Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[Volsfaninva917]

This is the **** I come here for lmao

Lol it's fun

 

[HoleInTheRoof]

Not an insider but hearing we reached out to Southern Arkansas Refrigerator College RB coach Hugh G. Nussack to interview for our head coach opening.

Will update if my buddy texts me more info.

 

[Geronimo]

My guess if nothing comes out today, talks of Chadwell will be completely gone and it'll be someone completely different by tonight lol

Whatever 9 coaches we haven’t mentioned will all be on the hot list tonight, plus a few recycled names. We’ll have the whole coaching fraternity vetted and hired by the time this thing wraps up.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

I hope their list is Franklin then onto Chadwell/Elliott. Let’s end this today.

I think Franklin is still in it

 

[ionaVOL]

I’m feeling feisty today.

Anyone up for a knife fight in the alley?

Ordered and received my first Kershaw knife for EDC. Name the time and place I'm ready to break it in!

 

[jakez4ut]

Being that fresh may mean something. Feldman is highly regarded and for him to put Freeze in the convo at this point in the game is interesting.

it's really not though. just fuel for the fire.

 

[McDad]

Not opposed to Chadwell if it comes to that, but still amounts to catching a guppy on a whale hunt.

Fans want a name. DW wants a winning coach.

I'll take DW's track record over ours.

 

[Leeleesteeth]

The E55P flight from TYS to State College, PA yesterday just left out of Naples, FL. Not sure where it’s heading.

Somewhere to sell mobile homes?

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Money alone isn't going to buy our way out of this. UT is a hornet's nest, admin just whacked it with a big stick, the NCAA will take another swing and some coaches don't want to get caught up in the swarm. Trying to buy guys who really don't want to be at UT likely leads to more instability.

Right now, UT has incompatible goals. Moving forward means reconciling that.

I’m still trying to figure out the logic of whacking the hornet’s nest with our own stick. Everybody else that’s been doing the same thing we have is going to be trying to burn documents faster than the American embassy in Tehran so they don’t face the same consequences.

 

[Aesius]

Not an insider but hearing we reached out to Southern Arkansas Refrigerator College RB coach Hugh G. Nussack to interview for our head coach opening.

Will update if my buddy texts me more info.

Would score a lucrative sponsorship from Bob Vance and Vance Refrigeration with that hire.

 

[LA Vol]

Are you saying some think Fulmer was treated poorly? As someone that loves coach fulmer and was excited to see him get his shot at AD thinks that's ridiculous. His hire was a total catastrophe that will have long lasting negative implications for Vol football.

Yes, some don't like the way it was all orchestrated. Hiring Pruitt was a terrible choice, exacerbated by other bad choices. You can make a problem go away or you can make it worse.

 

[Kurtastrophe]

To be honest, maybe he isn’t the best, but he has clearly proven he can be a program builder. If you think about it, his resume is perfect for what we need. He brought Vandy up from absolutely nothing and he came into Penn State in the aftermath of Sandusky. I’ll take a coach with that on his resume on and no to mention 11 wins in 3 of the last 5 season. If he wasn’t at Vandy and pissed in everyone’s Cheerios when he was there, everyone would be stoked at the possibility.

I think Franklin would do well here. Anybody that can win 9 games at Vandy multiple times would do well at Tennessee. I just don't like the man and think that if we are pursuing him, but not Kiffin or Freeze, it screams hypocrisy.

 

[OrangeGoggles]

Seems like there would have to be some blatantly obvious reasons to select Sonny D over the likes of Tom Herman, Jamey Chadwell or say Lance Leipold even.

I still think going from M Campbell to Franklin to Sonny D is sorta like when asking the wife about where she wants to eat. Be like hey, do you want to go to the Chop House (Franklin), Connors Steakhouse (Campbell) or oh I don't know Krystal (Sonny D)? Just seems out of a place and quite the leap from the first two.

Go Vols!

 

[SLICKYINC]

Printing GIT shirts now.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think Franklin is still in it

reminds me of Saban declining, getting a larger offer and agreeing at Bama.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

I think it’s clear it’s not dead until we hear a denial

That's my thinking, neither side has killed it

 

[windrider]

If Dykes is the bar for success on the new coaching hire, we are going to have a bad time over the next 3 years.

Methinks we're gonna have a bad time over the next three years no matter who the coach is.

 

[Rishvol]

Principal walks in and everything decides to stop working... So how do we have out hearts set on today?

 

[hotcypress]

We finally have a reporter, Ryan Callahan, confirm that Tennessee is playing with big money. $8 million is a hell of a lot of cash. You jump to top 3, right? If we carry that big of bag and just go down the list of the top 5 - 15 HCs, someone's bound to say yes.

 

[UTK]

If what AV said is true about DW, it does leave the possibility open for a Freeze. That would be insanity as most gave up on that weeks ago lol

 

[NMVol]

Watching the Chadwell pivot is an amazing thing in real time. Lol

The media narrative at least gives those of us that are interested something to do. The offshoot is building some fan perspective in relation to the eventual hire. It might very well be true that White is playing 3 dimensional chess. No bickering!!

 

[Brick_By_Brick]

I was initially disposed to dislike the idea of Franklin coaching our Vols. But sleeping on it, there's a good argument in his favor.

To use the analogy of another sport, auto racing, we need a grease monkey. We need a driver like the dude Christian Bale played in Ford v Ferrari, a guy who can jump into any ride, jalopy or super-tuned sportster, and figure her out, then get the absolute most she'll give.

We don't need the best driver in the world at the top end, the guy who has driven cars fine-tuned to perfection all his life. That guy wouldn't know the first thing about making a basket case of slapped-together parts go as fast as it can. Pruitt was like that (among other problems), never coached in a program that needed a lot of bondo and rust removal just to get going, he had no idea how to react, was flummoxed from the start. Too used to walking into programs already at or near the top.

Elliott would be the same kind of caution. Not saying Elliott wouldn't succeed for us, he absolutely might. And certainly not saying he has any of the other problems Pruitt had (temper, inflexibility, etc.). Just saying his success at Clemson may not translate into success where things need some serious work just to get out of pit row.

But Franklin, he's done that. He took Vandy (Vandy!) out of its perpetual miasma to a better place. Sure, no championships, but he got as much out of Vandy as you can get, I think. And he walked into a Penn State program still trying to recover from the Sandusky/Paterno era, and seems to (covid year aside) have it back near the top of the B10.

So yeah. He's growing on me as an option. Even as it seems possible we failed to secure his services. Heh. Timing.

But at least I think I understand now where Danny White's brain was _if_ he was going after Franklin. It makes more sense to me now.

It's so refreshing to read this type of nuanced, clear thinking in a swamp of mercurial madness. Well done--please post more.

 

[VolsdeepVFL]

Unpopular take: Elliot will make a better HC than Chadwell

It's tougher to be the best coordinator in the country than it is to win games at a nobody school.

 

[GoBigOrangeVols]

Hoping for Matt Campbell, preparing for Skip Holtz

 

[JohnnyD1024]

I'm gonna slide into DW's dm's on Twitter and just ask him who we're hiring......