Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

[chavisut]

Nashville Rugby Football Club. They are a Division II team here in the metro area.

https://nashvillerugby.com/

Cool. I’d love to give it a go. Not sure I could hang but thought about checking out the D3 team.

 

[jakez4ut]

Mods say the hurdles are all on Tennessee's side, not the SEC's. Hubbs "Doesn't feel like everyone who needs to be is all in for Freeze." But they won't clarify what that means. It could be anyone. It could be Pruitt, Fulmer, the Haslams, Boyd, the BoT, the guy Ray who cuts the grass in front of Ayres...

That's just really frustrating.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

Several people have pointedly asked the mods who is not all in. The only firm answer they get from any of them is "I don't know."

 

[cHiZzLeVOL]

Tag if he wanted in

Lol that’s very true. Touché

 

[InVOLuntary]

So we go from having a person wrapped up to nobody even being offered.

You have to understand what an "offer" is. When you offer someone, just about everything is wrapped up and all awaits is the signatures.

 

[MrVolton]

And FWIW, Larry thinks the hangup is Pruitt's, not anyone else's.

I hope so.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

We’re starting over boys.

Hugh likely gone. Enos and Drinkwitz are not serious candidates. They have no clue who it might be.

 

[jakez4ut]

And FWIW, Larry thinks the hangup is Pruitt's, not anyone else's.

Even better.

 

[UTSuave’]

Is that the PR machine?

The end result of freeze being hired somewhere else other than UT.

 

[Power T-Rev]

I bet it is Enos and they used Freeze as a smokescreen. But I am watching Blacklist so I may be compromised .

Not sure why, but I laughed when I read this

 

[engineerVOL]

I wish Brent would just tell us who it is holding it up. We get stuff done when we have names.

 

[Type Orange+]

I'm beginning to think that Vol365 feller made stuff up

 

[UTSuave’]

And FWIW, Larry thinks the hangup is Pruitt's, not anyone else's.

Must be because freeze wants his on coach.

 

[Vols410]

All this panic about Haslam and the BOT tonight, but I doubt all of it honestly, especially after the VQ guys tonight. Doesn’t seem like anyone knows anything, just trying to read the tea leaves around Freeze.

We heard Freeze doesn’t have an offer. I’ll bet he and Pruitt had a talk (that’s been confirmed) and either Pruitt wasn’t totally sold or Freeze insisted on waiting to see what other jobs came open. I know we heard a lot of noise about UT being a “dream job” for him, but I’m more inclined to believe that that info was put out by Freeze’s guys to raise his stock a bit.

Also, it seems the assumed narrative today is that Lindsey went to Kansas because Pruitt offered the job to Freeze and gave Chip a “thanks but no thanks”, therefore the only holdup must be BOT issues. Hubbs’ info tonight says that Pruitt had cooled on him regardless.

Sorry for the essay, and I know it’s mostly speculation, but I wouldn’t be so quick to jump on the “burn the BOT” bandwagon just yet. I think it’s still Pruitt running his search based off of football decisions, but that’s just me. We were told by Hubbs from the start that this search might go on for a bit while Pruitt did his due diligence, and that’s what I’m seeing.

 

[Skizer41]

And FWIW, Larry thinks the hangup is Pruitt's, not anyone else's.

If that's Pruitts call I'm good with that. If it's the BoT it's where the red flags go up signaling we got bigger issues.

 

[VFL2098]

We’re starting over boys.

Hugh likely gone. Enos and Drinkwitz are not serious candidates. They have no clue who it might be.

And how are you so sure? You just like to watch the chaos after you post something like this or do you know?

 

[MrVolton]

I’d be ok with Kitchens but I wonder if he’d be willing to leave the NFL.

Too much of a gamble IMO. Waste a lot of valuable time for the NFL season to get over with and watch all the other best candidates get snatched up only to have him get picked up by another NFL team.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

We’re starting over boys.

Hugh likely gone. Enos and Drinkwitz are not serious candidates. They have no clue who it might be.

Who’s the OC at Prairie View A&M? Could be the guy.

 

[McGeesPub]

Yeah heard the same Pruitt didn’t want Lindsey

Not sure why many round these parts did.

 

[revjayp]

Well as much fun as this has been, I’m hitting the sack. Gotta catch a 5am flight to Arizona. If I hear anything, I’ll let you know! Night boys.

 

[Power T-Rev]

We’re starting over boys.

Hugh likely gone. Enos and Drinkwitz are not serious candidates. They have no clue who it might be.

Google coach, here we come

 

[rjd970]

Hyams going to turn out to be right and we are going to go through this for the next 2 weeks.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

I just really want to hire a coach whose last name is McGoogle for the lulz.

 

[Smokey123]

And FWIW, Larry thinks the hangup is Pruitt's, not anyone else's.

Inb4 ppl say Pruitt isnt serious about winning now

 

[Jimmy Football]

I just really want to hire a coach whose last name is McGoogle for the lulz.

McGoogle is a triple option guy. Do not want.