December 1st, 2017 at 12:34 PM ^
December 2nd, 2017 at 12:58 AM ^
I think Currie had a tough situation there. It appears that Snyder will not cooperate with having anyone other than his son coach the football.
December 1st, 2017 at 1:33 PM ^
That is what is happening indeed. Fulmer is trying to get himself installed as AD.
December 1st, 2017 at 2:57 PM ^
It didn't take long. Fulmer is now reported as AD. Temp or permanent has not been declared as of yet.
December 1st, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^
At what point does Tennessee have to just save face and stick with Hoke for a year to stop the bleeding? As far as I can tell they've been rejected by, or completely botched the deal for, 10 different candidates: Gruden, Frost, Kelly, Schiano, Doeren, Leach, Cutcliffe, Gundy, Brohm, and Mullen. Possibly more.
Do you risk dipping down into the lower ranks of FBS or even FCS and taking a flier on an unknown? Or do you just stick with what you have for now, let the program probably tank for a year, and start fresh with your search in the Fall?
The latter seems like an awful option, both from a program stability and recruiting standpoint. But the program is so toxic right now that most any coach worth his salt won't want to come within 100 miles of Knoxville. I guess it's the question of definitely sucking in the short term vs. possibly sucking not only in the short term, but in the long term as well.
Maybe if they're lucky, then can hold out for a few weeks and look for some NFL coordinator who's looking to cut his teeth in college for a couple years. If Penn State could find O'Brien after the Sandusky scandal, Tennessee could do the same. Either way, unless they find a real diamond in the rough in the G5 or FCS ranks, or pull a rabbit out of their ass with some hot shot coordinator from the league heading down to the college ranks, Tennessee is in for at least a few very, very rough years.
December 1st, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
shouldn't there be mutual interest between both parties?
I don't think some of those guys seriously considered the HC job. Which is pretty sad.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:00 PM ^
Well, at least this will let people move past the Fulmer Cup standings.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
and then there is Tennessee.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:45 PM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^
Everyone of those tires needs to be photoshopped orange...
December 1st, 2017 at 4:35 PM ^
The rapidly increasing flames will take care of it.
December 1st, 2017 at 12:45 PM ^
I think Arizona State was on a glide path to something similar, but they put out the fire by hiring Herm Edwards. I don't think that's a good hire, but it avoids this kind of shit show.
There's not a day goes by that I'm not thankful we have Harbaugh as the head coach at Michigan. Anyone who thinks we can get a better coach is delusional. Who, exactly, do such people have in mind? There just aren't many difference-maker coaches out there. Harbaugh is one. We got him. Be thankful.
The whole college game seems to be spinning out of control. I hate the playoff structure. Hate it. The pressure to get into the playoffs is creating incentives to do stupid things. ASU should not have fired Todd Graham, only to keep the coordinators and bring in Edwards. If people at FSU are pushing Jimbo Fisher out, then they're idiots. The Tennessee goat rodeo is being driven by delusional UT people who think they can become Alabama with a coaching hire. Bah, I preferred the days when part of the fun was arguing about who was #1 until the start of baseball spring training.
December 1st, 2017 at 1:12 PM ^
"Anyone who thinks we can get a better coach is delusional. Who, exactly, do such people have in mind?"
Well, poster GordonG says that Harbaugh should be replaced by Mike Leach. He defended that thought with several other posts. This was in the MGoShitShow group of posts after the Wisconsin game. And sorry, not sorry about continuing to bring this up. This cannot be backed away from, or explained.
I guess I just believe that anyone that thinks someone else would be better at UM than Jim MF'ing Harbaugh is a complete asshat that doesn't deserve being a fan of Michigan football. I mean, everyone has thier warts - but there is no coach better for UM football. None.
December 1st, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
I like Mike Leach, but if the complaint is Michigan hasn't pushed into the "11-1 or 12-0 challenge for B1G and NC" level of play, then Leach is not the guy. He's a perennial 3 or 4 loss type of guy. He might be the case where he'd make a hell of an OC, paired with a Don Brown type of DC, and overseen by an offensive HC who would put a little more balance into the offensive attack.
Agree with you: Harbaugh is the guy. Hell, we went 8-4 with a shaky OL and a problematic QB corp. Other coaches would have been lucky to squeeze out a 6-6 with that same offense.
December 1st, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
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December 1st, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
Have you not watched the games during the past 3 seasons? There have been literally 2 games that we were outclassed in. I mean, we only lost 4 games this season playing an awful QB, behind a mediocre (at best) OL, and throwing to freshman receivers, the best of whom was injured early on.
If Speight didn't get hurt against Purdue we would have beaten WI, OSU, and MSU. Probably would have still lost in Happy Valley though.
December 1st, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^
Report is that next may be the University Chancellor -- no f'ing joke.
December 1st, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
When it gets to the point of Presidents/Chancellors/Grand Poobahs of major public universities losing their jobs over athletic department fuckups, you know the sports tail is wagging the academic dog.
December 1st, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
Basically no one is actually in charge.
Why would anyone want to work in this type of situation except out of desperation. The job is already tough enough - your existence week to week depends at times on the judgement of 17-22 year old young men.
Each year, Jim Hackett's handling of things looks better and better and note he was wise enough to get out and not be the permanent AD - he knew what his primary mission was, he did it, and he moved on.
December 1st, 2017 at 2:39 PM ^
U Tenn is a bad scene for coaches. Two of their three most successful coaches--Majors and Fulmer--were forced out. Think about that for a moment.
They have made two of the most baffling hires in recent major college football, Derek Dooley and Layne Kiffin. Fulmer got the Ziggy one year after winning 10 games. Jones was fired one year after back-to-back nine wine seasons, that had been the Vols best seasons in ten years.
December 1st, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
Fullmer is the new AD
December 1st, 2017 at 4:11 PM ^
You might wind up in a body bag.
If I had to guess, they end up going back to Cutcliffe. It's pretty clear now that Fulmer was telling people not to take the job when Currie was offering it to keep him from making the hire. Cutcliffe has always been loyal to Fulmer. With Fulmer making the hire, that changes things re: Cutcliffe.
December 1st, 2017 at 5:59 PM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 4:24 PM ^
You've just made our 2007 coaching search look completely functional by comparison.
December 1st, 2017 at 4:41 PM ^
Rockytop you'll always be
the coaching graveyard of the SEC
Good 'ol Rockytop
Rockytop Tennessee.
December 1st, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
Johnny Majors, Phil Fulmer and then....nothing?
December 1st, 2017 at 6:18 PM ^
- Fulmer was HC @ UT for 17 years vs. LC's 13 years @ UofM
- 152-52 (0.745) vs. 122-40 (0.753)
- 2 SEC & 5 East Division titles vs 5 Big 10 titles
- Both won a national title
- Both very loyal to school
- Both of their coaching careers tailed off a little near the end of their tenure
- Coaches that followed were controversial
- etc.
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