Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[ThisIsTheYearVol]

Fleck reminds me of Lyle

 

[therickbol]

Our next coach -- probably.

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Where did you find a picture of my accountant?

 

[Dudleys87]

Exactly. And he’s allowed to hire Garner this week to help keep the team intact and recruit to finish the class. Time is of the essence.

Indeed it is, I get why a lot of people don’t like the idea of Steele being HC hell I don’t but if the man puts together the best defensive staff we’ve had in years I won’t complain a bit.

I hope that its Chadwell.

Lock him up on the cheaper side and put some money into assistants to help him along the way.

You can’t lose.

 

[OrangeGoggles]

Well not these days.

I’d just like to see if Fleck can sustain success for more than 3-4 years. This year makes me wonder

Another advantage with Fleck over our previous trumpet player / coach is at least Fleck played football at the highest level.

I also believe Fleck image could help really sell TN and the image we want to portray. He seems high energy. We need someone in the Bruce Pearl mold to help re-energize our fan base and TN football in general. It's like CJP took all the fun out of football. (I'm not saying Fleck is the ultimate answer but he has potential)

Lastly, I think his buyout dropped from 10M down to 4.5M earlier this month.

 

[VolNRaleighNC]

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I don't see PJ Fleck being worth $8 million a year. I watched his documentary and he seems likable but there's no way he's worth that kind of $$$$.

Bingo.

 

[NoogaVol96]

If its not Steele, why would he be picking staff. lol

Gardner was already in the works prior to Pruitt leaving. Simon is a move being made in order to help retain Henry T.

 

[jordan4vols]

Let’s start on the AD front, the word fast continues to be the term thrown about. How fast? We feel like Tennessee would like to get their new athletic director finished out sooner rather than later. A couple of sources have suggested that by the weekend is a possibility in terms of hiring a replacement for retiring AD Phillip Fulmer. No matter what, we don’t see this dragging on much past the middle of next week at the latest unless Tennessee fails to land their choice. Chancellor Plowman and The Parker Group have obviously been in regular discussion as Tennessee is paying that firm $120k to assist them in finding an AD. It was suggested to us that a couple of interviews may have already taken place.

The criteria seems to be pretty clear. A sitting AD or one who has been a sitting AD is the preference.

The other item that seems unwavering is that the new AD will hire the new football coach. Thus the speed of the AD search.

The reason for the speed is that the football program needs stability and direction which includes completing the staff. The quote from the Chancellors office on Tuesday gave the impression that Kevin Steele may have the opportunity to fill a couple of positions on the staff in an effort to hold the roster together. Players have many questions about who their position coach is going to be. For example the lack of an offensive line coach continues to hurt Tennessee and with no definite timeline for a coach to be named, players at that position are getting antsy. Those unknowns have them getting pulled in other directions by their families as well as players at other schools trying to recruit them. Steele has met with Chancellor Plowman multiple times since Monday’s firing of Jeremy Pruitt.

As of now no one new is in the transfer portal although several have asked for their paperwork to potentially enter the portal. At least a couple of those who have asked are indicating that they will wait and go through spring practice to see how different things are.

Hubbs

 

[Dudleys87]

Short of Saban, Dabo, or Urban Meyer, nothing is automatic anymore. Look at UCLA under Chip Kelly and Michigan under Harbaugh. That said...you've got to try.

For years people said Kelly’s OC made him at Oregon. I guess they weren’t wrong

 

[VFL92]

I really like Mark Richt as a person but I don’t think he’s all that great of a coach.

Seems like he’s reached his ceiling.

We could do much worse. He may have reached his ceiling, but it's a heck of a lot higher than anything we've had recently. As much as we may not want to admit it, our next step is not competing for national titles. Our next step is making bowl games and consistently beating the Kentucky's, Vandy's and South Carolina's of the world.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Exactly. And he’s allowed to hire Garner this week to help keep the team intact and recruit to finish the class. Time is of the essence.

It's just hard for me to trust that the UTAD---after 13 years of ineptitude--has a HC and AD who has already approved Steele as DC just waiting in the wings. If that's the case, how has something not leaked already about the timeline?

Maybe it's just my BVS kicking in, but Steele hiring assistants scares me instead of inspires confidence.

 

[UTSuave’]

We already knew that Rodney was coming

Those hires should be made by the actual incoming HC not a fill in coach so Steele must have been given the green light

 

[SLICKYINC]

college football is a year round grind for coaches. That’s why I don’t see Bob Stoops wanting to get back into it at his age.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Fleck reminds me of Lyle

@HankHill

 

[NoogaVol96]

It’s Steele guys. So ridiculous.

It’s not.

 

[MrVolton]

I did not know Jamey Chadwell's son is named after Heath Shuler.

Lance Decker’s 4th daughter is named Al Wilson.

 

[Dudley Smith]

I will say this for Bob Stoops, it is easy to win at OU, but not when he got there. They had just come off a lost decade post-Switzer meltdown of Gary Gibbs, Howard Schnellenberger, and Jon Blake. He quickly turned them around and won a NC in his second year. I do think he ran his course at OU and probably got out at the right time. I don't think he is interested in returning to coaching, his dad died at an early age from a heart attack and he doesn't want to drop on the sidelines. If he does come back, he might have a Mack Brown-like second act in him, however.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

Hubbs has been singing this all week





Y’all know it’s coming

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Unless sanctions are stupid bad. I highly doubt we go through all of this just to promote Steele

 

[aRmo]

Danny White could be getting a look at AD. That’s another stud imo

 

[Dudleys87]

And a lot of y’all said we weren’t firing Pruitt either.

 

[vol81]

It’s Steele guys. So ridiculous.

Sir the only thing that is ridiculous is the knee jerk reactions of people like you. It will not be Steele as HC once the dust clears.
We need stability and he is providing that to the extent possible.
Take a chill pill......

 

[BigSteve09]

We're kind of going in circles now because I don't think it will be any of Bob Stoops, Petersen, or Fleck.

I also (fingers crossed) don't think it will be Steele.

 

[scvolfan7]

Those hires should be made by the actual incoming HC not a fill in coach so Steele must have been given the green light

Whoever the new coach is will be happy to have steele and Garner on staff. They’re proven, veteran coaches. If the new guy doesn’t want them, then we’ve made a bad hire

 

[BigSteve09]

And a lot of y’all said we weren’t firing Pruitt either.

I was one of them. I didn't think we had the balls.

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Thank you to everyone for bringing info from other places as well as those sharing info they hear from their sources. Y’all the real MVPs.