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

If I could take a minute.......and really, we might all miss like 5 more twists and turns if I take longer than that......one post in there caught my eye.
So there they are still hung up on Gruden, and they've been so hung up on Gruden for like a decade now that even I've always associated Gruden to Tennessee. Maybe he was born or grew up in the state. Maybe he went to school at Tennessee. Maybe some school in the state but not UT. Maybe he coached there. Maybe his father or grandfather coached there. Something.....right? So I went to his wiki page.

Born in: Ohio
Grew up in: South Bend
Father coached at: ND
Went to college at: Muskingum
Transferred and played QB at: Dayton

I finally saw he GAed at Tennessee for one year. THAT'S the connection? Seriously? Being a GA for one season is what puts him on the level of Fulmer and Manning as far as people who need to be consulted for the pulse of Tennessee football?

Also his wife was a UT cheerleader. Seriously, that is being mentioned as a legitimate connection to Gruden.

Sounds like his son may currently be a UT student as well, so there's that.
 
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I continue to hold out hope for Kentucky State HC Johnelle Smith.

John wanted the job, but then he slapped himself...

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Tennessee's coaching search has already cost more than $13 million, plus a potential Greg Schiano lawsuit, and the Vols don't even have a head coach yet

The Vols’ coaching search is a mess of astonishing proportions.

Tennessee athletic director John Currie is reportedly out of his job. The news comes in the middle of a horrible mess of a coaching search, which still isn’t finished.

This whole ordeal is costing Tennessee tons of cash.

Currie’s buyout, assuming he’s fired without cause, works out to $5.5 million. That’s $100,000 times the 55 months remaining on his deal, which runs through June 2022. It’ll go down if Currie gets another “comparable job,” which he has to try to do. (Tennessee could try to fire Currie for cause, which would seem a) difficult and b) expensive.)

Let’s add that $5.5 million to the nearly $8.3 million Tennessee has to pay former coach Butch Jones in buyout money, from when Currie fired him in November.

That’s $13.8 million in money UT will owe Jones and Currie to not work for the school anymore. But we’re not even close to done.

Entire article: https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...0564/tennessee-coach-search-john-currie-fired

Who would have guessed that Curie had a $1.2M per year contract through 2022?
 
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Pulled from ESPN's bottom 10...UT is in even worse shape than this team I would say :lol: (UT was #5 in the bottom 10 FWIW)

1. UTEPID (0-12)

The Miners ended the season as the first oh-fer FBS team in two years, ranked last in the nation in offense and 11th worst in defense. They were poised to enter December with a brand-new athletic director, no head coach, zero incoming players signed to their 2018 recruiting class and interim coach Mike Price jetting back to his Idaho retirement home after confessing "This is more complicated than I thought." Oh, and UTEP basketball coach Tim Floyd quit Monday night right after losing to Lamar. Jarvis, initiate the Clean Slate Protocol ...
 
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