12/18 Official Coaching Search Thread

[cycloneworld]

wow. Paul has gone nutty.

of course.....he does recommend Loney.

Paul Clark wanting Loney and not Fulmer. THAT is hilarious...and sad.

[CycloneErik]

Recruiting class ranks can mean a lot of things. In years where you have less schollies to fill, your rank is almost automatically going to go down. Also, in the year after a great class, you are going to have trouble selling playing time if they're coming in after a big recruit at their position. To me, the cycle makes sense, and none of that looks bad at all.

Right. For example,I haven't researched this, but my gut tells me that the year after Peyton committed would have been a tough sell for a drop-back QB.

Except somehow at USC.

[jdoggivjc]

Paul Clark wanting Loney and not Fulmer. THAT is hilarious...and sad.

I still don't get this whole "love for Loney" thing. To me not only does it say "we can't do any better," it screams "we're not interested in doing any better."

[Palmer]

I still don't get this whole "love for Loney" thing. To me not only does it say "we can't do any better," it screams "we're not interested in doing any better."

100% correct.

[ahaselhu]

I see your point. Anything over Top 20 is just not acceptable. Even if you throw in a Top 3.
(Sarcasm)

I'm not saying anything about it being unacceptable. I was just pointing out that one of the previous posters had a valid argument that his recruiting recently has faded a bit. His 3 worst recruiting classes have come in the last 4 years.

I'm just saying that his ability to recruit may not be as great a selling point at this stage of his career.

For the record, based on the information we have at this point, I think Fulmer's the best option out there.

[Steve]

Paul Clark wanting Loney and not Fulmer. THAT is hilarious...and sad.

My take is that is based on a desire to have access to "inside" information - something that he didn't have with Chizik and likely won't have with other outside candidates.

[SouthernCyclone]

Head Coach with a National Title on his resume. Nuff said
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Howard Schnellenberger won a title, too. Why dont we pull him from Florida Atlantic

[intrepid27]

I respect Steve Loney but to me it is that same as taking a chance on a young coordinator. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't his only HC job at Drake? Let me think about that one...............National Championship winning HC or Drake HC??.....Times up........FULMER!!

[raftercy]

All of this talk about Fulmer sure has ended the speculation about Skip Holtz.

[SouthernCyclone]

Ok Debbie Downer

I guess that comes from being a Cylclone fan for 25 years. Somebody around here needs to be a realist.

[zimman18]

After wasting a few work days, and riding this rollercoaster, I can officially say I want a coach announced soon. My production level can't handle this.

[Palmer]

After wasting a few work days, and riding this rollercoaster, I can officially say I want a coach announced soon. My production level can't handle this.

no kidding..I haven't been productive at all and I am starting to have dreams about the coaching search.

the last thing I want is to be dreaming of sweaty Fulmer.

[retzmountn]

Rivals recruiting rankings over the last eight years for Tennessee:

2009 - 21
2008 - 35
2007 - 3
2006 - 23
2005 - 4
2004 - 11
2003 - 18
2002 - 2

Sure, his 2009 recruiting class would be great for us, but it does look like his recruiting has tapered off a bit lately.

I'm not so sure he would be a "no-brainer", but we definitely should take a close look at him, if he is indeed interested.

The fact is that any candidate that we will be able to hire will have some red flags. The red flags for Fulmer seem to be smaller than for the other candidates, IMO.

If we get Fulmer, does he bring with him some of the recruits that commited to Fulmer & not necessarily U Tenn.?

[tejasclone]

All of this talk about Fulmer sure has ended the speculation about Skip Holtz.

Has there even been any serious speculation about Skip Holtz, other than a few posters dropping his name?

[isuno1fan]

If Fulmer wants the job.....it is his to have.

Simple as that.