Should Coach Jones retain S&C coach McKeefry?

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Personally I think Ron McKeefry has done an amazing job with our team! I hope he is afforded the opportunity to stay!
 
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I have family member that played at USF while he was there. I've heard nothing but awesome things about him!
 
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It'll be interesting to see, but yes, I think McKeefry and Pittman need to be kept. I also think this would make a lot of players happy. Hell, I'd even say keep Chaney, together he and Jones could be a very creative offense and score a lot of points.
 
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The saddest part of this hire for me is that ARKANSAS has managed to hire considerably bigger names for their last two coaches than UT. Why? Arkansas gets Petrino / Tennessee gets Dooley...Arkansas gets Bielema / Tennessee gets Jones. Either Tennessee, for some reason, is less attractive to potential coaches than Arkansas, who faces LSU and Alabama...OR, the hiring efforts of UT have been deficient. For clarity, I'm not suggesting Bielema is a home run hire, but he is undeniably more highly regarded than Jones. From my perspective, it appears as though Arkansas' AD has simply been more determined. Why?
 
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straferockefeller said:
The saddest part of this hire for me is that ARKANSAS has managed to hire considerably bigger names for their last two coaches than UT. Why? Arkansas gets Petrino / Tennessee gets Dooley...Arkansas gets Bielema / Tennessee gets Jones. Either Tennessee, for some reason, is less attractive to potential coaches than Arkansas, who faces LSU and Alabama...OR, the hiring efforts of UT have been deficient. For clarity, I'm not suggesting Bielema is a home run hire, but he is undeniably more highly regarded than Jones. From my perspective, it appears as though Arkansas' AD has simply been more determined. Why?
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Amen!
 
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Please provide evidence of McKeefrey's brilliance. I'd like to believe it, but haven't seen much to make me.
 
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straferockefeller said:
The saddest part of this hire for me is that ARKANSAS has managed to hire considerably bigger names for their last two coaches than UT. Why? Arkansas gets Petrino / Tennessee gets Dooley...Arkansas gets Bielema / Tennessee gets Jones. Either Tennessee, for some reason, is less attractive to potential coaches than Arkansas, who faces LSU and Alabama...OR, the hiring efforts of UT have been deficient. For clarity, I'm not suggesting Bielema is a home run hire, but he is undeniably more highly regarded than Jones. From my perspective, it appears as though Arkansas' AD has simply been more determined. Why?
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Enough with the copy and paste. Good grief man,
 
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Jones needs to hire whomever the heck he wants. If he'd be more comfortable with someone then I'm OK with that.

SMH - stop trying to hire his staff for him
 
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No as the S&C coach you job is to make sure the team is not only big but also gets faster. He has done a great job at getting the players bigger but we lack speed. Our team is big and slow and that is a consequence of the the approach to strength and conditioning.
 
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FearlessFreep said:
Jones needs to hire whomever the heck he wants. If he'd be more comfortable with someone then I'm OK with that.

SMH - stop trying to hire his staff for him
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Thanks Dad! I'll take your advice into consideration! :rolleyes:

Gimme a break! It's a discussion forum! It's all speculation at this point. I just wanted to know if people thought McKeefry has earned BJ's consideration to be retained. Go take your 3rd degree somewhere else!
 
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GBOVOLS said:
No as the S&C coach you job is to make sure the team is not only big but also gets faster. He has done a great job at getting the players bigger but we lack speed. Our team is big and slow and that is a consequence of the the approach to strength and conditioning.
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Can't teach speed...it's either God given or not.
 
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Who cares who Arkansas, Auburn, Kentucky or anybody, for that matter, hired? Like Butch Jones said in his introduction today, Les Miles and Nick Saban never had any SEC experience before they were hired. Don't get so bogged down in SEC experience. In the overall scheme of things, SEC experience is not nearly as valuable as winning. If Tennessee gets back to consistently winning, nobody will care much about SEC experience.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Personally I think Ron McKeefry has done an amazing job with our team! I hope he is afforded the opportunity to stay!
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Jones' strength and cond. coach went to Cincy with him from Cent. Mich. He has been with Jones for 6 years. I would guess he comes to Knox too.
 
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bbeacham said:
Who cares who Arkansas, Auburn, Kentucky or anybody, for that matter, hired? Like Butch Jones said in his introduction today, Les Miles and Nick Saban never had any SEC experience before they were hired. Don't get so bogged down in SEC experience. In the overall scheme of things, SEC experience is not nearly as valuable as winning. If Tennessee gets back to consistently winning, nobody will care much about SEC experience.
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You're missing the point...Regardless of how good or bad Buch Jones turns out, our school has proven to be less attractive to potential candidates than ARKANSAS or our AD is getting outperformed! Which is it?
 
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straferockefeller said:
The saddest part of this hire for me is that ARKANSAS has managed to hire considerably bigger names for their last two coaches than UT. Why? Arkansas gets Petrino / Tennessee gets Dooley...Arkansas gets Bielema / Tennessee gets Jones. Either Tennessee, for some reason, is less attractive to potential coaches than Arkansas, who faces LSU and Alabama...OR, the hiring efforts of UT have been deficient. For clarity, I'm not suggesting Bielema is a home run hire, but he is undeniably more highly regarded than Jones. From my perspective, it appears as though Arkansas' AD has simply been more determined. Why?
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I love the "litte-brother-syndrome" you have going here. If we hired Bielema then losers would say he couldn't even out-recruit Cincinatti.
 
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Again, the point is missed...I am not suggesting that Bielema will prove to be a better hire or that we should have hired him. My point, again, is that Arkansas is getting bigger name coaches...how and why?
 
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Reality is CBD has so much on his plate and S@C starts now, so I believe he will be retained. Depending on results Coach Mac stays if he wants to. The thing is with a "no huddle" offense you try to get more plays into the game, this affects the Defense. Although we were pretty much strike quick or not at all this year on Offense, so our D is used to being on the field.
 
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