Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXXII

[SergeantVol]

UT journalism school....where we groom you to hate your own university.

Noteable alums.....Paul Finebaum, Travis Haney, Wes Rucker

It makes sense. A football player probably stole their girlfriends while in college, so now they have the position to pursue their agenda against those evil Volunteer football players.

 

[Aesius]

UT journalism school....where we groom you to hate your own university.

Noteable alums.....Paul Finebaum, Travis Haney, Wes Rucker

I 100% believe that Tennessee not having any true "homers" in the media and actually having "enemies" in its own backyard--many of whom are alumni--actively hurts the program.

UGA, LSU, Bama, UF, Auburn, etc, don't have to worry about their own media guys coming out of left field to attack the program with clickbait stories every month. And of course the state's biggest media market to the West is stacked with northern liberal transplants who love nothing more than to write takedowns of the university and its athletics programs.

Then we also have the local police looking to make headlines by arresting Tennessee players and hammering them with the harshest charges possible, although that (knock on wood) seems to be less of an issue with Butch.

 

[LaagerVol]

I 100% believe that Tennessee not having any true "homers" in the media and actually having "enemies" in its own backyard--many of whom are alumni--actively hurts the program.

UGA, LSU, Bama, UF, Auburn, etc, don't have to worry about their own media guys coming out of left field to attack the program with clickbait stories every month. And of course the state's biggest media market to the West is stacked with northern liberal transplants who love nothing more than to write takedowns of the university and its athletics programs.

Then we also have the local police looking to make headlines by arresting Tennessee players and hammering them with the harshest charges possible, although that (knock on wood) seems to be less of an issue with Butch.

This is absolute truth. It's ridiculous,

 

[BigZiti09]

I 100% believe that Tennessee not having any true "homers" in the media and actually having "enemies" in its own backyard--many of whom are alumni--actively hurts the program.

UGA, LSU, Bama, UF, Auburn, etc, don't have to worry about their own media guys coming out of left field to attack the program with clickbait stories every month. And of course the state's biggest media market to the West is stacked with northern liberal transplants who love nothing more than to write takedowns of the university and its athletics programs.

Then we also have the local police looking to make headlines by arresting Tennessee players and hammering them with the harshest charges possible, although that (knock on wood) seems to be less of an issue with Butch.

Lots of truth here.

 

[Aesius]

Also find it interesting that almost all of 247's SEC message boards are now completely locked down with nearly every thread being only readable by subscribers. The UT board used to lock down only occasional threads by Callahan or Rucker. Now the entire board is off-limits to visitors. Same with the other team message boards.

 

[Maxwell]

It makes sense. A football player probably stole their girlfriends while in college, so now they have the position to pursue their agenda against those evil Volunteer football players.

I just can't see Finebaum and a football player competing for the same coed.

 

[TechnoVol]

Vince Ferrera sucks

He's a Gator, no surprise there.

 

[BigZiti09]

I just can't see Finebaum and a football player competing for the same coed.

In Finebaum's case he was the guy who was getting pushed down in the hallway in high school by the jocks.

 

[orangefreak21]

In Finebaum's case he was the guy who was getting pushed down in the hallway in high school by the jocks.

Lol just looking at Pawl you know this has to be true

 

[Atzar]

😂😂😂 what strange parallel universe are we in? Did they find out Haney actually has some sort of a negative agenda set up against us?

Damage control. My guess is that the hit piece by Haney cost 247 a significant number of subs, and it's also possible that UT athletics have restricted 247's access as well. So now Shannon Terry is trying to mend the fence by exiling Haney. Personally I think it's a weak move. He didn't fire Haney; he took him off of our program.

This reminds me of that time many of us had when we were kids, when mom is pissed because we did some stupid **** but dad put us up to it. So he takes you in the other room and pretends to tear up that ass to appease mom, while silently grinning and giving you a piece of candy for playing along.

 

[LynxVol]

This whole thing with 247 has just been comical. Here's what Rucker posted last night about the most recent Haney story:

Rather than post in every single thread, I'm going to write this in a new thread so everyone can read it.

I'm going to be as transparent as I can be about this: We are 100 percent aware of the fallout from that 247Sports story on the SEC East today, and we are not happy. And we are working on a solution.

There is no right answer here, in my opinion, but I assure you we are angrier than you could possibly imagine. This hit the GoVols247 staff out of absolutely nowhere.

Again, I'm being 100 percent honest here: I did not know this story had been written — much less published — until some people at Tennessee contacted me and were furious. I also did not know about the story in December until just before it was published, and I was not given a chance to read it until it was published on the site.

No one on the GoVols247 staff knew anything about today's until it was on the 247Sports site.

I can't sit here and tell you how exactly this is going to be fixed, but it's going to be fixed.

Aside from my family, there is nothing more important to me than the integrity of the reporting on this site. That is not corporate speak, either. That is real.

All I can do right here and now is beg you to let us continue huddling together as a staff until we find the best way to fix this. But it will be fixed. And soon.

- 247

From reading through the GV247 board today, it seems like Rucker and Callahan have basically teamed up and contacted Terry. The writing was on the wall that GV247 was about to nosedive, and they're working to make a save.

