Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Govolsman98]

TN is past taking chances. They've done that 4 hires in a row. Find a proven winner. Who's has P5 experience. Mickey Mouse needs to take another job before he should even be considered at TN.

I definitely agree on hiring someone proven. I think Freeze is the guy we need to go after

 

[MarcoVol]

Im fine with Gus. 2 NCG game appearances. 3 BCS bowl appearances. Wins over Alabama. Multiple trips to Atlanta. He would be a fine hire.

1 NC game appearance as a HC. Can’t count as a coordinator bc Pruitt has been there and won them as a coordinator.

And it was his first season. He’s never come close since then.

 

[Aesius]

Exactly, if the options are Gus/Pruitt/Chadwell. Give me Gus all day.

Honestly, hiring a guy who wins 66% of his games for the next 5-6 years is almost a best case scenario at this point. Auburn may have actually just downgraded depending on who they hire.

 

[jakez4ut]

Bama did the same thing before they got fed up and hired Saban.

had to have Rich Rod turn them down first. keep that rabbit's foot handy, never know when it will come in to play.

 

[ugg]

Apparently our team isn’t the only group missing an alpha to lead

We need some "Dragon Breathers" in the AD lol

 

[SLICKYINC]

Im fine with Gus. 2 NCG game appearances. 3 BCS bowl appearances. Wins over Alabama. Multiple trips to Atlanta. He would be a fine hire.

He runs a high school offense. That’s been your argument about Chadwell. Chadwell could win with better talent than he has now. That’s my point.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

1 NC game appearance as a HC. Can’t count as a coordinator bc Pruitt has been there and won them as a coordinator.

And it was his first season. He’s never come close since then.

Still more recently then TN. His teams have also finished ranked 5 out of the 8 seasons he's been there. Is he the perfect hire, No. But he's a lot better than the unproven Chadwell/Napier types.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Honestly, hiring a guy who wins 66% of his games for the next 5-6 years is almost a best case scenario at this point. Auburn may have actually just downgraded depending on who they hire.

Exactly.

 

[DustyRockSolid]

Freeze is practically waiting for the Tennessee job to open up.

He can’t be any worse than what’s going on right now.

Call him up and set up an agreement already so we can end this madness.

Not gonna happen. He will not coach here. They won't even consider him. That's WHEN they fire pruitt. Which won't be this year. Pruitt isn't going anywhere.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

He runs a high school offense. That’s been your argument about Chadwell. Chadwell could win with better talent than he has now. That’s my point.

Gus has proven his works at a higher level thought. Has Chadwell?

 

[mr.checkerboards]

I definitely agree on hiring someone proven. I think Freeze is the guy we need to go after

Freeze would be fine, but he's not the only guy that could win here. The next coach needs 2 things.
1. Proven winner.
2. Someone who can unite the warring factions behind the scenes.

 

[InstrumentalVol]

They're really going to fire Pruitt, hire Freeze and win the SEC East before Gucci loads the Kentucky score from this year.

 

[SweetasSoda]

I would take butch back right now over Pruitt. I said it.

Oh my...we're that bad?

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Not gonna happen. He will not coach here. They won't even consider him. That's WHEN they fire pruitt. Which won't be this year. Pruitt isn't going anywhere.

Then they deserve the consequences

 

[engineerVOL]

Mullen taken off the trail? That probation probably did Florida football a favor.

 

[RiotVol]

Riooooooooottttttttttttttt

Sup?

 

[tn88volfan]

We need some "Dragon Breathers" in the AD lol

we already have a “dragon breather”

 

[Batman1948]

I want Pruitt gone. He is not the guy, but I don't like our chances of hitting a home run with the next coach.

UT is a good job, but we have sucked for a long time. Our fans expectations are extremely high and we play in the toughest conference in america. Why would any home run coach want to come here?

If it was easy to get a great coach, USCe and auburn would have them already. This is why we need to just hire Freeze. He could be a home run or he could be much better than we've had in years. He would take this job and not embarrass us during this coaching search.

Art briles would be another one I would hire if he is properly vetted. We need a damaged goods coach who needs another chance. We won't get the others on the list or we will be settling for napier or whoever who may or may not work.

If UT will not look at Freeze, what makes you think they would look at Briles? Both Briles and Freeze are win at all cost guys and UT is not ready to deal with the down side of win at all cost.

 

[Ten_Titans]

Honestly, hiring a guy who wins 66% of his games for the next 5-6 years is almost a best case scenario at this point. Auburn may have actually just downgraded depending on who they hire.

If you believe that, we should go hire Steele right now. As dumb as you guys think Auburn is, they didn't spend 22 million dollars to get rid of the reason they win 8 games and keep everyone else.

They tried to keep the reason they were winning 8 games and get rid of the reason they weren't winning more. Gus's offenses averaging 60th nationally were not winning them 8 games a year. Get real.

 

[give_him 6]

Mullen taken off the trail? That probation probably did Florida football a favor.
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Its an absolute joke, especially during COVID. Its like LSU self-imposed bowl ban.

 

[SLICKYINC]

Gus has proven his works at a higher level thought. Has Chadwell?

So they took a chance on Gus who’s been on the hot seat for 4 seasons. I mean come on man. Dooley, now Gus? Freeze or Chadwell are right in our wheelhouse. We won’t do better.

 

[scvolfan7]

How can Fulmer keep Pruitt from getting fired? I thought the decision was more in the hands of boosters and Boyd?

 

[Memphisvol87]

The issue with Freeze guess much further than Fulmer. Big money and admin is just a much an obstacle with Freeze.

Well considering their track record is a bit 0-4 on new coaching hires for football if the majority are against freeze he’s clearly the man for the job. I don’t want anyone the people who hired Dooley, butch, and Pruitt want. As a matter of fact they ran of Gary Patterson who would have killed it here. Bring me freeze ASAP.

 

[KB5252]

So do you actually buy the narrative that there are no good hires available out there? If so, what constitutes a good hire to you?

There are good hires out there, but no great ones that are realistic. Just because they are good hires in theory doesn't make them good fits here. Freeze is mentioned a lot here, I think he would be successful on the field but could be terrible for us in other ways that have been discussed before.

After that our realistic candidates are from the same pool as Pruitt was at the time. We've done little in building relationships in getting to know them. I suspect that changes this year.

 

[VolInDayton]

I love how everything is always setup as a power struggle in the AD and football program.

How about you either support the AD or you don't. Why do we need people going behind the scenes trying top topple everything. Doesn't seem like a great way to build a program back up. All you have is a pile of rubble once the dust settles.