Damn, this is great.
You know UT put more on the table than that.
What was SOD, like the Vols’ seventh pick? What’s the over/under on the number of offers they make this time before they get someone to bite?
BREAKING: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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How long before Derek Mason’s name comes up?
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I thought I read that they’d already contacted Morris and Steele. (Seems hard to believe anyone would really want Steele as an HC, though.)
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Or Glenn Mason?
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Or John Glenn. (Oops, he’s dead.)
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This reminds me of our search for a D coordinator from a few years back.
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Rush Propst
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leave my high schools coach out of that dumpster fire
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You went to MHS, or CCHS? I’m MHS class of ’74, myself…
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CCHS CLASS OF 89
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He would fit in with the culture of injuring ACLs
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For the record , I like Rush Propst and pull for CC. Spent a lot of time in Moultrie. Mom was class of ‘54.
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I live in Pensacola fl now but grew up in Moultrie.
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class of 99 here
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Roomed with Keith Hall and Mike Steel one year at the MAC
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Was that you that called Paul finebaum and recommended rush propst for offensive coordinator at tennessee?
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Hell no! Why would I want him to leave CC?
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What’s Gerry DiNardo up to these days?
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Hasn’t it gone on long enough that it’s time for Grudin’s name to be brought up…again? LOL
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Doerun was close to being run out of Raleigh 2 years ago. He seems to have things moving in the right direction there. I believe he worked for the chancellor at Northern Illinois. $3m goes a long way in the Triangle without the pressure cooker of Knoxville. I don’t blame him one bit for considering his current gig a better situation than UTK.
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ee, I live here like you do and actually work at NC State. What a difference a year makes, eh? 11 months ago, they were ready to ride Doeren’s ass out on a red-hot rail.
I personally think State was dumb as hell to give him a raise and extend his contract. Over 63 games, he’s three games over .500 and his record in the ACC is even more dismal than Butch’s SEC record was. Yes, he had a decent year this year, but we’ll see what next year is like with the talent leaving the team after this season.
I would have LOVED to see DD go to Tennessee. I personally think State could do better with an up-and-coming coordinator than Doeren, but apparently that ship has sailed and State will be stuck with him for five more years — because I’d be REAL surprised if anyone else gets desperate enough to come knocking on his door again.
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Yeah, the State folks I know were practically begging UT to take him off their hands. And that was despite this year’s 8-4 mark.
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Search twitter for @StateCoachD and see who is undermining the Vol coaching search.
Those Tennessee fans are nuts!
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I lived there for 14 years … we moved back to the Atl 2 years ago. I didn’t want to change my handle and look like a sock puppet. 🙂
My question about the NC State program is what is the ceiling of that program. It’s not a national championship caliber program. It’s probably not even an ACC championship caliber program with Clemson, FSU, Miami and Virginia Tech in the neighborhood. Could they make the ACC championship once every 7 years or so? Probably.
But I agree with you … I don’t think Doeren is going to get a big shot again.
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I’ve been here six years, and I sure as hell never paid any attention to State football before coming here, but near as I can ascertain, this year pretty well is the ceiling for NC State. I’d heard it was a basketball school when I came, but they’ve sucked ass at that since I’ve been here as well.
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They had a damn good team in 2002 with Philip Rivers and that crew. They demolished ND in the Gator Bowl that year (and finished top 15 or so).
I went to my first State game that year against FSU at Carter-Finley (which isn’t a bad stadium except it’s ACC small). I wore red with a Georgia cap of course. It was right after we beat Auburn on 70X Takeoff to win the East. A State fan behind me asked, “What are you doing here? We don’t play real football.”
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Holy crap. First the Duke coach, then Purdue coach, and now the NCST coach all have said no to UT. My gosh this is beautiful. Here’s the thing, regardless of who UT eventually hires, rivals can use this against them in recruiting, saying that UT’s coach was literally their 11th choice.