 

[LynxVol]

From Callahan last night in response to a poster:

You must've missed my post earlier saying that Travis Haney will not be writing about Tennessee for us again and saying that we have been in contact with the folks at 247Sports headquarters about the story today. None of us are happy about it.

John and I both asked our bosses to delay the story, and they thankfully were willing to do that. I don't think they were targeting the date of Trey Smith's announcement. That's just when the story was ready to go, so I think you're implying an agenda in that date that wasn't there.

All of that said, we're all pretty pissed about how this has gone down today, and we will have a more thorough response pretty soon.

- 247

 

[RikidyBones]

This whole thing with 247 has just been comical. Here's what Rucker posted last night about the most recent Haney story:



- 247

From reading through the GV247 board today, it seems like Rucker and Callahan have basically teamed up and contacted Terry. The writing was on the wall that GV247 was about to nosedive, and they're working to make a save.

It's done. Lost subscribers don't renew because of a promise and it certainly doesn't happen over night.

The trend of losing subscribers may be affected but most people have their opinions already on 247 and I can't see much of a change without firing Haney.

 

[LynxVol]

From Shannon Terry himself a couple of hours ago:

Couple thoughts ...

I am not stepping down from anything -- and trust me you don't want me to.

I am not at all pleased that something similar happened again, despite my measure of clear guidance regarding these type of pieces.

We will fix this today. st

- 247

 

[Wickman]

Callahan should just join Hubbs over at Rivals.

 

[theutvolunteers]

I 100% believe that Tennessee not having any true "homers" in the media and actually having "enemies" in its own backyard--many of whom are alumni--actively hurts the program.

UGA, LSU, Bama, UF, Auburn, etc, don't have to worry about their own media guys coming out of left field to attack the program with clickbait stories every month. And of course the state's biggest media market to the West is stacked with northern liberal transplants who love nothing more than to write takedowns of the university and its athletics programs.

Then we also have the local police looking to make headlines by arresting Tennessee players and hammering them with the harshest charges possible, although that (knock on wood) seems to be less of an issue with Butch.

Totally agree.

 

[RikidyBones]

From Shannon Terry himself a couple of hours ago:



- 247

How can Terry even accept this without canning Haney? Dude has messed up big time.

 

[BaldBiker]

This whole thing with 247 has just been comical. Here's what Rucker posted last night about the most recent Haney story:



- 247

From reading through the GV247 board today, it seems like Rucker and Callahan have basically teamed up and contacted Terry. The writing was on the wall that GV247 was about to nosedive, and they're working to make a save.

While I do truly believe Rucker was as sincere as he possibly could be, for what that is worth, IMO the bolded is absolutely correct and the only real reason this is being done.

247 got burned with the article in December. They were stupid enough not to put the lock down on Haney then. He basically bit** slapped them for being lenient. Arrogant move on his part. Complete and utter stupidity on their part.

Here's the scenario as I see it. Haney will not be fired. He'll be moved to another team. He will use that as the basis to continue his crusade against TN. 247 will then allow it to happen under the pretense that he is now doing it as the writer for a rival's board. As it stands right now...I don't see anyone in charge at 247 as being smart enough for a proper "fixing" of the situation.

 

[scvolfan7]

Props to Callahan and Rucker for fighting against this nonsense

 

[BigZiti09]

If they warned Haney as they say they did then I predict they fire him. You could throw a rock into a crowd and it hit someone just as capable as that goober.

 

[zhangliao04]

Can someone post a link to the new Haney article that has peeps in an uproar? Thanks.

 

[CobbVol]

From Shannon Terry himself a couple of hours ago:

Quote:
Couple thoughts ...

I am not stepping down from anything -- and trust me you don't want me to.

I am not at all pleased that something similar happened again, despite my measure of clear guidance regarding these type of pieces.

We will fix this today. st
- 247

The "and trust me you don't want me to" quote is hilarious lol:

 

[bignewt]

giggle at those wanting journalistic integrity from a recruiting website. Not exactly the Washington Post.

 

[BigZiti09]

Can someone post a link to the new Haney article that has peeps in an uproar? Thanks.

Should be against board rules imo.

Here's the quote so he doesn't get the clicks


“I think he’s been benefitted from that (AD change),” one SEC assistant
told us. “If they had a stable AD, I bet he’s gone. I know a lot of coaches
who feel like they’re kind of taking it easy on him. It’s been there for
the taking for them. They never took it.”

 

[LynxVol]

If someone wants to start a thread:

Three-star junior offensive tackle Cameron Wire of East Ascension High School in Gonzales, La., posted on his Twitter account that he received scholarship offers Thursday from Tennessee and Mississippi State.

"Extremely excited to receive offers from Tennessee Vols and Mississippi State Bulldogs today #GoDawgs #GoVols," he tweeted.

The 6-foot-6, 260-pound Wire holds offers from nearly 30 schools, including Auburn, Baylor, Arkansas, Missouri, Oregon, Arizona State, Oklahoma State and TCU.

- 247 (Callahan)