Recruiting Forum Football Talk II

[Jackcrevol]

Rumor that he said Freeze wants UT job and is willing to wait

jockeying.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Hubbs added some fuel to the fire. In Monday night chat someone asked if the HC job were open this year would Freeze be pursued and Hubbs said “I wouldn’t rule it out.”

 

[Catbone]

Dammit hubbs gon make me root for us to go 2-8 just to get freeze

 

[Catbone]

Also I won't be able to watch the Auburn game now so expect a win

 

[Smokeytom]

Hubbs added some fuel to the fire. In Monday night chat someone asked if the HC job were open this year would Freeze be pursued and Hubbs said “I wouldn’t rule it out.”

 

[rekinhavoc]

Can JG get two claps and a ric flair for somehow managing to still get the start this Saturday being under a 1000 yards on the season and throwing only 6 Tds and 3 interceptions

Don't forget the fumbles. Ball security ain't his thing.

 

[csprig9]

I have faith in Fulmer. He wants to win.

I have zero faith in fulmer
He won’t hire a coach that’s status is bigger then his.
He is the Primary reason we’re even in this situation

 

[GojiraVol17]

I have zero faith in fulmer
He won’t hire a coach that’s status is bigger then his.
He is the Primary reason we’re even in this situation

We found the career Fulmer hater. The man helped bring us our last national championship. That’s reason enough to cut him some slack. To make it worse, those like you that can’t stand him are the very reason he was run out of town. We got greedy and needy for no reason. Y’all are the very reason we’ve been in a near 15 year tumble.

 

[UTProf]

I have zero faith in fulmer
He won’t hire a coach that’s status is bigger then his.
He is the Primary reason we’re even in this situation

You mispelled "The Haslams."

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

We found the career Fulmer hater. The man helped bring us our last national championship. That’s reason enough to cut him some slack. To make it worse, those like you that can’t stand him are the very reason he was run out of town. We got greedy and needy for no reason. Y’all are the very reason we’ve been in a near 15 year tumble.

Fulmer got about six years of slack after it was clear the game passed him by. I do think certain things in football are cyclical and perhaps Fulmer's areas of expertise could someday be more germane to whatever the current trends are than was the case in the mid-2000s. I think the biggest reason Fulmer got the AD gig is he convinced the UT President, BOT, and some boosters that he would make a hire and bring the lunacy of the last search to a quick conclusion. He couldn't hire Leach because that was Currie's hail mary. He basically showed up with his list of three candidates and picked one. Maybe Fulmer could've made a better hire if he'd been on the search from the jump, or maybe not. He definitely made some bad assistant coach hires on the backside of his tenure, which is reason enough for fans to doubt him. That doesn't mean someone hates him or does not appreciate '98.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

as an addendum to my prior post, I'd refer people to Roy Tanner's press conference regarding Muschamp's firing. The bottom line is wins. If you don't win a lot, you get fired. That's the nature of big time college football and it doesn't mean someone isn't a good person, didn't try their best, isn't likeable, etc. Some people get over attached to a particular person and I guess that sort of devotion has its place but at the end of the day, if you don't win enough, you go away.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Well boys and girls. Didn’t think it was possible but I have tested positive AGAIN for COVID. First time in June and today! No symptoms now and it was just happen chance that I had to get tested. Let’s see how this round goes! Go Vols!!

Can you get tested again? It is probably a false positive.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

I have zero faith in fulmer
He won’t hire a coach that’s status is bigger then his.
He is the Primary reason we’re even in this situation

It was his fault that he was fired or that he had to take over a botched hire and try to salvage the search?

 

[drvenner]

Maybe the pumpers are tired of being wrong year after year after year. Buying and selling false hope to each other. Shouting down anyone who questions the process. Yet here we are with the realists right once again and the pumpers in denial. “Corch will turn it around next week next year.” Maybe it’s time to hire the right sort for the job to actually satisfy both parties on gameday.

I don't shout people down. I try to take each post on its own merits. I have my biases, just like you do. I am a reformed pumper, actually. I am out on JG, and very close to being out on Pruitt. The only reason I am not is because I am realistic enough to realize he is likely here through next year. I don't expect him to turn it around. That does not mean I hope he doesn't, just so I will be right.

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Hubbs added some fuel to the fire. In Monday night chat someone asked if the HC job were open this year would Freeze be pursued and Hubbs said “I wouldn’t rule it out.”

That’s as vague as a Callahan recruit update. How is that adding fuel?

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

That’s as vague as a Callahan recruit update. How is that adding fuel?

Vagueness creates uncertainty and doubt that the job is secure thus adding fuel to the fire.

 

[pierce60]

Vagueness creates uncertainty and doubt that the job is secure thus adding fuel to the fire.

Thus adding clicks, traffic and attention to his website. That’s Hubbs’ job....

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Vagueness creates uncertainty and doubt that the job is secure thus adding fuel to the fire.

The poster asked a hypothetical... "IF the job was open...."

Hubbs reply was basically "LOL Maybe?"

I mean, sure, if we had a job opening, we'd look at Freeze.

Not knocking Ron but I just don't see how thats adding any fuel. It was just a generic, almost common sense answer to a hypothetical.

 

[jakez4ut]

Hubbs added some fuel to the fire. In Monday night chat someone asked if the HC job were open this year would Freeze be pursued and Hubbs said “I wouldn’t rule it out.”

That’s as vague as a Callahan recruit update. How is that adding fuel?

Vagueness creates uncertainty and doubt that the job is secure thus adding fuel to the fire.

Thus adding clicks, traffic and attention to his website. That’s Hubbs’ job....

 

[Ron Swanson]

That’s as vague as a Callahan recruit update. How is that adding fuel?

After all these years you still don’t speak Hubbanese?

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

After all these years you still don’t speak Hubbanese?

See my previous post.

Besides, didn't the VQ guys very recently say there was nothing going on with Freeze/Tennessee?

Just saying, if a common sense answer to a hypothetical is the juciest thing to come out of the Monday Night Chat, I'd want some of my 9.95 back.

 

[BigOrangeVols]

We found the career Fulmer hater. The man helped bring us our last national championship. That’s reason enough to cut him some slack. To make it worse, those like you that can’t stand him are the very reason he was run out of town. We got greedy and needy for no reason. Y’all are the very reason we’ve been in a near 15 year tumble.

This is a terrible take. Everyone should love Fulmer, the coach and player, but he made a bad hire in JP. God forbid someone have some questions about his ability to hire a food coach.

 

[BigOrangeVols]

Was that before the recruiting violations/NCAA sanctions and prostitution thing, or after?

Similar thing happened at tOSU. They seem okay.

Recruiting violations just mean you got caught. Bama clearly cheats their asses off every year recruiting and never get squat. All the big boys in bball do as well.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Maybe people are just tired of lurkers waiting for something bad to happen so that they can crawl back out and break their arm patting themselves on their backs.

What about the lurkers waiting for something good to happen? We’re out there too.

 

[jakez4ut]

What about the lurkers waiting for something good to happen? We’re out there too.

keep lurking? lol.