Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[butchna]

Respect you? I don’t even know you!

 

[mrmax86]

Before we all say "yay, Marrone isn't coming here", remember Alabama is hiring a 4-year NFL head coach to coach ONLY THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE.

Still no bueno.

 

[05_never_again]

I'm starting to get angry every time I see "respect my decision ", and I'm not quite certain why.

I think because it's a demand, from a 16-year-old kid no less, for something that typically is earned. I mean, nobody has to "respect" his decision; it just is what it is. It comes off as presumptuous and arrogant.

The "no interviews please" is pretty eye-rolling too. A lot of these kids are already used to the star treatment at a very early age and just presume they'll be hounded for interviews because they made a statement about their college choice.

 

[volsnvikes]

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This moron does understand that’s why the fans are pissed right?

 

[Big Orange#1]

Don't forget that Kevin Steele faints before/during games and also had a mental breakdown mid-game when WVU hung 70 on Clemson

We can’t be having this guy as head coach :

 

[drvenner]

Hot take

Currie was good and would have been good here if allowed to do his job

with him already landing on his feet it’s clear others agree

and Blackburn hasn’t landed on his feet

He was awful. He was completely beholden to the Haslams and was going to hire Schiano. He went rogue and tried to offer the job to Mike Leach. He. Was. Awful.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

50/50.

Can you speak to why the powers that be like Gilbert the best at this moment? What has he done that makes them think "Yep, that's our man"?

 

[UTSuave’]

Someone said “Tennessee goes through coaches the way hogwarts goes through defense against the dark arts teachers.”

-@utvols88

 

[Ron Swanson]

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And Bama wasn’t in the same orbit as UT and UF in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Then they finally got their HC hire right. UT is back in that orbit once they get the right HC. It’ll happen one of these times. Fingers crossed it’s this time.

 

[Weezer]

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Someone remind him of the last time Georgia won a NC. They may be up right now, but UGA is not as "elite" as portrayed.

 

[Jimmy Football]

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This is so tiresome. Yeah, we get it, we’ve sucked for decade and a half.

But if you ask this question in the 90s, you say the same thing about Georgia. You ask it in the 80s you say the same thing about Florida.

It’s just the same, lazy take: “Oh, haven’t won lately? Your program must suck and it was never any good.”

 

[drylo]

He helped hire Donnie T and was part of the renaming of Lady Vols. Also he has done nothing at ECU.

 

[LA Vol]

But @LA Vol , Freeze is a born again man who has redeemed himself at a Christian University!

Anyone buyin that? Anyone? Hell, I think we should still try our damndest to sell it

That would not be The Right Way. And we still have the NCAA poking around.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

Hot take

Currie was good and would have been good here if allowed to do his job

with him already landing on his feet it’s clear others agree

and Blackburn hasn’t landed on his feet

Currie was a good AD but made a few mistakes. He elevated Baseball and was getting ready to elevate Football with Dan Mullen but we all know how that ended. I still don't feel sorry for Fulmer, this thing came back and bit him in the ass.

 

[Weezer]

I wish we could make these types of hires. I wouldn't want Marrone as a HC, but to be able to hire a former NFL HC to be a position coach? To have 2 former NFL HCs on your staff as assistants? Man, I'd kill to be there.

 

[DustyRockSolid]

When given 2 clear choices for a job at Tennessee (Ingram/Gilbert). Just assume the one thats the best option WON'T be hired.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

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Maybe Dennis will come hang out at a few tailgates this fall and we can discuss it

 

[butchna]

I'm starting to get angry every time I see "respect my decision ", and I'm not quite certain why.

I think it’s because neither he nor Colby Smith nor Julian Nixon were going to be in this class. Pruitt had effectively gitshirted them.

 

[jpope9]

And Bama wasn’t in the same orbit as UT and UF in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Then they finally got their HC hire right. UT is back in that orbit once they get the right HC. It’ll happen one of these times. Fingers crossed it’s this time.

and they still almost F'd that up by wanting Rich Rod, lucky for them, he turned them down.

 

[Nashvegas31]

I don’t want Tee, Lane’s WR coach is better and has only coached the position one year.

Co-OC and Co-DC is never a good idea imo, never works out well, for us anyways.

Lanes WR coach looks better because of who is calling the plays not the WR coach. Easy to look good when your wide open with so much space. Kiffin would drop his guy for tee any day

 

[yabo]

AP just posted the Hubbs/50 gif in response to a post about Garner coming onto staff after someone questioned his first gif, which was stone-cold looking at watch. Still don't think this means that Steele is the HC just that everyone would take those two on their defensive staff.

 

[volsnvikes]

I keep seeing angry posts that I don’t understand and then I remembered I blocked Bruin. Now it all makes sense.

 

[volbeast33]

Or CJG

I’ve always called when him BoJay bc when he first signed he was compared to Bo Jackson..... I love Jay but the person that made that comment obviously never saw Bo Jackson play.

 

[BigOrangeGoose]

And some of y’all wanted Marrone as our head coach

Our standards...

 

[BruinVol]

He was awful. He was completely beholden to the Haslams and was going to hire Schiano. He went rogue and tried to offer the job to Mike Leach. He. Was. Awful.

He wasn’t allowed to do his job. Sounds awfully familiar actually