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Every day that goes by is another coin on the scale towards "something went wrong". To sit here and say "just relax guys, let's wait and see" is to refuse to acknowledge the abnormality of such a delay. Your position made sense 2-3 weeks ago - for sure, it would have been foolish to jump to conclusions then. But now? Over a month out? It's less tenable by the day. Why blame people for assuming that no news is bad news, this late in the game?
The thing about conjecture is that sometimes it's right. It's just not that crazy to me that people are reading between the lines of a delay like this and assuming the worst. I think the worst grows more likely by the day.
I think the concern is justified. I don't know that people are connecting miscellaneous dots as much as the justifiable reasons for delaying the announcement of the DC are disappearing by the day and the worst case reasons are growing by the day. What is more likely at this point Pry got his top guy already and isn't announcing it for X reason or Pry is interviewing options 5,6, and 7 right now? If you said the first, what would be the advantage or courtesy to delaying the announcement today?
Maybe Pry interviewed himself for DC, liked what he heard and decided to make a hiring decision. Now he is in the process of hiring a new Head Coach to coach the defense for. It could happen.
it's sure looking like
no it isn't -- it's not looking like anything, good or bad
literally slaves to a 24 hour news cycle in which "no news" is spun as "so much news and it's probably definitely bad news"
Adding to that, when is last time a first time DC had an amazing year? Are there any examples at all?
If Whit is cheap that just means he wants to get fired. If hire a DC with no expirence and don't do well next year then Whit is gone, this is the time the checkbook should be most opened because he should be spending it to save his job. If we had gotten Banks and we were so-so every one would give him another year because it wasn't enough time, but hiring some one like Hamilton means you're done, you've given up, you're not trying.
I think what you're seeing with the premature frustration is really just the intuition of a fanbase who has seen this movie before. Maybe we shouldn't get mad until we have something concrete to be mad about, but come on. We needed Merryman to produce a slam dunk hire here, and if we're all honest with ourselves... did we really think that was going to happen? Why wouldn't this fanbase jump to the worst possible conclusions? The ineptitude of our football leadership over the last decade simply outweighs any patience we might have had. There's no more goodwill for Whit & co. to burn. I would have bet my house that they would find a way to fuck this up, and it's sure looking like that's what they did.
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I agree with you. Let's just wait at this point. It's not going to be Kirby Smart or Bud or Bill Bellichick. It's going to be someone not quite with that resume. Let's just wait to find out who.
I mean, I get it. Message boards will have messages. It's just....exhausting to read it over and over again lol. It's bordering on VT football angry fanfic at this point since there is literally zero leaked information. I guess if it makes people feel better to be that angry over hypotheticals they made up that's fine but I'm exhausted for you
Being anxious about a DC hire on a message board is wild behavior.... Giving thousands of dollars to multi million dollar budget football programs is totally normal and expected behavior though. Fan is short for fanatic.
someone pulling a bunch of t's and b's out of a post by Mehul.
Edit: Could not resist the temptation. "Carnac the Magnificent" was always one of my favorite segments of Carson.
Can we preserve the freaking out over a bad DC hire until the DC is actually hired?
/sss
Can we preserve the freaking out over a bad DC hire until the DC is actually hired? It's fair to be frustrated with the length of time. I wish it was faster as well, although I have no basis for the "average" amount of time these things take (anecdotal evidence aside, google's AI says the average is 2-4 weeks). It's just crazy to me so many people will jump to the conclusion the sky is falling and we grabbed blackburg HS's DC to be our next DC or something. Am I worried it's not a great hire because we haven't heard a single real leak yet? Absolutely. But so many of you are sitting here with lit torches already storming the castle without any actual information. Take a breath. It's going to be announced this week. Save your anger for then.
Agreed, in reality there was zero smoke around Banks coming here. And it's delusional to think that he would leave Tennessee for the same position here.
Just wait until the DC is actually announced. I can't wait to see how dots gets connected.
2025 will really get after ya!
even more conjecture in this thread
Were our NIL offers that good to compensate for that level of uncertainty? I guess we won't ever really know but that would definitely surprise me. Not knowing your primary coach seems like a big deal
again- if we are combing this list, why fire Marve? for rando worked with Pry guy..?
Playing dumb is semantics... "oh who are you talking about".. come on... that is what is a stupid argument.
I'm getting frustrated because it's been over a month since we fired Marve, 2 weeks since our last game, 5 days since all but 2 teams ended their year and we have absolutely nothing in terms of who will be leading a defensive unit that sucked last year. If we had anything lined up and ready to go, there wouldn't be any reason to delay an announcement at this point, so it looks like we either got played again, or we had no plan when we made our move.
Either way, not a great way to start an off-season that Pry absolutely needed to nail in order to save his job. And the longer this drags on the more you have to wonder if all of these defensive players we picked up in the portal and recruiting are going to be spring transfers. Again, not great and makes it real difficult to get excited about the program right now.
Who knows, but I feel like he was trying to be message board guru with that post and drop some hints. He may have been confident we had a strong offer on the table for Banks and the decision date was today, but maybe it backfired on us.
Damn right the concern is justified. We went 6-7 this year in a dogshit conference. We need an absolute home run DC hire or the 2025 season might as well be a throwaway year zero of yet another rebuild due to a canned HC and possibly AD, and every day that goes by is another reason to think something has gone wrong and we are interviewing our 4th and 5th options.
We need to win this race, but Lightning McQueen seems to be stuck in Radiator fucking Springs.