Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[give_him 6]

What Texas fans had to say about Herman.

 

[05_never_again]

So explain the transformation in Buffalo.

"Transformation" might be a little bit of an exaggeration; he's 5 games above .500 in MAC play over 6 seasons there. It isn't like it's impossible to win a few games there - Turner Gill was OK.

Leipold is another prove it coach and we need to do everything possible to get a guy with a track record of success at the P5 level.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

 

[InstrumentalVol]

No AD till end of the month & a coach until the middle of February? Embarrassing.

 

[KB5252]

I agree the boosters were opportunistic.
They pushed the investigation into another gear to make sure fulmer was out

yep the next coach is going to handcuffed and badly imo

Good Lord still beating this drum.

 

[jp1]

it’s not just what she said yesterday. There has been plenty of talk here before yesterday that she expects the program to be clean.

If you interviewed 200 Chancellors and asked them all the same question.....what do you think the answer would be? Don't waste any more brain cells on what she said.

 

[SLICKYINC]

You come out say what you said at the presser yesterday and you leave yourself open for hit pieces like that. They made the bed they lay in.

 

[Ron Swanson]

No AD till end of the month & a coach until the middle of February? Embarrassing.

Won’t be that long. I bet AD hired this week.

 

[Kingston Vol]

How was the last Buffalo coach that did great there but failed at his power 5 chance?

Turner Gill was 20-30 at Buffalo.

Leipold is 37-33.

 

[snowvols]

You receptive to this guy? What’s your take on his offense?

Yeah, he obviously wins at a really high rate. The only game I watched this year though was the bowl vs Marshall. The QB for Buffalo is horrible so they did lean on the run game a lot. The RB Patterson had already declared for the draft and didn't play and they still won with the backup rushing for like 140 yards. Looking at his UWW stats it seems he adapted to what he had. They would have much bigger passing years than others. I think there are lots of guys that could win here. I'm just happy Pruitt is gone and hopefully we don't get Steele because I don't think he'll be much different.

 

[RikidyBones]

Is that the McDonald's bag rumor?

 

[drvenner]

Negative. He owes me on all three platforms.

Good luck widdat. You'll be lucky if you get one flattering comment. @InVOLuntary is one the most ungrateful posters on here. Right, @Orange Studs ?

 

[05_never_again]

This is not true.

Google is your friend. Here is wiki page of the coach that was there before Leipold 1985-2006 with zero D-III championships and nothing like the records Leipold had except for his last 2 seasons when again, he still didn’t win a championship.

Bob Berezowitz - Wikipedia

I looked up their program before I made that statement. When I said "win" I didn't necessarily mean they win national titles every year no matter who the coach is. UWW was a really successful program when Leipold took it over. They were ridiculously successful when he was there, and they're still successful now that he's gone but nowhere near at the level he was.

He's probably a good coach, but wouldn't you prefer a guy with more experience and success at the P5 level?

 

[volfaninpa]

Turner Gill was 20-30 at Buffalo.

Leipold is 37-33.

And then Turner Gill went to....Liberty.

And who followed Gill at Liberty? That's right Hugh Freeze. It's all lining up. The Leopold talk is just a smoke screen for freezing season Knoxville.

 

[drvenner]

Wendy's.

Hahaha, you did not say Applebee's!!

I win, I win, I win!!!!!!!!!!

 

[RikidyBones]

Hahaha, you did not say Applebee's!!

I win, I win, I win!!!!!!!!!!

I'm trying to help you, Byron. As a friend should.

 

[engineerVOL]

What?

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

Do we want to win or not?

I think its been clear with the last 3 hires what the answer is to that question.

 

[BigOrangeVols]

Both are tricky. Some would be willing to go that route while others won’t.

What's the honest hold up on Lane Kiffin? Every guy you hire has a school that they would leave and coach for at the drop of the hat if they came calling. He's 11 years older now with much more experience.

 

[InstrumentalVol]

Won’t be that long. I bet AD hired this week.

God I hope youre right

 

[UTSuave’]

Neal Brown...could really get on board with this guy

 

[volsnvikes]

IF Kiffin was hired here and he was successful, he would then moved UP and would have few other places to go that would be more attractive.

Those are big IFs. Right now there are easily 15-25 jobs in college that would be UP. If he makes us successful that would be maybe cut in half.

Remember, Kiff jumped ship after one year from here to go to USC. If he made us successful and Bama came open, or Michigan, or tOSU, or ND - history tells us he would leave. History also says he would be the one calling them first.

It’s old fable of the scorpion and the frog. It’s the frog’s fault he believed the scorpion wouldn’t sting.

 

[Geronimo]

Good luck widdat. You'll be lucky if you get one flattering comment. @InVOLuntary is one the most ungrateful posters on here. Right, @Orange Studs ?

It’s fine. I’m a Vol fan. I know how to wait on things I know I’ll never get.

 

[revjayp]

My thoughts on Kiffin. Lane loved it here, and then he got a job offer from his dream job. He was torn, Layla wasn’t, she wanted to be back in LA. He took the job and became public enemy number 1.

Time went on, things didn’t go well, and Lane realized something he could never go back to. USC wasn’t his dream job, Tennessee was. From the fans, to the SEC, to beating Saben. It offered everything he loved and he screwed it up. You can tell on Twitter, he would recruit at a stupid level here and win at an even higher level.

I think Lane want nothing more then to right the ship here. This is his destination job. This is what he views as home.

Bring Lane Home!

From your mouth to Gods ear.

 

[VolInDayton]

What are the odds we have the AD hired by end of day tomorrow?