re: Bob Shoop "definitely the frontrunner" for VOLS DC job; deal could be done soon

For the record, I hope Shoop was using this interview for a raise like he did with LSU last year. That said, at the Gator fans trying to dismiss this as a shitty hire. The PSU defense was given lemons all damn year (and last year) with field position. What the defensive staff was able to accomplish, while hamstringed with fewer scholarship players and key injuries, is amazing.

Shoop took some unheralded players and made them into a good unit. For example, the nation's leading sack provider, Carl Nassib, was formerly a walk-on. Current Houston Texans coach, Bill O'Brien, was recently quoted as saying he was wrong about Nassib, thought he wouldn't amount to much. Bob Shoop, along with Sean Spencer, got the most out of Nassib, along with his defensive linemates Austin Johnson, Anthony Zettel and Garrett Sickels. I think it is fair to say, if Tennessee can pull this off, it will be a homerun hire, and the Vols can maintain a perpetual state of frick you in my eyes.