Pruitt has met with Freeze about OC position (Price)

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Big Orange #1 said:
Here's how I imagine the conversation going:

JP: Huge I'm taking a big risk on ya but you know how to beat Nick and I need someone that can help us get wins over the Tide.

HF: Jeremy, I'm your guy, already beat him twice. I know the formula.

JP: Huge can you keep it in your pants?

HF: Absolutely, but that first victory over Bama and I'm getting cornbread and strippers for everyone!

JP: Aight
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I've found that cornbread is decidedly better with strippers.
 
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DD4ME said:
My only concern would be that Freeze does wait out for the Bama job. TBH if they attempted last year, and the rumors are true about Maryland wanting Locksley that could be a real possibility.

Landing Enos might not be a horrible consolation prize but waiting around for seconds just rubs in where we are.
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Should be noted that Arkansas scored about three more points per game against SEC competition in Enos’s two years in charge than Freeze averaged at Ole Miss during his tenure there. FWIW...
 
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Found something interesting about when Saban tried to hire him a year ago. Even though the SEC said no to the hire "Freeze still helped install Alabama’s offensive philosophy that has taken the country by storm."

Alabama coach Nick Saban tried to hire Freeze as an analyst last season before the SEC nixed that idea. However, Freeze still helped install Alabama’s offensive philosophy that has taken the country by storm. Has Freeze served enough time in purgatory to be welcomed back into the SEC? Commissioner Greg Sankey will provide the answer to that. It wouldn’t seem as if Pruitt would have the pull to sway Sankey and the SEC. Fortunately, he doesn’t have to. The Vols have an ace up their sleeve.

By hiring Phillip Fulmer as athletic director, Tennessee has a man in charge that was a great recruiter for more than two decades and was never found guilty of serious violations. Fulmer has the clout that Pruitt is missing. Sankey had no reason to help Alabama. They are already in prime position. There was no reason to allow Freeze to enter the picture while Ole Miss was still serving penalties he helped cause. That would have been too risky. Had Freeze not changed after he was fired from Ole Miss, he could have disrupted the SEC’s gem program. That’s not the case in Knoxville.

Allowing Freeze to become Tennessee’s offensive coordinator has no risk for the SEC. UT is already bad. What could Freeze do to make it worse? In fact, Freeze could help one of the SEC’s premier programs become relevant again.

I’m neither advocating Freeze should be hired or eliminated because of his past. However, from a football standpoint, Freeze clearly makes the most sense. We’ll see if Fulmer, Pruitt and the SEC agree.
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https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/t...the-perfect-landing-spot-for-hugh-freeze/amp/
 
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VolNExile said:
For all those with heebie-jeebies about Freeze, here’s one scenario: he stays two years, enough to get us legit enough to be an attractive job, and leaves for somewhere else before screwing up again.
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Well we have had plenty that stayed a year or 2 and didn't do anything so I will take 2 or 3 years of Freeze getting the offense going and us winning. It won't be as hard finding someone take over a good offense and team at that point. And who knows maybe he stays 3 or 4 years before moving on, ya never know. GBO!
 
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I think Freeze would be in a similar situation to Kiffin at Bama. I mean that by:

If Freeze comes and he helps resurrect our program then he will more than likely get a good power 5 HC offer.

If he goes to Bama and they succeed like they always do, is it just a product or is it actually Freeze? He'll have to take a mid-major HC job and work his way back up.
 
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dcm3w said:
I think Freeze would be in a similar situation to Kiffin at Bama. I mean that by:

If Freeze comes and he helps resurrect our program then he will more than likely get a good power 5 HC offer.

If he goes to Bama and they succeed like they always do, is it just a product or is it actually Freeze? He'll have to take a mid-major HC job and work his way back up.
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Freeze's HC record is much better than Kiffin's. I think that is the key difference in what potential HC job offerings would look like for Freeze after Alabama or Tennessee. I hope we get him but the longer time stretches on beyond 11/30, the more nervous I will become.
 
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LMU-Law UT-Love said:
Freeze's HC record is much better than Kiffin's. I think that is the key difference in what potential HC job offerings would look like for Freeze after Alabama or Tennessee. I hope we get him but the longer time stretches on beyond 11/30, the more nervous I will become.
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True, I wasn't even thinking about HC record only the scandal.
 
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Pruitt and former Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze met earlier this week while Pruitt was on a recruiting trip with staff members in Memphis.

Freeze has made it clear through many channels that he’s very interested in the Tennessee job and Freeze felt like the meeting went well according to multiple sources. The question is whether or not Pruitt believes Freeze is the right fit for him and this program?

Right now, Tennessee is the biggest possible suitor for Freeze but that could change as the domino effect of coaching hires continues.

Alabama’s Mike Locksley is scheduled to interview for the Maryland job next week. If Locksley were to leave the Tide, would Nick Saban promote Dan Enos or would he go after Freeze? We know that he wanted Freeze on his staff as an analyst this past year and many believe that Freeze would be Saban’s choice.

Freeze is the most talked about name for the Vols at this point because he’s the biggest name out there and he’s the guy that we know Pruitt has spoke with or interviewed.

