The difference between Tennessee and Alabama

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tvolsfan said:
Bama, after probation, heavy sanctions, and Dubose, Price, Franchione, and Shula, had to make their hire count. They wouldn't take no for an answer, and they pressed on until January until they had a coach they were satisfied with
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I wouldn't exactly portray them as some sort of patient program with great resolution to get the right guy.

Rich Rodriguez turned down Alabama 6 years ago tomorrow. The reason they were pushed so late on Saban was because they were in scramble mode and had bumped into the recruiting dead period anyway. They didn't have much to lose by waiting, plus the deal likely hinged on waiting for the end of the NFL season.
 
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TUSKtimes said:
Bama won the 1999 SEC title. One year later then the last title you people enjoyed.

Gee, I can't wait for you to start apologizing for everyone over here who obviously can. In that you feel the need to change post. Happen a lot?
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go f@@@k yourself, Bammer! Nobody cares about your tornado-ridden trailer park of a state! So you win in foobaw - oh goody! it's all you have, you teabagging tree killin scumbags! We are superior to you! God lets you have football because he feels sorry for you! Nobody likes you! Go play in traffic, Gump!:the_finger:
 
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wow, I didn't realize so many Vol fan's were on Bama's nuts....

If you can't stop whining then just quit your *****ing and go buy a bama shirt already.
 
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Bama indeed got lucky with Saban. Even then, wasn't it really their boosters that made it happen? Let's not pretend like they have some awesome AD that is firing on all cylinders.

That's not to say Hart is not incompetent. I believe he is. But it wouldn't matter if we had Jeremy Foley as AD, as long as those clownshoes named Cheek and Martin are in charge.
 
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TUSKtimes said:
Bama won the 1999 SEC title. One year later then the last title you people enjoyed.

Gee, I can't wait for you to start apologizing for everyone over here who obviously can. In that you feel the need to change post. Happen a lot?
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True they won in 1999, after we kicked their #ss from one end of the field to the other and our QB was named SEC Player of the Week for the beatdown in a game that was nowhere near as close as the score indicated.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Bama, after probation, heavy sanctions, and Dubose, Price, Franchione, and Shula, had to make their hire count. They wouldn't take no for an answer, and they pressed on until January until they had a coach they were satisfied with. They are, once again, the best program in college football by a large margin. Tennessee just found themselves in a similar situation, minus the sanctions. Apparently, we just took the first guy who said yes.

I know people are going to talk about how Jones was the only one willing to take the job, but in spite of this train wreck of a coaching search, I find that unlikely. People spent the last three years convincing themselves that an obviously terrible coach was good at his job. I hope our fans will be a little more honest this time around. Ignoring reality just makes it take longer to fix the problem.

Maybe in a few years, we'll realize that the football program won't be fixed just because "we are Tennessee." We're only going to get what we demand. I firmly believe that Tennessee has the resources to have a successful, if not elite, football program. Maybe someday, Tennessee will believe it, too.
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Hell of a post! Best I have seen in a long time!
 
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oregonvol said:
The ultimate difference is that Alabama would never hire a TN grad to run their coaching search and then just sit back and watch as he floundered around, offering second tier candidates and working down the list.
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The 2 AD's b4 Hamilton were UF grads and we did OK as I remember.. Learn some UT history it's fun
 
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#38
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TUSKtimes said:
Bama won the 1999 SEC title. One year later then the last title you people enjoyed.

Gee, I can't wait for you to start apologizing for everyone over here who obviously can. In that you feel the need to change post. Happen a lot?
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Except for one year under Stallings, bammer went from 1979 until 2009 to win a nat'l title. So, by "bammer standards" things haven't actually been so hot for about 30 years in Tusca-Loser except one year before Satan arrived, and bammer had to mortgage the campus to afford him.
 
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oregonvol said:
The ultimate difference is that Alabama would never hire a TN grad to run their coaching search and then just sit back and watch as he floundered around, offering second tier candidates and working down the list.
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Exactly. The fox (Hart) may be in the henhouse (UT AD).
God only knows, some of the Vol veterans remember how Doug Dickey (a Gator at heart, always) was (and still is) disliked by a large contingent of UT fans as UT's AD. Hamilton ranks below Dickey. At this rate, Hart may end up below both of them, at rock bottom.

With our resources, as others have said, there is no excuse not to get a top name experienced coach from another school. Did this guy have to get a 6-year contract at $3 mill a year? From Cincinnati? What's the buyout this time? In 3 more years it will be important.

I supported both Kiffin and Dooley when they were hired, but at this point, I'm tired of hearing pep rally pressers for little known coaches from small schools.
 
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