Gruden to Tennessee

DeRRtyTree said:
After thinking about it I would have taken any of the following over Jones and consider them better than BJ, yet the genius combination of Hart and Cheek didn't even speak to them. Number one obviously Butch Davis (since he wanted to come, built the greatest college football roster of all time and was completely cleared of wrongdoing at both UNC and Miami); Aside from him I would have taken Dave Doeren, maybe Rich Rod, even Willie Taggart - I consider them all significantly better hires than Butch Jones, and I am strongly confident Hart could have chosen to interview/hire them had he not rushed to Kentucky to interview Jones and hire him on the spot.
Furthermore when we hired Dooley, trying trying to argue he was the best that would come is utter nonsense, considering Sumlin was more than ready to come... and look now.
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Lets start with Doeren - Dominates the MAC going 15-1, and is 23-4 overall as a coach, and while he took over a great team so did Butch Jones goes 12-9 in the Big East after inheriting Brian Kelly's players. Hm?
Taggart - coached under Jim and Jack Harbaugh, recruits Florida extremely well, and took freaking Western Kentucky from 0-12 to 7-5 with wins over their rivals.

öööö if Paul Johnson has been fired I would take any of those coaches and I think they would come to GT. Now NC State has one and i suspect will be running train soon, while South Florida has the other and we'll see how that works out.

So in a few years I guess we'll know, but I think all of those coaches are going to fare better than Butch Jones and all were on the table for Hart to meet with and he didn't.
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Fair enough. But the boosters at Tennessee want a bigger name (Gruden, Gundy). I think Butch Jones is on par with the ones you list, but we'll have to see. A search firm would have helped turn over some of those rocks, so I agree that there is some merit in attacking the AD. Letting failure after failure out to the public was a horrendous mistake that made the school look incompetent. I'm sure we were turned down by some when we hired Johnson.

It's Cheek's job to hold Hart accountable. With all those 4 stars, Jones very well might succeed and Hart would have proven his bizarre method lead to a good hire. If not, Tennessee will look even more like the dumpster fire than it does now. The best thing for the fans to do is to get behind it and see how it works out. Paul Johnson was not my choice, but I fell into place until 2010. Now he needs to prove next year that he can win with his players and his third defensive coordinator.
 
GT1992 said:
Fair enough. But the boosters at Tennessee want a bigger name (Gruden, Gundy). I think Butch Jones is on par with the ones you list, but we'll have to see. A search firm would have helped turn over some of those rocks, so I agree that there is some merit in attacking the AD. Letting failure after failure out to the public was a horrendous mistake that made the school look incompetent. I'm sure we were turned down by some when we hired Johnson.

It's Cheek's job to hold Hart accountable. With all those 4 stars, Jones very well might succeed and Hart would have proven his bizarre method lead to a good hire. If not, Tennessee will look even more like the dumpster fire than it does now. The best thing for the fans to do is to get behind it and see how it works out. Paul Johnson was not my choice, but I fell into place until 2010. Now he needs to prove next year that he can win with his players and his third defensive coordinator.
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Thank you, end thread.
 
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