This is starting to feel alot like the last search

#26
#26
GoBigOrangeVols said:
I don't think it feels like the last search. Last search was a mad last minute scramble, and looking back now in hindsight, the results from the hire that was made are entirely predictable.

This search is maddening because Hart should have known the direction he wanted to go in late October after the loss at Mississippi State cow college. In theory, Hart has had over a month to get his sh*t together and make a great hire. In reality, he has botched arguably the most important coaching search in Tennessee football history by allowing a PR nightmare and not pursuing the obvious best candidate with guns blazing.

Looking back on this coaching search in three years, what we really should point to with our vitriolic criticism is the day Hart was hired. He is clearly woefully inept at some of the key aspects of being an AD - having a pulse on the desires of the fan base, communicating with the fan base, and managing the expectations of the fan base.
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I wonder if there is another school in the country that is employing an AD from THE rival.

Maybe it's common, IDK. I just think it's an awful idea, because whenever anything doesn't go the way fans want it to, everyone's going to point at where the guy running things came from.
 
#28
#28
Disagree with OP. last search lasted three days and the names were muschamp, Calhoun, cut, Dooley, and guy at Utah.

This is much different. We have spent a month having nocturnal emissions over one guy. We haven't even got into the other guys that will win us the whole thing.

As guns and roses said, patience, yeah, yeah.
 
#29
#29
vols-1 said:
Our best bet is to wait until the NFL season is over. Most of the homerun hires in the SEC in the last 20 years have been former NFL guys.
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Who are those? Saban and Spurrier don't count. They were college guys that took a shot at the pros and failed.

The only home run "NFL Guy" in the past 20 years has been Pete Carroll and he was a gamble hire at first.
 
#31
#31
When the coach at the Air Force Academy turns us down then I will agree with. Right now no it doesn't fill at all like that search.
 
#32
#32
there's no guarantees with any of the names mentioned. total crapshoot. the new head coach could be the next robert neyland or the next derek dooley (complete with payoff). what i really hope is that the vols don't through a quarter century of wandering in the wilderness like LSU did after they fired charlie mcclendon.
 
#33
#33
NEOCON said:
Last search started off with big names. current NFL coaches etc. Then as it went on the names got smaller until we all had to use Google to figure out who our coach was. As Han Solo said about ten times in star wars....I got a bad feeling about this.
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I disagree! I think we have a fantastic coaching search going on. Everyone is just pissed about Gruden not coming, because they bought into the hype and rumor. We have more accomplished coaches interested in Tennessee than ever before! When we hired Dooley, it was a horrible time to hire someone. The hiring season was over and coaches everywhere were concentrating on their recruiting class and were not interested in starting over with a couple of weeks to go till signing day. Hence we got Dooley. In hind site, I'd rather have hired Kippy Brown as interim with a shot at becoming the HC, if he did well the next year. But that's 20/20.

As for Kiffin, most of us thought that was a great hire right up until the time he left us to go the USC the next year. Now we can't stand him and hope he gets fired there. But we were all thinking we got a great coach and staff.

I don't feel we just want to run out and hire the first coach interviewed. That's not the way it works in any business. You interview a bunch a candidates and then pick the best one. Chill out and enjoy the ride!!! :)
 
#34
#34
I would be willing to bet it does not end like alot of searches. Things have played out for a reason. Alot of Vol fans are still reeling over the last 4-5 years and are ready to snap at anything they view as a possible negative. Did anyone notice about the same time Gruden was rumored to be upset with the attention his family was getting about the jobs a generic "statement" was made? Hart and Gruden needed things to quiet down. There has always been a firm timetable to the way this search was going to play out. Interviews had to be conducted. A minority coach had to be interviewed. Last buyout payments had to be collected. Calm down and just watch. This is going to end well for Tennessee.
 
#35
#35
I have no sources and no inside information but I'd be surprised if we don't end up with someone quite acceptable to everyone. One of the things to keep in mind is we could easily have a coach right now if we wanted to hire a coach that was struggling where he was at and that was a small school. If you're going to swing for the fences with a winning coach at an established position, it will take time. Instead of asking why these coaches aren't jumping at this job, ask why you would leave if you had a good job where you were successful and well liked. You wouldn't unless you gave it a lot of consideration and did some very strong research about what you were getting yourself into.
 
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