A big-time college fan base FINALLY pushes back on a coach associated with a violent sexual scandal and national media members want to rip them? Easy to see why rape culture still exists in this sport
My dad passed away yesterday. His dying wish was that all the Georgia fans in our family wear orange to his service this weekend. The Old Man always had a sense of humor
I'm still floored Tennessee fans are being painted as the a-holes for not wanting a guy associated at Penn State who allegedly lied about his QB having a drug problem at Tampa for a public job at a tax payer funded institution
Tennessee fans you should be FIRED up that
@CoachFairCSU
is coming back to Knoxville! Great coach and EXACTLY the kind of guy you want around your student athletes
For people saying no one will want the Tennessee job after this the next coach on the list will be treated like freaking Belichick here just because he isn't Schiano. Would be instantly loved
If people knew the number of donors not on Twitter, not hanging out on the message boards that told me today they were done with Tennessee they would understand it really is about Schiano's past
Lot of people told me a couple weeks ago if Chaney comes it's not about Pruitt or Kirby but about Tennessee and people in Knoxville. I'm told he LOVED it here and always wanted to move back
The idea that you don't question a coach until something is 100% proven as fact is how people like Briles were allowed to operate for so long. Also, how many people did McQueary's testimony help put behind bars? Now you can't believe him?
Maybe because you want to give the kid a chance for a fresh start with the next coach?
Why is it hard for you to believe Tennessee wanted Jauan to succeed?
#MuckRaking
This morning on
@SportsSourceTV
John pointed out Purdue had attempted 400 more FTs than their opponents this season. This isn’t a Tennessee thing. Refs have protected Edey all year
Before the season Kevin Simon told us on
@SportsAnimal991
that this Tennessee roster wasn’t as talented as people thought it was and predicted an 8-4 season
I argued these exact players had just smoked Clemson
Kevin was right. I was not
I'm not one to pile on but I can 100% tell you Coach Miles let it be known in the middle of the week he wanted this to happen and the previous administration wouldn't take his calls
A UT donor and VFL tells me that the discussion is fluid between Les Miles as head coach and Tee Martin possibly as offensive coordinator and head coach in waiting.
And look, I'm not saying go protest Doeren or anything if he's hired. I am saying S. Carolina and Kentucky are your peers if you do, not Georgia and Florida
Look, I love everybody. But the people citing Urban Meyer as a character witness for Schiano do know Tennessee played Florida when Aaron Hernandez was on the sideline, right?
God bless
@JWilkersonWNML
is stupid good on the call. Just looked down and noticed I spent half an hour in my driveway listening to John instead of walking in and watching it
And your fan base is going to think you kicked Jennings off the team for caring about Tennessee more than the coaching staff does. In the absence of further info this is bad PR
Getting paid a crap ton of money at a tax payer funded institution isn't your birth right and it's completely okay fans didn't want a guy who's been accused of being horrible to people his entire career
My guy
@SportsSourceTV
has been pointing out for weeks that when Barnes loses early in the tournament there’s usually a shooting night like this one. Tennessee survived it. If it’s out of their system they can cut down nets
I also reserve the right to throw all objectivity out the window. Always shot you guys straight in the past but get ready for a whole lot of we's and us's if they close this thing. I ride with
@Coach_Leach
"After four surgeries and 10 days in the hospital, I'm on the journey to being the player I was before the injury."
Hear the rest of the conversation
@TylerandWill991
had with
@BruMcCoy15
about his comeback for next season right here⬇️
Tomorrow would have been my dad’s 71st birthday
Whenever I would respond in anger to someone who was being a jerk he would always say, “Son, did you really solve anything or did you just prove there are two a-holes in the room instead of just one?”
