Confused about UT fans attitude toward the Kiffen hire...

I'm convinced that Most Vol fans think MONTE Kiffin is their Head Coach.

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UT fans are probably just happy to have new/fresh blood in the program.....similar to AU fans. After years of Fulmer, they probably feel it was time for a change.

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Exactly, its nice to have a coach dishing it out then standing around and taking it. we all silently hope he can back his mouth up like Spurrier did.

Except Spurrier had already accomplished things before he ever shot his mouth off, unlike Kitten.

i wanted spurrier to choke on his visor myself but he backed up what he said. nowadays he is alot more subdued to say the least in his quotes. i just think kiffen needs to quit being a blow hard UNTIL he proves it on field.

i might add i hope he gets his arse handed to him every week

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I spoke with a UT fan while out of town last week. He could not stop talking about how much better UT is going to be because of Kiffen. Kiffen this and Kiffen that. He said the UT fan base has never been so energized.

What has Kiffen done to warrant this type of praise? How did a failed stint in the NFL legitimize this guy as serious coaching candidate?
The only thing this guy has going for him is the unknown.

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It's a team whose fan base has been stuck with mediocrity the past several seasons. No matter what happened, we knew that with Fulmer we would win about 8 games and go to a second rate bowl. New blood into the program will automatically spark excitement.

As you said, nobody knows what is going to happen and the future is unknown. However, we can grade Kiffin on the two things he has done so far: Establishing a staff and a recruiting class. His staff automatically brought excitement because of the big names and the quality. They are the best recruiting staff in the country. Can they coach? Only time will tell.

As far as recruiting, he brought in a top 10 class in the country as well as the #1 overall player in the country in just 3 months. This is on top telling top name recruits to look elsewhere (Tajh Boyd). The fact that they could swing Bryce Brown into coming when he had never previously considered Tennessee warrants some excitement.

We will see how it works out for him. I am happy with the staff and our recruiting class, but the rest is unknown. He has said some dumb things that I am sure he regrets, but hopefully he will learn to keep his mouth shut about certain things. Once he does that, I will be glad to have a coach that doesn't back down like Fulmer. Only time will tell...

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Exactly, its nice to have a coach dishing it out then standing around and taking it. we all silently hope he can back his mouth up like he did as the Raiders coach. Oh wait, he was shite canned after his 1st year! OMG were gonna get kiiiiiiiiilllled.

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Your coach seemed to have no problem rubbing that class acts face in the dirt.

With Kiffin at least you can feel better about yourselves.

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as anyone else noticed how Fulmer has suddenly gone from being a class act to a wussy.

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Fulmer still is a class act, but people have been calling for his firing for quite some time. A change had to be made, and it ended up being Kiffin. We will see how it turns out.

Oh and claim that we paid Bryce Brown as much as you want, but he came here because Kiffin and Co are marketing us as a place where you can play instantly. He can come into the SEC and start and be gone in 3 years, which is precisely why he came.

If it's laughable then show me some negative quotes. I haven't heard anything like that.

If you have dinner with Coach Meyer regularly and he tells you this kind of stuff then I understand if you can't cousin kiss and tell.

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Kiffin and Co are marketing us as a place where you can play instantly. He can come into the SEC and start and be gone in 3 years, which is precisely why he came.

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Fair enough. I now believe that there was no funny business going on at all. It was probably that most other schools didn't want to deal with the drama and the street agent. Nothing to see here. Move along.

I'm kidding of course. There is no way Kiffin is stupid enough to pay recruits. I refuse to believe that.