. our fan base has bought the hype before.
 
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LouderVol said:
didn't say they were comparable. just saying we have seen flashes before. Jones beat for Florida for the first time in forever, even going back to the Fulmer days. That wasn't supposed to be a flash in the pan either. We were worried each one of them was going to be hired away. Dooley was going home to Georgia, Jones was going to ND or Ohio State, Pruitt was going to replace Saban. our fan base has bought the hype before.
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LOL.

I think you are overstating your case just a bit.

There will always be some isolated idiots posting on internet message board forums. However, there were never consensus opinions that Georgia was going to hire Dooley, or that Jones would be courted by either Notre Dame or Ohio State (they had Brian Kelly and Urban Meyer at the time) ... and you have to be kidding with the Pruitt replacing Saban at Alabama bit. If anyone said that, they obviously weren't serious.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
LOL.

I think you are overstating your case just a bit.

There will always be some isolated idiots posting on internet message board forums. However, there were never consensus opinions that Georgia was going to hire Dooley, or that Jones would be courted by either Notre Dame or Ohio State (they had Brian Kelly and Urban Meyer at the time) ... and you have to be kidding with the Pruitt replacing Saban at Alabama bit. If anyone said that, they obviously weren't serious.
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of course there wasn't consensus on those guys, there never is on anyone.

pretty much every year there was some thread about "why can't we win the east", or "why we should go 11-1 and make the playoffs". And in plenty of other threads anyone suggesting we would struggling to get to 6-6 would be shouted down as a nega Vol.

and just to be clear I am not saying I was immune to falling for some of it too.
 
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