Recruiting Forum Talk XXXIX

[DD4ME]

I feel like we've been saying this for 10 years. It's time to put up or shut up. If we hire some bum that nobody knows, we're in danger of becoming a bottom level program in this league most years with the occasional 8 or 9 win season.

I am typically a pessimist but the way this search has been going I am feeling optimistic. This will be the last rodeo though for me if they **** it up.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

We are currently down it, no doubt about it. But people need to stop thinking that this program is historically mediocre, and we should just accept it. Look up any criteria, numbers of wins, number of conference/division/national champiosnships, and we are top 10-12. And those numbers are even skewed by the historic mess of the last twelve years. Historically, we aren't a mediocre program, the period over the last twelve years is an outlier.

I think you have really missed my point, I've always thought the same way, I know what we've been, but I am just starting to believe that we will never be consistently top ten anymore. I don't think the commitment to football excellence exists in todays UT administration. I hope I'm wrong though, and they just as embarrassed as I am at this pathetic football program.

 

[theutvolunteers]

Think about where we are as a program now.

Recruiting we are ranked 12th by rivals over the last five years. Behind Clemson...


Facilities
We have a juice bar so expensive people make jokes.
Indoor practice - yes
Weight room - yes
Stadium - uh yeah

Power players
We have Peyton damn Manning involved and Fulmer offering assistance. Recall Fulmer helped ETSU start from scratch.

No excuse what so ever to suck this bad.

 

[31VFL]

[Twitter]https://twitter.com/jamesguarantano/status/921782059588255744[/Twitter]

Oh boy

 

[Grey_pilgrim]

[twitter]https://twitter.com/bzsec/status/921758733335781376[/twitter]

Dang. That’s some cold hard facts.

 

[volatil]

[Twitter]https://twitter.com/jamesguarantano/status/921782059588255744[/Twitter]

Oh boy

Hell yes!!!!


Slingshot engaged

 

[SSVol]

[Twitter]https://twitter.com/jamesguarantano/status/921782059588255744[/Twitter]

Oh boy

Maybe he has a big insurance policy on his son...

 

[DD4ME]

[Twitter]https://twitter.com/jamesguarantano/status/921782059588255744[/Twitter]

Oh boy

Lol. I love the moxy. Hope his backup has the same. I mean who the heck refers to their kid as David.

 

[Catbone]

Missouri has 51 points... at halftime?

Almost ready to pencil that in as another loss. We cant keep up with their offense

 

[InVOLuntary]

Our peak was never Bama's peak but I do agree we're the closest to them in the SEC.

Just get me an interim coach. That's the first step. Take the shadow off our players and eliminate any more "champions of life" style blunders in press conferences.

We're ready to win and there's nothing that should stop a good coach from being successful.

I was more referring to peaks and valleys. We dominated them for ten years and they got tired of it and broke the bank and got Saban. Are we tired of it?

 

[DD4ME]

Missouri has 51 points... at halftime?

Almost ready to pencil that in as another loss. We cant keep up with their offense

Our imterim is gonna whip dey ass

 

[volatil]

Missouri has 51 points... at halftime?

Almost ready to pencil that in as another loss. We cant keep up with their offense

They are playing a bad high school team

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Hell yes!!!!


Slingshot engaged

That was dumb..don't poke the sleeping bear..There is a huge difference between confidence and stupidity.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Lol. I love the moxy. Hope his backup has the same. I mean who the heck refers to their kid as David.

I bet he wishes his dad would STFU.

 

[Nationdom]

Tennessee will not go quietly today.

 

[Catbone]

They are playing a bad high school team

They put up 28 points on georgia too in athens. Theyll probably hang 40 or so on us.

 

[volatil]

That was dumb..don't poke the sleeping bear..There is a huge difference between confidence and stupidity.

It was his dad.


Not like JG said anything

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

Crazy to think we are two dropped John Kelly TD catches away from being 5-1.

 

[volatil]

They put up 28 points on georgia too in athens. Theyll probably hang 40 or so on us.

You know I used to think you were just being negative but unfortunately you’re right more than I like.

Hopefully we get an interim that brings some life.

 

[Catbone]

Crazy to think we are two dropped John Kelly TD catches away from being 5-1.

Also pretty close from being 1-5 lol

 

[InVOLuntary]

Crazy to think we are two dropped John Kelly TD catches away from being 5-1.

And a two point conversation and a knocked out QB from being 1-5.

 

[Grey_pilgrim]

Crazy to think we are two dropped John Kelly TD catches away from being 5-1.

And last year if not for one play ing each game we lose to Georgia and App St.

 

[Bassmaster_Vol]

[Twitter]https://twitter.com/jamesguarantano/status/921782059588255744[/Twitter]

Oh boy

👀. I love this guy

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

When Kiffin left I remember my dad saying “he just set Tennessee back a decade.”

The disarray leading to the Dooley hire, which limited candidates to Butch level... has us where we are now.

Somebody could have changed that path for sure. But looks like in year 2 of our next coach will finally get us outside of that decade of misery

Sounds like he knew then that we would land Gruden almost a decade later.

 

[Souce]

👀. I love this guy

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