Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[MarcoVol]

And we still didn't get most of the recruits. SMH.

Bc other schools also do it. Just not as blatantly

 

[UTSuave’]

-AP

Me likey!....hire freeze or kiffin

 

[volsnvikes]

The last one is more of a belief on my part than anything. He'd be "coming home" (kind of like he did to USC). The expectation is that this time around he wouldn't do poorly enough to get himself tarmac-fired. You're right that he's generally flighty, but also I think he's looking for a place to land and build his legacy.

You write up a contract that benefits you and give him a lot of money. Make sure his buyout for leaving is ENORMOUS!!

Also, I feel we should spam the hell outta state run just to hear them squirm. They're talking coaching hires. We all just need to call in a suggest Kiffin to hear Rice and Ainge get all in their feelings..

I would want to believe that both of these sentiments would work to keep him here but I fear Kiffin only cares about Kiffin and would be up for moving UP if he got the chance.

That is the only thing holding me back from wanting him hired. He is entertaining to watch on the field and on Twitter for sure.

 

[volfaninpa]

-AP

Napier apparently is going to try and wait it out for LSU, Florida, Clemson, or Alabama.

Isn't Neal Brown 4 years ago similar to Napier? I know he hasn't coached across the country as much, but they strike me as being similar. Any coach that can take Troy into LSU and win has me intrigued. West Virginia is a hard place to win at. If the first tier of most of our coaching wants fall through, I think UT could do worse than Neal Brown.

 

[Fun coupon VOL]

Need a few poles and a couple of thick strippers included for accuracy.

 

[Smyrna ATL Vol]

Stoops, Kiffen, Freeze, Napier, Chadwell, Fickell, Leopold. Any of these and I will be happy. Leopold is very interesting. Guy is a winner.

 

[butchna]

SIAP, I am not able to read all the posts.

I feel really bad for the Pruitt family. I can't imagine how upsetting this is to the children.

Life as a coach’s family.

 

[RiotVol]

I think you meant to say Salter.... wheels.

Nah, Bailey. Accuracy and ability to read a defense.

 

[Dudley Smith]

As for me and my house - we have forgiven Kiffin and want the prodigal to come home. Some of UT's financial fathers may not agree.

It's like people don't remember Doug Dickey. They guy jumped ship to go to Florida, and a generation of Vol fans hated him for that, but we hired him as AD and he did a great job here.

Does anyone really think a decent coach is going to accept a 3 year deal with possible heavy sanctions hanging over the program? My thinking is they’ll have to get a guy on the cheap for a 3 year deal, a up and comer. Or offer a 5 year deal to a decent P5 coach. Maybe the boosters already have all that worked out, but man it has to be a hard sell right now.

Wes Rucker mentioned that they have contracts that will build in an extra year for every year the program is on probation or under sanctions.

 

[BAJAvol]

AP is hurt

 

[RikidyBones]

There are some days that I'm low key convinced youre my little brother. You two have the same sense of you humor.

Sounds like an outstanding guy.

 

[Dudley Smith]

Mike Detilier on Basilio saying Napier would seriously listen if Peyton Manning weighed in and gave him some assurances of support.

 

[RiotVol]

I'm surprised the media isn't running with it more than they are. UT didn't get sloppy; Pruitt and Fulmer got nailed.

It was a hit. Cold. Calculated. Remorseless.

I don't know how to feel about this. Fulmer and Pruitt must have pissed off a lot of important people in a really short amount of time.

 

[Jimmy Football]

AP is hurt

He’s on tilt. I’d give him a week or two before I took much he said seriously.

 

[RiotVol]

Sounds like an outstanding guy.

Great guy. Funny as hell.

 

[Wickman]

Mike Detilier on Basilio saying Napier would seriously listen if Peyton Manning weighed in and gave him some assurances of support.

Peyton doesn’t work here...

 

[revjayp]

Hey @Atlanta VOL you and your boys got us in this mess y’all better get us tf out of it.

Sounds like my soon to be ex wife. Blame everyone expect the person actually responsible for the dysfunction.

 

[butchna]

God blessed us with chris low

Lane Kiffin back to Tennessee? ESPN’s Chris Low says Kiffin is ‘worth kicking the tires for’

In the battle for message board e-cred, errybody take a respectful nod to the west when this dude weighs in.

 

[LA Vol]

Bc other schools also do it. Just not as blatantly

Some are even more blatant. People just look the other way and consider it a cost of doing business at a power program where winning grows the bottom line. UT did the same... until it was expedient to do otherwise.

 

[TheTimeIsNow]

AP be like no one has interest in me either.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Mike detillier works for ESPN and the saints.... was just on the Basilio show, he thinks its a good thing Manning will be in the middle of the search. He thinks of Manning makes the hire it will be a younger coach with HC experience. Guy spoke highly of Leipold and Chadwell

 

[revjayp]

Nashville guys.. so where do we listen to the former midday 180 guys?

Where’d they go??

 

[UTSuave’]

AP is hurt

Because he won’t be getting the inside scoop anymore

 

[TheMagnificantOne]

Just hire Hugh and get to winning

 

[butchna]

To add to this...If Stoops says no, ask 2 more times. If he says no 2 more times, offer a 10 year $60 million deal to Kiffin, and he has to pay the remaining contract as a buyout if he leaves early, while our side of the buyout is $5 million at all times. Tell him since him jetting after a year started all of this, then that’s the least he can do.

That’ll sell him.