TenneCheat VolunTears (but..but..but.. we're good at baseball)

[Mike80]

I agree with what you are saying in some aspects. However, S. Carolina has good football in state and in surrounding areas (GA, TN, NC and playing in the SEC gives him decent access to FL as well to go along with his past history in that state.) Spurrier was at the state school and Clemson wasn’t Clemson at the time. He definitely could have done better. A CC shouldn’t have been too much to ask.

South Carolina has ALWAYS sucked. Spurrier and Lou Holththththhhhh both had tenures well above the historical mean there, but both had significant NCAA violations occur at the same time as well.

 

[jwinslow]

 

[NorthCoastKid]

 

[BUCK3YE5]

This search is the gift that keeps on giving. May it never end!

 

[ScriptOhio]

I agree. He has UT by the balls, and he's smart enough to squeeze. Write in a gigantic buy-out if they whack him in three years, and then he can go be a part time tv guy afterwards.

After the Greg Schiano debacle it is obviously apparent that nobody at UT has any balls.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

It's so much better than when I posted like 5 minutes ago.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Re: Word is the meeting with Leach and Tennessee AD John Currie lasted a few hours and went "very well," SI has learned. And I’m told there would be genuine interest in the Vols job from the Washington State head man. However this whole deal is complicated by the dynamic swirling around within UT’s leadership. We’ve heard from multiple sources there is a lot of in-fighting, finger-pointing and back-stabbing taking place amongst Tennessee brass. As SI reported earlier this week, there is a growing faction at Tennessee pushing to get Currie removed. Former Vols head coach Phil Fulmer is said to be one of those battling with Currie and that could muck up the process to reel in Leach.

No surprise there.

Re: Leach is also getting interest from Arkansas for its head coaching vacancy.

Best fit for Leach: WSU, Arkansas, Tennessee, or The Black Pearl........

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

So does this mean the boosters didn't want Leach, and this was the last straw.........or the boosters very much want Leach, Leach has agreed, and they don't want Currie to get the credit for it? I feel like either option is equally as likely as the other.

 

[BayBuck]

This feels a lot like Michigan’s coaching search when they ended up with Rodriguez. At this point, they appear to be desperate for anyone who is relatively well known to take the job, regardless of merit or fit, so they can claim a victory with a big splash hire.

Funny thing is, I thought (and still think) scUM should have gone with Schiano back then (and then again after RichRod). So many bad college football coach hires over the years...

 

[buckeyeintn]

I'm going to be so sad when this all ends

You're going to be sad? I live in Nashville. This is the most entertaining story in years.

 

[Bucklion]

Leach at Arkansas would be a wet dream. At UT who’s he gonna troll? Vanderbilt? Kentucky? At Arkansas he has LSU as a rival and plays Saban every year.
#toomuchwin

 

[bukIpower]

I have no idea how they get anyone worth mentioning to be head coach... This is unbelievable and I can't believe how inept they are all the way around.

 

[OHSportsFan]

It just doesn't stop.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

And now that that's out, no one will be willing to work for fat Phil either.

What a glorious comedy of fuckitude

 

[Honor&Glory]

I can't even work today. This saga is worthy of a movie someday.