I suggest UT reach out to the following to gauge their interest: Joe Lee Dunn, Billy Brewer, Galen Hall, Woody Widenhofer, Jackie Sherril, Ron Zook, Ray Goff, Dave Shula, Curly Hallman…who else am I missing?
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Isn’t Billy Brewer dead?
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I don’t know, but even if he is, he could probably match Butch’s performance.
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Nice shot.
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Ouch
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Jim Donnan
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Chan Gailey?
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what about Brad Scott? Or Terry Bowden? Doug Barfield may be rested and ready, too. And I find it hard to believe no one is interested in Hal Mumme, the godfather of the Air Raid offense.
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Whatever happened to the Mike Leach rumors? Did they ever make a play at him?
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Moe, Larry and Curley….. Moe for HC, Larry OC and Curley DC
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Steve Spurrier, like the Spider to the Fly, recommended Tee Martin as coach. That could be an emotional hire to put out the flames.
However, Tee dosen’t have experience for the head job and has just been a position coach really, although his title says OC. There’s about a 10% chance it could turn out Dabo Swinney and 90% it will turn out Ray Goff.
This is a toxic brew of desperation by elite boosters and administrators trying to appease the unwashed and keep their jobs and a mouthbreathing fanbase desperate for a tie to the glory days, all cheered on by cynical opportunists by Clay Travis.
In the zero-sum game of college football, it is good for UGA. Its a slow motion train wreck for TN though. Its almost sad.
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I would have thought Ray except that he had a heart attack a while back (treated at St. Mary’s according to billboards that were up in Athens a year or two ago). Not sure someone with that medical history would want to coach again, especially in Knoxville. I know Ray expressed a desire to coach again when he was fired. Say what you will about his coaching skills but, I think he’s too nice a person to survive the pressures at UT right now. If I were putting money on it, I’d say it’s going to be Tee Martin. He may be the only one who would willingly take that position right now.
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Goff left behind enough talent for Donnan to go 10-2 one year. If they got the same out of Martin at Tennessee, they’d be better off than they are right now.
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Knoxville
Currie
Haslam
Trolling Kiffin
Fulmer
Clay Travis
UT fans
Play Bama, UGA, and UF every year
What’s not to love???
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It’s pretty clear what Tennessee needs to do – Charlie Weiss with a $100 million buyout.
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Nah. They are desperate enough now to run the option. They should steal fishfry from the nerds in Atlanta.
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+1,000,000. 😊
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Latest seems to be UT looking at Kevin Sumlin. Would he make the move?
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It’s not like he’s got anything else to do right now. 😉
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He has to figure out what to do with that 11 million that TAandM has to pay him in the next 60 days.
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He can get his own personal swag copter.
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Sumlin would probably be a better hire for Tennessee than an unproven Tee Martin.
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I thought I read he was going to one of the Arizona Schools. Hope he has signed with that school and UT has to pay a buy out to a team Sumlin never coached at.
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Hold on, hold on. I just ran out of popcorn.
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When does embarrassment finally override the attempts to make ass-covering hires? They’re going to have to settle for someone like Tee Martin in the end, so just get it over with.
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What number are they up to? Gruden, Kelly, Mullen, Schiano, Cutcliff, Doeren, did Purdue’s guy shoot them down too? 7? Who am I missing?
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Gundy.
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And Frost, right?
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Did they offer Frost? It makes sense, but I hadn’t heard that.
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They wanted Mullen too
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That one I knew.
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Time for them to post on Monster.com I guess.
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An ACC football coach turns down an SEC head job. Who woulda ever thunk it? My how far Rocky Top has fallen, and oh so recently was considered to be one of the best jobs in the entire country. Wow!
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We all know that Honest Bob Petrino has at least made a phone call.
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Y’all, my most liberal counting of this search is:
Gruden -> Kelly -> Frost -> Campbell -> Mullen -> (Schiano) -> Cutcliffe -> Gundy -> Brohm -> Doeren -> _______
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Wasn’t there an offer to the SMU coach as well? There is so many it’s hard to keep track at this point.