He’s obviously not the only candidate though. We continue to hear Chip Lindsey’s name as a guy that Pruitt has real interest in. Lindsey and Pruitt know each other well. And few believe that Lindsey is going to be back at Auburn next year. Freddie Kitchens name has come up as well. Pruitt while on the road this week recruiting as certainly vetted out other names.

So while there are others we haven’t discovered at this point. The biggest question is what does Pruitt want his offense to be? Who’s a good fit for him culturally and who’s offensive system fits closest to what he wants to do and what the offense is capable of doing at this point? If Pruitt goes fast in the search, Freeze and Lindsey see the most logical choices.
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DD4ME said:
After reading up about him I would not be offended by an Enos hire.
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The problem with that is we take Enos and Saban takes Freeze. I think Saban has already spoken with Freeze to be honest. Our time is running out. We don't have time to jack around with up and coming maybes. Freeze is proven and clearly the best choice. He offered Harrison Bailey 2 years ago at OM; seems logical right? Maybe

On the flip side the real question the administration is processing is longevity. Freeze would be here 2 years tops and someone would offer him a HC job. To be honest, if Gus is out next year, AU would probably break the bank to hire him as HC (knows what it takes to beat Saban), and bam he's right back into the SECw. If the wheels fall off with Orgeron (they are doing well now but still unstable), he'd be right in line for that.

Freeze will be a HC again, the issue is, what school would he be willing to leave for and how soon. With LSU and AU possibly opening up within 2 years, even with Bama, he gone.

Hurts to say it but he won't stay anywhere long and our admin knows that. Discuss
 
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Even if Freeze is the best available, he won't work here if he's not a fit, and Pruitt is in the best position to determine that. Right now, I expect Pruitt will see us OK.
 
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AaronUT said:
The problem with that is we take Enos and Saban takes Freeze. I think Saban has already spoken with Freeze to be honest. Our time is running out. We don't have time to jack around with up and coming maybes. Freeze is proven and clearly the best choice. He offered Harrison Bailey 2 years ago at OM; seems logical right? Maybe

On the flip side the real question the administration is processing is longevity. Freeze would be here 2 years tops and someone would offer him a HC job. To be honest, if Gus is out next year, AU would probably break the bank to hire him as HC (knows what it takes to beat Saban), and bam he's right back into the SECw. If the wheels fall off with Orgeron (they are doing well now but still unstable), he'd be right in line for that.

Freeze will be a HC again, the issue is, what school would he be willing to leave for and how soon. With LSU and AU possibly opening up within 2 years, even with Bama, he gone.

Hurts to say it but he won't stay anywhere long and our admin knows that. Discuss
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I think that also depends on his success as an OC.
 
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AaronUT said:
The problem with that is we take Enos and Saban takes Freeze. I think Saban has already spoken with Freeze to be honest. Our time is running out. We don't have time to jack around with up and coming maybes. Freeze is proven and clearly the best choice. He offered Harrison Bailey 2 years ago at OM; seems logical right? Maybe

On the flip side the real question the administration is processing is longevity. Freeze would be here 2 years tops and someone would offer him a HC job. To be honest, if Gus is out next year, AU would probably break the bank to hire him as HC (knows what it takes to beat Saban), and bam he's right back into the SECw. If the wheels fall off with Orgeron (they are doing well now but still unstable), he'd be right in line for that.

Freeze will be a HC again, the issue is, what school would he be willing to leave for and how soon. With LSU and AU possibly opening up within 2 years, even with Bama, he gone.

Hurts to say it but he won't stay anywhere long and our admin knows that. Discuss
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How long did Helton stay?
 
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TENN MAN 13 said:
He thinks he’s a scum bag.. Said he would have a problem with Fulmer for allowing it to happen.
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Erik Ainge is a delusional pyshco. He turns everything into Erik, I haven't listened to him in years because hes too immature.

We're talking about the same guy who was kissing Butch Jones and John Curries ass last year.
 
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KeyVol14 said:
I didn’t realize Trey Wallace was a fake
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I don't say this as a hater, I'm actually a little impressed that he was able to do it. But Trey Wallace got a legitimate job by reading Volnation recruiting forum.

There's a couple of guys over there that get legitimate recruiting information. Every time one of them would post, within minutes, Trey would release a tweet with the exact information, verbatim. And attribute it to his "sources".

A little cheap but I can't deny the craftiness of parlaying into a legitimate job, haha.
 
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chargervol said:
I don't say this as a hater, I'm actually a little impressed that he was able to do it. But Trey Wallace got a legitimate job by reading Volnation recruiting forum.

There's a couple of guys over there that get legitimate recruiting information. Every time one of them would post, within minutes, Trey would release a tweet with the exact information, verbatim. And attribute it to his "sources".

A little cheap but I can't deny the craftiness of parlaying into a legitimate job, haha.
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Wasnt trey wallace the first to break the pruitt hire?
 
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What a tool. Trey Wallace. He ran around Tyson McGhee like a chicken with its head cut off while looking for Gruden. And put it all on camera!
 
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