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Pat Forde from the top rope and onto the Tennessee football program...
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:33 pm
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When you are Tennessee in its current state, you make a Maybe Hire.
Maybe it works out. Maybe it doesn’t. You can have hope, but no certainty. You’re in no position to lure a surefire, A-list candidate to lead your dilapidated football program—new athletic director Danny White tried that in the past few days, and it didn’t work out. So you keep working down the list—from proven to splashy to maybe—until you get a yes.
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For many Tennessee fans, the Heupel hire is the next step in coming to grips with what the program is. They’ve ignored a dozen years of evidence that the Vols are just another program—instead believing in Santa Gruden, and believing that hiring coaches like Greg Schiano and Dave Doeren was beneath them. Fact is, this is a tough sell at present.
James Franklin wasn’t leaving the job security of Penn State for Tennessee, no matter how much money White was rumored to be offering. P.J. Fleck? Please. SMU coach Sonny Dykes isn’t leaving the state of Texas for a struggling program that has to battle Alabama, Georgia and Florida every season. And offensive coordinator Tony Elliott wasn’t going to depart the rock-solid reliability of Clemson for Rocky Top.
Since Phillip Fulmer’s last good season, in 2007, this is what Tennessee football has been: a losing program (78–82 overall, 36–70 in the SEC, zero East Division titles); a program in constant transition (Heupel is the sixth permanent head coach); and now a program immersed in a self-acknowledged major NCAA investigation that has months (perhaps years) left to unspool.
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Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:36 pm to RollTide1987
And we need to adjust our scheduling accordingly. They are Kentucky/MSU at best.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:37 pm to RollTide1987
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Since Phillip Fulmer’s last good season, in 2007, this is what Tennessee football has been: a losing program (78–82 overall, 36–70 in the SEC, zero East Division titles)
That's the good stuff.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:39 pm to Robot Santa
And Bama's permanent opponent
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:43 pm to RollTide1987
Surprised Forde could write an article without an Auburn jab in it
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:45 pm to RollTide1987
Pat Forde is a clickbait writing loser.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:52 pm to nicholastiger
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And Bama's permanent opponent
It's not Alabama's fault that Tennessee's football program imploded in 2010 when Lane Kiffin said bye-bye to Knoxville. Since that time they have made a series of terrible hires that have plunged them further and further into the abyss of irrelevance.
From 2000-2009, the Alabama-Tennessee rivalry was a 6-4 Tennessee advantage.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:57 pm to nicholastiger
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And Bama's permanent opponent
Oh no, please don't make us play one of the other East teams that we've consistently muckducked for a decade straight!
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:58 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:58 pm to RollTide1987
Stop posting forde articles
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:59 pm to RollTide1987
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Pat Forde
Never heard of her.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:00 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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no, please don't make us play one of the other East teams that we've consistently muckducked for a decade straight!
Very true
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:00 pm to nicholastiger
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And Bama's permanent opponent
Georgia hasn't beaten Bama since '07, Florida since '08.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:01 pm to nicholastiger
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And Bama's permanent opponent
If you live right, go to Sunday school, always be humble and love all creatures big and small, see how things work out.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:02 pm to RollTide1987
Lol the dumbass thinks we offered Sonny Dykes. Heupel is shite - but better than Dykes.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:02 pm to RollTide1987
I remember how much shite people talked about Alabama under the Dubose/Shula years and that was just a down period of like 6 years and Bama still had the occasional great season randomly mixed in there (1999, 2002, and 2005)
Tennessee has been a bottom feeder going on almost 15 years now with 0 good seasons in that stretch.
Tennessee has been a bottom feeder going on almost 15 years now with 0 good seasons in that stretch.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:02 pm to nicholastiger
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And Bama's permanent opponent
well you sure triggered the Bama fans by simply stating a fact.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:06 pm to nicholastiger
quote:You want Bama to pull UGA? Bama has a 4+1 record in 14 yrs
And Bama's permanent opponent
You want Bama to pull UF? Bama has a 9-1 record in 14 yrs
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:07 pm to RollTide1987
quote:People weren't whining when Bama was shitting the bed all over the place during the probation era with the Mike Dubose/Mike Price/Mike Shula shitshow.
It's not Alabama's fault that Tennessee's football program imploded in 2010 when Lane Kiffin said bye-bye to Knoxville. Since that time they have made a series of terrible hires that have plunged them further and further into the abyss of irrelevance.
From 2000-2009, the Alabama-Tennessee rivalry was a 6-4 Tennessee advantage.
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:08 pm to nicholastiger
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And Bama's permanent opponent
Nobody said a word when they were beating us every year for a decade when we first went to divisions.
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