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UGA’s last five head coaching hires spanning over 50 years included four assistants with no hc experience and a guy from a 1AA school.. I’m thinking that this is not as easy as it looks and they’ve made a lot harder than it should be. Maybe they should call Fulmer, apologize, and offer him the job.
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I almost feel sorry for the. Almost.
And I still think they wind up taking the “interim” off of Brady Hoke. What will really be funny is hearing them say how he was the right choice all along.
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Just once, I’d like to hear an honest appraisal of this kind of shitshow. “This is who we’ve settled for. We don’t like it any better than you do, and when he has a sub-.500 record three years from now, we’ll fire him and try to do a better job with the next hire.”
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LOL!
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At this point the first thing they should do is hand the new hire that stupid trashcan and tell him to haul out the football trash infecting their program.
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The trash can has already been taken care of.
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By the way, given the fact that UT has sucked for 10 years, is essentially run by the Haslam family (who owns the Browns), and given the utter dysfunction in general, from this point forward I’m going to refer to them as that Tennessee Browns.
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Is Lou Holtz interested?
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They go after a coach who beat them, Clawson who was considered the worse OC at UT and supposedly caused Fulmer to be let go.
What a mess.
Most folks thought they would go after the coach at Memphis.
Try Gus. Now he may go. Boom.
0-8. No wonder Butch had a hard time winning there or even Dooley.
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Finally! White smoke rises from the Johnny Majors Drive.
Never mind. It’s just a dumpster.
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I hope they don’t get Pruitt. I like that guy and don’t wanna have to hate him.
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Ok fine….I guess I’ll take the job.
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Off topic, but this is a pretty good article by a very good writer:
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/262626892/georgia-kirby-smart-sec-championship-fans
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It is. Will is an excellent writer.
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thanks for the link…great read
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Awesome. Athens and the state of Georgia aren’t the only ones that can’t concentrate this week. Us folks out west feel the same hope, excitement and the angst of what could be! Please god. I couldn’t put my finger on why I’ve been totally worthless at work this week, but this article does a fantastic job of pulling it all together.
Go Dawgs!
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Thanks for posting this – great article!
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MKD – thanks for the link! Awesome.
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Good piece, with one glaring f-up. He called Barb Dooley, “an older woman”…never mind that he also said “lovely”.
He’s dead meat.
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Why doesn’t Chizik get mentioned? Is he happy on the SEC network? They could do worse at this point.
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I think he loves getting paid to talk rather than getting paid to coach. I like Chizik on SECN.
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Hoke is probably waiting for the call so he can laugh and say hell no!
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Now that would be funny.
Seriously, does anyone think Tennessee has a snowball’s chance in hell of putting together a solid recruiting class? The aftermath of this decision could stunt the program for another 5 years. Not that I would complain about that.
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How long before they go back to Schiano and just take the heat? In the end he might be the only taker.
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Schiano wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole now. And mark my words, UT will have to pay him millions of dollars. I would kill to have that case.
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Unless you’ve read the MOU, I don’t see how you could know that.
I’ve drafted a ton of Letters of Intent over the years. The main purpose of those is to avoid making enforceable commitments.
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Just gimme the chance. 🙂
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“Nationwide is on Your Side”…..boy would I love to be around that guy right about now!!
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From the great piece above: “It is as big a moment as Georgia has had in five years, and potentially a decade or more before that.”
Oh sweet Jesus.
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http://youtu.be/XkpDz8YyVD8 Here is their man. 😉
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Sorry. Malfunction.
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Jim Bob Cooter, it is time to come home.
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Boss Hog has just been offered
Boss Hog has just turned Tennessee down
Phil Fulmer was just seen wearing Bill Dance’s hat and carrying a sack of fish.
Bill Dance has just accepted the job with the stipulation that he won’t have to take Phil Fulmer fishing again and he wants his lucky hat back.
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