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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 by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
66513 posts
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 by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
43009 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:36 pm to
And we need to adjust our scheduling accordingly. They are Kentucky/MSU at best.
Posted by Robot Santa
Member since Oct 2009
44841 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:37 pm to
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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 by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
46844 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:39 pm to
And Bama's permanent opponent
Posted by The Nino
Member since Jan 2010
21581 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:43 pm to
Surprised Forde could write an article without an Auburn jab in it
Posted by civiltiger07
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
14287 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:45 pm to
Pat Forde is a clickbait writing loser.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
66513 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:52 pm to
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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 by SummerOfGeorge
Member since Jul 2013
103218 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:57 pm to
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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 by Harry Rex Vonner
American southerner
Member since Nov 2013
39040 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:58 pm to
Posted by 1999
Where I be
Member since Oct 2009
30025 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:58 pm to
Stop posting forde articles
Posted by Smokeyone
Maryville Tn
Member since Jul 2016
18683 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 2:59 pm to
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Pat Forde


Never heard of her.
Posted by RLDSC FAN
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Member since Nov 2008
53252 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:00 pm to
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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 by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
7074 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:00 pm to
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And Bama's permanent opponent 


Georgia hasn't beaten Bama since '07, Florida since '08.
Posted by BamaRoo
Shitlingthorpe, UK
Member since Jul 2009
3557 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:01 pm to
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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 by KellerChrystFan
Member since Sep 2018
9630 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:02 pm to
Lol the dumbass thinks we offered Sonny Dykes. Heupel is shite - but better than Dykes.
Posted by PEEPO
Member since Sep 2020
1820 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:02 pm to
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.
Posted by civiltiger07
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
14287 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:02 pm to
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And Bama's permanent opponent


well you sure triggered the Bama fans by simply stating a fact.
Posted by RT1941
Member since May 2007
30745 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:06 pm to
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And Bama's permanent opponent


You want Bama to pull UGA? Bama has a 4+1 record in 14 yrs
You want Bama to pull UF? Bama has a 9-1 record in 14 yrs
Posted by RT1941
Member since May 2007
30745 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:07 pm to
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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.

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.
Posted by BamaAlum02
Huntsville, AL
Member since Nov 2005
1038 posts
Posted on 1/27/21 at 3:08 pm to
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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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