So...who does Tennessee target?

• OneBuckeye

  

  Dang.... I was hoping he would leave and Hicks would sway his interest to OSU.
• NNN

  

  Air Force has a team meeting scheduled for 3:50 EST.
  
  Calhoun to UT, DeKuyper elevated to AF head coach.
• rocket31

  good info. looks like its a done deal
  ?
• jordo212000

  

  What is Tennessee's link to Calhoun. I know he was a candidate last year when they hired Kiffin. He's done solid at Air Force, but why not somebody like Peterson, or Gary Patterson?
• NNN

  

  Petersen is quite content at Boise State; he's rejected overtures from pretty much everyone recently.
  
  The Air Force press conference is apparently to announce DeRoyter going to Texas A&M; Calhoun had turned down UT's offer and will stay.
  
  Mike Hamilton played everything very close to the vest last year, and it was only after Kiffin was hired that other candidates were known. In this day and age of media, that was astounding.
• rocket31

  its going to be cutcliffe, imo
• rocket31

  cutcliffe it is
  
  http://www.wbir.com/news/breaking/story.aspx?storyid=110646&catid=29
• september63

  

  september63 wrote: David Cutcliff

  
  TYVM!!
• NNN

  

  Kippy Brown still has his interview tomorrow.
  
  If I have a choice between Brown and Cutcliffe, I'm taking Brown every day of the week. For one thing, he'd keep Jim Chaney around. For another, he'd be better able to bring in quality assistants instead of....I don't know, John Chavis.
• september63

  

  If Peyton Manning, or his $$$ have any influence it will be Cutcliffe. Career 53-44 record at dumps like Duke and Ole Miss. 4-1 in Bowl games. Ole Miss was a graveyard before he started coaching there.
• ZeroCool

  why not charlie strong of florida. while he may not accept, he has been mentioned by many quality head coach material?
• Lovejoy1984

  

  Charlie Strong is the head coach at Louisville.
• september63

  

  LOL..ZeroCool says..............OOPS!
• rock_knutne

  I'm really shocked that Tenn hasn't approached Mike Leach.
• NNN

  

  rock_knutne wrote: I'm really shocked that Tenn hasn't approached Mike Leach.

  Leach interviewed last year.
  
  Let's just say that he wouldn't have gotten a call back under the best of circumstances.
• swamisez

  

  Cutcliffe declined to pull his name from contention last night on the Duke pregame radio show. So that basically sealed his departure.
  
  No idea what Duke will do now. Late in the game, and they don't exactly have tons of suitors. Had to figure he would leave when we signed him.
• ironman02

  NNN,
  
  Been reading some rumors about Lovie Smith tonight. Is there any truth at all to that?
• King Curtis

  Unless something unforseen happens, Cutcliffe is going to get the job.
• Lovejoy1984

  

  Right now, Leach is kinda toxic to the big programs. YOu may see a small program pick him up, but none of the big schools will touch him with a 10 foot pole.
  
  To be honest, he'd be a perfect fit for a team like Duke.
• King Curtis

  Leach wont get a big job for a long, long time.
  
  A smaller football school like a Duke or OU type is where he will have to go.
• Azubuike24

  

  Tennessee would be settling for David Cutcliffe. Solid coach, but he isn't going to take a program to the elite in the SEC. He can't sell anything to anyone that every other SEC coach outside of Bobby Johnson can. Tennessee needed a home run hire and I think with Cutcliffe they stopped at 2nd with a double. He might go 8-4 or 9-3 consistently, but they could have kept Phil Fulmer and saved millions of dollars to do that.
• jordo212000

  

  David Cutcliffe is the best they can do? Yikes
• sjmvsfscs08

  Mike Leach to Duke would be awesome, assuming that Cutcliffe goes to Tennessee.
• ZeroCool

  yeah, my bad. not enough sportscenter i guess. lmao.
• NNN

  

  If I'd thought about it, I would have created a list of every college head coach, every college coordinator, every NFL coach and coordinator, and every NFL position coach who's coached in college before.
  
  The Lovie Smith thing came up and was shot down in a two-hour span earlier this evening.
  
  I still think that Hamilton is going to pull something out of left field. Some of the stuff that he did last year to cover tracks was terrific; he would have a plane land in one area, then take a rental car to another area somewhat close by to throw the media off. He'd make sure that bogus flight information got out there and pass along concocted information knowing that someone would get it and report it...he's crafty.
  
  I still think Cutcliffe may well be a smokescreen, and I think the flights to Colorado Springs may be a cover for someone else making a short jaunt to....Salt Lake City and Kyle Whittingham. There's also one rumor I've heard that's way the hell out there that involves a former Florida defensive coordinator who may be looking to make a move back to the SEC.