Miss the old man
Rewatching the A&M game. 5 has played his backside off ever since the first half of that Florida game. Impressive to see a young guy turn it around after a lot of public criticism
@RonSlay35
@TylerIvens
@TreyWallace_
@WillWestWNML
The Transplant Dr met with us and delayed the decision to allow me to give him part of my liver until next week to gather more info....he is such an amazing lil guy...he watches every UT basketball game with me...we appreciate u
Very good thing Coach Fulmer said there about the exposure Tennessee gets w/ Pruitt coaching in CFB Playoff. UT's looked like a trainwreck the last 2 wks. That's a ton of free positive publicity
Two left on UT’s ever dwindling coaching board: Alabama DC Jeremy Pruitt, Auburn DC Kevin Steele. Pruitt has also been DC at Florida State and Georgia. Steele has worked w/ 6 coaches who won a national title: Majors, Bowden, Osborne, Saban, Miles, Swinney. Pruitt is 43, Steele 59
What bothers me is
@ESPNBooger
@KirkHerbstreit
& others have the power to use their platform to change this sport for the good. There are too many cases of sex scandals in CFB. Doesn't mean witch hunts are ok, but you have to respect not wanting anyone associated with them
Leach was once missing from his show at Media Days when he was doing middays w/ Jack Arute. An XM guy came by asking if we'd seen him. We were doing a spot w/
@HollyAnderson
&
@edsbs
Spencer asked if they'd checked the lego store. Dude dismissed it as a joke. He wasn't kidding
Soooooo happy for everybody but especially the couple that have been at every home game right behind the plate & made the long trip to Omaha. God bless you!!!🧡🍊
Either way Coach Fulmer has the ball now. I would suggest not missing. Can't have the entire country accuse you of Littlefingering the AD and roll out Kevin Steele
The hypocrisy is crazy though. We all know coaches lie to and curse players. Shoe is on the other foot here and they can't take it? He did choose the wrong avenue to express it. Find out why and try to make it better
If half of this town can be virtually shut down with an interstate construction and utility work on one road it's sincerely time for TDOT and our civic leaders to reevaluate our current system. This isn't good enough
So why exactly did Tennessee wait this long to punish Jennings if he was this big of a problem? Your 1st punishment is kicking him off? Why not do literally anything for 3 months to correct him if he's such a headache?
And I get people have a relationship and don't want to see a man's reputation tarnished unless something is 100% proven as fact. Why in the world would Tennessee want to take that chance though?
I guess what's scary is these dudes ripping Tennessee are charged with holding coaches accountable for covering up violent crimes and there's zero reason to believe they will do that after what we've seen the last 24 hours.
Said Friday Vols would win this game because of how poorly Alabama has defended lately. They were better than I thought but think back on the number of open looks Tennessee missed. Could have been a blowout
Learning to win on the road when shots aren’t falling is huge though
Looks like Tennessee's strategy is to go bad candidate (Schiano), good candidate (Brohm), bad candidate (Doeren), good candidate (Sumlin). Y'all do know that probably means Steve Addazio gets the next call, right?
Sources tell
@NBCDFWSports
that former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach is working on a deal to become the next coach at Tennessee. A deal could be announced Friday. I’m working on more details.
If Tennessee's administration really can listen to Barnes concerns and not take offense to him leveraging another job to get what he wants it bodes VERY well for the future of this athletics department not just the basketball program
You go after Brohm. Fans are on board and the administration blows it for you. Next, who knows leads you to Doeren. Fans are upset because he kinda sucks. I totally believe this what happened when they hired Dooley.
I LOVE Herbstreit but it's child rape! If there's even a question you know the answer. I get Gruden hurts the fans' credibility but don't the Freeman & Tynes stories make it hard to just take Schiano's word for it?
I've got no dog in the fight but shouldn't people prefer their political party own the shutdown and explain why they couldn't agree to terms instead of pointing the finger? Strong men and women show accountability. The weak and immature blame others
And if Tennessee had hired him I would have said, "You just have to hope he's changed a lot". I have no agenda beyond eating these eggs and getting a decent lift in but when noted jerks are the victims & good people are vilified it's time to reevaluate everything