Tennessee just made the
worst hire in school history. After weeks of speculation about who the Vols
would land, they absolutely crapped themselves and hired Ohio State’s defensive
coordinator Greg Schiano, a guy who, at Rutgers from 2001-11, was 68-67 overall
and 20 games below .500 in conference play. He also had a two season-stint with the Tampa Bay Bucs that ended after two years and an 11-21 record. Oh yeah, and when he was an
assistant at Penn State, he allegedly knew about Jerry Sandusky and did
nothing.
Everything about this
search was “Butch’d”, and John Currie should be fired. Greg F-ing Schiano? Are
you kidding me? I’d rather have kept Butch Jones! I’d rather promote Brady
Hoke! What the hell?
Some of the names were so
lofty, and probably attainable. Gruden was just a tease, Chip Kelly allegedly
turned them down, and Dan Mullen is going back to Florida, but how about anyone
else? Even if you had to settle for an unproven guy, they would’ve been better than this. Did you call Memphis's Mike Norvell? Purdue's Jeff Brohm?
Currie is such a
hypocrite too. My god. During his “Butch is fired” presser, he talked a lot
about how important it was for the next coach at Tennessee to be a man of
integrity. He mentioned this several times, which makes me wonder WHY THE HELL
HE’D TURN AROUND AND HIRE A GUY THAT KNEW ABOUT CHILD SEX ABUSE AND DID
NOTHING?????
And how the hell do you
hire Schiano, knowing that the fan base was absolutely going to hate the
choice? You hire Jeff Brohm and we all roll our eyes and bitch and moan, but
everyone would eventually get behind him and talk themselves into him because he’s a young up and
comer who runs an exciting offense. Oh yea, AND HE ALSO DOESN’T HAVE ANY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM THAT HE
HELPED COVER UP CHILD SEX ABUSE.
Seriously, this is the
worst hire they possibly could’ve made. And it’s just typical Tennessee. All my
life they’ve screwed around and hired chumps who get their teeth kicked in
every year by Alabama and Florida. They’re a big money athletic department that
goes cheap at every turn and hires the worst possible candidates. Who is stupid enough to continue be
a fan of this crap?
If they were so intent on hiring a coordinator, then how about Clemson’s defensive coordinator Brent
Venables? Or Alabama’s Jeremy Pruitt?
Neither of them would be in my top 10 choices, but again, AT LEAST THEY DIDN’T
HELP COVER UP CHILD SEX ABUSE.
Tennessee sucks and I hate
myself for wasting all of this time rooting for an athletic department that’s
run by idiots who crap themselves anytime they have to make an important
decision. Alabama, Florida, Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, USC, etc. would never
make THREE bad hires in a row like this. What the hell is Tennessee’s problem?
I don’t know how next
year will go. I really don’t. I can’t even think about it because this is such
a terrible hire. A .500 coach who helped cover up child sex abuse. What’s the
upside? What are the positives?
Everyone was wrong.
Yesterday’s beatdown by a 5-7 Vanderbilt team wasn’t rock bottom. This is. We
have an incompetent, hypocritical athletic director, a .500 coach with child
sex abuse coverup baggage, no bowl game, no QB of the future, an extremely
tough 2018 football schedule, and fan base morale as low as it’s ever been.
This is what rock bottom is.
Let’s hope the basketball
team is good and can distract us. At least until spring practice starts.
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