Tennessee football, don’t ever change.
I’m sure the prospect of Booch managing Smith’s future made an enormous difference, big enough that this was merely an irrelevant coincidence.
In the summer Tennessee hired Ashley Smith, Trey’s sister, to work in the football program with the title of executive assistant to the head coach.
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wouldnt it have been better for the money boosters to start up a minor league baseball team and just pay the players through that instead of all this other non-sense they do?
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Clearly no one ever advised his sister not to take a job with a business that’s about to file bankruptcy.
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Hell, what’s the big deal? She’s getting paid to make sure her brother gets his ass out of bed and goes to class. She was doing that for free before she met Booch.
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My point is, if Butch gets canned, she’s out of a job, no?
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Oh, I know. Just kidding… although it’s nice she’s getting bank in the meantime.
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Butch is nothing if not a brander. Who wouldn’t want to be a Champion of Life™ on Team 120™, building Brick by Brick™, while winning their 1 on 1 Individual Matchup™.
If there are any Vol fans left buying his schtick, then we need no further proof that a sucker is born every minute.
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You made the accurate observation in a different thread about how the guy cannot say anything that isn’t a cliche.
I do not know if it is because he is not very bright or he figures his Tennessee audience isn’t very bright and cannot understand anything other than cliches.
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It’s probably a little of both, but I believe the fanbase has caught on.
That dismantling by Alabama this year was the ultimate glass of cold water in the face. There was no hiding it: he’s been building for 4 years and put together a team that couldn’t stay within 5 touchdowns of Saban at home.
No amount of slick marketing and branding can hide what everyone saw.
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Getting dismantled by Bama at home has a toxic effect on one’s coaching career.
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It’s a good idea to avoid it if possible.
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How about both?
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I used to play under a conductor years ago (symphony orchestra) and all she ever did was use cliches. Everything the woman ever said or did on the podium was something someone else said but people loved her, thought she was brilliant. Drove me nuts and I called her out on it regularly.
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You missed the best of Butch’s branding. It is also the most relevant for his sister is he gets canned. “Opportunity is nowhere”.
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I’d love to give Butch credit for that, but unfortunately that was Dooley.
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Interesting.
Between the black separatist, leftist tirades of Stephen A. Smith and his fellow talking heads, the Catlyn Jenner Courage Awards and the NFL’s hatred of America, it appears more and more people are tuning out, turning off and dropping out.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.breitbart.com/sports/2016/12/06/disney-may-sell-espn-due-massive-subscriber-loss/amp/?client=safari
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ESPN has several challenges ahead of it with its current business model that are beginning to catch up to them. No of which I care to learn Breitbart’s opinion on.
I’ll swing back by there if I need information about how birth control makes women fat and unattractive, or if I need to review their Black Crime section.
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If Breitbart writes about something, you know it’s gotta be true.
Might I dare ask what this has to do with the subject of my post? Do I really need to remind you about what I asked here?
I would appreciate the courtesy of my wishes being respected.
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My apologies.
I was just filing this under business decisions.
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Fucking idiot.
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“So here’s the deal. If you can’t read something here that makes a political point without feeling an overwhelming urge to go after another commenter on a personal level”
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Thanks for saving me the trouble.
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I wish I could make it more personal. Like that better?
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The Fighting Illinoise 3-9
With wins over 4-7 Murray State, 2-10 Rutgers, 4-9 Mich. State. Sounds like some of those Illinois blogs could use a gifted blogger such as yourself.
Just sayin’
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I’m sure he contributes just as much there as he does here, with all twelve of hs handles.
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Take it up with the blog owner if you don’t like it.
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Congrats on trying to jack the thread. Hope this comment gets deleted and you get banned for instigating shit. Gfy
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Nobody’s getting banned unless they can’t control themselves. Be cool.
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You’re laid back this morning.. Been hanging out with Cojones?
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Tell that bitch to be cool! Say,
bitch be cool! Say, bitch be cool!
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🙂
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Good to see someone from Tybee on here! Spent many an adolescent day out there during the summers. My grandmother had a place at 5th and Lovell and my parents briefly had a place at 9th and Jones. Fond memories.
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Right. Has nothing to do with everyone “cutting cords” left and right.
You guys won! Stop worring about ESPN. Get busy #MAGA!
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And the hits just keep on coming at UT…
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What happens when all the other players and recruits family members come to Booch with a resume?
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I dunno. They get jobs?
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It’s amazing some decisions that are made for short term results without considering the long term consequences. This move was right out of the Hugh Freeze playbook.
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I dunno. $10/hr, 20 hr/ week, 50 weeks / year for three years = 30K. $10K a year is pretty cheap. Auburn has been known to pay 18 times that amount. If they hired the sibling or girlfriend of all 85 scholarship players, that is only $850K a year. For the cost of a defensive coordinator, you can get locker room full of 4 and 5 star recruits. Seems legit to me.
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Only the five stars.
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Every time I see that trick I think of Larry brown hiring Ed Manning as assistant coach at Kansas. How Convenient!
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I’ve been told that Old Miss used to have a swimming team, stocked with a nice pool of scholarship athletes, but no swimming pool.
Use your imagination, Booch.
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Veronica Walker says, “Hello”.
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Thought the same.
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Veronica is to be lauded as moving the UGA Ladies’ Track program from envisioned to reality. It was a good thing…and it shows that VD knew how to play the system long before there was The Process.
The question we have to ask ourselves is this…if a five star kid’s older sister is a prostitute, which school will establish a whore house on campus for her to work at..or maybe even manage?
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Baylor?
Too soon?
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Interesting take but not an original thought. Bloomberg had it a day earlier (without the “hot” political” take) and their analyst was actually touting an ESPN in sell off in May before the NFL season started.
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-12-05/disney-can-remove-espn-discount-with-breakup
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The broadcast rights to live sporting events is what is killing ESPN even more than the dropped subscribers. There is no way out from under that overhead.
It really shouldn’t be that way. ESPN was essentially bidding against itself for a lot of this.
They can drop all the on-air personalities they want, but that’s pennies on the dollar compared to what the broadcasting rights are costing them. Whenever they come up for renewal, ESPN is going to have to locate their balls and be willing to let MLB or the NBA walk. They can’t keep paying more and more each renewal with less and less coming in.
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Fox and NBC are riding to the rescue. Now every broadcast contract coming up for renewal will have 3 bidders. It’s about to get real. If the cable and sat. companies pull ESPN, FN1 and NBC Sports from basic it’s over. Nobody is going to play $50.00 per month for MLB, and the NBA. NFL will get it’s pay per view dream come true and so may CFB. I’m old enough to remember the few seasons Georgia actually had their own broadcast. Lewis Grizzard was the color guy. LSU and Bama had theirs. There will be a reckoning.
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