Saturday, December 15, 2007

Early Reaction to Cutcliffe's Hire

Here's some great reaction to the hire in the Knoxville News-Sentinel's from a Tennessee angle. The article says that Cutcliffe is anticipated to stay with the Vols through their bowl game, which is the Outback Bowl against Wisconsin on Jan. 1. It also has some great reaction from Tennessee's players about what they learned from their offensive coordinator during his stint as their coach.

The same newspaper also has a great commentary piece by one of their columnists on the hire, citing in particular how Cutcliffe re-instilled discipline into the Vols offense when he became offensive coordinator in late 2005.

Bill Cole's latest in the Winston-Salem Journal confirms the hire of Cutcliffe and has some interesting reaction to it from one of Duke's outstanding commits, Ohio TE Kenny Anunike.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm excited that we've got a new coach and I think that Cutcliffe will do a good job. We should have somewhere between 4 and 7 wins depending on next year's schedule, which will be great. I'm hoping we'll be bowl eligible, but I'm going to be cautious. The guys Roof red-shirted should help a lot.
Thanks for putting this blog together, it was a great help!

Anonymous said...

sounds like a good guy
let's hope his heart holds up
i have a feeling we can double our win total from the past two years combined!

i agree with the above comment, thanks for maintaining this blog, esp during finals week

Anonymous said...

Any idea on whether Cutcliffe will keep any of the current assistants? I hope he keeps Vaas and Scottie.

Anonymous said...

Cutcliffe reportedly is bringing two Tennessee position coaches with him who also served on his Ole Miss staff: a young offensive line coach/recruiting coordinator, and a quarterback/running back coach who may serve as offensive coordinator.

Liquid Roof said...

Well i am very glad to hear that you have a new coach. I hope he 'll do some thing extra for you.