Recruiting Forum Football Talk XLVII

[appyvol]

God bless America

How was your trip?

Edit: I wasted my 3,000th post on this ):

 

[InVOLuntary]

Tennessee Football will not recover until Haslam dies. He is what 80 so maximum 20 more years

He's 87 but Jimmy is causing just as many problems now.

 

[volamite86]

Doug Gottlieb is one of the worst sports reporters in the business. Listened to Clay Travis on his show, and Doug basically yelled the entire time. It’s funny that he bashed UT in that exchange, but also retweeted the Cowherd segment where he and his cohost agreed that the AD flubbed up. I’ve never liked Gottlieb. There’s a reason he was booted from ESPN, then to CBS, then to Fox. He was turned down by OkSt for the head b-ball gig and has been a salty gnome since. BTW, Doug still believes Tony Romo could be relevant in the NFL.

 

[orangeB]

See y'all in 2040

You still have Jimmy Haslam, so 2054.

 

[nicksjuzunk]

We literally have either apathy or ineptitude... or both, running this administration.

Fans deserve so much more than this. Everyone deserves more. So frustrated they’ve made me hate this whole thing so much.

 

[New-Vols-Fan]

They were here when Fulmer was. People say the same thing about Jerry Jones too and are right but he also has a bookcase full of rings. I have worked for a Haslam type. Suckiest period of my life when he got so controlling you couldn't breathe, but he hired good people and they worked around his crazy ass. It can happen here too. That kind of money and influence takes decades to replace. For now the only hope I have is a lucky hire.

Come on man, we both know when Fulmer was hired the Haslams didn't have as much say as they do now.

Not to mention the University was actually run by people who were controlled by the Haslams.

Look at the facts. who is the person credited to running Fulmer out. John Currie. Who is John Currie a puppet to? Jim Haslam.

 

[nicksjuzunk]

Haslams will have perfect cryogenesis and live forever

 

[BruinVol]

Man SVO and Reese are actually having a good realistic conversation.

Theres Saban, Urban, and Dabo.

<— insert a mile —>

Then everyone one else. Even Jimbo, Chip and some other really good coaches. Teams have to quit firing these coaches for not winning national titles.

Yep and said Schiano was the disciplinarian we needed as well .

 

[CoaxialOrange]

We're being hammered now. We've been piled on all year for every little thing. We're the most ridiculed, vilified and despised program in CFB. We could hire Pope Francis and a staff of Benedictine Monks and the media would hate the chants.

So we might as well do what's best for us and ignore the noise because the whole sports world is going to find fault with anything we do.

IMO we are not going to do what's best for us. I fully expect the Haslams to try and teach this fanbase a lesson. We had an uproar over hiring an average and morally questionable coach. We cant turn around a hire a guy that has a verified marks on him

 

[DD4ME]

It makes zero sense. His players loved him. He was great with boosters and city. He won championships. Media loves him. He can recruit. He can hire Chavis as DC again. Just needs an OC. He will be energized to prove people wrong. He is another great fit for that locker room right now. Who knows maybe even bring Moffit and thomas from lsu. It's literally the hire that would have media back in love with us

Thank you. It's too bad Currie can't be stupid enough to hire a fired coach like Kelly or Miles.

 

[BleedorangeinGA]

Tennessee will have been told no 5 additional times before giving Tee a call IMO.

Very unlikely Tee is our next coach.

 

[Lovesomebigorange]

He's 87 but Jimmy is causing just as many problems now.

Who was behind the Schiani hire? Big Jim or Jimmy?

 

[scvolfan7]

Doug Gottlieb is one of the worst sports reporters in the business. Listened to Clay Travis on his show, and Doug basically yelled the entire time. It’s funny that he bashed UT in that exchange, but also retweeted the Cowherd segment where he and his cohost agreed that the AD flubbed up. I’ve never liked Gottlieb. There’s a reason he was booted from ESPN, then to CBS, then to Fox. He was turned down by OkSt for the head b-ball gig and has been a salty gnome since. BTW, Doug still believes Tony Romo could be relevant in the NFL.

Gottlieb really did get butthurt in the interview. It was so dumb we he tried to argue that clay didn’t know more than him about the athletic department at UT. Like he got mad that clay pointed out that the haslam’s are ruining our program lol

 

[appyvol]

Yep and said Schiano was the disciplinarian we needed as well .

I defend you more than anyone but give it a rest.

 

[drylo]

Agreed. If he would shut up on twitter it would go along way into showing he's grown up.

Instead he and POTUS continue to show their childish Maturity levels daily.

I’ve said it before, but Kiffin is the Donald Trump of CFB. Which you might be able to overlook as long as he hadn’t posted the sex tape he made with your wife all over the internet.

 

[Catbone]

Yep and said Schiano was the disciplinarian we needed as well .

Smh

 

[BruinVol]

I defend you more than anyone but give it a rest.

I didn't say it they did.

 

[Aesius]

Gottlieb really did get butthurt in the interview. It was so dumb we he tried to argue that clay didn’t know more than him about the athletic department at UT. Like he got mad that clay pointed out that the haslam’s are ruining our program lol

Gottlieb is right. It's not like Clay spent a season traveling with the UT football team and wrote a book about it.

 

[BruinVol]

Tennessee will have been told no 5 additional times before giving Tee a call IMO.

Very unlikely Tee is our next coach.

Agreed

 

[DD4ME]

Come on man, we both know when Fulmer was hired the Haslams didn't have as much say as they do now.

Not to mention the University was actually run by people who were controlled by the Haslams.

Look at the facts. who is the person credited to running Fulmer out. John Currie. Who is John Currie a puppet to? Jim Haslam.

You made some compelling points until you said hire Kiffen.

 

[Catbone]

Almost feel like something illegal is going on. I refuse to believe this amount of ignorance is possible.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Seriously invol..How would that work?.. We have a 30-50th ranked class this year and then even worse next year because staff has to have time to find, evaluate and court players, to add to a horrid roster already. What sane human being is going to take the job, and try and turn that around after the 2018 season is done. Which would probably be a nightmarish 1-11 or worse with lame duck interims running it. This might be the stupidist idea of all time really, and I know you are not stupid, I'm not calling you that, but you are talking about a REAL self imposed death penalty. That is insane..

Screw the class. We saw what happened when we rushed a hire because of one class. Have to look at the big picture. Many wanted Mullen. Mullen won a decent amount of games with 30 rank classes. Get the right guy the rest will take care of itself.

My problem is they don't know how to fix this. This is a mess that will take money to fix. Spend the money on the right hire. Someone will listen and want to come here. If you hire the right guy it will pay for itself. If you rush and make the wrong hire it will cost you more than if you had spent the money on the right hire.

 

[volatil]

Almost feel like something illegal is going on. I refuse to believe this amount of ignorance is possible.

They are laundering money through coaches buyouts

 

[RiseToTheTop]

Almost feel like something illegal is going on. I refuse to believe this amount of ignorance is possible.

feels that way. No end in sight man ****t is exhausting.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Gottlieb is right. It's not like Clay spent a season traveling with the UT football team and wrote a book about it.

I've been in enough debates to know what that is: it's a defense mechanism deployed when you realize you've backed yourself into a rhetorical corner.